Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Dan Wasserman is a Professor and holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No. 4 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Wasserman received his Sc.B. in 1998 from Brown University in Engineering/Physics and History, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Sigma Xi, and with Honors. Dr. Wasserman received his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 2004.  At Princeton, Dr. Wasserman was a Francis Upton Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.  Dr. Wasserman’s post-doc, as a Princeton University Council on Science and Technology Fellow, focused on quantum cascade laser physics in the Gmachl group at Princeton University. In 2007 Dr. Wasserman joined the Physics faculty at UMass Lowell and then moved to the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2011, where was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015.  Prof. Wasserman will join the University of Texas ECE department in the Fall of 2016.  Dr. Wasserman is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award from the UMass Lowell Physics Department, and the 2015 Distinguished Promotion Award from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.