Dr. Esmaeelpour joined Missouri University of Science and Technology as an assistant professor in September 2019. She received her PhD degree in Physics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 2016. Her MS and BS degrees are both from the University of Tabriz received in 2010 and 2007, respectively. She has then joined Stanford University, Ginzton Lab, in 2016 as a postdoctoral scholar and later in 2018, joined the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University (MIPS) in the School of Medicine as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She interned in Bell Labs from 2010 till 2015 and worked as a consultant with Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems (IFOS) from 2017 till 2018.

Funding – Grants and Fellowships

• 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Trainee Grant Scholarship
• Stanford Cancer Imaging Training (SCIT) Fellowship, 2019 (offered)
• National Institute of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship F32, 2019 (offered)
• Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund for Postdoctoral Scholars, 2018
• OFC Conference Registration Grant, Optical Society of America, 2018
• Innovation School Travel and Registration Grant, Optical Society of America, 2017
• CLEO Conference Travel Grant, Lehigh University, 2015
• Siegman International Summer School on Lasers Travel and Registration Grant, Optical Society of America, 2014
• Sherman Fairchild Fellowship, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014
• Sherman Fairchild Fellowship, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014
• Research Grant from Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, January 2012 – August 2012
• FiO Conference Travel and Registration Grant, Optical Society of America, 2012

Awards and Honors

• Journal of Lightwave Technologies 2012 Paper Award for R. Ryf et al. "Mode-Division Multiplexing Over 96-km of Few-Mode Fiber Using Coherent 6 x 6 MIMO Processing", Journal of Lightwave Technology (2012), with more than 500 citations
• Mohiko Yoshida award, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 2012, for early achievements in graduate studies

Selected Publications

• A. Arora, M. Esmaeelpour, M. Bernier, and M. J. F. Digonnet, “High-resolution slow-light fiber Bragg grating temperature sensor with phase-sensitive detection” Optics Letters, (2018)
• J. Knall, M. Esmaeelpour, M. J. F. Digonnet, "Model of anti-Stokes cooling in a Yb-doped fiber," Proc. SPIE Vol. 10550, Optical and Electronic Cooling of Solids III (22 February 2018) ? J. Knall, M. Esmaeelpour, M. J. F. Digonnet, “Model of Anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling in a single-mode optical fiber”, Journal of Lightwave Technologies, (accepted - 2018)
• M. Esmaeelpour, R.-J. Essiambre, N. K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, J. Toulouse, Y. Sun, R. Lingle, “Power Fluctuations of Inter-Modal Four Wave Mixing in Few-Mode Fibers”, Journal of Lightwave Technology (2017)
• M. Esmaeelpour, R. Ryf, N. K. Fontaine, H. Chen, A. H. Gnauk, R.-J. Essiambre, J. Toulouse, Y. Sun, R. Lingle, “Transmission over 1050-km Few-Mode Fiber based on a Bidirectional Distributed Raman Amplification”, Journal of Lightwave Technology (2016)

Selected Presentations

• M. Esmaeelpour, R.–J. Essiambre, N. K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, and J. Toulouse, "Measurements of Frequency Instabilities and Slow Random Evolution of Inter-Modal Four-Wave Mixing in Few-Mode Fibers", European Conference on Optical Communication (2015)
• R. Ryf, M. Esmaeelpour, N. K. Fontaine, H. Chen, A. H. Gnauck, R.–J. Essiambre, J. Toulouse, Y. Sun, and R. Lingle, Jr., "Distributed Raman Amplification based Transmission over 1050 km Few-Mode Fiber", European Conference on Optical Communication (2015)
• R. Ryf, N. K. Fontaine, B. Guan, B. Huang, M. Esmaeelpour, S. Randel, A. H. Gnauck, S. Chandrasekhar, A. Adamiecki, G. Raybon, R. W. Tkach, R. Shubochkin, Y. Sun, R. Lingle, "305-km combined wavelength and mode-multiplexed transmission over conventional graded-index multimode fibre", European Conference on Optical Communication (2014)
• R. Ryf, N. K. Fontaine, J. Dunayevsky, D. Sinefeld, M. Blau, M. Montoliu, S. Randel, Chang Liu, B. Ercan, M. Esmaeelpour, S. Chandrasekhar, A. H. Gnauck, S. Leon-Saval, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. Salazar-Gil, Y. Sun, L. Grüner-Nielsen, R. Lingle, D. Marom, "Wavelength-Selective Switch for Few-Mode Fiber Transmission", European Conference on Optical Communication (2013)