Paolo Pintus

Paolo Pintus is a Project Scientist in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Before joining UCSB, he was a Research Fellow with the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna from 2012 to 2016. He received a M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering with honors from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering with honors at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, in 2012.

He was a recipient of the Ingegner Giuseppe Pedriali Prize (2013), the European Anile-ECMI Prize for Mathematics in Industry (2014), and the Million Dollar International Quantum U Tech Accelerator award (2020). He is a senior member of the IEEE Society and IEEE Photonics Society, and a member of the Italian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIMAI). He has co-authored over 45 articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals (24 as a first author, 7 invited), 44 conference proceedings (15 first-author, 5 invited) and 5 patents. His research focuses on integrated optics, silicon photonics, and computational electromagnetics.

Recommended Reading: Two of the books that have inspired me the most about quantum mechanics are: "Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange, But not as Strange as You Think" by David Lindley, and "Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory" by George Gamow.