Abdoulaye Ndao was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2025. As a fellow, Abdoulaye Ndao contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.
Professor Abdoulaye Ndao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Abdoulaye Ndao was assistant professor at Boston University from 2020 to 2023. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley. He received his Master and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Franche Comte (France).
Dr. Ndao is a recipient of many prestigious awards, including the 2024 Sloan Fellowship in Physics, 2024 Hellman Fellowship, 2024 iCANX Young Scientist Award, 2024 IAAM Scientist Medal Lecture, 2024 Jacobs School of Engineering Early Career Faculty Development Award, 2023 Beckman Young Investigator Award, Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, 2023 Boston University ECE, Outstanding Teaching Award, 2023 Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award, 2022 Sculpted Light in the Brain Innovation Grant, 2022 Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award, 2022 Boston University ECE Outstanding Faculty Committee Service Award, 2021 Reidy Family Career Development Professorship. “the very best young faculty”, 2021 Rising Star of Light by Nature’s Light Science and Applications journal, 2020 Top 50 Chemistry and Materials Sciences Articles, 2018 Best oral presentation, 6th Annual UC San Diego Postdoctoral Research Symposium, 2018 Gordon Research Travel, 2017 Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of 2017 : first topological laser, 2017 Triton Innovation Challenge grand prize winner for Lidar applications, 2017 Prize winner of Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at UC San Diego. He is currently chair of CLEO conference, board member of African Materials Research Society (African MRS), and Deputy editor in Optics letters.
