Alumni Profiles

Leo Chan

Leo Chan

  • Advisor: Brian Cunningham
  • PhD thesis title: High Throughput Screening Development Using Photonic Crystal Optical Biosensor
  • BS 2004 ECE; MS 2006 ECE, PhD 2008 ECE
Arnold Chen

Arnold Chen

  • Thesis title: Fabrication of Quantum Wire Heterostructures and Short Wavelength Photonic Devices Using the Strain Induced Lateral-Layer Ordering Process
  • MS 1993 EE, PhD 1996
Aaron Danner

Aaron Danner

  • PhD thesis title: Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers operating in photonic crystal waveguide defect modes
  • Advisor: ECE Professor Kent Choquette
Paul Leisher

Paul Leisher

  • MS 2003 EE, PhD 2005
  • Thesis title: “Proton Implanted Photonic Crystal and Holey Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers”
Jay Malin

Jay Malin

  • Thesis title: Red-shifting the Wavelength in III-V GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (QWIP)
  • MS 1993 EE, PhD 1995
Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel

  • BSEE 1977
Murali Venkatesan

Murali Venkatesan

  • Advisor: Rashid Bashir
  • PhD thesis title: DNA nanopore sensors for biomolecular characterization
  • PhD 2011 ECE
Pinar Zorlutuna

Pinar Zorlutuna

  • Post-doctoral research associate (2009-11)
  • Professor Rashid Bashir's group at MNTL