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Seth Bank is a Professor and holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. His research interests focus on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth, specifically in analog/digital alloy semiconductors and metal/semiconductor nano-structures. His work includes applications in plasmonics, silicon-based lasers, avalanche photodiodes, mid-infrared lasers, sensors, terahertz generation, sensing, high-speed computation, and quantum information processing. He has co-authored more than 450 papers and presentations in his research areas and has received several prestigious awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the North American MBE Conference in 2008 and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2009. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and Optica (formerly OSA).
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Joined the faculty and conducts research in Electrical Engineering.
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