Meet the Recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Faculty Awards

Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Marina Radulaski, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Since joining the college in 2018, Marina Radulaski has become one of the leading voices in the developing field of quantum nanophotonics and computing. She has presented at over 50 conferences, including the Royal Society's meeting on silicon carbide quantum spintronics, and has published more than 30 research papers in esteemed journals like Nature Photonics. In addition, the National Science Foundation, Google and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research have all awarded Radulaski early career awards for research on integrating color centers into nanophotonic devices and for the development of next-generation quantum hardware. 

Radulaski has also impacted the university. She pioneered a quantum computing curriculum and the Quantum Information Science and Technology, or QuIST, a research initiative at the University of California, Davis, and designed three new engineering courses. Her efforts have helped set the global stage for UC Davis to be a quantum computing and information science hub. 

Radulaski earned her Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University in 2017, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in electrical engineering before joining UC Davis. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from the University of Belgrade and a bachelor's and master's in computer science from Union University in Serbia.