Alumni

Graduate Students

First Name Last Name Year Former Current Position
Zhaoyu Nie 2022 Ph.D. Optical Scientist, Meta
Hanshen Huang 2017 Visiting Student Graduate Student, University of California at Los Angeles
Zhen Guo 2019 Visiting Student Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jie Shen 2018 Visiting Student Postdoc, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Qiu Wang 2019 Visiting Student Research Scientist, Nanjing Nanotech
Xiaodong Wu 2018 Visiting Student Graduate Student, Sichuan University
Xue Jiang 2019 Visiting Student Researcher, Fudan University
Jeongmin Kim 2017 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Hanyu Zhu 2017 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Rice University
Yang Xia 2020 Ph.D. Research Scientist, Facebook
Haokun Li 2019 Ph.D. Postdoc, Stanford University
Xuexin Ren 2019 Ph.D. Staff Data Scientist, App Annie
Chengzhi Shi 2018 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Quanwei Li 2020 Ph.D. Postdoc, University of California at Berkeley
Ying Wang 2017 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jun Xiao 2017 Ph.D. Postdoc, Stanford University
Shiekh Zia Uddin 2018 Ph.D. Ph.D. Student, University of California at Berkeley
Omar Ashour 2018 Ph.D. Ph.D. Student, University of California at Berkeley
Mervin Zhao 2017 Ph.D. Scientist, 4C Air
Cheng Sun 2002 Ph.D. Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Nicholas (Xuanlai) Fang 2003 Ph.D. Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David (Ta-Jen) Yen 2004 Ph.D. Professor and Vice President for Global Affairs, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City
Dongmin Wu 2005 Ph.D. Professor, Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nano-bionics, CAS, China
Kyle Su 2005 Ph.D. APAC TMT trader, Merrill Lynch
Zhaowei Liu 2006 Ph.D. Professor, University of California, San Diego
Werayut Srituravanich 2006 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Hyesog (Joe) Lee 2007 Ph.D. Director of Optical Engineering, DigiLens Inc.
Muralidhar Ambati 2008 Ph.D. Deep Learning R&D Engineer, Intel Corporation
Junyu Mai 2008 Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist, Google
Yuan Wang 2009 Ph.D. Director, Nanjing Nanotech
Yi Xiong 2009 Ph.D. Modeling Engineer, KLA-Tencor
Yongmin Liu 2009 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Sheng Wang 2009 Ph.D. Senior Optical Engineer, KLA-Tencor
Liang Pan 2010 Ph.D. Associate Professor, Purdue University
Jason Valentine 2010 Ph.D. Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Jie Yao 2010 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Lee Fok 2010 Ph.D. Senior Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
Ming Liu 2010 Ph.D. Associate Professor, UC Riverside
Volker Sorger 2011 Ph.D. Associate Professor, George Washington University
Yongshik Park 2011 Ph.D. Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Ze'ev Abrams 2012 Ph.D. Cofounder (CEO), 3chron
Ong Pholchai 2012 Ph.D. Faculty, KMUTNB
Christopher Gladden 2012 Ph.D. Director of Engineering, Glint Photonics
Erick Ulin-Avila 2012 Ph.D. Researcher, Centro de Ingenieria y Desarrollo Industrial
Ania Labno 2013 Ph.D. Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Jun Suk Rho 2013 Ph.D. Mu-Eun-Jae Endowed Chair Associate Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Sadao Ota 2013 Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
Ziliang Ye 2013 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Shaomin Xiong 2014 Ph.D. Research Technologist, Western Digital
Michael Mrejen 2015 Ph.D. Senior Physicist and Technology lead, Cielo Inertial Solutions and Senior researcher, Tel Aviv University
Zi Jing Wong 2015 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Sui Yang 2015 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Kevin O'Brien 2015 Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yelong Xu 2016 Visiting Student Senior Photonic Design Engineer, Lightelligence
David Barth 2017 Ph.D. MNFL Senior Research Specialist, Princeton University
Yousif Alsaid 2017 Research Associate Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles
Taiki Hatakeyama 2017 Ph.D. Process Engineer, Applied Materials
Rebecca Kramer 2008 M.S. John J. Lee Assistant Professor, Yale University
Marco Kwan 2004 M.S. Structural Analyst, Raytheon
Alex Lazarev 2002 M.S. VP of Engineering, NISTA Diagnostics Inc.
Dan Harps 2004 M.S. Distinguished engineer, Edwards Lifesciences
Dongjuan Xi 2004 M.S. Director of Quality Assurance, Fresenius Medical Care North America
Xiaoxiao Zhang 2004 M.S. MTS process integration enginner, Globalfoundries
Paloma Arroyo 2011 Visiting Student Researcher, Instituto Superior Técnico
Siqi Wang 2021 Ph.D. Postdoc, Yale University
Renjie Tao 2021 Ph.D. Senior Engineer, Zoom

