Holger Schmidt received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He served as a postdoctoral fellow with MIT. Currently, he is the Narinder Kapany Chair of optoelectronics, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the associate dean for research with the Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include integrated photonics, optofluidics, single molecule analysis, nanomagnetism, and spintronic devices. He has authored or coauthored over 400 publications and is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, and NAI.