Group Members

Principal Investigator

Mengjie Yu

Gabilan Assistant Professor at USC 

mengjie.yu@usc.edu | Website | Yu CV

  • Bachelor at Zhejiang University, Optical Engineering, 2008-2012
  • PhD at Cornell University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012 -2018
  • Staff Research Associate at Columbia University, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, 2015-2018
  • Postdoc at Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2018-2021

Graduate Students

Clayton Cheung

Clayton Cheung

3rd year PhD student

cycheung@usc.edu

  • BS: University of Arizona
  • MS: University of Southern California
  • Research Interests: Quantum and nonlinear photonics

Reshma Kopparapu

2nd year PhD student

kopparap@usc.edu

    • BS: University of Southern California
    • Research Interests: Integrated nonlinear photonics

    • Ran Yin

      2nd year PhD student

      ranyin@usc.edu

      • BS: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
      • MS: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
      • Research Interests: Nonlinear photonics

        • Yuanhao Liang

          2nd year PhD student

          yliang20@usc.edu

          • BS: Nankai University
          • Research Interests: Quantum and integrated photonics

Kaiwen Xue

1st year PhD student

xuek@usc.edu

  • BS: University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Research interests: Optical computing and optical neural networks

Kamila Kunes

1st year PhD student

kunes@usc.edu

  • BS: University of California, Los Angeles
  • Research interests: Integrated photonics and optical computing

Postdoctoral Scholars

Chunho Lee

Chunho Lee

Postdoc Fellow (2022 – Present)

chunhol@usc.edu

  • BS: Seoul National University
  • MS: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • PhD: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Postdoc: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Research Interests: Active on-chip devices

Xinyi Ren

Postdoc Fellow (2023 – Present)

xr_274@usc.edu

  • BS in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • PhD in Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  • Research interests: Integrated photonics, electro-optic frequency comb, dual-comb spectroscopy, photoacoustic/optomechanical spectroscopy

Yue Yu

Postdoc Fellow (2023 – Present)

yyu71270@usc.edu

  • BS in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  • PhD in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Research interests: Integrated photonics, optomechanics, and acoustic waves

Undergraduate Students

Anoushka Narayan

CURVE program undergraduate student (2022 – Present)

an82316@usc.edu

  • Research Interests: Electro-optic modulators

Eric Zhong

CURVE program undergraduate student (2022 – Present)

  • Research Interests: Photonic computing

etzhong@usc.edu

Ruozhou (James) Wang

CURVE program undergraduate student (2022 – Present)

jwang369@usc.edu

  • Research Interests: Optoelectronics and integrated photonics

Aidan Parris

CURVE program undergraduate student (2023 – Present)

ajparris@usc.edu

  • Research Interests: Integrated photonics and device simulation

Alumni

Shaoyuan Ou

Shaoyuan Ou

Masters student (2022 – 2024)

Juan Antonio Estevez – de la Riva

CURVE program undergraduate student (2022 – 2023)

We are currently looking for PhD students and interns with passion towards nanophotonics and nonlinear optics! We also have several openings for postdocs, preferred with some nano-fabrication background.