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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
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Teaching
Virat Tara
Virat Tara
PhD Student (G3, ECE)
MS-EE, University of Washington, Seattle (2021-Present)
BE-ECE, Thapar University, Patiala (2017)
Zhihao Zhou
Zhihao Zhou
PhD Student (G3, ECE)
BS-EE, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2021
Andrew Tang
Andrew Tang
PhD Student (G3, ECE)
BS-ECE, UCLA, 2022
Rose Johnson
Rose Johnson
PhD Student (G4, ECE)
BS, Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, 2021
Jayita Datta
Jayita Datta
PhD Student (G2, ECE)
B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, 2016
M.Tech, Solid State Technology, Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, 2018
Research Scientist, TCS Research (2018-2023)
Aurelia (Meiqi) Brook
Aurelia (Meiqi) Brook
PhD Student (G2, Physics)
BA - Math and Physics, New York University, 2022
Yubo Zhang
Yubo Zhang
PhD Student (G1, ECE)
BS, Physics, Peking University, 2024
Gokul Nath S J
Gokul Nath S J
PhD Student (G1, ECE)
Software Engineer - 5G & Wireless Networks, MathWorks (2022 - 2024)
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, 2022
Myunghoo Lee
Myunghoo Lee
PhD Student (G1, ECE)
BS, Physics, Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, 2024
Chloe Yang
Chloe Yang
PhD Student (G1, ECE)
BS, Chemistry, Sejong University, 2021
MS, Nanoscience and Technology, University of Science and Technology, 2023
Alumni
| Name | Role in group | Tenure | Position after leaving the group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Wirth-Singh | PhD Student | 2022-2024 | Senior Application Engineer, Ansys |
| Chris Munley | PhD Student | 2019-2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher at LPS, MD |
| Luocheng Huang | PhD Student | 2019-2023 | Optical Engineer, Meta |
| Abhi Saxena | PhD Student | 2018-2023 | Postdoc, NIST |
| Zhuoran Fang | PhD Student | 2018-2023 | Optical Engineer, LightIC |
| Maksym (Max) Zhelyeznyakov | PhD Student
Postdoc |
2018-2024 | Software Engineer, Intel
Meta-optics designer, Planopsim |
| 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 |
| Khushboo Kumari | MS Student | 2021-2023 | Sensor Characterization Engineer, Omnivision |
| Erik Peterson | MS Student | 2022-2023 | Process Engineer, Meta |
| Forrest Miller | MS Student | 2020-2023 | Engineer at Draper Labs |
| 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 |
| Quentin Tanguy | Postdoc Scholar | 2020-2023 | Postdoc, Femto-ST |
| Aamod Shanker | Postdoc Scholar | 2022-2023 | Postdoc, University of Rochester |
| Saswata Mukherjee | Postdoc Scholar | 2022-2023 | Optical Design Engineer, ASML |
| 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 |