Ruyan Guo Elected SPIE Fellow
SPIE will honor 59 new Fellow of the Society this year. Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in particular. More than 600 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society’s inception in 1955.
“The annual recognition of Fellows provides an opportunity for us to acknowledge outstanding members for their service to the general optics community,” says Maria Yzuel, SPIE President.
Ruyan Guo, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is being recognized for achievements in advanced optical materials.
Guo has a distinguished career in academics and is a recognized leader in electronic and optical materials research. She is known for her research on ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and nonlinear optical materials.
She has made significant contributions on the synthesis, characterization, and growth of single crystals. This includes work on crystal chemistry and structure-composition-property relationships, low loss and frequency agile microwave dielectrics and devices. She also excels in research on electro-optic, photorefractive, and nonlinear optical materials, optical fiber communications, and tunable wireless optical interactions.
Her research abilities and accomplishments are well established. For example, Guo’s contribution on the scientific basis of high-temperature superconducting substrate materials is well known. Another great contribution is on badly needed but rarely available piezoelectric and electro-optical crystals and on properties of new strategic materials.
Guo is an active member of several societies including the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and as a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and senior member of IEEE. With SPIE, Guo has contributed greatly such as organizer and co-organizer of the Photonic Fieber and Crystal Devices Conference since 2002. Additionally, she served on the editorial board of the APIE journal Optical Engineering from 2001-2007.
Guo joins Professor Sos Agaian as one of only two faculty members in the ECE department who are SPIE Fellows.
