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
2nd year PhD student
- BS: Universty of Arizona
- MS: University of Southern California
- Research Interests: Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics
Reshma Kopparapu
1st year PhD student
- BS: University of Southern California
- Research Interests: Integrated Nonlinear Photonics
Ran Yin
1st year PhD student
- BS: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- MS: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Research Interests: Nonlinear Photonics
Yuanhao Liang
1st year PhD student
- BS: Nankai University
- Research Interests: Quantum and Integrated Photonics
Shaoyuan Ou
Master student
- BS: Sun Yat-Sen University
- Research Interests: Integrated Photonics, Optical neural networks
Kaiwen Xue
Master student
- BS: Universty of California, Santa Barbara
Postdoc
Chunho Lee
Postdoc Fellow (2022 – Present)
- 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)
- BS in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- PhD in Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Research inIntegrated photonics, Electro-optic frequency comb, Dual-comb spectroscopy, photoacoustic/optomechanical spectroscopy
Yue Yu
Postdoc Fellow (2023 – Present)
- 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)
- Current Research Interests: Electro-optic modulators
Eric Zhong
CURVE program undergraduate student (2022 – Present)
- Current Research Interests: Photonic Computing
Ruozhou (James) Wang
CURVE program undergraduate student (2022 – Present)
- Current Research Interests: Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics
Alumni
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.