Dr. Jeffrey Bokor

Biography

Jeffrey Bokor is a Paul R. Gray Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty in 1993, with a joint appointment as a Senior Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), from which he will retire in 2024. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Chair of the EECS Department, having previously held the position of Associate Department Chair from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Bokor served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley from 2012 to 2017 and was Deputy Director of the Molecular Foundry at LBNL from 2004 to 2012. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Bokor worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1980 to 1993, focusing on a variety of topics, including laser science, surface science, advanced lithography for integrated circuits, and semiconductor physics. His current research interests encompass nanomagnetics and spintronics, graphene electronics, nanophotonics, and nano-electromechanical systems. He is a fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

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