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Alumni

Graduate students

Ari Esters (ECE)

B.S., Stanford (Chemical Engineering), 2015

MS, UIUC (Electrical Engineering), 2018

Simulation, fabrication, and testing of silicon nanofluidic channels for chemical transport

Current job: Micron Technology, Inc. , Boise, ID  [LinkedIn]

Oscar Bi (ECE)

B.S., UIUC (Electrical Engineering), 2016

MS, UIUC (Electrcial Engineering), 2018

Silicon process development for surface nanofluidic channels and implantable silicon nanofludic neuroprobes.

Current job: Micron Technology, Inc. , Boise, ID    [LinkedIn]

Summer interns

Xingyu Chen (BioE)

M.S., UIUC (BioEng), 2018

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong (BioMedical) 2017

Signal analysis software to integrate with hardware system for texture presentation in mice behavioral experiments

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Yuan Zhu (BioE)

M.S., UIUC (BioEng) 2018

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong (BioMedical) 2017

Virtual tactile reality for rodents

Previous group members at IBM Watson Research Center

Postdoctoral scientists

  • Eric Dulkeith (TU Munich) “Optical nonlinearities in silicon photonic crystal waveguides” 2003-2005

                       Currently Sr. Executive at Detecon

  • Fengnian Xia (Princeton) “Slow light in coupled resonators” 2005-2007

                       Currently Assoc. Professor at Yale

  • William Green (Caltech) “Silicon modulator” 2006-2007

                       Currently Senior Manager at IBM Research

  • Joris Van Campenhout (Ghent) “Broadband optical switches” 2007-2009

                       Currently Director at IMEC

  • Jin Hong Park (Stanford) “Dark current reduction in germanium MSM photodetectors” 2009-2010

                       Currently Ass. Professor at Sungkyunkwan University

  • Jessie Rosenberg (Caltech) “Microring silicon modulators” 2010-2011

                       Currently Manager at IBM Research

  • Jon Proesel (CMU) “CMOS analog circuits design for nanophotonics” 2010-2012

                       Currently Research Staff Member at IBM Research

  • Huapu Pan (Virginia Tech) “Photodetectros and integrated nanophotonics receivers” 2010-2012

                       Currently Quant at Citadel LLC

  • Seyoung Kim (UT Austin) “Neuromorphic RRAM devices” 2014-2015

                       Currently Research Staff Member at IBM Research

Summer graduate interns

  • Jonathan Leu (MIT) “Approaches for automated CAD design of optical circuits” 2008 

                        Currently graduate student at MIT

  • Xiaoping Liu (Columbia Un.) “Nonlinear silicon nanophotonics” 2009

                        Currently Professor at Nanjing University

  • Christopher Kang (Vanderbilt Un.) “Photonics crystal cavities for chemical sensing” 2010

                        Currently Engineer at Intel

  • Bart Kuyken (Ghent Un.) “Mid-infrared nonlinear optics in silicon waveguides” 2011

                        Currently Ass. Professor at Ghent University

  • Wesley Sacher (Un.Toronto) “Polarization management in silicon nanophotonics” 2011

                        Currently postdoctoral scientist at Caltech

  • Mackenzie Van Camp (MIT) “Mid-infrared nonlinear optics in nanophotonics” 2011

                        Currently Principal Scientist at BAE Systems

  • Anietie Andy (Howard) “Convolutional neural networks” 2015

                        Currently postdoctoral fellow at UPenn

  • Sebastian Oberg (KTH) “Stream dimensionality reduction for neural networks” 2015

                        Currently PhD student at KTH

  • Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann) “Advanced neural networks algorithms” 2015

                        Currently PhD student at Weizmann

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