Lukas Chrostowski, UBC faculty member and Blusson Quantum Matter Institute engineer, has been named a 2024 Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) for establishing an international design, fabrication, and test ecosystem in silicon photonics and developing high-performance and photonic integrated circuit components.
Chrostowski is a leader in silicon photonics, integrated optics, and semiconductor lasers. He has co-authored over 300 journal and conference publications and the widely referenced textbook Silicon Photonics Design (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has made numerous engineering research contributions in integrated silicon photonics, including innovative solutions to design, fabrication and test optical devices and small system demonstrations in areas such as sensing and optical computing.
Lukas Chrostowski has served as the co-director of UBC’s Advanced Nanofabrication Facility from 2012 to 2017. He is the Program Director of the NSERC CREATE in Quantum Computing Program launched in 2020, equipping graduates with skills in both building quantum computing hardware and software (the next application deadline for this program is January 31, 2024 for Fall 2024 intake).
He is a Founding Member of Quantum BC, a joint initiative led by UBC’s Blusson QMI, Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria that aims to stimulate and enrich collaborative efforts across research, training and innovation in quantum computing.
