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 photonic integration. 

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​Sara Margala (Ph.D. Student)

Sara obtained her BS degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and her MS degree from University of Arizona. She was an optical engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab before her Ph.D study. 

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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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Yaochen Wang (Ph.D. Student)

Yaochen obtained his MS degree from University of Pennsylvania and is currently a Ph.D. student in our group.

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Istiak Khan (Postdoc)

Istiak obtained his Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame and is currently a postdoc researcher in our group. His research interests include hybrid photonic integration and high power diode lasers.

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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 optical device fabrication and packaging. 

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Past Members:

Chenguang Huang (Ph.D. 2014), Position after graduation: Optical 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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