Postdoctoral Scholars

First Name Last Name Year Former Current Position
Jun Yi 2021 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Xiamen University
Ting-Fung Chung 2022 Postdoc Research Scientist, KLA-Tencor
Peiyao Zhang 2022 Postdoc Product Engineer, Lam Research
Nicholas Bachelard 2018 Postdoc Postdoc, Technische Universität Wien
Joseph Smalley 2019 Postdoc Senior Optical Engineer, DigiLens Inc.
Shoufeng Lan 2019 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Ying Wang 2020 Postdoc Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wei Bao 2019 Postdoc Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Pasquale Cilibrizzi 2020 Postdoc Postdoc, Heriot-Watt University
Yahui Xue 2021 Postdoc
Xiaoze Liu 2019 Postdoc Professor, Wuhan University
King Yan Fong 2019 Postdoc Staff Hardware Development Engineer, Infinera
Nir Shitrit 2017 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Cheng Gong 2019 Postdoc Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Chad Ropp 2019 Postdoc PML/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jeongmin Kim 2020 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Hanyu Zhu 2018 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Rice University
Zi Jing Wong 2017 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Dafei Jin 2017 Postdoc Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Chi Tang 2017 Postdoc Senior Software Engineer, Google
Rongkuo Zhao 2017 Postdoc Senior Design Engineer, ASML
Hamed Dalir 2016 Postdoc Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Optelligence
Lin Li 2016 Postdoc Researcher, East China Normal University
Marc Dubois 2016 Postdoc Postdoc, Institut Fresnel
Yu Ye 2016 Postdoc Assisstant Professor, Peking University
Hamidreza Ramezani 2016 Postdoc Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Kosmas Tsakmakidis 2015 Postdoc Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Xingjie Ni 2015 Postdoc Charles H. Fetter Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Yimin Li 2015 Postdoc Faculty, SIMIT
Jie Zhu 2014 Postdoc Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Tongcang Li 2014 Postdoc Associate Professor, Purdue University
Haim Suchowski 2014 Postdoc Professor, Tel Aviv University
Alessandro Salandrino 2014 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of Kansas
Liang Feng 2014 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Chihhui Wu 2014 Postdoc RET Design Engineer, Intel Corporation
Baolei Li 2014 Postdoc Staff Software Engineer, Linkedin
Renmin Ma 2014 Postdoc Associate Professor, Peking University
Kedar Hippalgaonkar 2013 Research Associate Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Peng Zhang 2013 Postdoc Staff Engineer, SanDisk
Xiaobo Yin 2013 Senior Research Scientist Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Boubacar Kante 2013 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of California at Berkeley
Majid Gharghi 2013 Postdoc Product and Technology Development, Apple
Jia Zhu 2013 Postdoc Professor, Nanjing University
Daniel Lanzillotti Kimura 2012 Postdoc Research Scientist, CNRS
Maiken Mikkelsen 2012 Postdoc Associate Professor, Duke University
Hu Cang 2011 Postdoc Assistant Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Avi Niv 2011 Postdoc Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Stefano Palomba 2011 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Pavel Kolchin 2011 Postdoc Senior Research Scientist, KLA-Tencor
Sheng Shen 2011 Postdoc Professor, Carnegie Melon University
Xiaodong Yang 2011 Postdoc Associate Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Ajith Kumar Warrier 2011 Postdoc Chief Technology Officer, Symphony CrescendoAI
Bin Guo 2011 Postdoc Scientist, TDK Headway Technologies
Thomas Zentgraf 2011 Postdoc Professor, University of Paderborn, Germany
Ertugrul Cubukcu 2010 Postdoc Associate Professor, University of California at San Diego
Changshi Lao 2010 Postdoc Professor, Shenzhen University
Rupert Outlon 2010 Postdoc Professor, Imperial College London, UK
Guy Bartal 2010 Postdoc Professor, Technion
Pankaj Jha 2017 Postdoc Postdoc, Caltech
Li Zeng 2010 Postdoc Technologist, Western Digital
Shuang Zhang 2010 Postdoc Chair Professor, University of Hong Kong
Atsushi Ishikawa 2010 Postdoc Scientist, Panasonic Corporation
Jensen Li 2009 Postdoc Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chih-wei Chang 2009 Postdoc Associate research fellow, National Taiwan University, Taipei City
Tae-Jin Yim 2009 Postdoc Senior Process Manager, ASM
Bumki Min 2008 Postdoc Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Geoffroy Lerosey 2008 Postdoc Research Scientist, Institut Langevin, ESPCI, France
Vladimir Fokin 2008 Postdoc Senior Engineer
Seunghoon Han 2008 Postdoc Research Master, Samsung Electronics
Hyeun-Seok Choi 2008 Postdoc Senior Researcher, Korean Institute of Industrial Technology
Sunghyun Nam 2008 Postdoc Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Lab
David Pile 2008 Postdoc Senior Editor, Nature Photonics
Dentcho Genov 2006 Postdoc Associate Professor, Louisiana Tech University
Yuri Pikus 2006 Postdoc Engineer
Xuejin Zhang 2006 Postdoc Associate Professor, Nanjing University
Hui Liu 2005 Postdoc Professor, Nanjing University
Jennifer Steele 2005 Postdoc Professor, Trinity University
Stephane Durant 2006 Postdoc Senior Research Scientist, KLA-Tencor
Lucia Florescu 2004 Postdoc Lecturer, University of Surray
Qihuo Wei 2003 Postdoc Professor, Southern University of Science & Technology
Xiaoning Jiang 2001 Postdoc Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University
Qi Luo 2003 Postdoc Principal Engineer, Maxim Integrated Products
Sui Yang 2021 Lab Manager Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Visiting Scholars

First Name Last Name Year Former Current Position
Jongseo Baek 2022 Visiting Scholar Process Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Atsushi Ishikawa 2017 Visiting Scholar Scientist, Panasonic Corporation
Jianwen Dong 2015 Visiting Scholar Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
Juan Liu 2015 Visiting Scholar Faculty, Beijing Institute of Technology
Baowen Li 2015 Visiting Scholar Rennie Family Endowed Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Aimin Wu 2014 Visiting Scholar Faculty, SIMIT
Donghan Lee 2014 Visiting Scholar Professor, Chungnam National University
Dominic Zerulla 2013 Visiting Scholar Associate Professor, University College Dublin
Yong-Hoon Cho 2013 Visiting Scholar Dean of College of Natural Sciences, KAIST
Francisco J. Garcia Vidal 2011 Visiting Scholar Professor, Universidad Aut noma de Madrid, Spain
Peigen Ni 2011 Visiting Scholar National Natural Science Foundation of China
Zhenggao Dong 2011 Visiting Scholar Professor, Southeast University, China
Changgui Lu 2011 Visiting Scholar Professor, Southeast University, China
Danhong Huang 2010 Visiting Scholar Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base
Pi-Gang Luan 2009 Visiting Scholar Associate Professor, National Central University, Taoyuan City
Takashi Ando 2008 Visiting Scholar Hitachi Research Laboratory, Japan
Aidong Li 2007 Visiting Scholar Professor, Nanjing University, China
Jianyi Xu 2004 Visiting Scholar Professor, Nanjing University, China
Juan Zhu 2018 Visiting Scholar Postdoc, University of California at Berkeley