xLight today celebrated the company’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Gennady Stupakov, who was selected as one of two winners of the 2024 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award (PAST Award). The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society bestows the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of particle accelerator science and technology.
The 2024 PAST Award recognizes Dr. Stupakov’s broad contributions in accelerators, including innovative advances in the areas of collective effects and free-electron lasers, enabling robust operation and extended performance.
Dr. Stupakov serves as the Chief Scientist at xLight. Before joining the company, Dr. Stupakov was a Senior Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA for 29 years. Dr. Stupakov first came to the United States in 1991 to join the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Waxahachie, TX, before moving to SLAC in 1994. Dr. Stupakov began his career at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk where he earned his Candidate of Sciences and Doctor of Sciences degrees. At the same time, he taught various physics courses at Novosibirsk University where he held a position of professor of physics.
His scientific interests cover a broad range of topics in accelerator physics, including collective effects in beam dynamics and theory of free electron lasers. He has more than three hundred papers published in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
He regularly teaches accelerator physics courses at the U.S. Particle Accelerator Schools.
The 2024 PAST Awards will be presented at the 2024 International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC24), which will be held May 19-24, 2024 in Nashville, TN.
The PAST Award is sponsored by the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Technical Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.
Dr. Stupakov’s co-awardee is Dr. Agostino Marinelli of SLAC, who is recognized for his critical contributions to the development and operation of attosecond X-ray free-electron lasers.
About xLight
xLight is a venture-backed start-up based in Palo Alto, CA, led by a team of light source pioneers, lithographers, and particle accelerator builders. The company was founded with the mission to build a light source capable of revolutionizing lithography, metrology and inspection. Our work is driven by the belief that the United States must regain and sustain leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. xLight leverages decades of investment and U.S. leadership in particle accelerator technology, infrastructure, and knowledge to rapidly develop and deploy our unique light source. Building on this foundation, we designed an HVM compatible system with novel capabilities that delivers productivity and performance to enable decades of continued advancement in leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing.