Evelyn Hu, Harvard

Evelyn Hu is the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. She is a co-director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative. Prior to Harvard, she was a faculty member at UCSB, in the Departments of Materials, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering. While at UCSB, she also served as the founding Scientific co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, a joint initiative between UCSB and UCLA. Before joining UCSB, she worked at Bell Labs in both Holmdel and Murray Hill. Her research involves the synthesis and fabrication of nanoscale photonic devices in semiconductors, metals and complex oxides. Her group has explored optimal coupling of novel emitter materials to distinctively-designed cavities for enhanced, controlled light emission and energy-efficient operation. (Over 430 publications and 12 patents) She is a member of the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. She is a recipient of an NSF Distinguished Teaching Fellow award, an AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, the 2019 Eringen Award (Society for Engineering Science), the 2020 Andrew Grove Award (IEEE) , and the 2021 James Clerk Maxwell Medal (IEEE/RSE). She holds honorary Doctorates from the University of Glasgow, Heriot-Watt University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Notre Dame, and ETH, Zurich.