Photonic Device Research Group

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Group Members

PDRG Director:

Professor Kent Choquette choquett@uiuc.edu

PDRG Graduate Research Assistants:

Tony Giannopoulos

giannopo@uiuc.edu

Chris Long

clong1@uiuc.edu
Chen Chen chenchen@uiuc.edu

Matthias Kasten

akasten@uiuc.edu

Dominic Siriani

akasten@uiuc.edu

Josh Sulkin

sulkin@uiuc.edu

Meng Peun Tan

mengtan@uiuc.edu

PDRG Undergraduate Students:

PDRG Alumni:

Graduate Students

Degree Awarded and Year

Current Employment

Dr. Ann Lehman Harren

M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2007

Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, CA)

Dr. Paul Leisher

M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2007

nLight Corporation (Hillsboro, OR)

Dr. Yong Kwan (Robin) Kim

M.S., Ph.D. 2006

Quintessence Photonics Corporation (Sylmar, CA)

Dr. Dan Grasso

M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2006

Coherent, Inc (Bridgeton, MO)

Karthik Samakkulam

M.S. 2005

Lt. Col. Jim Raftery

Ph.D. 2005

U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY)

Prof. Aaron Danner

M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2005

National University of Singapore

Chris Willis

M.S. 2004

Jason Lee

M.S. 2004

Alcoa, Inc (Newburgh, IN)

Ping Chen

M.S. 2002

 

Undergraduate Students

Years

Current Employment

Clemens Ostermaier

2005

Graduate Student in Korea

Mike Hwang

2004-2005

Graduate Student at Georgia Tech

Erin Yamaoka

2004-2005

Sonia Lala

2004-2005

Eric Shyu

2004-2005

Yi Zhang

2003

Uppili Krishnamachari

2003-2004

Graduate Student, UCSB (Santa Barbara, CA)

 

Other Researchers

Position and Years

Current Employment

Woon-Kyung (Kevin) Choi

Visiting scientist 2005

Dr. Taesung Kim

Visiting scientist 2002-2004

Natetron Technologies, Inc. (Champaign, IL)

Dr. Erik Young

Post-doc 2002-2004

Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)

Dr. Noriyuki Yokouchi

Visiting scientist 2001-2003

Furukawa Electric (Tokyo, Japan)