OSA Fellow Andrew M Weiner is the Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Inventers and was selected as a Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. Weiner has served as Editor-in-chief of Optics Express and previously served a three year term as Chair of the National Academy’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Meeting.

Weiner earned his Sc.D. in electrical engineering in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and afterwards joined Bellcore, first as Member of Technical Staff and later as Manager of Ultrafast Optics and Optical Signal Processing Research. He joined Purdue as Professor in 1992, and has since graduated close to 40 Ph.D. students. Prof. Weiner has also spent sabbaticals at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrashort Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany and at JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado.

Prof. Weiner is author of a textbook Ultrafast Optics, has published eleven book chapters, over 300 journal articles, over 500 conference papers, and is inventor of 18 U.S. patents. In past years he chaired the Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO), the International Conference on Ultrafast phenomenam, and the Gorden Research Conference on Nonlinear Optics and has served as Treasurer and on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-otpics Society (now the IEEE Photonics Society). His numerous awards include the Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize, OSA’s Adolph Lomb Medal and R.W. Wood Prize, the International Commission on Optics Prize, and the IEEE Photonics Society’s William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award and Quantum Electronics Prize. At Purdue he has been recognized with the inaugural Research Excellence Award from the Schools of Engineering, the Provost's Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award, the Herbert Newby McCoy Award for outstanding contributions to the natural sciences, and the College of Engineering Mentoring Award.