Fall 2025 Holonyak Workshop

Kei May LAU (HKUST)

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 the summer of 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. 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, US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Awards for Women (FAW) Scientists and Engineers, 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. Lau’s research work focuses on the development of monolithic integration of semiconductor devices and systems on industry-standard silicon substrates by MOCVD. She was an early explorer of this approach and has produced record-breaking results in this area. In 2008 her group was the first to demonstrate the highest mobility and millimeter-wave (fT > 200 GHz) III- V transistors lattice-matched to InP grown directly on Si. She also led the development of 1.5 µm room-temperature electrically pumped III-V quantum dot lasers epitaxially grown on CMOS-standard (001) Si substrate. Recently, her group developed the lateral aspect ratio trapping (LART) technique to grow III-V active devices in the same plane as the Si layer enabling efficient coupling with Si waveguides on silicon-on-insulator (SOI). They demonstrated telecom InGaAs/InP quantum well lasers and high-performance photodetectors selectively grown on SOI by LART. 

Russ Dupuis
(Georgia Tech)

Dr. Russell D. Dupuis is the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech with a joint appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering.

Dr. Dupuis received his BSEE with highest honors-bronze tablet (1970), his MSEE (1971) and his Ph.D . EE (1973) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In September 1989 he joined the University of Texas at Austin where he established the Advanced Materials and Devices Group to study novel MOCVD processes and to grow device-quality heterostructure devices and quantum wells using MOCVD.

His most recent work involves the MOCVD growth of heteroepitaxial InAlGaN on sapphire substrates for lasers, LED's, photodetectors, and high-power transistors; the growth of InAlGaAsP-InP lasers; the growth of InGaAs-InP vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; and InGaAs -InP heterojunction bipolar transistors. In addition, he is exploring the III-V "native oxide" materials. His technical specialties include semiconductor materials and devices, epitaxial growth by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, and heterojunction structures in III-V compound semiconductors.

Dr. Dupuis is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the nation's highest honor for engineering professionals.

Steve DenBaars (UCSB)

Dr. Steven P. DenBaars is a Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the Executive Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1991, Professor DenBaars joined the University of California, Santa Barbara faculty as a Professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Since becoming an employee of the university, Professor DenBaars has helped pioneer the field of Solid-State Lighting, establishing and improving Gallium Nitride materials and devices used for lighting and displays. His specific research interests include growth of wide-bandgap semiconductors (GaN based) and their application to Blue LEDs and lasers, and high power electronic devices. This research has led to the first US university demonstration of a Blue GaN laser diode. In 2002, Steven DenBaars, Shuji Nakamura, Jim Speck and Umesh Mishra collaborated to establish the Solid State Lighting and Display Center which evolved to the Solid State Lighting and Energy center in 2007.  Additionally, Professor DenBaars is the Co-Founder of three University start-up companies focused on the recruitment of graduate students upon the completion of their programs.

Amongst other prestigious awards and recognitions, Professor DenBaars is the recipient of the National Scientist Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994 and received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Fellow Award in 2005 and the IEEE Aron Kressel Award in 2010. Steven DenBaars is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He has over 800+ publications and over 63 patents filed.

Jason Hartlove
(Meta)

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.