In May 2025, SPIE awarded $323,000 in scholarships to 74 outstanding SPIE Student Members, based on their potential contribution to optics and photonics, or a related discipline. The successful applicants were evaluated, selected, and approved by the SPIE Scholarship Committee. Read the full press release.
Congratulations to all recipients for their commendable achievements and dedication to advancing light-based technologies.
Univ. of Rochester (United States)
Awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, US $11,000
Wake Forest Univ. (United States)
Awarded the Women in Optics Scholarship, US $10,000
Univ. of Rochester (United States)
Awarded the Women in Optics Scholarship, US $10,000
Univ. of Arizona (United States)
Awarded the Women in Optics Scholarship, US $10,000
Purdue University (United States)
Awarded the John Kiel Scholarship, US $10,000
Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
Awarded the Laser Technology, Engineering and Applications Scholarship, US $5,000
Pennsbury High School (United States)
Awarded the Teddi Laurin Scholarship, US $5,000
Purdue Univ. (United States)
Awarded the Optical Design and Engineering Scholarship, US $5,000
Faezeh Akbari, Univ. of Kentucky (United States), US $5,000
Reuben Amedalor, Univ. of Eastern Finland (Finland), US $3,500
Samaneh Ansari, Northwestern Univ. (United States), US $3,500
Piotr Arcab, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland), US $4,000
Aidana Beisenova, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (United States), US $5,000
Mathew Bishop, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), US $3,500
Filip Bodera, Toronto Metropolitan Univ. (Canada), US $3,500
Nikolina Bratić, Univ. of Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro), US $3,500
Júlia Cavalero, Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil), US $4,000
Roark Chao, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (United States), US $5,000
Jeffrey Chen, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona (United States), US $5,000
Pok Man Chow, Univ. of Toronto (Canada), US $4,000
Logan Cropper, Brigham Young Univ. (United States), US $3,000
Oscar de Vries, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology (Netherlands), US $3,000
Somali Dhal, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland), US $3,500
Yuqiang Ding, The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), Univ. of Central Florida (United States), US $5,000
Kieran D'Sena, McMaster Univ. (Canada), US $4,000
Sebastián Fahara, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz (Mexico), US $3,000
Noémie Filion-Patoine, Polytechnique Montreal (Canada), US $3,000
Naren Ganesh, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (United States), US $3,500
Jack Gerrity, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (United States), US $4,000
Neelan Gounden, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa), US $4,000
Yuhan Hao, Tsinghua Univ. (China), US $4,000
Mingzhe Hu, Emory Univ. (United States), US $3,000
Daniil Ilchuk, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine), US $3,000
Mohammed Zia Jalaludeen, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate Univ. (Japan), US $3,500
Matthias Jenne, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), US $3,500
Fatima Khanom, Aston Univ. (United Kingdom), US $3,000
Gyeongtae Kim, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (South Korea), US $5,000
Samuel Kipkemoi, Multimedia Univ. of Kenya (Kenya), US $4,000
Camille Leclerc, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), US $3,500
Gannon Lemaster, Brown Univ. (United States), US $3,000
Lang Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China), US $4,000
Shunran Li, Yale Univ. (United States), US $4,000
Aaron Liberman, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), US $3,500
Zhiyuan Liu, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia), US $3,000
Seth Lowry, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), US $3,500
Yuli Lu, Duke Kunshan Univ. (China), US $4,000
Zhenyi Luo, The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), Univ. of Central Florida (United States), US $4,000
Yuanzheng Ma, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (China), US $5,000
Yaryna Mamchur, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada), US $4,000
Reid Master, Texas A&M Univ. (United States), US $3,500
Celine Mazoukh, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada), US $4,000
Shubham Mondal, Univ. of Michigan (United States), US $3,500
Christopher Negraes, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada), US $5,000
Kristia Ningsih, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia), US $3,500
Sheilah Njoka, Univ. of Dayton (United States), US $5,000
Sofía Obando-Vásquez, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth (United States), US $5,000
Suman Panda, Montana State Univ. (United States), US $4,000
Jaime Pryor, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia), US $3,500
Yizhou Qian, The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), Univ. of Central Florida (United States), US $3,500
Megh Rathod, Univ. of Toronto (Canada), US $4,000
Pegah Safavi, Univ. of Kentucky (United States), US $3,500
Parul Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), US $4,000
Yuhang Shen, Univ. of Shanghai for Science and Technology (China), US $3,500
Yohan Szuszko Soares, Univ. Federal do Paraná (Brazil), US $3,000
Christopher Ty, The Univ. of British Columbia (Canada), US $3,500
Bowen Wang, Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology (China), US $5,000
Emilia Wdowiak, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland), US $5,000
Michael Weil, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada), US $5,000
Qi Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China), US $5,000
Wenjing Wu, Rice Univ. (United States), US $4,000
Mina Yoo, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona (United States), US $3,500
Hao Zhang, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering (United States), US $3,500
Qingyang Zhu, Tsinghua Univ. (China), US $3,000
Rui Zhu, Yanshan Univ. (China), US $5,000