Rich Mirin

Research

Mirin's research interests include superconducting single-photon detectors, III-V semiconductor devices including semiconductor lasers, chip-scale nonlinear optics, and quantum dots, and molecular beam epitaxy. Mirin returned to UCSB in 2025 after nearly thirty years working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he most recently served as the quantum nanophotonics group leader in the Applied Physics Division. 

Affiliations

Fellow of: Optical Society of America, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Optical Society of America

Honors

Elected Fellow, Optical Society of America, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IEEE Photonics Society; Bronze Medals (2009, 2023, 2024), NIST and the Department of Commerce; Silver Medal Award (2021), NIST 

Education

PhD  Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
MS  Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
BS  Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley