2022-Gala Program Online Honoree -4.14.2022

HONOREE
EVELYN HU ’69, PhD
National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
Evelyn Hu is the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied
Physics and of Electrical Engineering at Harvard
University, where she is also a co-director of the
Harvard Quantum Initiative. Previously, she was a
co-director of the California Nanosystems Institute
and a professor at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Prior to that, she worked at Bell Laboratories, developing
microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques for high-performance
superconducting and semiconducting devices and circuits. She received
doctorate and master’s degrees in physics from Columbia University and a
bachelor’s in physics from Barnard College.
Professor Hu’s research explores new possibilities of optical and electronic
behavior within materials that have been carefully sculpted, modulated,
and modified at the nanoscale. Using cutting-edge nanofabrication
techniques, she creates structures to enhance interactions between light
and matter, which has enabled her to develop new techniques to probe
fundamental material physics and create high-performance photonic and
electronic devices for classical and quantum communication/information
applications.
Professor Hu is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National
Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
Academica Sinica of Taiwan. She is a recipient of a Distinguished Teaching
Fellow Award from the National Science Foundation, a Lifetime Mentor
Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), and she has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society, and the AAAS. She
holds honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt
University.