Fall 2025 Holonyak Workshop
Holonyak Workshop
September 11-12, 2025
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus
This in-person workshop will include invited and contributed talks on LEDs, lasers, high-speed and high-power electronics, materials growth, and heterogeneous integration.
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Russell D. Dupuis is an internationally recognized expert in III-V compound semiconductor epitaxial materials and devices, including optoelectronic and electronic devices. He worked in industry at Texas Instruments and Rockwell International. He was a Member of Technical Staff and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Physics Research Division at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ. Dupuis was appointed the Judson S. Swearingen Chaired Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in 1989. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 as full Professor in ECE and Materials Science and the newly established the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He has worked on MOCVD growth of III-V devices since 1975 and on III-N devices since 1994. He has won many national and international awards for his work on compound semiconductors including the US National Medal of Technology, the IEEE Edison Medal, the Franklin Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Prize in Engineering, and the Japan Prize.
Jason Hartlove is a technology executive with over 35 years of experience developing and bringing to market first of a kind optical systems and technologies. Currently Vice President of AR Displays at Meta, he leads all development work to bring the Metaverse to the human visual system, including teams with expertise in perceptual image science, image processing, optical and traditional semiconductors, light engines, optics, waveguides, sensors, prescription lenses and novel manufacturing techniques including additive manufacturing. Most recently he was President and CEO of Nanosys where we pioneered the development of Quantum Dot technology for displays, with over 60 million units shipped across over 800 different consumer and IT SKUs from nearly every major brand in the world. He is a prolific inventor named on more than 100 patents including as co-inventor of one of the most ubiquitous technology products of the last 20 years, the billion-selling optical mouse. Previously he led product development at Hewlett Packard, ran Agilent’s 3,000-employee Malaysia-based manufacturing operation, and was a founding executive team member at MagnaChip Semiconductor, setting the company on a successful path to an IPO.
Kei May Lau is a Research Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). She received her degrees from the University of Minnesota and Rice University and served as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst before joining HKUST in year 2000. Lau is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, Optica (formerly OSA), and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. She was also a recipient of the IPRM award, IET J J Thomson medal for Electronics, Optica Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award, and Hong Kong Croucher Senior Research Fellowship. She was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and Electron Device Letters, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crystal Growth and Applied Physics Letters.
Steven DenBaars is a Distinguished Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Mitsubishi Chemical Professor in Solid State Lighting & Display, and Executive Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. SSLEEC has helped pioneer the advent of high-efficiency LED Lighting, LED Displays, laser displays, and energy-efficient power electronics. Professor DenBaars received his BS from the University of Arizona, MS and PhD from the University of Southern California. Professor DenBaars was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Optoelectronics development, where he developed high-brightness red LEDs in San Jose and Penang, Malaysia. Professor DenBaars joined the University of California, Santa Barbara faculty in 1991 where he researches wide-bandgap semiconductors (GaN based) and their application to Micro-LEDs, UV LEDs, VCSELs, Laser Diodes, 5G Electronics, RF and high-power electronic devices. Professor DenBaars has co-founded 4 companies in compound semiconductors (Nitres, Soraa, SLD Laser, Akoustis). He is the recipient of the ISCS Quantum Device Award (2021), Aron Kressel Award, IEEE Photonics Society(2010) and IEEE Fellow(2008). He has published over 1200 peer reviewed publications(H-index of 151) and is the named inventor on 150 U.S. Patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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We also gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our anonymous donors.
We acknowledge the following sponsors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
We acknowledge the Samsung Semiconductor Technology Program (SSTP) for their generous contributions to undergraduate semiconductor education at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.