Alumni

PhD Alumni

Dr. Shree Hari Sureshbabu
Co-advised with Sabre Kais
Thesis Title: Classical and Quantum Optimization for Scientific Computation
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Dr. Ashwin K. Boddeti
Thesis Title: Dipole-Dipole Interactions In Ordered And Disordered Nanophotonic Media
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Dr. Zohreh Poursoti
Thesis Title: Deep Ultra-Violet Plasmonics Using Momentum-Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
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Dr. Xueji Wang
Thesis Title: Invisible Light: Spectro-Polarimetric Control And Detection Of Thermal Radiation
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Dr. Farid Kalhor
Thesis Title: Quantum Sensing Of Photonic Spin Density With Spin Qubits
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Dr. Yifan Wang
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, December 2020 (From Purdue University)
Thesis Title: Foundations of Topological Electrodynamics
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Next position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Purdue University
 

Dr. Farhad Khosravi, November 2020 (From the University of Alberta)
Thesis Title: Unified spin electrodynamics of Dirac Maxwell Fields
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Next position: 1 Qubit, Canada

Dr. Ryan Starko-Bowes, April 2019 (From the University of Alberta)
Thesis Title: Engineering Radiative Heat Transfer with Thermal Polaritonics
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Next position: Intel

Dr. Prashant Shekhar, December 2018 (From the University of Alberta)
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, September 2018 (From Purdue University)
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, December 2017 (From Purdue University)
Thesis Title: Quantum correlations and noise in nanophotonics
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Next position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Argonne National Labs

Dr. Ward Newman, October 2017 (From Purdue University)
Thesis Title: Experimental Demonstration of Engineered Dipole-Dipole Interactions in Nanophotonic Environments
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Next position: Intel

Dr. Sean Molesky, July 2017 (From the University of Alberta)
Thesis Title: Controlling Thermal Light-Matter Interactions with Metamaterials
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Next position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University

Post-doctoral Alumni

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

Prashant Shekhar, September 2013
Thesis Title: Strong coupling and superradiance in hyperbolic metamaterials
Next position: Ph.D. student, University of Alberta

Yu Guo, August 2014
Thesis Title: Singular fluctuational electrodynamic effects in hyperbolic metamaterials and moving media
Next position: Ph.D. student, Stanford University

Huan Hu, September 2014
Thesis Title: Nanostructured metamaterials for thermal applications
Next position: Ph.D. student, UCSD

Jonathan Atkinson, December 2015
Thesis Title: Ellipsometric characterization of anisotropy in nanowire metamaterials
Next position: Ph.D. student, University of Waterloo