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Prof. Schmidt is the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics and the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and directs the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. He has authored or coauthored over 380 publications and several book chapters in various field of optics. He is co-editor of the CRC Press' Handbook of Optofluidics. Dr. Schmidt is a member the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a member of the California Institiute for Quantitative Biomedical
Research (QB3), the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), and the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC). He directs the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics at UC Santa Cruz. He was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2014 and Fellow of the IEEE in 2017. He received the Engineering Achievement Award from the IEEE Photonics Society for development of optofluidic waveguide technology in 2019. He was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019. Associate Dean for Research, UC Santa Cruz Narinder Singh Kapany Endowed Chair of Optoelectronics, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2019 Engineering Achievement Award, IEEE Photonics Society, 2019 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017 Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2014 Narinder Singh Kapany Endowed Chair or Optoelectronics, UC Santa Cruz Keck Futures Nanotechnology Award, 2005 |