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Team

Principal Investigator 

Mercedeh Khajavikhan (link)

Associate Professor and IBM Early Career Chair
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Southern California


Co-Principal Investigators

Arun Bansil  (link)

University Distinguished Professor in physics

Northeastern University (NU)

Alexandra Boltasseva (link)

Professor at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering,

School of Materials Science and Engineering and Discovery Park Fellow Purdue University

Fellow of OSA and SPIE

Yong Chen (link)

Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of ECE,

Director of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI)

Purdue University (PU)

Fellow of APS

Demetrios Christodoulides (link)

Pegasus and Cobb Endowed Chair Professor of Optics, CREOL

University of Central Florida

Fellow of OSA and APS

2011 R. W. Wood Prize, 2018 Max Born Award of OSA

David Mandrus (link)
Jerry and Kay Henry endowed professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Tennessee

Fellow of APS

Madhab Neupane (link)
Assistant professor of the Department of Physics

University of Central Florida


Collaborators

David Hagan (link)
Interim Dean & Director; Pegasus Professor of Optics & Photonics, CREOL

University of Central Florida

Vladimir Shalaev (link)
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Scientific Director of Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University

Eric Van Stryland, UCF

Eric Van Stryland (link)

Emeritus Dean and Professor of Optics & Photonics, CREOL

University of Central Florida

Fellow of APS, OSA, SPIE and IEEE Photonics Society

2012 R. W. Wood Prize


Other collaborators

    

           Grace Lu                  Bernardo Barbiellini            Guoqing Chang                      Hsin Lin

           Professor                          Professor                  Assistant Professor    Associate Research Fellow

              USC                              LUT, Finland                  NUS, Singapore           Aacdemia Sinica, Taiwan

 


Bahadur Singh

Assistant Professor

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India


Research Scientists

Alexei Legoutchev, Purdue  Dima Zemlyanov, Purdue

   Alexei Legoutchev            Dima Zemlyanov

   Purdue University            Purdue University


Postdoctoral Researchers

Sepehr Benis, USC  Yufei Jia, USC  Hadiseh Nassari, USC  Lina Liu, Purdue University

       Sepehr Benis                         Yufei Jia                     Hadiseh Nassari                     Lina Liu

             USC                                      USC                                    USC                          Purdue University

Demid Sychev, Purdue  Zhaxylyk Kudyshev, Purdue  Shirin Mozaffari, UT  Anup Pradhan Sakhya, UCF

       Demid Sychev              Zhaxylyk Kudyshev            Shirin Mozaffari           Anup Pradhan Sakhya

    Purdue University           Purdue University        University of Tennessee                   UCF

Guanghui Cheng, Purdue  Georgios Pyrialakos, UCF  Xiaoting Zhou, Northwestern University  Barun Ghosh, Northwestern University

     Guanghui Cheng        Georgios Pyrialakos               Xiaoting Zhou                  Barun Ghosh

    Purdue University                     UCF                    Northeastern University  Northeastern University

Baokai Wang, Northwestern University      

         Baokai Wang                   Pawel Jung                         Fan Wu                    Christopher Lane

 Northeastern University                UCF                                 UCF                 Los Alamos National Lab

 

   Takahiro Matsuoka                    Lei Fu

University of Tennessee       Purdue University


Graduate Students

Sinan Sevim, Northwestern  Wei-chi Chiu, Northwestern  Shaghayegh Yaraghi, UCF  Omid Hemmatyar, USC

          Sinan Sevim                    Wei-Chi Chiu               Shaghayegh Yaraghi        Omid Hemmatyar

Northeastern University Northeastern University              UCF                                    USC

Nathan Liu, USC  Mahmoud Rahman, UCF  Hasitha Suriya Arachchige, UT  Christopher Sims, UCF

         Nathan Liu                 Mahmoud Rahman   Hasitha Suriya Arachchige    Christopher Sims

              USC                                    UCF                      University of Tennessee                 UCF

Sanaz Faryadras, UCF  Nick Cox, UCF   Morris Yang, Purdue University  

    Sanaz Faryadras                   Nick Cox                  Morris Menghuan Yang           Fugu Tian

             UCF                                    UCF                          Purdue University                       USC

             Rui Xue

University of Tennessee


Undergraduate Students