Mohammed N. Islam received the B.S. degree in 1981, the M.S. degree in 1983, and the
Sc.D. degree in 1985, all electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge. From 1985-1992 he was a member of the Technical Staff in the
Advanced Photonics Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, N.J. He joined
the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor in 1992, where he is currently a Full Tenured Professor. He also has a joint
Full Professor appointment in the University of Michigan Medical School, Department of
Internal Medicine.
Prof. Islam was a Fannie and John Hertz Fellow from 1981-1985, and in 1992 he was
awarded the OSA Adolf Lomb Medal for pioneering contributions to nonlinear optical
phenomena and all-optical switching in optical fibers. He also received the U-M research
excellence award in 1997 and became a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1998.
In 2002 he received the Texas eComm Ten Award for being one of the 10 most
influential people in Texas’s digital economy. He became a fellow of the IEEE in 2004.
He is also the first recipient of the prestigious 2007 Distinguished University Innovator
Award for developing and commercializing break-through technology as well as bringing
lessons learned back into the classroom through teaching of entrepreneurship and
intellectual property protection.
Prof. Islam has published over 130 papers in refereed journals and holds over 120 patents
or patents pending. In addition, he has authored three books and has written several book
chapters. He has also been an invited speaker at over 70 conferences and symposia, and
he has served on numerous Conference technical committees, Advisory committees and
Board of Directors.
His current research interests include mid- and near-infrared laser sources and their
applications in defense and healthcare. On the defense side, applications include infrared
countermeasures, explosives detection, and battlefield communication. On the healthcare
side, his research relates to using fiber lasers in cardiology, endocrinology,
ophthalmology, dermatology, and cancer detection.
Prof. Islam teaches a number of courses including Introduction to Photonics, Fiber Optics:
Internet to Biomedical Applications, High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Patent
Fundamentals for Engineers.
Prof. Islam has Founded and has been Chief Technology Officer for several companies,
including Xtera Communications, Omni Sciences, Celeste Optics, AccuPhotonics, Omni
MedSci, and Cheetah Omni. He is also a Registered Patent Agent with the US Patent and
Trademark Office
Website: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/OSL/Islam/
Source: http://www.academicpub.org/joea/file/Mohammed%20N.%20IslamBio.pdf
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