Yurii Vlasov
Yurii Vlasov is a Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Prior to joining UIUC in 2016 Dr. Vlasov held various research and managerial positions at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center. In 2001-2015 he led broad company-wide efforts in integrated silicon nanophotonics and more recently in neuromorphic computing architectures.
Yurii Vlasov is recognized both as a scholar with scientific discoveries in the area of extreme optical confinement at the nanoscale – nanophotonics, as well as an industrial engineer who has led the successful transition of this basic scientific knowledge into a real-world manufacturable silicon nanophotonics technology.
The CMOS9WG
technology developed under the leadership of Dr.Vlasov at IBM and lately deployed at GlobalFoundries is enabling high-performance optical connectivity. in supercomputers, data centers, metro, and long-haul communications, while significantly reducing cost and maximizing energy efficiency.
Dr.Vlasov has been elected a Fellow of Optical Society of America in 2007, a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2007, and a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to nanophotonics including photonic crystals and silicon photonics.
