Vassilios Kovanis

Vassilios Kovanis

Research Professor, Quantum Systems

Vassilios Kovanis previously served as a founding faculty at the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, Virginia and collegiate professor at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the Director of the Northern Virginia Tech Masters of Engineering. The program had the following emphasis areas, Quantum Engineering, Machine Learning and Applications, Secure Information Systems and Networks, Electronic Power Systems, Signal Processing, Learning, and Communication Systems.

His past work experience includes faculty positions at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. And he was the Chair of the Department of Physics from 2015 to 2019 in Astana KZ. He served as the technical advisor of the Photonics Technologies branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton Ohio. The organization had over twenty staff members and was operating a whole host of laboratories, fabrication facilities as well as managing a set of national photonic initiatives. His responsibilities included directing and executing an Air Force Office of Scientific Research line for photonic oscillators and quantum dot multi-section devices for the generation of diverse waveforms. Also worked as a DARPA agent for microwave photonics, high precision oscillators, and transformational antenna programs. He was the lead technical program manager on the optical metamaterials enterprise mandated by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.