Administrative Staff
- Kathleen Masse (Fall 2009 - Fall 2023), retired
PhDs
- Yaowen Hu (2023), Assistant Professor, Peking University [page]
- Michelle Chalupnik (2022), Aliro [page]
- Jeffrey Holzgrafe (2022), HyperLight [page]
- Eric Puma (2022), Lazurite [page]
- Amirhassan Shams-Ansari (2022), Principle Laser Engineer, Daylight Solutions [page]
- Smarak Maity, (2021), Q-CTRL
- Cleaven Chia (2021), IMRE, A*Star, Singapore
- Bart Machielse (2021), AWS, Cambridge
- Linbo Shao (2019), Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [page]
- Srujan Meesala (2019), Postdoc, CalTech [page]
- Young Ik Sohn (2017), Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [page]
- Pawel Latawiec (2017), Metalenz [page]
- Zin Lin (2017), Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [page]
- I-Chun Huang (2017), Optical Design Engineer, Analog Devices Inc [page]
- Cheng Wang (2017, 2018), Assistant Professor, Hong Kong City University [page]
- Haig Atikian (2016, 2018), Peak Power Optics (startup)
- Wooyoung Hong (2016), Wildcat Capital Management [page]
- Anna Shneidman (2016), Postdoc, Harvard SEAS [page]
- Michael Burek (2016, 2018), Illumina [thesis] [page]
- Pui-Chen “Wallace” Hui (2015), Exponent, Menlo Park, CA [thesis]
- Ian Frank (2014), Sonos, [thesis]
- Yinan Zhang (2013), Head of Asia Quantitative Research, Morgan Stanley, Hong-Kong [thesis] [page]
- Raji Shankar (2013), Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA [thesis] [page]
- Birgit Hausmann (2013), Senior Data Scientist, Glassdoor, CA [thesis] [page]
- Jennifer Choy (2013), Assistant Professor, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison [thesis]
- Ian Burgess, (2013), Co-founder, CEO & CTO, Valdera Technologies, Toronto, Canada [thesis] [page]
- Qimin Quan (2012), Chief Science Officer, NanoMosaic, Cambridge, MA [thesis]Qimin Quan (2012), Chief Science Officer, NanoMosaic, Cambridge, MA
- Parag Deotare (2012), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [thesis] [page]
- Thomas Babinec (2012), Principal Scientist, Physical Sciences, Incorporated, Andover, MA [thesis] [page]
Postdocs & Research Scientists
- Yaowen Hu (2023-24), Assistant Professor, Peking University [page]
- Amirhassan Shams-Ansari (2022), Principle Laser Engineer, Daylight Solutions [page]
- David Barton (September 2020 - December 2023), Assistant Professor, Northwestern University [page]
- Kazuhiro Kuruma (June 2019 - July 2023), Assistant Professor, Tokyo University [page]
- Benjamin Pingault (May 2019 - June 2022), Assistant Staff Scientist, Argonne National Labs [page]
- Linbo Shao, (Nov 2019 - Jan 2022), Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [page]
- Mengjie Yu, (Oct 2018 - Jan 2022) Assistant Professor, USC [page]
- Di Zhu (Sep 2019 - Sep 2021), Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engieering, National University of Singapore [page]
- Afaq Piracaha (Aug 2018 - Nov 2020) Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State
- Boris Desiatov (Aug 2015 - Oct 2020) Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan Univerisity, Israel
- Thomas Babinec (Oct 2019 - Oct 2020)
- Stephan Bogdanovic (Feb 2018 - Nov 2019), Google
- Christian Reimer (Jan 2018 - Jan 2019), Head of Product, HyperLight Corporation [page]
- Mian Zhang (Sep 2015 - Dec 2018), CEO, HyperLight Corporation [page]
- Vivek Venkataraman (Sep 2012 - Jun 2017), Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi [page]
- Stefan Kalchmair (11/2012 - 6/2016), Data Science Fellow [page]
- Shota Kita (9/2012-6/2015), Research Associate, NTT Basic Research Labs, Atsugi, Japan [page]
- Khadijeh Bayat (1/2012-7/2014), Senior Optical Engineer, Apple, San Francisco, CA [page]
- Daniel Ramos Vega (1/2011-2013), Postdoc, Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, Spain [page]
- Alejandro Rodriguez (9/2010-8/2013), Assistant Professor, Princeton University, USA [page]
- Sindy Tang (9/2010 – 6/2011), Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA [page]
- Eiji Iwase (6/2010-3/2012), Associate Professor, Waseda University, Japan [page]
- Daniel Floyd (8/2010-9/2013), Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, Singapore [page]
- Osman Bakr (2009-2010), Associate Professor, KAUST, Saudi Arabia [page]
- Murray McCutcheon (1/2008-2/2011), Business Development Manager, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [page]
- Irfan Bulu (4/2007-12/2012), Senior Scientist, Schlumberger Doll Research Center, Cambridge, MA [page]
- Mughees Khan (1/2007-11/2009), Staff Scientist, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [page]
Interns & visitors (partial list)
- Caique Conde Rodrigues, PhD Student, State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (11/2022 - 11/2023)
- Gavin Smith, University of New Hampshire (REU summer intern, 2023)
- Oscar Gastelum, University of Arizona (REU summer intern, 2023)
- Xudong Li, Peking University (Undergrad intern, September - December 2022)
- Aida Baradari, Harvard College (Undergrad intern, May 2022-)
- Laurel Barnett, Harvard College (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
- Jada Bonds, College of William and Mary (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
- Viraj Jayam, Stanford University (Undergrad summer intern, 2022/2023)
- Erin McGee, Stevens Institute of Technology (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
