David A. B. Miller is the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he is also a Professor of Applied Physics by courtesy. His research interests include the use of optics in switching, interconnection, communications, computing, and sensing systems, physics and applications of quantum well optics and optoelectronics, and fundamental features and limits for optics and nanophotonics in communications and information processing.

Academic education

Miller completed a BS degree in Physics from St. Andrews University and received his PhD in Physics in 1979 from Heriot-Watt University. In 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, and in 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Career

Following postdoctoral and lecturer positions at Heriot-Watt, Miller began working at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981 as a Member of Technical Staff, and from 1987 to 1996 was Department Head of the Advanced Photonics Research Department. In 1996 he joined Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering as a professor. From 1997 to 2006 he was Director of the Ginzton Lab; and from 1997 to 2009, Director of the Solid State Photonics Lab. He is currently the W. M. Keck Professor of Electrical Engineering, and a Co-Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center. Since 2013, he has taught open online classes on Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers, attracting more than 30,000 student registrations. Miller is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the

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, and

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. He was elected to the

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in 2008. Miller is a Fellow of OSA,

, American Physical Society (APS), and the Royal Societies of Edinburgh and

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. He is a Member of the

and the National Academy of Engineering. He was President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (now IEEE Photonics Society) in 1995.

Research

Miller studies optical and optoelectronic devices including quantum wells and photonic nanostructures, especially for information sensing, communication, switching and processing. He also investigates more generally the fundamentals of optics in these applications, with current research including dense optical interconnection to silicon electronics, quantum well optical physics and devices, nanometallic photonics, and fundamental limits in optics. He has published more than 270 scientific papers and wrote the textbook, "Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers". Miller holds 74 U.S. patents.

Awards and honors

* Carnegie Millennium Professorship, 2013 * Prize of the International Commission for Optics, 1991 *

R. W. Wood Prize The R. W. Wood Prize is an award endowed by Xerox and given by The Optical Society to an individual that makes an outstanding technical contribution or an invention in the field of optics. The award was established in 1975 in commemoration of Robert ...

of the Optical Society of America, 1988 – with D. S. Chemla *

Adolph Lomb Medal The Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the Optical Society is a prize for young scientists (age 35 or younger) for their contributions to optics. It is named after Adolph Lomb, treasurer of the Optical Society of America from its founding until his deat ...

of the Optical Society of America, 1986 * H-index (August, 2018) – 99 (Google Scholar), 76 (Web of Science)

Books

*''Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers'' (Cambridge, 2008).

References

Links

Personal website, Stanford University

Research Group

Google Scholar
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