Demetri Psaltis Explained

Demetri Psaltis
Birth Date:	1953^[1]
Nationality:	Greek and American
Fields:	Electrical Engineering
Work Institution:	Caltech EPFL
Alma Mater:	Carnegie Mellon University

Demetri Psaltis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Δημήτρης Ψάλτης) is a Greek-American electrical engineer who was the Dean of the School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2007 to 2017.^[2] Since 2024 he is a professor emeritus at EPFL.https://people.epfl.ch/demetri.psaltis/?lang=en He is one of the founders of the term and the field of optofluidics.^[3] He is also well known for his past work in holography, especially with regards to optical computing, holographic data storage, and neural networks. He is an author of over 1100 publications, contributed more than 20 book chapters, invented more than 50 patents, and currently has a h-index of 104.

Education

Demetri Psaltis received his B.S. (1974), M.S. (1975), and Ph.D. (1977) at Carnegie Mellon University.

Academic career

From 1980 to 2007, he worked at Caltech as an Assistant Professor (1980–1985), Associate Professor (1985–1990), Full Professor (1990–1996), Executive Officer for Computation and Neural Systems (1992–1996), Director for the National Science Foundation Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering (1996–1999), Thomas G. Myers Professor (1996–2007) and Director for the DARPA Center for Optofluidic Integration (2004–2007). In 2007, he moved to Switzerland as a Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering at EPFL.

His past research had focused on optical computing,^[4] holographic data storage,^[5] neural networks,^[6] optofluidics^{[7] [8] [9]} and on nonlinear optics particularly in scattering media.^[10]

His current research focuses on optical computing for neural networks^[11] and imaging through optical fibers.^[12]

Honors

2012 Emmett N. Leith Medal.^[13]
2006 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award.^[14]
2005 IEEE Fellow^[15] for contributions to the application of holography to information processing.^[16]
2003 Humboldt Prize for Senior U.S. Scientists.
2002 NASA Space Act Award.
1997 SPIE Fellow.^[17]
1989 International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize for contributions in Optical Information Processing.^[18]
OSA Fellow.

Lectures

• 1992 - Optical implementation of neural networks Lecture sponsored by the Dept. of Electrical and Computer engineering, University of California, San Diego. Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. Digital Object Made Available by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

External links

• Personal page of Demetri Psaltis on the EPFL website
• Optics Laboratory

Notes and References

1. Web site: Psaltis, Demetri (1953) . Idref.fr . 2020-10-19 . 2022-08-31.
2. http://actualites.epfl.ch/presseinfo-com?id=366 NEWS EPFL :: The new face of engineering
3. Web site: Research on New Types of Optical Devices Modifies Optics.
4. Psaltis. D.. Coherent Optical Information Systems. 10.1126/science.1078823. Science. 298. 5597. 1359–1363. 2002. 12434049. 2002Sci...298.1359P. 16000569.
5. Psaltis. D.. Buse. K.. Adibi. A.. Nature. Non-volatile holographic storage in doubly doped lithium niobate crystals. 393. 6686. 665–668. 1998. 10.1038/31429. 1998Natur.393..665B. 4426548.
6. Psaltis. D.. Brady. D.. Gu. X. G.. Lin. S.. Holography in artificial neural networks. 10.1038/343325a0. Nature. 343. 6256. 325–330. 1990. 2300184. 1990Natur.343..325P. 4337012.
7. Erickson . David . Sinton . David . Psaltis . Demetri . September 11, 2011 . Optofluidics for energy applications . . 5 . 10 . 583–590 . 2011NaPho...5..583E . 10.1038/nphoton.2011.209 . 46483818.
8. Cuennet . J. G. . Vasdekis . A. E. . De Sio . L. . Psaltis . D. . 2011 . Optofluidic modulator based on peristaltic nematogen microflows . Nature Photonics . 5 . 4 . 234–238 . 2011NaPho...5..234C . 10.1038/nphoton.2011.18 . 106400512.
9. Psaltis . D. . Quake . S. R. . Yang . C. . 2006 . Developing optofluidic technology through the fusion of microfluidics and optics . . 442 . 7101 . 381–386 . 2006Natur.442..381P . 10.1038/nature05060 . 16871205 . 1729058.
10. Yaqoob . Z. . Psaltis . D. . Feld . M. S. . Yang . C. . 2008 . Optical phase conjugation for turbidity suppression in biological samples . Nature Photonics . 2 . 2 . 110–115 . 2008NaPho...2..110Y . 10.1038/nphoton.2007.297 . 2688902 . 19492016.
11. Wetzstein . Gordon . Ozcan . Aydogan . Gigan . Sylvain . Fan . Shanhui . Englund . Dirk . Soljačić . Marin . Denz . Cornelia . Miller . David A. B. . Psaltis . Demetri . December 2020 . Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics . Nature . en . 588 . 7836 . 39–47 . 10.1038/s41586-020-2973-6 . 1476-4687.
12. Web site: Optica Publishing Group . 2024-04-12 . opg.optica.org.
13. http://www.osa.org/Awards_and_Grants/Awards/Award_Description/leith/ EMMETT N. LEITH MEDAL
14. Web site: Dennis Gabor Award - SPIE. spie.org.
15. Web site: IEEE - Fellows - P . . July 5, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131207074632/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/pfellows.html . December 7, 2013 . dead .
16. Web site: IEEE Fellows 2005 | IEEE Communications Society.
17. Web site: SPIE Fellows. SPIE. July 5, 2011.
18. Web site: ICO Prizes and Awards . . July 5, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110709212802/http://www.ico-optics.org/awards.html . July 9, 2011 .