Kats selected as SPIE fellow

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby Professor and Antoine-Bascom Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elevated to the rank of fellow by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Fellows are members of SPIE who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging, as well performing substantial service to the optics and photonics community and to SPIE. For 2025, the organization selected 47 of their members as fellows, representing high-profile leaders in academia, industry, and government, many of whom are prominent in their support of the optics and photonics community and mentorship of others.

Kats and his research group engage in experimental and theoretical exploration of topics across the fields of optics and photonics, device physics, nanoscale science and quantum technologies. The primary goals of the group is to investigate fundamental problems in optics and photonics and to create next generation optical components to emit, modulate and detect light across the visible and infrared spectral ranges.