Fall 2026 Holonyak Workshop
September 10-11, 2026
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.
Register to attend the Holonyak Workshop
Early Bird Rates now through August 8th:
$80 - student/postdocs
$400 - public/non student
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Plenary Speakers
Joy Laskar is co-founder and CTO of Attotude, which is developing ASIC over Dielectrics for Data Center Interconnects. A former distinguished professor, Laskar is renowned for his groundbreaking work in radio frequency electronics. His inaugural venture delivered the primary power amplifier solution for Intel’s Centrino platform. He subsequently established several companies that propelled advancements in CMOS power amplifier technology, active cable interconnects and low-power millimeter wave gigabit wireless circuits. Dr. Laskar has served in executive capacities including CTO and CEO, fostering innovation in wireless connectivity and sensor products across multiple industries. He holds 70+ patents (issued or pending) and has authored 600+ publications. Dr. Laskar is an IEEE Fellow and distinguished alumni of both his alma maters, earning a B.S. from Clemson University and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
James S. Speck is a Distinguished Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. He received as Bachelors of Science and Metallurgical Engineering in 1983 and his S.M. and Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He joined UCSB in 1990 as an Asst. Professor. Speck’s early work focused on epitaxial oxide films on semiconductors, ferroelectric thin films, and strain relaxation in highly misfitting epitaxial systems. He has worked extensively on the materials science of GaN and related alloys. Major aspects of his work on nitrides include elucidating basic growth modes and defect generation, the development of MBE growth of GaN, and the development of nonpolar and semipolar GaN, revealing the nonradiative processes in GaN LEDs, and a large body of early work on β-Ga2O3. He was the recipient of the Quantum Device Award from the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors,the IEEE Photonics Society – Aron Kressel Award, and the North American MBE Conference James S. Harris award. Recently he was a recipient of a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow from the U.S. Department of Defense. He is an inaugural Fellow of the Materials Research Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Can Bayram, UIUC
"(Ultra)Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Revolution"
Zhihong Chen, Purdue
Talk Title: TBA
Rongming Chu, UIUC
"Gallium Nitride Electronics for Higher Voltage and Higher Temperature"
Andrew Kim, New Silicon Corp.
Talk Title: TBA
Chun Lei, Lumentum
Talk Title: TBA
Paul Leisher, University of Central Florida
Talk Title: TBA
Di Liang, U. Michigan
"Lighting the Path to AI Computing: Heterogeneous Photonic Light Sources and Beyond"
Richard Mirin, UCSB
"Integrated Semiconductor Lasers for Quantum Systems"
Hooman Mohseni, Northwestern
"Heterogeneous Integration of Ultra-Low-Energy Optoelectronics on CMOS for Next-Generation Quantum and AI Systems"
Shubra Pasayat, U. Wisconsin
"Doping of ultrawidebandgap III-N materials with MOCVD"
Marko Radosavljević, Notre Dame
"300mm GaN MOSHEMT for RF applications"
Siddharth Rajan, Ohio State University
"Heterostructure and Device Engineering for High-Performance Ultra-Wide Bandgap AlGaN Transistors"
Hongping Zhao, Ohio State University
"Advancing Wide- and Ultra-Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors for Power, RF, and Emerging Electronics"
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Conference Committee Chair: Minjoo Larry Lee (UIUC) |
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We acknowledge the Samsung Semiconductor Technology Program (SSTP) for their generous contributions to undergraduate semiconductor education at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.