People

Alumni

Ph.D. Students

• Wenjin Xue, Electrical Engineering, 2018-24. Current: KLA-Tencor
  • Thesis: Efficient simulation and design for large-scale photonics
  • Internship: Apple (June–Aug. 2023)
• Lang Zhang, Applied Physics, 2018-24. Current: ASML
  • Thesis: Maximal heat and light extraction from the optical near field
  • Internship: Meta Reality Labs (June–Aug. 2022)
• Zeyu Kuang, Applied Physics, 2019-23. (Post-doc: 2023-24.)
  • Thesis: Fundamental limits of nanophotonic design
  • Internship: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (June–Aug. 2022)
• 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)
• Andrew (Hyungki) Shim, Physics, 2017-21. Current: Amazon.
  • Thesis: Probing the upper limits to light–matter interactions: from spontaneous emission to superresolution

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

• Roshan Pourghasemi, Applied Physics, 2024.
• 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.