Jelena Vuckovic is the Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Applied Physics. She leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab at the Ginzton Laboratory and has been a Stanford faculty member since 2003. She holds a PhD from Caltech (2002) and has served as the Fortinet Founders Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department and the inaugural director of QFARM (Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative). Her research focuses on nanophotonics, quantum science, nonlinear optics, and photonics inverse design. Current projects include quantum systems, integrated lasers, and cavity QED. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of APS, Optica, and IEEE. Key awards include the Zeiss Research Award (2025), Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (2022), and Humboldt Prize (2010). She co-founded SPINS Photonics and edits Physical Review Applied . Her lab develops chip-scale photonic systems for quantum and classical information processing.
