Ted Sargent

Ted Sargent received the B.Sc.Eng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen’s University in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto in 1998. He has held the following visiting professorships:

• MIT: Visiting Professor, Nanotechnology and Photonics, in the Microphotonics Center, MIT, 2004-5
• UCLA: Fulbright Visiting Professor at UCLA 2013
• Berkeley: Somorjai Visiting Miller Professorship at Berkeley Fall 2017

He holds the rank of University Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and also serves as Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives for the University of Toronto.

• Energy storage and CO2 utilization
• Energy harvesting
• Light emission
• Sensing
• Machine learning