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**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