PhD Alumni
Dr. Daien He, 2025
Thesis Title: Digital Infrared Bolometers using Superconductors and Spintronics
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Dr. Tyler Sentz, 2024
Thesis Title: Controlling Directionality of Infrared Radiation with Metamaterials
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Dr. Ali Jishi, 2024
Thesis Title: Pushing the Limit of High-Temperature Thermal Metamaterials
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Dr. Hyun Soo Choi, 2024
Thesis Title: Overcoming the Rayleigh Limit for High-Resolution Optical Imaging: Quantum and Classical
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Dr. Shree Hari Sureshbabu, 2023
Co-advised with Sabre Kais
Thesis Title: Classical and Quantum Optimization for Scientific Computation
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Next Position: Sr. Applied Research Associate, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Dr. Ashwin K. Boddeti, 2023
Thesis Title: Dipole-Dipole Interactions In Ordered And Disordered Nanophotonic Media
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Next Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Dr. Zohreh Poursoti, 2023
Thesis Title: Deep Ultra-Violet Plasmonics Using Momentum-Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
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Dr. Xueji Wang, 2023
Thesis Title: Invisible Light: Spectro-Polarimetric Control And Detection Of Thermal Radiation
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Next Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Dr. Farid Kalhor, 2022
Thesis Title: Quantum Sensing Of Photonic Spin Density With Spin Qubits
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Next position: FemtoSense
Dr. Yifan Wang, 2022
Co-advised with Prof. Dan Jiao
Thesis Title: Fast algorithms for compressing electrically large volume integral equations and applications to thermal and quantum science and engineering
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Dr. Todd Van Mechelen, 2020
Thesis Title: Foundations of Topological Electrodynamics
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Next position: Technology Specialist, Fish and Richardson
Dr. Farhad Khosravi, 2020
Thesis Title: Unified spin electrodynamics of Dirac Maxwell Fields
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Next position: 1 Qubit, Canada
Dr. Ryan Starko-Bowes, 2019
Thesis Title: Engineering Radiative Heat Transfer with Thermal Polaritonics
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Next position: Intel
Dr. Prashant Shekhar, 2018
Thesis Title: Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy for Probing Nanophotonic Excitations at High Energy and Momentum
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Next position: Intel
Dr. Saman Jahani, 2018
Thesis Title: On-Chip Quantum Photonics: Low Mode Volumes, Nonlinearities and Nano-Scale Superconducting Detectors
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Next position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Caltech
Dr. Cristian Cortes, 2017
Thesis Title: Quantum correlations and noise in nanophotonics
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Next position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Argonne National Labs
Dr. Ward Newman, 2017
Thesis Title: Experimental Demonstration of Engineered Dipole-Dipole Interactions in Nanophotonic Environments
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Next position: Intel
Dr. Sean Molesky, 2017
Thesis Title: Controlling Thermal Light-Matter Interactions with Metamaterials
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Next position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Post-doctoral Alumni
Dr. Jungho Mun
Next Position: Senior Scientist, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Dr. Angshuman Deka
Next Position: Research Scientist, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
Dr. Sathwik Bharadwaj
Next Position: Assistant Professor, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Fanglin Bao
Next Position: Assistant Professor, Westlake University
Dr. Avra Bandyopadhyay
Next Position: Intel
Dr. Adrian Ezequiel Rubio Lopez
Next Position: Post Doc, USACH, University of Santiago de Chile
Dr. Subir Kumar Ray
Next Position: R&D Engineer at Saint-Gobain
Dr. Mohammad Ali Javidian
Next position: Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University (ASU), Boone
Dr. Sarang Pendharker (At the University of Alberta)
Next position: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Dr. Parijat Sengupta
Next position: Intel
Dr. Zhou Li
Next position: Team Leader, Guanzhuo, China
Dr. Li-Ping Yang
Next position: Associate Professor, Northeast Normal University, China
Dr. Chinmay Khandekar
Current position: Magic Leap
Master's Thesis Alumni
Aashish Poudel, 2024
Next position: Field Engineer, ASM
Ricardo Alan de Bastos, 2023
Thesis Title: Spectral Resolution in Infrared Thermal Imaging
Next position: Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas
Prashant Shekhar, 2013
Thesis Title: Strong coupling and superradiance in hyperbolic metamaterials
Next position: Ph.D. student, University of Alberta
Yu Guo, 2014
Thesis Title: Singular fluctuational electrodynamic effects in hyperbolic metamaterials and moving media
Next position: Ph.D. student, Stanford University
Huan Hu, 2014
Thesis Title: Nanostructured metamaterials for thermal applications
Next position: Ph.D. student, UCSD
Jonathan Atkinson, 2015
Thesis Title: Ellipsometric characterization of anisotropy in nanowire metamaterials
Next position: Ph.D. student, University of Waterloo