Kent Choquette is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. 

What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research?
I research compound semiconductor laser diodes and their applications. My speciality are vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSELs).

What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those classes?
ECE304 Introduction to photonics
ECE532 Compound Semiconductors and Laser Diodes
ECE572 Quantum Optoelectronics
ECE574 Nanophotonics

What is a book (academic or non-academic, in or outside your field) that you think should be more widely read?
Lord of the Rings