Alumni

Administrative Staff 

  1. Kathleen Masse  (Fall 2009 - Fall 2023), retired

PhDs

  1. Yaowen Hu (2023), Assistant Professor, Peking University  [page]
  2. Michelle Chalupnik (2022), Aliro [page]
  3. Jeffrey Holzgrafe (2022), HyperLight [page]
  4. Eric Puma (2022), Lazurite [page]
  5. Amirhassan Shams-Ansari (2022), Principle Laser Engineer, Daylight Solutions  [page]
  6. Smarak Maity, (2021), Q-CTRL
  7. Cleaven Chia (2021), IMRE, A*Star, Singapore
  8. Bart Machielse (2021), AWS, Cambridge
  9. Linbo Shao (2019), Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [page]
  10. Srujan Meesala (2019), Postdoc, CalTech [page]
  11. Young Ik Sohn (2017), Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  [page]
  12. Pawel Latawiec (2017), Metalenz   [page]
  13. Zin Lin (2017), Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [page]
  14. I-Chun Huang (2017), Optical Design Engineer, Analog Devices Inc [page]
  15. Cheng Wang (2017, 2018), Assistant Professor, Hong Kong City University [page]
  16. Haig Atikian (2016, 2018), Peak Power Optics (startup)
  17. Wooyoung Hong (2016), Wildcat Capital Management [page]
  18. Anna Shneidman (2016), Postdoc, Harvard SEAS [page]
  19. Michael Burek (2016, 2018), Illumina [thesis]  [page]
  20. Pui-Chen “Wallace” Hui (2015), Exponent, Menlo Park, CA [thesis]
  21. Ian Frank (2014), Sonos,  [thesis]
  22. Yinan Zhang (2013), Head of Asia Quantitative Research, Morgan Stanley, Hong-Kong [thesis] [page]
  23. Raji Shankar (2013), Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA [thesis] [page]
  24. Birgit Hausmann (2013), Senior Data Scientist, Glassdoor, CA [thesis] [page]
  25. Jennifer Choy (2013), Assistant Professor, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison [thesis]
  26. Ian Burgess, (2013), Co-founder, CEO & CTO, Valdera Technologies, Toronto, Canada [thesis] [page]
  27. Qimin Quan (2012), Chief Science Officer, NanoMosaic, Cambridge, MA [thesis]Qimin Quan (2012), Chief Science Officer, NanoMosaic, Cambridge, MA
  28. Parag Deotare (2012), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [thesis]  [page]
  29. Thomas Babinec (2012), Principal Scientist, Physical Sciences, Incorporated, Andover, MA [thesis] [page]

Postdocs & Research Scientists

  1. Yaowen Hu (2023-24), Assistant Professor, Peking University  [page
  2. Amirhassan Shams-Ansari (2022), Principle Laser Engineer, Daylight Solutions  [page]
  3. David Barton (September 2020 - December 2023), Assistant Professor, Northwestern University [page
  4. Kazuhiro Kuruma (June 2019 - July 2023), Assistant Professor, Tokyo University [page]
  5. Benjamin Pingault (May 2019 - June 2022), Assistant Staff Scientist, Argonne National Labs [page]
  6. Linbo Shao, (Nov 2019 - Jan 2022), Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [page]
  7. Mengjie Yu, (Oct 2018 - Jan 2022) Assistant Professor, USC [page]
  8. Di Zhu (Sep 2019 - Sep 2021), Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engieering, National University of Singapore [page]
  9. Afaq Piracaha (Aug 2018 - Nov 2020) Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State 
  10. Boris Desiatov (Aug 2015 - Oct 2020) Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan Univerisity, Israel
  11. Thomas Babinec (Oct 2019 - Oct 2020)
  12. Stephan Bogdanovic (Feb 2018 - Nov 2019), Google
  13. Christian Reimer (Jan 2018 - Jan 2019), Head of Product, HyperLight Corporation [page]
  14. Mian Zhang (Sep 2015 - Dec 2018), CEO, HyperLight Corporation [page]
  15. Vivek Venkataraman (Sep 2012 - Jun 2017), Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi [page]
  16. Stefan Kalchmair (11/2012 - 6/2016), Data Science Fellow [page]
  17. Shota Kita (9/2012-6/2015), Research Associate, NTT Basic Research Labs, Atsugi, Japan [page]
  18. Khadijeh Bayat (1/2012-7/2014), Senior Optical Engineer, Apple, San Francisco, CA [page]
  19. Daniel Ramos Vega (1/2011-2013), Postdoc, Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid, Spain [page]
  20. Alejandro Rodriguez (9/2010-8/2013), Assistant Professor, Princeton University, USA [page]
  21. Sindy Tang (9/2010 – 6/2011), Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA [page]
  22. Eiji Iwase (6/2010-3/2012), Associate Professor, Waseda University, Japan [page]
  23. Daniel Floyd (8/2010-9/2013), Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, Singapore [page]
  24. Osman Bakr (2009-2010), Associate Professor, KAUST, Saudi Arabia [page]
  25. Murray McCutcheon (1/2008-2/2011), Business Development Manager, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [page]
  26. Irfan Bulu (4/2007-12/2012), Senior Scientist, Schlumberger Doll Research Center, Cambridge, MA [page]
  27. Mughees Khan (1/2007-11/2009), Staff Scientist, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [page]

