Ido Kaminer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Biography
Ido Kaminer is a Graduate of the Technion Excellence Program, receiving his Bachelor in both Electrical Engineering and Physics. He was granted the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Award for outstanding undergraduate student achievements in 2007. He has completed his PhD degree in the Physics Department. In his dissertation, he discovered new classes of accelerating beams in nonlinear optics and electromagnetism, for which he received the 2012 Israel Physical Society Prize and the 2014 APS Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science. He is currently a Marie Curie fellow at MIT working in the group of Prof. Marin SoljaÄić.