Milan Mashanovitch

Milan L. Mashanovitch (M’99–SM’13) received the Dipl.Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2004. He cofounded Freedom Photonics LLC, Santa Barbara, in 2005, and he has been in many technical roles related to product development and program management since. In addition to Freedom Photonics, he was with the University of California Santa Barbara, both as a Researcher on photonic-integrated circuits, and as an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate level classes on semiconductor lasers and photonic ICs. He has coauthored nearly 130 papers, many invited, on photonic-integrated circuits and various photonic devices. He is one of the authors of the second edition of the Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits (Wiley, 2012). He has chaired, serves, or has served on technical committees for the IEEE Avionics, Fiber Optics and Photonics Conference, the IEEE Microwave Photonics Conference, the OSA's Integrated Photonics Research Conference, the International Semiconductor Laser Conference, and the Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Conference.