Current Members:

 

Mohamed Baghdady (Ph.D. Student)

Mohamed graduated from the Citadel and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group. 

 

Kexin Li (Ph.D. Student)

Kexin graduated from East China Normal University and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group.

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Tyler Levaur (Ph.D. Student)

Tyler graduated from Clemson University and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group. He is currently working on advanced packaging and phase control for active coherent beam combining.

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Arefin Islam (Ph.D. Student)

Arefin graduated from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group. He is currently working on hybrid integration. 

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Lance Sweatt (Ph.D. Student)

Lance graduated from Clemson University and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group. He is currently working on monolithically integrated laser arrays for coherent beam combining.

 

Shafia Sultana (Ph.D. Student)

Shafia graduated from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group.

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Saddam Gafsi (Postdoc)

Saddam obtained his Ph.D. from Clemson University and is currently a postdoc researcher in our group. His research interests include hybrid photonic integration and optical interconnect.

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Mohan Ghimire (Postdoc)

Mohan obtained his Ph.D. from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea and was a postdoc researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a postdoc researcher in our group and working on device fabrication and packaging. 

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Past Members:

Chenguang Huang (Ph.D. 2014), Position after graduation: Sr. Engineer at Broadcom

Yunsong Zhao (Ph.D. 2015), Position after graduation: Device Engineer at Lumentum

Yeyu Zhu (Ph.D. 2019), Position after graduation: Device Engineer at Lumentum

Siwei Zeng (Ph.D. 2023), Current Position : Process Engineer at Global Foundry

Xiaolei Zhao (Ph.D. 2024), Current Position: Laser Scientist at Analog Photonics

Pengyu Chen (M.S. 2009), Current Position: Associate Professor at Auburn University

Ruoyu Zhang (M.S. 2013), Position after graduation:  Test Engineer at Itron

Xiangfeng Chen (M.S. 2017), Position after graduation:  graduate student at Ghent University

Chas Porter (M.S. 2023), Position after graduation: Test Engineer at Texas Instruments 

Jiahua Fan, currently with his own start-up

Ben Cahill (Undergraduate), Position after graduation: Graduate student at UIUC

​Austin Ward (Undergraduate), Position after graduation: Graduate student at Rice

Chuanji Zhang (Undergraduate), Position after graduation: Graduate student at Gatech

Rachel Thomson (Undergraduate), currently at Clemson

Charles Dove (undergraduate), Position after graduation: Graduate student at UC Berkeley 

Justin Vo (Undergraduate)

 

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