Alumni
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Graduate Students
Name | Tenure | Positions held since departure | Current position |
Alex White | 2019-2024 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University | Same |
Melissa Guidry | 2018-2023 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University | Same |
Daniil Lukin | 2017-2022 | Postdoctoral Scolar, Stanford University | Same |
Jinhie Skarda | 2017-2022 | Engineer, Apple | Same |
Alison Rugar | 2017-2022 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Sandbox Quantum | Same |
Guillermo Angeris | 2019-2022 | Head of Research, Bain Capital Crypto | Same |
Rahul Trivedi | 2016-2020 | Postdoctoral scholar, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | Assistant Professor, University of Washington |
Neil Sapra | 2015-2020 | Photonic Design Engineer, Ayar Labs | Same |
Logan Su | 2015-2020 | Software Engineer, Waymo | Algorithm Engineer, Hudson River Trading, London, UK |
Constantin Dory | 2015-2020 | Photonics Engineer, Secret optics company | Same |
Linda Zhang | 2013-2019 | Hardware Engineer, Waymo | Same |
Eliza Cornell | 2018-2019 | PhD Student, Harvard | Same |
Kevin Fischer | 2012-2018 | Software Engineer, Secret company | Same |
Yousif Kelaita | 2012-2018 | Hardware Engineer, Google, Inc. | Same |
Alexander Piggott | 2012-2018 | Silicon Photonics Senior Scientist, Pointcloud | Hardware Engineer - Advanced LiDAR at Waymo |
Marina Radulaski | 2011-2017 | Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University | Associate Professor, UC Davis |
Jan Petykiewicz | 2010-2016 | Senior Research Engineer, Global Foundries | Hardware Engineer, Google, Inc. |
Armand Rundquist | 2009-2015 | Laser Design Engineer at NeoPhotonics | Hardware Development Engineer at Infinera |
Sonia Buckley | 2009-2014 | NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST Boulder | Same |
Jesse Lu | 2007-2013 |
| Founder and CEO, Spins Photonics |
Gary Shambat | 2008-2013 |
| Hardware product lead, Lyft |
Arka Majumdar | 2007-2012 |
| Associate Professor, University of Washington |
Kelley Rivoire | 2007-2012 | Postdoctoral fellow, HP Labs | Data Scientist, Stripe |
Bryan Ellis | 2006-2011 | Senior Hardware Development Engineer, Infinera | |
Yiyang Gong | 2006-2010 | Postdoctoral fellow, Mark Schnitzer group | Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University |
Maria Makarova | 2003-2010 |
| Lecturer, Monterey Tech |
Andrei Faraon | 2005-2009 |
| Professor, Caltech |
Dirk Englund | 2003-2008 |
| Associate Professor, MIT |
Ilya Fushman | 2003-2008 |
| General Partner, Kleiner Perkins |
Hatice Altug | 2003-2006 |
| Professor, EPFL, Bioengineering |
Postdoctoral scholars, research scientists, and research engineers
Name | Tenure | Positions held since departure | Current position |
Kasper Van Gasse | 2021-2024 | Associate Professor, Ghent University | Same |
Chris Anderson | 2022-2023 | Assistant Professor, UIUC | Same |
Kiyoul Yang | 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor, Harvard University | Same |
Daniel Riedel | 2020-2022 | Quantum Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services Quantum, Cambridge, MA | Same |
Hyounghan Kwon | 2021-2022 | Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology | Same |
Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi | 2019-2021 | Quantum Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services | Same |
Eric Yue Ma | 2017-2021 | Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley | Same |
Dries Vercruysse | 2016-2020 | Optical design engineer, Ayar Labs | Same |
Jean Philippe MacLean | 2020-2020 | Scientist, GHGSat, Montreal, Canada | Same |
Shuo Sun | 2017-2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder | Same |
Tomas Sarmiento | 2013-2018 | Laser Engineer, Secret optics company | Same |
Konstantinos Lagoudakis | 2012-2017 | Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde | Same |
Kai Mueller | 2013-2015 | Senior Research Scientist, TU Munich, Walter Schottky Institute | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, TU Munich |
Thomas Babinec | 2012-2015 |
| Principal Scientist, Physical Sciences Inc. |
Michal Bajcsy | 2010-2013 | Assistant Professor, IQC, Waterloo | Associate Professor, IQC, Waterloo |
Erik Kim | 2009-2011 | Research scientist at KLA Tencor, Research scientist at HGST | Hardware Engineer at Waymo |
Edo Waks | 2003-2006 | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland | Professor, University of Maryland |
Vanessa Sih | 2007-2008 |
| Professor, University of Michigan |
Undergraduate Students
Name | Position | Tenure |
Kalyan Narayanan | Undergrad researcher | January 2021-Sep 2021 |
Diego Ahmed-Stein | Undergrad researcher | January 2021-Sep 2021 |
Julian Rovee | Undergrad researcher | June 2019-Sep 2021 |
Dominic Catanzaro | Undergrad researcher | June 2020-Sep 2020 |
Andrew Guo | Undergrad researcher | June 2015-Aug 2015 |
Zain Zaidi | Undergrad researcher | January 2014-June 2014 |
Olivia Grubert | Undergrad researcher | June 2011-January 2012 |
Mickey Haggblade | Undergrad researcher | |
Jieyang Jia | Undergrad researcher | |
Mai Le | Undergrad researcher | June 2009-September 2009 |
Asmita Kumar | Undergrad researcher | January 2008-December 2008 |
Serena Yeung | Undergrad researcher | June 2008-August 2008 |
Stephen Altamirano | Undergrad researcher | June 2007-June 2008 |
Tim Chang | Undergrad researcher | June 2004-June 2006 |
Joel Goh | Undergrad resarcher (honors thesis) Current position: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard | Jan. 2005-June 2006 |
Kishore Jayanti | Undergrad researcher | June 2005-August 2005 |
Jaeman Park | Undergrad researcher | June 2005-August 2005 |
Visiting Scholars
Name | Position | Tenure | Position after departure |
Ulrich Czopak | Visiting researcher | 01/2019 - 03/2019 | PhD student, Universität Innsbruck |
Armin Regler | Visiting researcher | 2016 | PhD student, Technische Universität München |
Per Kaer | Visiting researcher | 2013 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Technical University of Denmark |
Takuya Konno | Visiting researcher | 2009-2010 | Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan |
Satoshi Ishikawa | Visiting researcher | 2008-2009 | Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan |
Mitsuru Toishi | Visiting researcher | 2007-2008 | Sony Research Labs, Tokyo, Japan |
Hideo Iwase | Visiting researcher | 2005-2007 | Canon, Japan |
Other
Name | Position | Tenure | Position after departure |
Rieko Sasaki | Administrative Associate | 2019-2021 | Administrative associate at Ginzton |
Ingrid Tarien | Administrative Associate | 2005-2018 | Administrative associate at Ginzton |
Vincent Sebag | Visiting undergrad | Summer 2015 | Imperial College London |
Nicolas Manquest | MS Student | 2009-2010 | Astrium, France |
Yurika Peterman | Administrative associate | 2003-2005 | Administrative associate at Stanford |
Benedikt Stein | Visiting diploma student | Fall 2005 | Student at U. of Karlsruhe, Germany |