EISENSTEIN GADI

Electrical Engineering Dept. Technion
Haifa 32000 Israel
http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/gad/
Date and Place of Birth : June 20, 1949, Israel
PhD: 1980 University of Minnesota, USA
Appointments:
1980-1989 Member of The Technical Staff, Photonics and Optical Communication
Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1989 – date Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
1997-1998
2011
Guest Professor University of Minnesota
Guest Professor Technical University Berlin
Technion Activities:
Member of Barbara and Norman Seiden Advanced Opto-Electronics Center Management
Committee, Started October 1989.
Head of Barbara and Norman Seiden Opto-Electronics Center, 1999 – 2007
Member Technion Academic Development Committee, 1999 – 2000.
Member Technion Permanent Committee for Academic Appointments 2002-2004.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering Dept., 2002-2007.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering Dept., 2008-2010.
Scientific Community Activities:
Organizer and Chairman of Session on Optical Amplifiers: Conference On Lasers and
Electrooptics (CLEO) 1988 Semiconductor Laser Workshop.
Organizer and Chairman of Session on Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Amplifiers:
Global Communication Conference (GLOBCOM) 1990.
Program Committee Member: Technical Optical Amplifiers 1991 Conference.
Program Committee Co-Chairman: Optical Amplifiers 1992 Conference.
General Co-Chairman: Optical Amplifiers 1993 Conference.
Technical Program Committee Member: Global Communication Conference
(GLOBCOM) 1992.
Technical Program Committee Member: Optical Fiber Communication Conference /
International Optoelectronic and Optical Communication Conference (OFC/IOOC)
1993.
Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE 14 International Semiconductor Laser
Conference 1994, 1996, 1998
Technical Program Committee Member: Conference on Ultrafast Electronics and
Optoelectronics 1997.
CV/Gadi Eisenstein 2
Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE JSTQE on: Devices for All-Optical Signal
Processing in Fiber Optics Systems-Principles and Applications, 1997.
Associate Editor IEEE JQE 1999-2005.
Scientific Board Member IEE Proceedings on Optoelectronics, 2005
Advisory Committee On Optical Communication Member: IEEE Lasers and
Electrooptic Society, January 1994.
Israeli Ministry of Science, National Committee on Electrooptics: Appointed 1994 –
1997.
Israeli Ministry of Commerce, MAGNET Program Subcommittee on Electrooptics:
1994 – 1999.
Technical Program Committee Member CLEO Europe 2005
Technical Program Committee Member ECOC 2004-2010
Technical Program Committee Memner Slow Light Meeting 2006
Co – Chair Technical Program Committee Slow Light Topical Meeting 2007
Technical Program Committee Member CLEO Europe 2007-2011
Co – General Chair Slow Light Topical Meeting 2008
Associate Guest Editor, Special Issue on Slow Light, Joint Issue JLT / JOSA B 2008
Prize Committee Member IEEE Quantum Electronics Prize 2008-2011
Organizer, Slow Light Wowrkshop, ECOC 2010.
Prize Committee Member IEEE Quantum Electronics Prize 2011.
IEEE Fellow Committee 2012
Prizes and Awards:
AT&T Bell Laboratories Research Achievement Award 1988.
Technion Dudy Ben-Aharon Award 1992.
IEEE—Lasers and Electro-Optics Society – Fellow 1998
Alexander Humboldt Award 2006
Taub Academic Excellence Award 2008
Elected Forign Member at The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 2012
Publications
Over 450 Journal and conference publications
Over 100 Invited and planary talks at international conferences
Eight book chapters
Six patents