Dr. Jeffrey Bokor is the Paul R. Gray Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment as Senior Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Dr. Bokor received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1980 to 1993, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he did research on a variety of topics in laser science, advanced lithography for integrated circuits, as well as semiconductor physics and technology, and held several management positions.
Dr. Bokor joined the Berkeley faculty in 1993 and served in a number of administrative positions including Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering, and Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. His current research activities include nanomagnetics/spintronics, graphene electronics, nanophotonics, and nano-electromechanical systems. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and OSA.