Leda Lunardi
Leda Maria Lunardi is a Brazilian-American electrical engineer whose research concerns electronics, photonics, and optoelectronics. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University.[1][2]
Education and career[edit]
Lunardi is from a large Brazilian family, part of the first generation of her family to go to college. She followed a pre-medical track in high school, but after developing an aversion to the internals of human bodies, changed her focus, switching to physics on the advice of a teacher.[3] She studied physics at the University of São Paulo, earning a bachelor's degree in 1976 and a master's degree in 1979. She completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Cornell University in 1985.[1]
She joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1986, and worked for AT&T until moving to JDS Uniphase in 1999. In 2003, she returned to academia as a professor at North Carolina State University.[4] From 2005 to 2007 she served as a program director for Electrical, Cyber and Communication Systems at the National Science Foundation.[2]
Book[edit]
With Alice C. Parker, Lunardi is co-editor of the book Women in Microelectronics (Springer, 2020), with chapters written by researchers in this area detailing their lives and research.
Recognition[edit]
Lunardi won the Achievement Award of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society in 2000.[1] She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2002, "for contributions to the development of high-performance 1.55 um monolithically integrated photoreceiver for optical communication".[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Leda Lunardi", People, NC State University Electrical and Computer Engineering, retrieved 2021-07-16
- ^ a b "Leda Lunardi", Women in Science: Conversations on Gender Equity, Springer Nature, retrieved 2021-07-16
- ^ Lunardi, Leda (2020), "Heterojunction bipolar transistors and monolithically integrated photoreceivers among other applications", in Lunardi, Leda; Parker, Alice Cline (eds.), Women in Microelectronics, Springer International Publishing, pp. 117–132, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46377-9_8, S2CID 226415936
- ^ "Leda Lunardi", ORCID, retrieved 2021-07-16
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-07-16
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