Constance Chang-Hasnain wins prestigious Okawa Prize

Alumna and EE Prof. Constance Chang-Hasnain (M.S. ’84/Ph.D. ’87) has won the 2018 Okawa Prize “for pioneering and outstanding research of VCSEL photonics through the development of their novel functions for optical communications and optical sensing.”  The Okawa Prize recognizes “persons who have made outstanding contributions to research, technological development and business in the information and telecommunications fields, internationally.”  Chang-Hasnain is Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances in the College of Engineering, Co-director of theTsinghua-UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, and the Chair of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group.  Her research interests range from semiconductor optoelectronic devices to materials and physics, with current foci on nano-photonic materials and devices for chip-scale integrated optics.