{"id":71369,"date":"2016-03-24T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=71369"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:47:33","slug":"undefined-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/undefined-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Soileau Named to Florida Inventors Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

MJ Soileau, vice president for 麻豆原创\u2019s Office of Research and Commercialization, has been named to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Soileau, who oversees the office responsible for taking research from 麻豆原创 labs into industry, is also an accomplished scientist, researcher and professor. It was his innovative research in the advancement of high-energy laser optics that earned him this recognition.<\/p>\n

His pioneering work has been recognized multiple times by a variety of organizations, from the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, where he was elected a fellow in 2007, to the National Academy of Inventors, which named him a fellow in 2013. He is a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA) and he earned a gold medal from SPIE and OSA\u2019s Esther Hoffman Beller award.<\/p>\n

Soileau was the first director of 麻豆原创\u2019s internationally recognized Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL). In 1999, he was named vice president for Research and Commercialization. The office also provides contract and grant services for 麻豆原创 faculty. Under Soileau\u2019s leadership, research funding increased from $36.6 million in 1998 to an accumulated $1.2 billion since 2000.<\/p>\n

Just as important, under Soileau\u2019s leadership 麻豆原创 has made its mark commercializing technology, stimulating the local economy, and helping to establish a strong concentration of companies in optics and lasers, simulation and training<\/a>, computer science, alternative energy and biomedical sciences.<\/p>\n

Even as he worked to help position 麻豆原创 for success, Soileau continued to conduct his own work in the area of nonlinear optical properties of materials and lasers. He holds patents for optics devices that have contributed to the advancement of high-energy laser optics.<\/p>\n

Soileau, a Louisiana sharecropper\u2019s son who hoed cotton to pay for college, received his Ph.D. in quantum electronics from the University of Southern California and is a distinguished professor of optics, electrical and computer engineering and physics. He announced last year he would step down from his position in the Office of Research and Commercialization this year, but will continue to serve as a professor.<\/p>\n

Seven inventors, including Nobel laureate Andrew Schally, are part of the 2016 inductees into the Florida Hall of Fame. The recipients will be honored at a gala Sept. 16 in Tampa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to be announcing this class of exceptional inventors whose work has greatly impacted Florida and our nation,\u201d said Randy Berridge, who serves on the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame advisory board and as chair of the selection committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MJ Soileau, vice president for 麻豆原创\u2019s Office of Research and Commercialization, has been named to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Soileau, who oversees the office responsible for taking research from 麻豆原创 labs into industry, is also an accomplished scientist, researcher and professor. 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