In 2022, SPIE awarded $298,000 in Optics and Photonics Education Scholarships to 78 outstanding SPIE Student Members, based on their potential contribution to optics and photonics, or a related discipline. Award-winning applicants were evaluated, selected, and approved by the SPIE Scholarship Committee.
Since the program began, SPIE has distributed more than $6 million dollars in individual scholarships. This ambitious effort reflects the Society's commitment to education and to the next generation of optical scientists and engineers around the world. Individual awards range from $3,000 to $11,000.
Kate Medicus, the 2022 Scholarship Committee Chair, noted, "Congratulations to the winners of the SPIE 2022 Education Scholarships! The committee has recognized these students for their potential for long term contribution to the field of optics and photonics. The accomplishments of these students are truly impressive, and I look forward to seeing them grow in their careers in optics and photonics. Thank you to all the applicants and those who wrote recommendation letters. I also thank the committee and the SPIE staff that worked hard to complete the application reviews."
CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida (USA)
Awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, US $11,000
Univ. of Delaware (USA)
Awarded the John Kiel Scholarship, US $10,000
Univ of Michigan (USA)
Awarded the Laser Technology, Engineering and Applications Scholarship, US $5,000
Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
Awarded the Teddi Laurin Scholarship, US $5,000
Trevon Badloe, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea)
Ji Eun Bae, KAIST (Republic of Korea)
M. Saad Bin-Alam, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada)
Carlos Andrés Buitrago-Duque, Univ. Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín (Colombia)
Derek Burrell, Wyant College of Optical Sciences (USA)
Maximilian Büttner, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany)
Gor Chalyan, Yerevan State Univ. (Armenia)
Wesley Chiang, Univ. of Rochester (USA)
Neel Choksi, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
Lauren Cooper, Univ. of Michigan (USA)
Matthew Cooper, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA)
Stijn Cuyvers, Univ. Gent (Belgium)
Maria Júlia de Arruda Mazzotti Marques, Instituto de Física de São Carlos (Brazil)
Camilla dos Santos Costa, Univ. de São Paulo (Brazil)
Flanish D'Souza, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Chapter (India)
Yao Fan, Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
Margherita Firenze, Columbia Univ. (USA)
Michael Garner, Texas A&M Univ. (USA)
Neha Goswami, Univ. of Illinois (USA)
William Green, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)
Jose Cesar Guerra Vazquez, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C. (Mexico)
Adriana Guevara, Univ. of Central Florida (USA)
Melisa Ekin Gulseren, Univ. of California, Davis (USA)
Arthur Harrison, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Omid Hemmatyar, The Univ. of Southern California (USA)
En-Lin Hsiang, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA)
Aislinn Hurley, The Univ. of Texas at Austin (USA)
Timothy Oshiobughie Imogore, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)
Ibrahim Issah, Tampere Univ. (Finland)
Takeki Itoh, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
Alexandra Ivakhno-Tsehelnyk, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Jaehyuck Jang, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea)
Wei Jia, The Univ. of Utah (USA)
Anna Kosar, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Vlada Kyrisha, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Rujia Li, Tsinghua Univ. (China)
Yuanwei Li, Northwestern Univ. (USA)
Ishaan Lohia, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Chao Ma, Yale Univ. (USA)
Shridhar Manjunath, The Australian National Univ. (Australia)
Grigor Mantashyan, Russian-Armenian Univ. (Armenia)
Maxim Masyukov, Aalto Univ. (Finland)
Sara Meir, Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel)
Niladri Modak, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (India)
Shubho Mohajan, Univ. of Alberta (Canada)
Juniyali Nauriyal, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester (USA)
Jack Naylor, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
Victor Ochoa-Gutierrez, Univ. of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Solomon Ojo, Univ. of Arkansas (USA)
Arsenii Prymak, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Victoria Quiros-Cordero, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Ana Hiza Ramirez Andrade, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA)
Venugopal Raskatla, National Institute of Technology, Warangal (India)
Armand Rathgeb, The Univ. of Texas at Dallas (USA)
Mykyta Redkin, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Kamal Rudra, Univ. of Michigan (USA)
Farnaz Sahragard, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada)
Yuki Sano, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
Anjum Shahzad, Quaid-i-Azam Univ. (Pakistan)
Hardit Singh, Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute (Canada)
Anishkumar Soman, Univ. of Delaware (USA)
Edyta Środa, Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Technology (Poland)
Yohan Szuszko Soares, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil)
Mahsa Torfeh, The Univ. of Southern California (USA)
Ashish Tummuri, Manipal Univ. Jaipur (India)
Erica Venkatesulu, Montana State Univ. (USA)
Gabriela Isabel Vera Garfias, Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico)
Simon Ward, Vanderbilt Univ. (USA)
Alicia Wei, Univ. of Notre Dame (USA)
Zixian Wei, McGill Univ. (Canada)
Benjamin Wilson, Univ. of Dayton (USA)
Ivy Hei Man Wong, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China)
Xiaohui Xu, Purdue Univ. (USA)
Haiqiu Yang, Columbia Univ. (USA)
Hajun Yoo, Yonsei Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
Mohammadreza Zandehshahvar, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Teresa Zhang, Emma Willard School (USA)
Kai Zou, Tianjin Univ. (China)