Bio

Volker J. Sorger is the founder of OPTELLIGENCE and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Photonics and AI Lab at the George Washington University. His research areas include opto-electronics, intelligent information processing, AI and cryptographic systems. For his work, Dr. Sorger received multiple awards among are the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (YIP), the Hegarty Innovation Prize, and the National Academy of Sciences award of the year. Dr. Sorger is an Associate Editor at OPTICA is the former Editor-in-Chief of Nanophotoncis, and Division Chair for ‘Photonics and Opto-electronics’ at OSA. He serves at the boards of OSA & SPIE and is a senior member of IEEE, OSA & SPIE.