IEEE
Student Chapter Seminar: “How to Prepare to be A Faculty”, Mercedeh Khajavikhan
CREOL
102
Thursday,
November 15, 2012 / 12-1pm
Mercedeh
Khajavikhan
CREOL
Abstract:
The
majority of the students that enter graduate school, especially at the
doctorate level, has thought about pursuing academic career at some point. No
need to say; after graduation, only a few successfully launch their own group
in academia. Graduate students, deeply involved in the scientific/technical
aspects of their projects, are usually blind to many other aspects of the academic
process and that creates confusion, uncertainty, and disappointment when it
comes to applying for academic positions. In this talk, Mercedeh Khajavikhan, a
new faculty at CREOL, shares her recent experiences in searching for faculty
positions. She will pass on some of the advice that she received as well as
some of her own experiences on how to prepare for academic jobs during the
graduate school days, whether and where you should go for (a) postdoc(s), how
to prepare your application, when and where to apply, and how to prepare for
interviews.
Biography:
Mercedeh
Khajavikhan received B.S. and M.S. in Electronics from Amirkabir University of
Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2009. Her Ph.D.
dissertation was on coherent beam combining for high power laser applications.
In 2009, she joined University of California in San Diego as a postdoctoral
researcher where she worked on the design and development of nanolasers,
plasmonic devices, and silicon photonics components and later on as a
researcher on developing new techniques for low cost imaging systems. She
joined CREOL (Collage of Optics and Photonics) at UCF in Fall 2012 as an
assistant professor.
For
More Information:
IEEE
Photonics Society Student Chapter
Jie Sun
Jie Sun
sjie @ creol . ucf . edu
Chaptor Advisor:
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu
Chaptor Advisor:
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu
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