Biography

Simeon’s scientific achievements include the fabrication of InAs/GaSb superlattice photodetectors operating at 10 µm with the world’s lowest dark current for this material system and the realization of the brightest room-temperature single-photon source based on a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Simeon received an NSF CAREER Award in 2022 and is a Senior Member of Optica. He serves as a reviewer for journals such as Nature Communications, Optica, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Optics Express, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Letters, Optical Materials Express, Nanophotonics and Photonics Research.

Research

Research Interests

  • Applications of machine learning

  • Integrated optoelectronics

  • Optically active solid-state spins

  • Superconducting materials and devices

  • Plasmonics and Metamaterials

  • Nonlinear optics and quantum transduction

  • High-speed quantum photonics

Research Areas

  • Nano-photonics

  • Quantum nanostructures for electronics and photonics

Research Topics

  • Photonics: optical engineering and systems

  • Quantum optics, cryptography, information, and computing

Education

  • 2008 · 2014
    Northwestern University
    PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • 2007 · 2008
    Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
    MSc in Microelectronics
  • 2004 · 2008
    Ecole Polytechnique
    BSc, MSc in

Positions

  • 2020 · Present
    Assistant Professor (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
    University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  • 2014 · 2019
    Postdoctoral Research Associate (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
    Purdue University