Interns & visitors (partial list)

  1. Caique Conde Rodrigues, PhD Student, State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (11/2022 - 11/2023)
  2. Gavin Smith, University of New Hampshire (REU summer intern, 2023)
  3. Oscar Gastelum, University of Arizona (REU summer intern, 2023)
  4. Xudong Li, Peking University (Undergrad intern, September - December 2022)
  5. Aida Baradari, Harvard College (Undergrad intern, May 2022-)
  6. Laurel Barnett, Harvard College (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
  7. Jada Bonds, College of William and Mary (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
  8. Viraj Jayam, Stanford University (Undergrad summer intern, 2022/2023)
  9. Erin McGee, Stevens Institute of Technology (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
  10. Phuong Pham, Clifornia Institute of Technology (Undergrad summer intern, 2022)
  11. Arseniy Zvyagintsev, Harvard College (Undergrad intern, May - August 2022)
  12. Rubaiya Emran, Harvard College (Undergraduate intern 2021-22)
  13. Lauryn Wilson, Harvard College, (Undergraduate intern,  summer 2021)
  14. Génesis Suárez-González, Undergraduate, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, (Harvard CQN-REU Student 2021)
  15. Jay Soni, Ungraduate, University of Waterloo, Ont. CA,  (Fellow, 2021)
  16. Katie Barajas, Undergraduate, Cornell University (REU Student 2021)
  17. Keith Powell, University of Sydney (PhD Intern, 2018-2020)
  18. Nicolas Weninger, Harvard College (undergraduate thesis, 2019-2020)
  19. Alex Giglio, Harvard College (undergraduate thesis, 2019-2020) 
  20. Dr. Ahmad Rifqi Md Zain, IMEN, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (visiting faculty, 2017 - 2019)
  21. Lingyan He, HyperLight Corporation (PhD Intern, 2017-2019)
  22. Mohd Nuriman Nawi, Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN-UKM), Malaysia (Ph.D. Intern, 2018/19)
  23. Bernd Kohler, External Consultant, Infineon Technologies, Bayern, Germany (Master Intern, 2018/19)
  24. Arjun Mirani, Harvard College (Undergraduate summer intern, 2018)
  25. Rongrong Zhu, Zhejiang University, China (PhD intern, 2018)
  26. Suen Xin Chew, University of Sydney (PhD intern, 2018)
  27. Shijie Song, University of Sydney (PhD intern, 2018)
  28. Tianhao Ren, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (PhD intern, 2017/18)
  29. Scarlett Gauthier, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2018)
  30. Leo Wu, Tsinghua University (PhD intern, 2016/17)
  31. Haileyesus Ephrem,  Bunker Hill Community College (CIQM-REU summer intern, 2017)
  32. Rebecca Cheng, Brown University (NSF REU summer intern, 2017)
  33. Yaowen Hu, Tsinghua University, China (summer intern, 2017)
  34. Han Hu, Zhejiang University, China (summer intern, 2017)
  35. Ruipeng Li, Peking University, China (summer intern, 2017)
  36. Wenbo Mao, Nankai University, China (summer intern, 2017, Fall 2018)
  37. Maxime Bertrand, Institut d'Optique, France (master thesis, 2017)
  38. Charles Meuwly, EPFL, Switzerland (master thesis, 2014/2015/16)
  39. Xiao Xiong, USTC, China (PhD exchange student, 2014/15/16)
  40. Nayera El-Sawah, U. Waterloo, Toronto, Canada (research intern, 2015/16, 2017)
  41. Thibaud Ruelle, EPFL, Switzerland (master thesis, 2015)
