Shanhui Fan

Dr. Shanhui Fan is the Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor in the School of Engineering, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Professor of Applied Physics (by courtesy), and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, at the Stanford University. He did his undergraduate study in physics at the University of Science and Technology of China from 1988 – 1992 and received his Ph. D in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist at MIT before he joined the Stanford faculty in 2001. Prof. Fan received a National Science Foundation Career Award (2002), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2003), the U. S. National Academy of Sciences W. O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research (2007), the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America (2007), a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the U. S. Department of Defense (2017), a Simons Investigator in Physics (2021), and the R. W. Wood Prize from the Optica (2022). He is a member both the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Optica, and the SPIE.