Andrew Weiner, PhD

Andrew Weiner held the Scifres Family Distinguished Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he was a world leader in ultrafast optics and optical signal processing. Weiner earned his undergraduate degree before completing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at MIT, where his fellowship began in 1979. His research at Purdue produced foundational advances in femtosecond pulse shaping—the ability to sculpt the time-domain profile of ultrashort laser pulses—enabling precise control of optical waveforms for applications in spectroscopy, telecommunications, and optical coherence tomography. He authored the widely used textbook Ultrafast Optics.