Seth Bank received the B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2006 from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. In 2006, he was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in the spring of 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His current research interests are in the development new nanophotonic and nanoelectronics devices (design, growth, and fabrication). In particular, he is currently focused on the molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) growth and characterization of new materials including group-IV heterostructures, dilute-nitride semiconductors (e.g. GaInNAsSb) and metal/semiconductor nanocomposites (e.g. ErAs nanoparticles in GaAs) and their application to silicon-based lasers, mid-IR lasers, THz generation and sensing, and high-speed transistors. He has received a 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), several “Best Paper” awards at national and international conferences, and coauthored over 120 papers and presentations.
Website: http://lase.ece.utexas.edu