Principal Investigator

Abdoulaye Ndao

Assistant Professor, Sloan Research Fellow (Physics), Scialog Fellow, and Hellman Fellow
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC San Diego

a1ndao@ucsd.edu

Dr. Ndao is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including:

2024 Sloan Fellowship in Physics
2024 Hellman Fellowship
2024 iCANX Young Scientist Award
2024 IAAM Scientist Medal Lecture
2024 Jacobs School Early Career Faculty Development Award, UC San Diego
2023 Beckman Young Investigator Award, Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation
2023 Boston University ECE Outstanding Teaching Award
2023 Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award
2022 Sculpted Light in the Brain Innovation Grant
2022 Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award
2022 Boston University ECE Outstanding Faculty Committee Service Award
2021 Reidy Family Career Development Professorship – “The very best young faculty”
2021 Rising Star of Light, Nature’s Light: Science and Applications journal
2020 Top 50 Chemistry and Materials Sciences Articles
2018 Best Oral Presentation, 6th Annual UC San Diego Postdoctoral Research Symposium
2018 Gordon Research Travel Grant
2017 Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough – First Topological Laser
2017 Triton Innovation Challenge Grand Prize – Lidar Applications
2017 Prize Winner, Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at UC San Diego
2014 Ph.D. with Honors – Jury’s Congratulations
2011–2014 Ministry Research Fellowship