Anna Tauke-Pedretti

Anna Tauke-Pedretti (S’02–M’08–SM’15) received the B.S. degree in physics and the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. In 2008, she joined the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, and has worked on a variety of compound semiconductor optoelectronic devices. Her work has included optical injection locking, high-speed modulators, high-efficiency solar cells, and infrared detectors. She has more than 60 conference and journal articles and has been awarded 7 patents.