Andrea ArmaniProf. Andrea Armani is currently the Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with courtesy appointments in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedica Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering, as well as Chemistry in the Dornsife College at the University of Southern California. She is the Director of the Powell Teaching Lab and the John D. O'Brien Nanofabrication Laboratory, the core research teaching nanofabrication cleanroom facilities at USC.

Prof. Armani is actively involved in several different professional societies, serving on and chairing conference committees for IEEE, OSA (CLEO), and SPIE (Photonics West). She routinely serves on review panels for NSF, NIH, and ARPA-E is an Editorial Advisory Board member for APL Photonics and is on the editorial staff for Optics Letters (associate editor from 2011-2017, features editor 2018-present) and ACS Photonics (associate editor). She is a member of AAAS and NAI, a senior member of IEEE and AIChE, a Fellow of OSA and SPIE, and a full member of Sigma Xi. She is also the faculty advisor for the USC student chapters of AIChE and OSA/SPIE. Read More Read Less