Keynote Speaker

Organic Small Molecule Integrated Photonic Devices

Andrea Armani (University of Southern California)

Biography: Prof. Andrea Armani is currently the Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. She is also the Director of the John D. O’Brien Nanofabrication Laboratory, the core nanofabrication cleanroom facility at USC. Prof. Armani received her BA in physics from the University of Chicago and her PhD in applied physics with a minor in biology from the California Institute of Technology. Prof. Armani is an Editorial Advisory Board member for APL Photonics and is on the editorial staff for Optics Letters (associate editor from 2011-2017, features editor 2018-present) and ACS Photonics (associate editor). She is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, AAAS, and NAI, and an elected member of Sigma Xi. She serves on several technical society award and leadership committees, currently serving on SPIE’s EDI Committee. Prof. Armani has received several awards for research and mentoring, including the NIH New Innovator Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Optica Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award..