Lab Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni

  1. Dr. Alex Raun, "Gallium Nitride-Based Moiré Photonic Crystals for Applications in Microcavity Lasing" - November 2024. Now with Draper.
  2. Dr. Andrew Greenspon, "Ultrathin Light Sources: Lanthanide Ions in Polyelectrolyte Films and Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide interfaced with Gallium Nitride Optical Cavities" - June 2021. Now with MITRE.
  3. Dr. Mena Gadalla, “ Nanophotonic Resonators for Quantum Information and Refractory Plasmonics Applications” - May 2021. Now with Lightmatter. 
  4. Dr. Danqing Wang, “Low Threshold Lasing in Gallium Nitride based Microcavities” - April 2019. Now with Facebook.
  5. Dr. Alex Zhang, “Photonic Nanostructures for Solid-State Spins in Silicon Carbide” - May 2018. Now with MIT Lincoln Labs. 
  6. Dr. David Bracher, “Development of Photonic Crystal Cavities to Enhance Point Defect Emission in Silicon Carbide” - September 2017. Now with Illumina. 
  7. Dr. Christine Zgrabik, “Wide Tunability of Magnetron Sputtered Titanium Nitride and Titanium Oxynitride for Plasmonic Applications” - May 2016. Now with Johns Hopkins University. 
  8. Dr. Katie Pooley, “Patterned Aqueous Growth of Single Crystalline Zinc Oxide for Photonic Applications” - April 2015. Now with IBM Research. 
  9. Dr. Shanying Cui, “Near-surface Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond” - September 2014. Now with HRL Laboratories. 
  10. Dr. Alex Woolf, “Low Threshold Indium Gallium Nitride Quantum Dot Microcavity Lasers” - September 2014. Now with Lineage Logistics. 
  11. Dr. Jonathan Lee, “Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Crystal Diamond Photonic Cavities” - May 2013. Now with Intel. 
  12. Dr. Tsung-li Liu, “Plasmonic Cavities for Enhanced Spontaneous Emission” - May 2013. Now with Element Biosciences. 
  13. Dr. John Joo, “Aqueous Solution Synthesis of ZnO for Application in Optoelectronics” - May 2013. Now with Anomalo. 

Masters Alumni

  1. Lizette Ortega, May 2024. Now with Washington Post.
  2. Stone Stephens, May 2023. Now with US Army.

Visiting Scholars

  1. Dr. Filipe Couto (2023) - Now with FlexCompute
  2. Dr. Rodrick Kuate Defo (2020-2021). Now with Princeton University.
  3. Dr. Diana Prado Lopes Aude Craik (2017-2020). Now with MIT.
  4. Dr. Andrew Magyar (2010-2013). Now with Capra Biosciences.
  5. Dr. Kasey Russell (2009-2012). Now with Draper. 

Undergraduates

  1. Sanaea Rose
  2. Jason Hermann
  3. Brandt Marceaux
  4. James Mason
  5. Niamh Mulholland