September 28, 1998

New Faculty

Claire Gu
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering

Claire Gu will become a faculty member in the planned Electrical Engineering Department when that program is established. Her specialty is the use of photonic technologies in information systems, including volume holographic data storage, optical fiber communications, nonlinear optics, displays, and optical information processing. Gu earned her B.S. from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and her Ph.D. from the California Institue of Technology in Pasadena. She was a member of the technical staff at Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California, and an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Pennsylvania State University in University Park.

Ali Shakouri
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering

Ali Shakouri will become a faculty member in the planned Electrical Engineering Department when that program is established. He specializes in semiconductor physics, optoelectronics, and optical communication, with current projects focusing on wafer-fused optoelectronics for switching applications, fiber optics telecommunication systems, and study of microscale heat and current transport in semiconductors. Shakouri earned a degree in engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He was an assistant research engineer at UC Santa Barbara before joining the UCSC faculty.

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