Yurii Vlasov

Born

St.Petersburg, Russia

AlmamaterSaint Petersburg State University

Fields

• Optics
• Photonics
• Nanotechnology

Institutions

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
• Janelia Research Campus
• NEC Research Institute
• Strasbourg Institute of Material Physics and Chemistry
• Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology

Yurii Vlasov
Born	St.Petersburg, Russia
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Scientific career
Fields	Optics Photonics Nanotechnology
Institutions	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Janelia Research Campus NEC Research Institute Strasbourg Institute of Material Physics and Chemistry Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology
Website	www.integratedneurotech.com

Yurii Vlasov (born 1964) is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics^[1] at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC).

Vlasov earned his M.S. University of St.-Petersburg, Russia in 1988 and Ph.D. from the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, St.-Petersburg, Russia in 1995.^[2]

Prior to joining UIUC in 2016, Vlasov held various positions at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. In 2001-2015 he led company-wide efforts in integrated silicon nanophotonics and more recently in neuromorphic computing architectures.^{[citation needed]}

Vlasov is recognized both as a scholar in the area of extreme optical confinement at the nanoscale – nanophotonics,^[3] as well as an industrial engineer who has led the transition of this basic scientific knowledge (TRL level 1–2) into a real-world manufacturable (TRL level 8–9) silicon nanophotonics technology.^[4]

The CMOS9WG^[5] technology developed under the leadership of Vlasov at IBM^[6] and lately deployed at GlobalFoundries^[7] is enabling high-performance optical connectivity^[8] in supercomputers, data centers, metro, and long-haul communications, while significantly reducing cost and maximizing energy efficiency.^{[citation needed]}