Mercedeh Khajavikhan is a laser scientist and topological photonics researcher.
[1][2] Originally from Iran, she works in the US as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California.
She continued her graduate study in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota in the US, receiving her Ph.D. in 2009.
After earning tenure there in 2018, she moved in 2019 to her present position at the University of Southern California, where she also holds a joint appointment in the Physics and Astronomy Department.
[4] Khajavikhan was named as a Fellow of Optica in 2021, "for seminal contributions in the fields of non-Hermitian and topological photonics by conceiving and developing new types of optoelectronic technologies".