Lukas Chrostowski

Dr. Lukas Chrostowski has established himself as a leading figure in silicon photonics as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. After completing his BEng from McGill University in 1998 and PhD from UC Berkeley in 2004, he joined UBC in 2005 and was promoted to full Professor in 2015. His research portfolio spans silicon photonics, optoelectronics, high-speed laser design, and biophotonics, with over 300 published journal and conference papers. As Program Director of the NSERC CREATE Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits program, he has trained thousands of students through workshops and courses since 2008, revolutionizing silicon photonics education in Canada. His co-authored book "Silicon Photonics Design" (Cambridge University Press, 2015) has become a cornerstone text in the field. His excellence in teaching earned him the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC in 2014, the IEEE Photonics Society Technical Skills Educator Award in 2021, and IEEE Canada's J.M Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. He served as co-director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory Nanofabrication Facility from 2008-2016 and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. Currently, he also serves as Program Director for the NSERC CREATE Quantum Computing program (Quantum BC) and co-leads the Quantum Silicon Photonics design-fabricate-test workshop.