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Professor Khajavikhan is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC, with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Afterward, she joined the University of California, San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher where she focused on the design and development of nanolasers, plasmonic devices, and silicon photonics components. In August 2012, she began her career as an Assistant Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida, where her research primarily revolved around unraveling novel phenomena in active photonic systems. Professor Khajavikhan has received several prestigious awards including the NSF Early CAREER Award in 2015, ONR Young Investigator Award in 2016, DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, and the UCF Luminary Award in 2018. She was also honored with the DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2020 and has been recognized as a Fellow of Optica, previously known as the Optical Society of America.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
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