March 26, 2018 Kats recognized with Coatings young investigator award Written By: Sam Million-Weaver Departments: Electrical & Computer Engineering Categories: Awards Coatings, an international, peer-reviewed and open access journal bestowed a Young Investigator Award to Mikhail Kats, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Kats’ contributions to engineering of light-matter interactions and developing optical coatings, metasurfaces and unconventional optical materials earned him top honors from a field of more than 70 candidates.