In 2023, SPIE awarded $293,000 in scholarships to 72 outstanding SPIE Student Members, based on their potential contribution to optics and photonics, or a related discipline. Award-winning applicants were evaluated, selected, and approved by the SPIE Scholarship Committee.
SPIE has cumulatively distributed more than $7 million in individual scholarships since the program began. This ambitious effort reflects the Society's commitment to education and to the next generation of optical scientists and engineers around the world. Individual awards range from $3,000 to $11,000.
Brian Primeau, the 2023 SPIE Scholarship Committee chair, noted, “Congratulations to the SPIE 2023 scholarship winners! These students have all demonstrated their potential to make long-term contributions to the optics and photonics community, and the Scholarship Committee was thoroughly impressed with the students' accomplishments. The committee members and I look forward to seeing what this class of students brings to the world as they begin or continue their careers in optics and photonics.”
Primeau also expressed his gratitude: “Thank you to all the applicants for taking the time to apply, and thank you to all the recommenders who took time to write insightful letters. Finally, thanks to the committee volunteers and SPIE staff for their time in reviewing all the applications!”
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada)
Awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, US $11,000
Montana State University (United States)
Awarded the John Kiel Scholarship, US $10,000
The Univ. British Columbia (Canada)
Awarded the Laser Technology, Engineering, and Applications Scholarship, US $5,000
The Univ. British Columbia (Canada)
Awarded the Teddi Laurin Scholarship, US $5,000
Montana State University (United States)
Awarded the Optical Design and Engineering Scholarship, US $5,000
Omar Alkhazragi, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)
Erick Ramon Baca Montero, Univ. de Guanajuato (Mexico)
Nune Badalyan, Yerevan State Univ. (Armenia)
Wenlin Bai, Southwest Jiaotong Univ. (China)
Valentina Bellemo, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
Essam Berikaa, McGill Univ. (Canada)
Yamila Borsch, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)
Jennifer Bragg, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
Rodolfo Carrillo-Betancourt, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Trevor Chen, Westview High School (United States)
Suyeon Choi, Stanford Univ. (United States)
Wilmer Contreras Sepulveda, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (Mexico)
Benjamin Crockett, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada)
Gloria Davidova, Cornell Univ. (United States)
Kirtan Pravin Dixit, The Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville (United States)
Faraneh Fathi, Univ. of Kentucky (United States)
Mengfan Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)
Hatice Göktürk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany)
Isabella Gomez, Univ. EAFIT (Colombia)
Grzegorz Gomólka, Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Technology (Poland)
Diana Laura Gonzalez Hernandez, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)
Alexis Guidi, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada)
Shannon Hamp, Montana State Univ. (United States)
Artem Hrinchenko, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National Univ. (Ukraine)
Ilija Hristovski, The Univ. of British Columbia Okanagan (Canada)
Huai-Ching Hsieh, National Taiwan Univ. (Taiwan)
Tatyana Ivanova, Heriot-Watt Univ. (United Kingdom)
Marcin Jastrzębski, Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Na Jin, Brown Univ. (United States)
Md Moinul Islam Khan, McGill Univ. (Canada)
Yeseul Kim, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Stanislaw Kurzyna, Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Joseph Lamarre, Polytechnique Montréal (Canada)
Weijia Li, McGill Univ. (Canada)
Michal Lipka, Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Xiaomin Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)
Karol Łukanowski, Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Cong Ma, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China)
Yakshita Malhotra, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
Dylan Maxwell, Montana State Univ. (United States)
Yun Meng, Tianjin Univ. (China)
Hugo Abel Moreno-Rodríguez, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
Ikechi Theo Ndamati, Johns Hopkins Univ. (United States)
Can Özcan, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
Evgeny Pakhomenko, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities (United States)
Leerin Perumal, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Cade Ribeiro Peters, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Jiaming Qian, Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
Sweta Rani, IITB-Monash Research Academy (India)
Malley Richardson, The Univ. of British Columbia Okanagan (Canada)
Connor Rowe, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada)
Prithu Roy, Institut Fresnel (France)
Swetapadma Sahoo, Univ. of Illinois (United States)
Suparna Seshadri, Purdue Univ. (United States)
Basem Shahriar, Univ. of Alberta (Canada)
Lee Sikstrom, Western Univ. (Canada)
Janet Sorrells, Univ. of Illinois (United States)
Michael Soskind, Princeton Univ. (United States)
Shriniketh Sreevatsan, Wyant College of Optical Sciences (United States)
Icel Sukovaty, The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester (United States)
Shaban Sulejman, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
Ibrahim Tanriover, Northwestern Univ. (United States)
Pavel Tonkaev, The Australian National Univ. (Australia)
Rachel Turner, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
Chen Wang, The Univ. of Oklahoma (United States)
William Ward, McMaster Univ. (Canada)
Piotr Wegrzyn, Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS and Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
Jimin Wu, Rice Univ. (United States)
Yixin Xiao, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
Qian Yang, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (United States)
Younghwan Yang, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)