John E. Bowers

John E. Bowers
NationalityAmerican
TitleFred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology
ParentCharles E. Bowers
AwardsMember of National Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the IEEE
Fellow of The Optical Society
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Academic background
EducationB.S., Physics (1976)
M.S., Applied Physics (1978)
Ph.D., Applied Physics (1981)
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Stanford University
ThesisBroadband monolithic Sezawa wave storage correlators and convolvers (1981)
Doctoral advisorGordon S. Kino
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

John E. Bowers is an American physicist, engineer, researcher and educator. He is the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology and the director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bowers' research is focused on silicon photonic integrated circuits for fiber optic communications. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE, OSA, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement to Science (AAAS).