David Burghoff

• Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• S.M, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• B. S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Burghoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Werner W. Dornberger Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering. Prior to this, he was a postdoc and research scientist at MIT and faculty at Notre Dame. Dr. Burghoff’s research primarily focuses on the confluence of phase-active nonlinear photonic devices and long-wavelength photonics for applications in sensing, computing, and energy. His work emphasizes broadband devices and systems, and he is particularly known for his work in the mid-infrared and terahertz wavelength ranges.

Awards and recognition:

• DARPA Young Faculty Award (2025)
• IRMMW-THz Society Young Scientist Award (2024)
• Moore Inventor’s Fellowship (2022)
• ONR Young Investigator Award (2021)
• NSF CAREER Award (2021)
• AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2020)
• Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017)
• MIT’s Jin Au Kong Award for Best Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Thesis (2014)