People

Principal Investigator

Owen M. Owen Miller
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
Energy Sciences Institute
Yale University
owen.miller@yale.edu

Group Members

Zeyu Kuang
Post-doc
Applied Physics
zeyu.kuang@yale.edu

Lang Zhang
6th year Graduate Student
Applied Physics
Internship: Meta Reality Labs (June - Aug. 2022)
lang.zhang@yale.edu

Wenjin Xue
6th year Graduate Student
Electric Engineering
Internship: Apple (June - Aug. 2023)
wenjin.xue@yale.edu

Zhaowei Dai
3rd year Graduate Student
Electrical Engineering
zhaowei.dai@yale.edu

Hao Li
3rd year Graduate Student
Electrical Engineering
hao.li.hl829@yale.edu

Nazar Pyvovar
1st year Graduate Student
Applied Physics
nazar.pyvovar@yale.edu

Yiyao Liu
1st year Graduate Student
Electrical Engineering
yiyao.liu@yale.edu

Johnny Dedyo
2nd year Undergraduate Student
Math
johnny.dedyo@yale.edu

Roshan Pourghasemi
3rd year Undergraduate Student
Applied Physics
roshan.pourghasemi@yale.edu

Alumni

Ph.D. Students

  • Andrew (Hyungki) Shim, Physics, 2017-21. Current: Amazon.
    • Thesis: Probing the upper limits to light–matter interactions: from spontaneous emission to superresolution
  • Hanwen Zhang, Applied Physics, 2017-22. Current: Gibbs Asst. Prof., Yale.
    • Thesis: Resonances and fundamental bounds in wave scattering
    • Internship: Facebook Reality Labs (June - Aug. 2021)
  • Zeyu Kuang, Applied Physics, 2019-23. Current: post-doc, Miller group, Yale.
    • Thesis: Fundamental limits of nanophotonic design
    • Internship: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (June–Aug. 2022)

Post-docs

    • Shai Gertler, Post-doc (w/ Peter Rakich), 2021-22. Current: Vitrealab.
    • Haejun Chung, Post-doc, 2017-20. Current: Asst. Prof. at Hanyang University.
    • Yuxiang (Larry) Liu, Postdoc, 2016-17. Current: Citibank.

    M.S. Students

    • Ruoping (Riley) Li, M.S. Student, 2018-19. Current: Google.

    Undergraduate Students

    • Antonio (Andong) Cao, Physics, 2022. current: co-founder, Flair AI.
    • Simon Stone, Applied Physics, 2020-21. current: MVTec.
    • Malcolm (Jiawei) Tang, Physics, 2018-21.
    • Kazemi Adachi, Applied Physics, 2018.  current: Ph.D. student, UC Boulder.

    Visiting Students / Scholars

    • Qingqing Zhao, Undergraduate from HKU, 2019-20. current: Ph.D. student, Stanford.
    • Yuqi Zhu, Postgraduate student from Caltech, Aug. 2017 - May 2018.
    • Lingling Fan, Undergraduate from Nanjing, July 2017 - Jan 2018. Current: Post-doc, MIT.

    Collaborators

    Current and former collaborators include: