Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas: 

• Integrated photonics design/fab/test
• Nanoscale electro-optomechanical transducers

Where are they now?: 

Yuxiang was a NIST American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) postdoctoral fellow working on cavity optomechanical force sensors and wavelength converters. He is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Research Areas: 

• Integrated photonics design/fab/test
• Integrated quantum photonics

Where are they now?: 

Jin was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Research working in the NIST lab on quantum dot single-photon sources based on micropillars and circular Bragg gratings, improved versions of imaging-based techniques for quantum dot location, and the role of nanofabrication on quantum dot behavior. He is now a Professor at Sun-Yat Sen University and a collaborator on single quantum dot devices.

Research Areas: 

• Integrated photonics design/fab/test
• Integrated quantum photonics
• Nonlinear nanophotonics

Where are they now?: 

Qing was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST labs on quantum frequency conversion of single photons and octave-spanning frequency comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators. He is now an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Research Areas: 

• Integrated photonics design/fab/test
• Nanoscale electro-optomechanical transducers

Where are they now?: 

Karen was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Scholar at NIST working on novel cavity optomechanical and electro-optomechanical devices. She is now a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Physical Science (LPS) in College Park, MD.

Research Areas: 

• Integrated photonics design/fab/test
• Integrated quantum photonics

Where are they now?: 

Serkan was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST lab on bright quantum dot single-photon sources and quantum frequency conversion and temporal manipulation of single photons. He is now an Associate Professor at the Izmir Institute of Technology.

Research Areas: 

• Integrated photonics design/fab/test
• Integrated quantum photonics
• Nonlinear nanophotonics

Where are they now?: 

Imad was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST lab on quantum frequency conversion of single photons, four-wave-mixing in silicon nitride waveguides, and spectro-temporal manipulation of single photon wavepackets. He is now an Associate Professor of Physics and Electro-Optics at the University of Dayton.

Research Areas: 

• Many-body physics
• Hybrid quantum systems

Research Areas: 

• Topological physics with light
• Hybrid quantum systems