Clarivate Analytics has named Mikhail Kats, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, a 2018 highly cited researcher. Kats’ cross-disciplinary research draws from optics, photonics, device physics and nanotechnology, and his papers have accumulated more than 9,000 citations on Google Scholar since 2013. The highly cited researcher distinction reflects that Kats’ papers were among the top 1-percent most-cited manuscripts by his peers.