Diana Huffaker, professor of electrical engineering in UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected by IEEE as a 2015 distinguished lecturer in the area of photonic devices. In this role, she will help lead the Photonics Society in technical developments that will shape the global community through lecture and networking at various society and technical council meetings.
Huffaker's research interests are in the broad study of directed and self-assembled nanostructure solid-state epitaxy, optoelectronic devices, including solar cells, and III-V/Si photonics. She is the director of the Integrated NanoMaterials Core Lab, in the California NanoSystems Institute, which explores a "bottom-up" approach and novel devices architecture using nanomaterial and organic/inorganic interfaces to realize new device functionality.
