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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2005

M.A. in Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 2000

B.S. in Physics, Kuang Ya-Ming Honors School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 1996

Researhch Interests

Silicon photonics: devices & high-density integration

Optical phased arrays, and applications in LIDARs

Optical interconnects & optical communications

Optical computing

Photonic crystals: devices & physics (e.g. slow light, superprism)

Bio Sketch

Wei Jiang joined Nanjing University (NJU) as Jiangsu Specially Appointed Professor in college of engineering and applied sciences. He serves as an associate director of Precision Photonics Integration & System Application Research Center of Ministry of Education of China. Prior to working at NJU, he was an associated professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. Prof. Jiang’s research interests include silicon photonics, photonic crystals, nanophotonics, and their applications in optical interconnects, optical communications, sensing, and optical computing. He proposed a waveguide superlattice and demonstrated high-density low-crosstalk waveguide integration with half-wavelength pitches, which have potential applications in high-density space division multiplexing, high-performance chip-scale optical interconnects,  compact spectrometers, as well as optical phased arrays. Further theoretical and experimental efforts from his group recently demonstrated a half-wavelength pitch optical phased array based on a waveguide superlattice, with potential application in solid-state LIDARs and wireless optical communications. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of silicon electro-optic and thermo-optic devices, slow light, superprism effects, and photonic crystal interface properties, and is an inventor of the slot photonic crystal waveguide. In 2007, the first high-speed photonic crystal modulator was demonstrated on silicon through one of his research projects.

   He has served on IEEE Photonics Standards Committee, program committees for CLEO, ACP, IEEE Optical Interconnect Conference, SPIE Photonics West, and other international conferences, and was a guest editor for a special issue on Optical Interconnects for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He has also served as Chair of IEEE Fiber Attach IC Activity Group, and Chair of Photonics Chapter of IEEE Princeton and Central Jersey Section (PCJS).

Honors and Awards

NJU Faculty Lectures for High Schools, Gold Medal, 2019, 2020

Undergraduate Mentor Award, Nanjing University, 2019

Xuzhou Innovation Talent Award, 2016

Scientific Chinese Annual Individual Recognition--Distinguished Young Scientist

IEEE Region I Outstanding Teaching Award, 2013

DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2012

Ben Streetman Prize, University of Texas at Austin, 2005