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POST-DOCS

Stephon

Fan "Stephon" Ren - Post-doc

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China, 2010

B.S., Tsinghua University, China, 2004

Bed

Bed Pantha - Post-doc

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Ph.D., Kansas State University



GRADUATE STUDENTS
Roger

Roger Chen - 5th Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., Boston University, 2007

Billy

Kar Wei "Billy" Ng - 4th Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

M.Phil., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2007

B.Eng., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2004

Frank

Yi "Frank" Rao - 4th Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

M.S., Tsinghua University, China, 2008

B.S., Tsinghua University, China, 2005

Thai

Thai Tran - 4th Year Graduate Student

Applied Science and Technology

M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 2007

Vordiplom, Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany, 2005

Weijian

Weijian "Daniel" Yang - 4th Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., Peking University, China, 2008

Wilson

Wai Son "Wilson" Ko - 4th Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., UC Berkeley, 2008

James

James Ferrara - 4th Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 2008

Fanglu

Fanglu "Kevin" Lu - 3rd Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., Tsinghua University, China, 2009

Linda

Kun "Linda" Li - 2nd Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., Zhejiang University, China, 2010

Andy

Li "Andy" Zhu - 2nd Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., Tsinghua University, China, 2010

Tianbo

Tianbo Sun - 2nd Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

B.S., Peking University, China, 2010

Adair

Adair Gerke - 1st Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

M.S., Stanford University, 2011

B.S., Stanford University, 2011

Aamod

Aamod Shanker - 1st Year Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences



UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Yang

Yang Wen - 3rd Year Undergraduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences



VISITING PROFESSORS / SCHOLARS


ALUMNI
  • Keith Toh
    B.S., 1995, Francisco Partners

  • Michael Kwong
    B.S., 1995

  • Dan Francis - Thesis: Non-Parallel Etched-Facets Diode Laser Arrays: Fabrication, Analysis, and Applications
    Ph.D., 1997, GenOA

  • Ed Vail - Thesis: Micromechanical Tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser
    Ph.D., 1997, SDL

  • Marianne Wu - Thesis: Micromachined Wavelength Tunable Optoelectronic Devices - Applications in All-Optical Networks
    Ph.D., 1997, ONI systems

  • Giorgio Giaretta - Thesis: Wavelength-Selective Photodetectors and WDM Links
    Ph.D., 1997, Bandwidth9

  • Yongan Wu - Thesis: Single Mode Passive Antiguide Region Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
    Ph. D, 1997, Onetta

  • Kevin Lascola - Thesis: Thermal Modeling of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
    M.S., 1997, SDL

  • Sui F. Lim - Thesis: VCSEL with an Intracavity Quantum-Well Absorber: Design and Applications,
    Ph.D., 1998, GenOA

  • Melissa Li - Thesis: Micro-Mechanical Tunable Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
    Ph.D., 1998, ONI systems

  • Gabriel Li - Thesis: Wavelength Selective Detectors for Fibre-Optic Communications
    Ph.D., 1998, Bandwidth 9

  • Wupen Yuen - Thesis: Multiple Wavelength Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Arrays
    Ph.D., 1999, Bandwidth 9

  • Yae Okuno - Thesis: III-V Compound Epitaxy Using MOCVD
    M.S., 1999, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Steven Chase - Thesis: A Micromechanical Red-shifting Tunable Vertical Cavity Filter
    M.S., 1999, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  • Jeff Waite - Thesis: Design and Properties of a Torsional Micromechanical Tunable Optical Filter
    M.S., 2000

  • Chih-Hao Chang - Thesis: High Speed Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers with Injection Locking
    Ph.D., 2002, Intel

  • David Messing
    B.S., 2002, MIT

  • Carlos Mateus - Thesis: Tunable Optoelectronic Devices
    Ph.D., 2003, Brazil

  • Lukas Chrostowski - Thesis: Optical Injection Locking of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
    Ph.D., 2004, UBC

  • Karen Lee
    B.S., 2004, MIT

  • Jason Lin
    B.S., 2007, Stanford University

  • Michael Chung-Yi Huang - Thesis: Nano-Electromechanical Optoelectronic Tunable Lasers
    Ph.D., 2007

  • Forrest Sedgwick - Thesis: Slow and Fast Light in Semiconductors
    Ph.D., 2008,  Infinera

  • Xiaoxue "Wendy" Zhao - Thesis: Optical Injection Locking on Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs): Physics and Applications
    Ph.D., 2008, Google

  • Matthew Johnson
    B.S., 2008, MIT

  • Steve Wu
    B.S., 2008

  • Ye "Mervin" Zhou- Thesis: Subwavelength High-Contrast Grating (HCG) and its Applications in Optoelectronic Devices
    Ph.D., 2008, McKinsey

  • Bala Pesala- Thesis: Slow and Fast Light using Nonlinear Processes in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
    Ph.D., 2009, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, India

  • Michael Moewe- Thesis: Growth and Characterization of III-V Nanowires and Nanoneedles
    Ph.D., 2009

  • Shanna Crankshaw- Thesis: Spectroscopic Characterization of III-V Semiconductor Nanomaterials
    Ph.D., 2009

  • Linus Chuang- Thesis: III-V Nanowires and Nanoneedles on Lattice Mismatched Substrates for Optoelectronic Device Applications
    Ph.D., 2009

  • Vinay Hampapur
    B.S., 2010, Stanford University

  • Christopher Chase - Thesis: High Contrast Grating VCSELs: Properties and Implementation on InP-based VCSELs
    Ph.D., 2011

  • Devang Parekh - Thesis: Optical Injection Locking of Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: Digital and Analog Applications
    Ph.D., 2011

Last Updated March 2012