positions at NUS and Udel in Nanophotonics

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urgent: the deadline for students to apply to NUS is Nov 1 2012 for autumn 20
13 admissions.

Subject: Graduate Positions at the National University of Singapore and Univer
sity of Delaware in Nanophotonics


Dear Potential Students,

The Nanophotonics group at the National University of Singapore is recruiting
for a total of ten fully-funded PHD positions this year, and we are recruiting
for multiple funded positions at our US organization at the University of Del
aware.  

Our research concerns silicon photonics – essentially, re-designing computer
chips so that they can manipulate photons as well as electrons.  Some years ag
o, we founded one of the leading companies in this field (www.luxtera.com), an
d over the past several years silicon photonics has turned into an area of ver
y rapid growth, both academically and commercially.

Our team at NUS is a new lab group that will be directed by myself and my coll
eague Prof. Tom Baehr-Jones, and will be closely affiliated with the UD Nanoph
otonics Lab in the US (http://nanophotonics.ece.udel.edu and the OpSIS foundr
y multi-project wafer (MPW) service (http://www.opsisfoundry.org.  This is an
effort funded by the defense department and Intel, among others, to open up a
dvanced processes to the world research community.

The US group and the Singapore group will be operating as a combined, distribu
ted team, and there will be multiple opportunities for interactions between th
e two groups.  Some of our senior students are transitioning from the US to Si
ngapore to help ensure the success of this new organization.

Please note there is a November 1 deadline - see the end of this message for m
ore information.   If you have any questions about the deadline or the require
ments, please contact us.

Our research focuses on developing the field of integrated Silicon photonics.
This includes research aimed at device development - making better modulators,
detectors, and optical components. It also includes developing the techniques
needed to design and build complex photonic systems. At present, most silicon
photonics systems involve only a few components, but this is sure to change,
as yields rise and the complexity available to designers increases. Our group
in the US was instrumental in helping to develop one of the most advanced inte
grated photonics processes in the world, the OpSIS-IME platform. This platform
is currently offered to the optics community, including both university and c
orporate researchers, in an MPW shuttle service. For more information on why w
e founded the OpSIS effort, and our long-term goals, please see our articles i
n Nature Photonics about the need in the field for such a service.

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/jo ... c_id=NPHOTON-201204
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/jo ... hoton.2010.172.html

All of our papers can be viewed at http://nanophotonics.ece.udel.edu/publications.html

Also, here is an open-access article that appeared in Nature about our efforts
on OpSIS:
http://www.nature.com/news/photonic-chips-made-easier-1.10264

Due to our affiliation with OpSIS, our students can expect to have access to t
he most advanced photonics processes in the world, including the OpSIS-IME pla
tform and the Luxtera platform (http://www.luxtera.com.  We will also have ac
cess to the facility at IME, which is one of the leading organizations in the
world for semiconductor development, and which houses hundreds of millions of
dollars of leading-edge tools. (http://www.ime.a-star.edu.sg

Incidentally, we have started three companies over the past few years, and we
encourage our students who have an interest in entrepreneurship to pursue simi
lar activities.  More information can be found on the group biography pages (http://nanophotonics.ece.udel.edu/people.html
).

Our research philosophy is based on a back-to-basics approach; we believe that
the best way to do original research is to know the rules of the game well -
this is necessary to know which rules can be bent, and when. Accordingly, our
main entrance requirement is a solid knowledge of math and physics. We have tr
aditionally given out an entrance exam to potential students, composed of thre
e or four problems testing fundamental skills - in an unusual way. Those who d
o well on the entrance exam - and there are usually only a couple every year w
ho get all of the problems correct - are almost always given offers, even if t
heir grades have not been at the top of their class.  We also take into consid
eration other factors like research experience, but these are not required for
admission to the group.

For an example of a previous year's exam, please see (http://nanophotonics.ece.udel.edu/problems_2009
). Please note: this is _not_ this year's exam! There will be new problems thi
s year. Do not solve the problems linked above. This year's exam will be made
available around Jan 1, 2013, with a deadline Jan 20 2013.

We recruit students from multiple backgrounds, including ECE, EE, CS, Physics,
Applied Math, and others.  Basically, if you can do our test problems, you’r
e qualified to do world class work in our field; we’ll teach you the rest of
what you need to know.  Our students are in very hot demand, and it’s not unu
sual for them to be approached with outside job offers as early as their secon
d or third year of graduate school.  We are particularly proud to say that the
first two postdoctoral scholars to emerge from our group have both found exce
llent positions:  Ali took a position at Luxtera, and Jeremy has an excellent
faculty position at a leading university in Germany (http://www.iph.rwth-aachen.de/?p=360
)

We would encourage all interested potential students to take this exam, even i
f their experience is not directly photonics related. We will give strong cons
ideration to any candidates who do very well on this exam, regardless of their
grades or past experiences.

To be considered for our lab group, you must do the following things:

1)   Send an email to Prof. Tom Baehr-Jones (baehrjt@udel.edu) indicating you
wish to be sent our entrance exam when it is ready. You will be sent the exam
by email on Jan 1 2013.  Please provide some information on your interest in t
he NUS and UD groups.  We very strongly encourage all applicants to apply to b
oth NUS and UD, since we have different projects in the different places.
2)    Apply to the National University of Singapore ECE department (http://www.gse.nus.edu.sg/research_based_august.html
) by November 1, 2012.
3)    Please also apply for the SINGA fellowship, deadline Jan 1, 2012.
(https://www.singa.a-star.edu.sg/howtoapply.php)
4)    Please apply to UD ECE – www.ece.udel.edu

Please note that the admission process for our lab group is in addition to the
application process for the departments at UD and NUS.  You must complete the
se applications in order to work with our group.  We have significant latitude
to admit students who do well on our exam, but you do have to complete the fo
rmal application forms, in addition to our group’s exam.  We will conduct int
erviews of top candidates after the exam is complete.

Lastly, please note that our exam is not a requirement for admission to other
groups at either NUS or UD.  The exam is pertinent only to admission to the Na
nophotonics group.

Thank you for your interest in our lab group.  Please contact us with any ques
tions.

Sincerely,

Prof. Tom Baehr-Jones
Prof. Michael Hochberg

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