Prof. Fathpour's Biography

Sasan Fathpour received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005.  He then joined the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA as a Postdoctoral Fellow and became a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2007. He joined the faculty of the College of Optics and Photonics in 2008 and was promoted to Associate and Full Professor in 2014 and 2018, respectively. 

Fathpour's current research interests include heterogeneous integrated photonics, nonlinear integrated optics, silicon photonics, and nonconventional optical waveguide platforms operating in the mid-wave- and near-infrared and visible wavelength ranges.  Dr. Fathpour is the cofounder of Partow Technologies, LLC, a spinoff company from his CREOL team's research that focuses on commercializing nanophotonic thin-film technologies for telecom and sensing applications.  

His Ph.D. dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya, was on gallium-arsenide-based semiconductor lasers and spin-polarized light-emitting diodes, where he, for instance, demonstrated the highest-bandwidth quantum lasers to date.   His UCLA-based research, at Prof. Bahram Jalali's group, was primarily on silicon photonics and won him the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research. 

Dr. Fathpour is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award (2013), and the NSF CAREER Award (2012).  He has also received several research and teaching incentive awards at UCF, including the Reach for the Stars Award (2015).  He is a Fellow of OSA, and a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE.  

Prof. Fathpour has been Guest Editor of SPIE’s Journal of Nanophotonics (2014-15), Symposium Co-Chair of the 2015 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, and Chair (2014-2016) and Vice-Chair (2012-2014) of Short Courses at the Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics, CLEO and has been a technical program committee member of several conferences, including CLEO (2016-18) and Frontiers in Optics (FiO 2016).  He is the co-editor of a book entitled "Silicon Photonics for Telecommunications and Biomedicine," published by CRC Press in 2012, and an author or coauthor of over 160 journal and conference papers, book chapters and patents.