- Phuong Pham, Clifornia Institute of Technology (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
- Arseniy Zvyagintsev, Harvard College (Undergrad intern, May - August 2022)
- Rubaiya Emran, Harvard College (Undergraduate intern 2021-22)
- Lauryn Wilson, Harvard College, (Undergraduate intern, summer 2021)
- Génesis Suárez-González, Undergraduate, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, (Harvard CQN-REU Student 2021)
- Jay Soni, Ungraduate, University of Waterloo, Ont. CA, (Fellow, 2021)
- Katie Barajas, Undergraduate, Cornell University (REU Student 2021)
- Keith Powell, University of Sydney (PhD Intern, 2018-2020)
- Nicolas Weninger, Harvard College (undergraduate thesis, 2019-2020)
- Alex Giglio, Harvard College (undergraduate thesis, 2019-2020)
- Dr. Ahmad Rifqi Md Zain, IMEN, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (visiting faculty, 2017 - 2019)
- Lingyan He, HyperLight Corporation (PhD Intern, 2017-2019)
- Mohd Nuriman Nawi, Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN-UKM), Malaysia (Ph.D. Intern, 2018/19)
- Bernd Kohler, External Consultant, Infineon Technologies, Bayern, Germany (Master Intern, 2018/19)
- Arjun Mirani, Harvard College (Undergraduate summer intern, 2018)
- Rongrong Zhu, Zhejiang University, China (PhD intern, 2018)
- Suen Xin Chew, University of Sydney (PhD intern, 2018)
- Shijie Song, University of Sydney (PhD intern, 2018)
- Tianhao Ren, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (PhD intern, 2017/18)
- Scarlett Gauthier, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2018)
- Leo Wu, Tsinghua University (PhD intern, 2016/17)
- Haileyesus Ephrem, Bunker Hill Community College (CIQM-REU summer intern, 2017)
- Rebecca Cheng, Brown University (NSF REU summer intern, 2017)
- Yaowen Hu, Tsinghua University, China (summer intern, 2017)
- Han Hu, Zhejiang University, China (summer intern, 2017)
- Ruipeng Li, Peking University, China (summer intern, 2017)
- Wenbo Mao, Nankai University, China (summer intern, 2017, Fall 2018)
- Maxime Bertrand, Institut d'Optique, France (master thesis, 2017)
- Charles Meuwly, EPFL, Switzerland (master thesis, 2014/2015/16)
- Xiao Xiong, USTC, China (PhD exchange student, 2014/15/16)
- Nayera El-Sawah, U. Waterloo, Toronto, Canada (research intern, 2015/16, 2017)
- Thibaud Ruelle, EPFL, Switzerland (master thesis, 2015)
- Christopher Mittag, TU Munich, Germany (master thesis, 2014/15)
- Adrianne Hargrove, Howard University (CIQM summer intern, 2015)
- Rachel Miller UC San Diego (NSF REU summer intern, 2015)
- Ruishan Liu, Peking University, China (research intern, summer & fall 2015)
- Takumi Kato, Keio University, Japan (PhD exchange student, winter & spring 2016)
- Junya Yaita, U. Tokyo, Japan (PhD exchange student, fall 2015)
- Nicholas Andrade (NSF REU summer intern, 2014)
- Xavier Audier, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (master thesis, 2014)
- Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Olin College (summer intern, 2014)
- Yihang Li, Tsinghua U. , China (summer intern, 2014)
- Austin Shin, Harvard College (summer 2013)
- Samuel Kim, Harvard College (2013)
- Parth Patel, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Nigel Clark, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Won Kyu Sun, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Madelaine Liddy, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Adarsh Patri, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Johan Israelian, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Jake Rochman, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Ryan Kearns, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
- Erika Janitz, U. Waterloo (master thesis, 4 months, 2013)
- William Gilpin, Princeton U. (NSF REU, summer 2013)
- Daquan Yang, China (exchange PhD student 2012/13/14)
- Julie Frish, Boston U. (internship, 2013)
- Shadi Fadaee, Harvard College (summer intern, 2013)
- Changlin Lee, Harvard College (2012)
- Leonardo La Placa, Harvard College (2012)
- Moto Aiba (2011), visiting research scientist, Sony, Japan
- Natalie Koay, U. Waterloo, Canada (4-month internship, spring/summer 2011)
- Kevin Webb, U. Waterloo, Canada (4-month internship, spring/summer 2011)
- Katharina Kleinlein, TU Munich, Germany (summer 2011)
- Christoph Hamsen, TU Munich, Germany (master thesis, 2010/11 academic year)
- Rick Leijssen, U. Leiden, The Netherlands (master thesis, 2010/11)
- Mark Dong, Cornell U. (NSF RUE summer intern, 2011)
- Srujan Meesala, IIT Bombay (summer intern, 2011)
- Eric Graves, Harvard College (summer intern, 2011)
- Johann Dominique Djanall-Mann (NSF REU summer intern, 2010)
- Mehmet Ali Dundar, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (summer intern 2010)
- Leonard Kogos, Harvard College ( 2010 - 2012)
- Arolyn Conwill, Pomona College (NSF REU summer intern, 2009)
- Taika M. Wheat, (NSF REU summer intern, 2009)
- Julia Sokol, Harvard College, (spring 2009 & fall 2010)
- Madhura Narawane, Harvard College (spring 2009 & fall 2010)
- Shomesh Chaudhuri, Harvard College (2008-2009)
- Birgit Hausmann, TU Munich (diplom thesis, 2008 - 2010)
- Kirsten Smith, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands (summer intern, 2008)
- Katie Martinick, U. New Mexico (NSF REU summer intern, 2008)
- Ian Frank, Pomona College (NSF REU summer intern, 2007)
- Sarah Nam, Harvard College (2008)
- Michael Kramer, Harvard College (2007 - 2008)