Marek Osiński is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He holds joint professorships with UNM’s Departments of Physics & Astronomy, Computer Science, and Nuclear Engineering. He is also a core member of the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) at UNM. He received the M.Sc. degree in theoretical physics from Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, and the Ph.D. degree in physical sciences from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PASc), Warsaw. He is also affiliated with UNM’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Emerging Energy Technologies, and Center for Biomedical Engineering, and actively participates in interdisciplinary graduate programs in Optical Science & Engineering (OSE) and Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering (NMSE). He currently serves as the ECE Co-Chair of the OSE graduate program. His main current research interests include single-photon sources and detectors, quantum photonic integrated circuits, semiconductor ring lasers, injection locking, photonic crystals, laser cooling, monolithically integrated optoelectronic circuits, comprehensive simulation of optoelectronic devices, memristors, neuromorphic computing, synthesis and characterization of colloidal nanocrystals, nanoscintillators, nanophosphors, and effects of radiation on optoelectronic devices.

 Dr. Osiński is a Life Fellow of IEEE (’18), IEEE Photonics Society, and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, as well as Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) (‘02) and Fellow of the Optical Society of America (’03). He has authored or co-authored over 590 technical papers, 7 book chapters, and 26 patents. He also co-edited 32 books of SPIE conference proceedings on Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices and 26 other SPIE volumes in the fields of advanced high-power lasers, optoelectronics, nano-biophotonics, and colloidal nanoparticles for biomedical applications. From 1992 until 2003, he served as North American Editor of Progress in Quantum Electronics. From 2012 till 2017, he served as Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal. Currently, he serves as Director of the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program on Quantum Computing Applications of Photonics, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).