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Mercedeh Khajavikhan

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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering





Biography


Professor Khajavikhan is a professor at the ECE department. She has also a joint appointment at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences at USC.
She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Subsequently, she joined the University of California in San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on the design and development of nanolasers, plasmonic devices, and silicon photonics components. In August 2012, she started her career as an Assistant Professor in the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF), working primarily on unraveling novel phenomena in active photonic systems.
She is the recipient of the NSF Early CAREER Award in 2015, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2016, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, the University of central Florida Reach for the Stars Award in 2017, UCF Luminary Award in 2018, and DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2020. She is a fellow of Optica (formerly known as Optical Society of America OSA).

Appointments
  • Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy

Office
  • MCB 240B
  • Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
  • 1002 West Childs Way
  • USC Mail Code: 2560

Contact Information
  • (310) 425-9000
  • khajavik@usc.edu

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