Yurii Vlasov

Yurii Vlasov (born 1964) is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC).

Vlasov earned his M.S. University of St.-Petersburg, Russia in 1988 and Ph.D. from the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, St.-Petersburg, Russia in 1995.

Prior to joining UIUC in 2016, Vlasov held various positions at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. In 2001-2015 he led company-wide efforts in integrated silicon nanophotonics and more recently in neuromorphic computing architectures.

Vlasov is recognized both as a scholar in the area of extreme optical confinement at the nanoscale – nanophotonics, as well as an industrial engineer who has led the transition of this basic scientific knowledge (TRL level 1–2) into a real-world manufacturable (TRL level 8–9) silicon nanophotonics technology.

The CMOS9WG technology developed under the leadership of Vlasov at IBM and lately deployed at GlobalFoundries is enabling high-performance optical connectivity in supercomputers, data centers, metro, and long-haul communications, while significantly reducing cost and maximizing energy efficiency. Provided by Wikipedia