Prof. Elham Heidari has a position as an Assistant Professor and is currently working at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively. She was a research associate at the University of Maryland collaborating with NIST, specializing in the design and implementation of integrated resonators for nonlinear and quantum optics, with a specific focus on all-optical frequency conversion applications and the development of compact and robust photonic platforms for generating and observing phenomena in Kerr combs. Her work in this field has been published in prestigious academic journals, including Nature SR, Optica, IEEE JLT, and Nanophotonics. She has developed expertise in the development of photonic interconnect devices, including high-speed short-wavelength semiconductors, plasmonic switches, low dimensional electro-optical modulators, chip-based wideband electromagnetic wave sensing, and spectroscopy in Near-IR and MID-IR regions.