Milan L. Masanovic

Milan L. Mashanovitch (M’99–SM’13) received the Dipl.Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2004. He cofounded the Freedom Photonics LLC in 2005, and he has been in many technical roles related to product development and program management since. In addition to Freedom Photonics, he has worked for the University of California Santa Barbara, both as a Researcher on photonic integrated circuits, and as an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate level classes on semiconductor lasers and photonic ICs. He has coauthored  130 papers, many invited, on photonic integrated circuits and various photonic devices. He is one of the authors of the second edition of the Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits (Wiley, 2012). He has chaired, serves or has served on technical committees for IEEE Avionics, Fiber Optics and Photonics Conference, IEEE Microwave Photonics Conference, OSAs Integrated Photonics Research Conference, International Semiconductor Laser Conference, and Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Conference.