Lukas Chrostowski Email & Phone Number

Lukas Chrostowski is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Through his research in silicon photonics, optoelectronics, high-speed laser design, fabrication and test, for applications in optical communications, biophotonics, and quantum photonics, he has published more than 300 journal and conference publications. He co-authored the book “Silicon Photonics Design” (Cambridge University Press, 2015).  Dr. Chrostowski was the co-director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) Nanofabrication Facility (ANF), 2008-2016.  Dr. Chrostowski was the Program Director of the NSERC CREATE Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (Si-EPIC) training program in Canada, and has been teaching numerous silicon photonics workshops and courses since 2008, which continue today as the SiEPICfab consortium.  Chrostowski received the Killam Teaching Prize at the University of British Columbia in 2014, IEEE Photonics Society Technical Skills Educator Award in 2021, and IEEE Canada's J.M Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2021.  He was an elected member of the IEEE Photonics Society 2014-2016 Board of Governors.  He was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Accelerator Supplements Award in 2015. He was elected to the college of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. Chrostowski is the Program Director for the NSERC CREATE 2020-2026 Quantum Computing program (Quantum BC), co-leading the Quantum Silicon Photonics design-fabricate-test workshop.

Listed skills include Silicon Photonics, Optoelectronics, Nanofabrication, Optical Communications, and 24 others.