Zhaoran (Rena) Huang joined the faculty of the department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE) as an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in October 2004. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Georgia Institute of Technology in December 2003. During her Ph.D. study, she focused on integration of high speed optical interconnection using thin film semiconductor devices and polymer waveguides. She worked for Microsystem Packaging Research Center (PRC) from January 2004 to September 2004 as a postdoc fellow. She explored the design and integration of end-to-end Optical Interconnection on SOP while she worked for PRC.

In the past years, Dr. Huang performed research on the design and fabrication optoelectronic devices and integration and packaging of microsystems for communication and sensing applications.

• Modeling, fabrication and characterization of III-V optoelectronic devices such as InGaAs photodetectors, laser diodes and GaN high-speed LEDs
• Modeling and fabriation of Si based optoelectronic devices such as SiGe HBT EO modualator
• Design and integration of nanowire lightwave circuits on Si platform for sensing applications; Optical MEMS
• Fabricationn and integration of new materials for novel optoelectronic devices
• Miniaturized RF/Opto packaing for dual-mode communication