Our Team

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Arka Majumdar

  Arka Majumdar
  Associate Professor, ECE, Physics

  PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2012
  MS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2009
  B. Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT-Kharagpur, 2007
  CV
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  Teaching

Quentin Tanguy

  Quentin Tanguy
  Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE

  MS, ENSMM, Besançon, France, 2013
  PhD, Femto-ST Institute of the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018
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Johannes Froch

  Johannes Froch
  Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE

  BS, Technical University Graz (Austria) 2014
  MS, Technical University Graz (Austria) 2017
  PhD, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) 2021
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Saswata Mukherjee

  Saswata Mukherjee
  Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE

  B. Tech, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, MAKAUT, 2014
  M.Tech, Electrical Engineering, NIT Agartala, 2016
  PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion university of the Negev, 2021
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Aamod Shanker

  Aamod Shanker
  Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE

  B. Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2011
  MS, Electrical Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2014
  PhD, Electrical Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2018
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Minho Choi

  Minho Choi
  Postdoctoral Researcher, ECE

  BS, Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2016

  PhD, Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2022
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Chris Munley

  Chris Munley
  PhD Student (G6, Physics)

 

Abhi Saxena

  Abhi Saxena
  PhD Student (G5, ECE)

  B.Tech, IIT Delhi, 2018
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Zhuoran (Roger) Fang

  Roger Fang
  PhD Student (G5, ECE)

  B.A. in Material Science, University of Oxford, 2017
  M. Eng. in Material Science, University of Oxford, 2017
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Maksym (Max) Zhelyeznyakov

  Max Zhelyeznyakov
  PhD Student (G5, ECE)

  BS, Texas Tech University, 2017
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Luocheng Huang

  Luocheng Huang
  PhD Student (G4, ECE)

  BS-MSE, University of Washington, 2017
  MS-MSE, University of Washington, 2019
  Google Scholar Profile

David Sharp

  David Sharp
  PhD Student (G4, Physics)

  BS-Physics, Universtity of Texas, Austin, 2018

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Rui Chen

  Rui Chen
  PhD Student (G3, ECE)

  BS-EE, Zhejiang University, 2018

  MS-EE, Columbia University, 2020

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Arnab Manna

  Arnab Manna
  PhD Student (G5, Physics)

  BS-EE, IIT-Bombay, 2018

  MS-EE, IIT-Bombay, 2018

Hannah Rarick

  Hannah Rarick
  PhD Student (G2, Physics)

  BS-Physics, Willamette University, 2021

Anna Wirth-Singh

  Anna Wirth-Singh
  PhD Student (G4, Physics)

  MS Physics, University of Washington 2020

  BS-Math and Physics, Case Western Reserve University 2021

Sinabu Pumulo (Ren)

  Sinabu Pumulo (Ren)
  PhD Student (G1, MSE)

  BS-Optical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2022

Virat Tara

  Virat Tara
  PhD Student (G1, ECE)

  MS-EE, University of Washington, Seattle (2021-Present)

  BE-ECE, Thapar University, Patiala (2017)

Zhihao Zhou

  Zhihao Zhou
  PhD Student (G1, ECE)

  BS-EE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2021

Andrew Tang

  Andrew Tang
  PhD Student (G1, ECE)

  BS-ECE, UCLA, 2022

Forrest Miller

  Forrest Miller
  MS Student (G3, ECE)

  BS-ECE, UW-Seattle, 2021

Josh Hafford

  Josh Hafford
  MS Student (G2, Physics)

  BS Electrical Engineering, Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo, 2016

Khushboo Kumari

  Khushboo Kumari
  MS Student (G2, ECE)

  B.Tech-EE, CGU-Odisha, 2019

Alumni

Name	Role in group	Tenure	Position after leaving the group
James Whitehead	PhD Student	2017-2022	Process Engineer, Micron
Elyas Bayati	PhD Student	2017-2022	Optical Engineer, Tunoptix
David Rosser	PhD Student	2017-2021	Optical Engineer, Aerospace Corporation
Yueyang Chen	PhD Student	2016-2021	Optical Engineer, Apple
Shane Colburn	PhD Student Postdoc	2015-2020	Director of system design, Tunoptix
Jiajiu Zheng	PhD Student	2015-2020	Engineer at Analog Photonics
Taylor Fryett	PhD Student	2014-2019	Engineer at Fluke Corporation Director of R&D, Maple Leaf Photonics Senior Design Engineer, Silicon Photonics at II-VI Inc.
Alan Zhan	PhD Student	2014-2019	Director of optical design, Tunoptix
Andrew Wolfram	MS Student	2018-2020	Engineer at Thruwave Hardware Development Engineer - Project Kuiper at Amazon
Dan Guo	MS Student	2016-2017	Engineer at ASML
Chuchuan Hong	MS Student	2016-2017	PhD student at Vanderbilt University
Albert Ryou	Postdoc Scholar	2017-2020	Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing
Shreyas Shah	Postdoc Scholar	2018-19	Silicon Photonics Engineer, Rockley Photonics
Chang-hua Liu	Postdoc Scholar	2015-17	Asst. Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Christopher Dodson	Postdoc Scholar	2014-15	Optical Engineer, Apple Research Assistant Professor, Brown University
Vishal Vashishtha	Visiting Researcher	2019	PhD student, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Prof. Peipeng Xu	Visiting Researcher	2017-2018	Professor at Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
Yifan Liu	Undergraduate Student	2019-2021	PhD student at Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Zane Matthew Peycke	Undergraduate Student	2017-2019	MS student at Columbia University
Jacob Waelder	Undergraduate Student	2016-2018	Intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab PhD student (Applied Physics) at U. Michigan
Michael Choquer	Undergraduate Student	2016-2018	PhD student at UCSB
William Li	Undergraduate Student	2015-2016	Engineer at Apple
Jun Park	Undergraduate Student	2015-2016	Graduate student at U.Michigan, Ann Arbor
Shana Odem	Undergraduate Student	2015-2016	Engineer at Micron
Rahul Trivedi	Undergraduate Student	2014-2016	PhD student at Stanford University