<p>strong>Awards and Honors<strong> <p>2003: 3M CorYoung Faculty Award< <p>2004: University of Arizona, College of Engineering Young Faculty Teaching Award< <p>2011: University of Arizona, College of Engineering Award for Excellence at the Student Interface< <p>2011: French Ministry of Higher Education and Research Univ-Link Excellence Award for US-France academic collaboration< <p>2011: Invited Professor: University of Rennes, France< <p>2013: Invited Professor: Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China< <p>2016: Senior Member of SPIE< <p>2019: University of Arizona, College of Engineering Award for Excellence at the Student Interface< <p> <p>strong>Selected relevant scientific activities<strong> <p>em>Chalcogenide Glasses<em> <p> <ul> <li>Development of novel infrared telluride glasses exhibiting the widest optical transparency ever reported in the far-infrared.li> <li>First demonstration of low-loss optical fiber for the long-wave infrared with single mode propagation at 10 microns.li> <ul> <p> <p>em>Optical Biosensing< <p> <ul> <li>strong> strong>Development of first<strong> opto-electrophoretic sensors based on conducting chalcogenide glass that act as both an optical element for infrared signal collection and an electrode for electrophoretic capture of target bio-molecules.strong>li> <ul> <p> <p>strong>em>Photo-induced structural changes<strong> <p> <ul> <li>strong>Development of first model for photo-induced fluidity in network glass predicting fluidity based on photon count. strong>li> <li>Demonstration of the correlation between the bond density in network glass and the magnitude of photo-structural changes.li> <ul> <p> <p> <p>strong>Research Funding: last 5 years: 10.2M)strong> <p> <p> <ul> <li>Northrop-Grumman, 50K, 2018-2019, ldquo;Additive Manufacturing of infrared glass&rdquo; PI)li> <li>NSF-DMR, 563K, 2018-2022, ldquo;Fragile-to-Strong Transitions in Phase-Change Materials for Next-Generation Memory Devices&rdquo; PI)li> <li>TRIF Equipment Enhancement Fund, 119K, 2018-1019 ldquo;Broadening the user base of the confocal Raman spectrometer in the Kuiper Facility&rdquo; PI)li> <li>Keck Foundation, 900K 2017-2020 ldquo;A new era of computing: Phase phi;bits, a new paradigm for quantum information processing&rdquo; Co-PI)li> <ul> <p>