Dr. Hengky Chandrahalim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, as well as the Faculty Director of the AFIT Nanofabrication & Characterization Facility. He received a B.Sc. degree from the Ohio State University, and M.Eng., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. After graduating from Cornell University in 2009, he joined the Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory at ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral fellow. Prior to joining AFIT, Dr. Chandrahalim had a joint appointment as a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Chandrahalim is a senior member of the IEEE and OPTICA and a member of the ASA, APS, ASME, SAME, and SPIE. He is an active reviewer for publications in optics & photonics, RF & microwave systems, acoustics, ultrasonics, frequency control, micro/nanosystems, and sensors & actuators. Dr. Chandrahalim is an Associate Editor of the Royal Society Open Science. He has served as an organizer for various major technical conferences.