Former Post-Doctoral Researchers and Scientists
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Dr. Kamran ForghaniFormer Research Associate/ Senior ScientistKamran is currently the Lab/Research Manager for President Alivisatos’ research group at James Frank Institute (JFI) in the University of Chicago. |
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Dr. Lining LiuFormer Post-Doctoral FellowLining is currently a Professor at Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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Dr. Chang-Mo KangFormer Post-Doctoral FellowChang-Mo is currently at Korea Optoelectronics Technology Institute |
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Dr. Iman Hassani NiaFormer Post-Doctoral FellowIman is currently working at Cisco as a photonics scientist. |
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Dr. Min-Su ParkFormer Post-Doctoral FellowMin-Su is currently a researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). |
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Dr. Chee Leong TanFormer Post-Doctoral FellowAssistant professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication |
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Dr. Sung Jun JangFormer Post-Doctoral FellowProduct Engineer Manager at II-VI Incorporated. |
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Dr. Alex KatsnelsonFormer Post-Doctoral FellowAlex is currently working at Freedom Photonics. |
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Bradley CroweFormer Post-Doctoral FellowModern Infrastructure Team SE, Dell Technologies |
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Dr. Omer Gokalp MemisFormer Research AssistantTechnology development manager at Intel |
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Dr. Hongqiao WenFormer Visiting Researcher |
Former PhD Students
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Dr. Jacob RabinowitzFormer PHd Student (graduated in 2022)Cobi is currently at Ab Initio Software. |
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Dr. Simone BianconiFormer PHd Student (graduated in 2021)Simone is currently a postdoc at NASA’s JPL. |
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Dr. Travis HamiltonFormer PHD student (graduated in 2021)Travis is currently a data scientist at LogicGate. |
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Dr. Skyler WheatonFormer phd student (graduated in 2021)Skylar is currently a senior optoelectronic scientist at Lumotive |
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Dr. Iman Hassani NiaFormer PhD StudentIman is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Luxtera, Inc. |
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Dr. Farah KhalidFormer phd student (graduated in 2019)Farah is currently the Deputy Head of Quantum Science at Fermi National Lab |
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Dr. Mohsen RezaeiFormer phd student (graduated in 2019)Mohsen is currently a scientist at Illumina |
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Dr. Robert Brownformer phd student (graduated in 2018)Bobby is currently working at Intel as an opto-electronics/photonic engineer |
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Dr. Vala FathipourFormer phd student (graduated in 2017)Vala is currently an optical engineer at SiLC Technologies |
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Dr. Alireza BonakdarFormer phd student (graduated in 2015)Alireza is currently Camera Module Design Lead at Apple |
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Dr. Giulia AcconciaFormer Visiting Graduate ResearcherCurrently a Postdoctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Milano – DEIB. |
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Dr. Bradley ElkusFormer Graduate Researcher |
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Dr. Ryan GelfandFormer phd student (graduated in 2013)Ryan is currently a professor at Tulane University |
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Dr. John KohoutekFormer phd student (graduated in 2012)Jack is currently the Vice President of Machine Learning at Vesta. |
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Dr. Dibyendu DeyFormer phd student (graduated in 2011)Dibyendu is currently a SoC developer at Microsoft. |
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Dr. Yash D. ShahFormer Graduate ResearcherPostdoctoral Research Assistant, the University of Glasgow, UK. Co-Founder and CTO Metahelios ltd. |
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Dr. Wei WuFormer phd student (graduated in 2010)We is currently a Technology Lead Manager at Meta (Facebook). |
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Dr. Omer Gokalp MemisFormer PhD StudentTechnology development manager at Intel |
Former Bachelor’s/ Master’s Students
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Ritvik KarraFormer Undergraduate Researcher |
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Emma VanderkooiFormer Undergraduate Researcher |
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Leo LingFormer Master’s StudentLeo is currently a Signal Integrity Engineer at Intel |
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Stephen ChengFormer Undergraduate Researcher |
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Haroon NawazFormer Undergraduate Researcher |
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Trace LandrethFormer Undergraduate ResearcherTrace is currently a Qualcomm logo |
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Caelan PurnamaFormer Undergraduate Researcher |
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Alvin TanFormer Undergraduate ResearcherAlvin is currently a PhD student at UC Berkeley |
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Maria MutzFormer Undergraduate ResearcherMaria is currently a PhD student at U. of Arizona |
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Jaehyun (Patrick) KimFormer Undergraduate ResearcherPatrick is continuing his studies at Northwestern and is exploring other STEM fields. |
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Katie BarnhartFormer Undergraduate ResearcherKatie is continuing her studies at Northwestern in the chemistry department. |
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Alfred AstorFormer Undergraduate ResearcherCurrently Studying at Imperial College London |
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Frank WangFormer Undergraduate ResearcherFrank is continuing on to study his master’s in the Computer Science department. |
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Eric DexheimerFormer Undergraduate ResearcherEric is currently a PhD student at Imperial College London (Dyson Robotics) |
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Abigail TurayFormer Undergraduate ResearcherEngineer at AT&T. |
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Joseph YoungeFormer Undergraduate ResearcherEngineer at AT&T. |
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Kari DriemeyerFormer Undergraduate ResearcherElectrophysics Engineer, Boeing. |
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Alejandro SklarFormer Undergraduate ResearcherCTO / Co-Founder, PieceMaker Technologies Inc. |
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Christian PetersFormer Undergraduate ResearcherCTO, Co-Founder, bei microGauge AG, Switzerland. |
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Gregory HuffmanFormer Undergraduate ResearcherGreg is working at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP. |
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Alexander AntarisFormer Undergraduate Researcher |
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Andrew DaiFormer Undergraduate ResearcherDirector of Hardware Engineering, Flair Systems. |
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Ivy YokeFormer Undergraduate ResearcherIvy is currently working at Maxis Communications. |
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Dr. Lucas BrudererFormer Exchange StudentConsultant, The Boston Consulting Group, Switzerland. |