  42. Christopher Mittag, TU Munich, Germany (master thesis, 2014/15)
  43. Adrianne Hargrove, Howard University (CIQM summer intern, 2015)
  44. Rachel Miller UC San Diego (NSF REU summer intern, 2015)
  45. Ruishan Liu, Peking University, China (research intern, summer & fall 2015)
  46. Takumi Kato, Keio University, Japan (PhD exchange student, winter & spring 2016)
  47. Junya Yaita, U. Tokyo, Japan (PhD exchange student, fall 2015)
  48. Nicholas Andrade (NSF REU summer intern, 2014)
  49. Xavier Audier, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (master thesis, 2014)
  50. Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Olin College (summer intern, 2014)
  51. Yihang Li, Tsinghua U. , China (summer intern, 2014)
  52. Austin Shin, Harvard College (summer 2013)
  53. Samuel Kim, Harvard College (2013)
  54. Parth Patel, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  55. Nigel Clark, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  56. Won Kyu Sun, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  57. Madelaine  Liddy, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  58. Adarsh Patri, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  59. Johan Israelian, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  60. Jake Rochman, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  61. Ryan Kearns, U. Waterloo (8-month internship, 2013)
  62. Erika Janitz, U. Waterloo (master thesis,  4 months, 2013)
  63. William Gilpin,  Princeton U. (NSF REU, summer 2013)
  64. Daquan Yang,  China (exchange PhD student 2012/13/14)
  65. Julie Frish, Boston U. (internship, 2013)
  66. Shadi Fadaee, Harvard College (summer intern, 2013)
  67. Changlin Lee, Harvard College (2012)
  68. Leonardo La Placa, Harvard College (2012)
  69. Moto Aiba (2011), visiting research scientist, Sony, Japan
  70. Natalie Koay, U. Waterloo, Canada (4-month internship, spring/summer 2011)
  71. Kevin Webb, U. Waterloo, Canada  (4-month internship, spring/summer 2011)
  72. Katharina Kleinlein, TU Munich, Germany (summer 2011)
  73. Christoph Hamsen, TU Munich, Germany (master thesis, 2010/11 academic year)
  74. Rick Leijssen, U. Leiden, The Netherlands  (master thesis, 2010/11)
  75. Mark Dong, Cornell U. (NSF RUE summer intern, 2011)
  76. Srujan Meesala, IIT Bombay (summer intern, 2011)
  77. Eric Graves, Harvard College (summer intern,  2011)
  78. Johann Dominique Djanall-Mann (NSF REU summer intern, 2010)
  79. Mehmet Ali Dundar, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (summer intern 2010)
  80. Leonard Kogos, Harvard College ( 2010 - 2012)
  81. Arolyn Conwill, Pomona College (NSF REU summer intern, 2009)
  82. Taika M. Wheat, (NSF REU summer intern,  2009)
  83. Julia Sokol, Harvard College, (spring 2009 &  fall 2010)
  84. Madhura Narawane, Harvard College (spring 2009 &  fall 2010)
  85. Shomesh Chaudhuri, Harvard College (2008-2009)
  86. Birgit Hausmann, TU Munich (diplom thesis, 2008 - 2010)
  87. Kirsten Smith, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands (summer intern, 2008)
  88. Katie Martinick, U. New Mexico (NSF REU summer intern, 2008)
  89. Ian Frank, Pomona College (NSF REU summer intern, 2007)
  90. Sarah Nam, Harvard College (2008)
  91. Michael Kramer, Harvard College (2007 - 2008)