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Dr. Howard Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University since October 2015. He will also be named as Fellow in the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) at Texas A&M University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology, working with Professor Harry Atwater in the Applied Physics and Materials Science Department. He received his PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Philip Russell (2015 President of OSA). His dissertation, "Plasmonic Photonic Crystal Fiber", presents the first successful integration of two research fields -plasmonics and fiber optics- by introducing plasmonic metal nanowires into pure silica photonic crystal fibers. The study provides an entirely novel platform for investigating the optical physics of propagating surface plasmon polaritons and presents a new class of hybrid plasmonic/photonic waveguiding, thereby enabling the realization of novel optical devices. His research focuses on developing new techniques, including novel active materials and nanostructures, to actively control the optical properties of nano-optical structures (e.g., plasmonics and metamaterials) for studying new optical physics and light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale, as well as advancing novel optical components with new functionality. Dr. Lee is the recipient of the Croucher Postdoctoral Fellowship and his work on nano-optics, plasmonics and photonic crystals has led to 18 papers published in various journals, such as Science, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Optics Letters and Applied Physics Letters, as well as 70 conference papers