December 12, 2025
Qadeer recieves Optica Pollicove Memorial Scholarship
Akif Qadeer, a Ph.D. student in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, received the Optica Pollicove Memorial Scholarship. Qadeer’s thesis research is conducted in RIT’s Ultrafast Laser Photonics Laboratory, focusing on ultrafast-laser fabrication of precision micro-optics. Qadeer is advised by Jie Qiao, associate professor in the College of Science.