Facebook:Dr. Xi-Cheng Zhang Wins Button Prize

Button Prize Winner: Dr. Xi-Cheng Zhang

September 18, 2014 at 2:51pm

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Dr. Xi-Cheng Zhang from University of Rochester, IEEE Fellow was awarded the Button Prize “for outstanding contributions to the development of THz time-domain spectroscopy and applications.”The prize was awarded at a special plenary session on Wednesday, Sept. 17th, 2014, at the IRMMW-THz conference in Tucson. The prize consists of a cash award of $3000, a certificate, and a medal.

Dr. Zhang received 28 US patents; authored and co-authored 23 books and book chapters, 300 refereed papers; delivered 400 colloquium, seminars, invited conference presentations, and 200 contributed conference talks. His H-index=70 and i10-index=328; total citations greater than 24,400. (Google Scholar on 3/24/2014).His research interests center around Terahertz waves, also known as T-rays, which exist within a frequency range between microwave and infrared. His research is focused on the generation, detection, and applications of free-space THz beams with ultrafast optics.



Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. Dr. Zhang’s honors and awards include:International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves Kenneth F. Button Prize ’14; OSA William F. Meggers Award ’12; Moscow University Honorable Professor ’12; IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer; Scientific Achievement Award ’11; Rensselaer’s William H. Wiley Award ’09; the Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement; Awards ’09, ’08, ’07, ’06, ’04, ’03, ’02, ’01; Fellow and Lifetime Member of American Physics Society; Fellow and Lifetime Member; of Institute of Electrical and Electronics En- gineers; Fellow and Lifetime Member of Optical Society of America; First Heinrich; Hertz Lecturer (Germany); International Commission for Optics Traveling Lecturer ’03; Fellow Lecturer of Optical Society of America ’02; K.C. Wong Fellow ’02; Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE/LEOS ’98–99 & 99–00; Rensselaer’s Early Career Award, ’96; Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation ’95; K.C. Wong Prize, K.C. Wong Foundation /Hong Kong, ’95; CAREER Award (previous NSF-NYI), National Science Foundation ’95; AFOSR- SRPF Fellow, Hanscom Air Force Base ’93–94; Research Initiation Award, National Sci- ence Foundation, 92.

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BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PRIZE:
“The Infrared and Millimeter Wave Prize”, to be awarded “for outstanding contributions to the field of infrared and millimeter waves”, was initiated by the Program Council (now known as the International Organizing Committee) and awarded in the first instance to Kenneth J. Button, founder of the conference series in 1990.