Weidong ZhouProfessor

He is currently a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Since joining UTA, Dr. Zhou has carried out over 40 federally-funded projects, from the Department of Defense (AFOSR, AFRL, ARO, ONR, JTO, DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), etc. Total funding support level exceeds $24 million for all the projects involved. As single PI or leading PI, the total award exceeds $10 million since 2005. He has also engaged in research commercialization efforts, with multiple million DoD/NSF SBIR/STTR Phase I/II awards. Dr. Zhou has authored and co-authored over 350 journal publications and conference presentations, including ~ 140 invited conference talks and seminar talks. He have 6 issued US patents with a few more pending. He also published one book and 5 book chapters. Dr. Zhou and his group have made significant contributions in the areas of photonic crystal laser scaling for energy efficient integrated photonics and micro transfer printing of semiconductor nanomembranes for heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductor materials with silicon, for integrated silicon photonics and flexible optoelectronics. The work has been published in very high impact factor journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Nature Bioengineering, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, etc.