Our team has a unique combination of world-leading experts in theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects of electrical engineering, physics and nanophotonics.
Principal Investigator:
Andrea Alù | CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (lab website)
Co-Principal Investigators:
Shanhui Fan | Stanford University (lab website)
Anthony Grbic | University of Michigan (lab website)
Harish Krishnaswamy | Columbia University (lab website)
Michal Lipson | Columbia University (lab website)
Amir Safavi-Naeini | Stanford University (lab website)
International Members:
Tobias Kippenberg | EPFL, Switzerland (lab website)
Sergei Tretyakov | Aalto University, Finland (lab website)
DoD Collaborators
Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Ilya Vitebskii, Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Jimmy Touma, Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Weimin Zhou, Army Research Laboratory
Dr. Sang-Yeon Cho, Army Research Laboratory
Dr. Jesse Frantz, Navy Research Laboratory
Students Supported
Gaurang Bhatt (Columbia U.)
Jakob Hinney (Columbia U.)
Kaiyuan Yao (Columbia U.)
Utsav Dave (Columbia U.)
Janderson Rodrigues (Columbia U.)
Ipshita Datta (Columbia U.)
Mateus Corato Zanarella (Columbia U.)
FNU Shriddha Chaitanya (Columbia U.)
Vivian Zhou (Columbia U.)
Anat Siddharth (EPFL)
Terence Blésin (EPFL)
Raphael Van Laer (post-doc, Stanford) -> Professor at Chalmers
Nathan Lee (graduate student, Stanford) -> Research Staff at HRL
Wentao Jiang (graduate student, Stanford) -> Joined Start-up based on Lab’s technology (Flux)
Rishi Patel (graduate student, Stanford) -> Research Staff at Amazon Quantum Computing
Vahid Ansari (post-doc, Stanford)
Jason Herrmann (graduate student, Stanford)
Hubert Stokowski (graduate student, Stanford)
Jiahui Wang (Stanford) Now at Google X
Siddarth Buddhiraju (Stanford) Now at Meta
Lingling Fan (Stanford) Now a postdoc at MIT
Kai Wang, (Stanford), Now an Assistant Professor at McGill University, Canada).
Avik Dutt (Stanford), Now an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland
Dali Cheng (Stanford)
Cody Scarborough (U Michigan), Assistant Professor, Colorado University, Boulder.
Zhanni Wu (U Michigan), Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, Sept. 2021 –.
Debjit Sarkar (U Michigan), Ph.D. student, EE, Caltech, Sept. 2020 –.
Sara Azzouz (U Michigan), Ph.D. student, EE, Stanford University, Sept. 2022 –.
Zachary Fritts (U Michigan), Ph.D. Student
Amirhossein Babaee (U Michigan), Ph.D. Student
Chun-Wen Lin (U Michigan), Ph.D. Student
Debjit Sarkar (U Michigan), Undergraduate Student
Sara Azzouz (U Michigan), Undergraduate Student
Ryan Strohman (U Michigan), Undergraduate Student
Shixiong Yin (CUNY)
Sander Mann (CUNY)
Hady Moussa (CUNY, now at Qualcomm)
Ahmed Mekkawy (CUNY, now at Apple)
Michele Cotrufo (CUNY, now at U Rochester)