Daniel Ohl de Mello
Research Areas:
Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Where are they now?:
Daniel is a Ph.D. student in Gerhard Birkl's group at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Krishna Coimbatore Balram
Research Areas:
- Integrated photonics design/fab/test
- Integrated quantum photonics
- Nanoscale electro-optomechanical transducers
Where are they now?:
Krishna was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST labs on piezo-optomechanical devices that coherently couple microwaves and optical waves via acoustics. He is now Associate Professor of Photonic Engineering at the University of Bristol.
Marcelo Wu
Marcelo Wu was a postdoctoral scholar working on the development of microwave-to-optical quantum transducers using piezoelectric optomechanical systems. He now works at Anyon Systems, a quantum computing company in Canada.
Anshuman Singh
Research Areas:
- Integrated photonics design/fab/test
- Integrated quantum photonics
Where are they now?:
Anshuman was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST labs on single quantum dot nanophotonic devices and the quantum frequency conversion of their emitted single photons using nanophotonics. He is now a scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies
Luca Sapienza
Research Areas:
- Integrated photonics design/fab/test
- Integrated quantum photonics
Where are they now?:
Luca was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in our NIST lab on developing a photoluminescence imaging technique to enable fabrication of high-performance quantum dot single-photon sources. Luca is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton. We collaborate with Luca on single quantum dot devices.
Matthew Rakher
Research Areas:
- Integrated photonics design/fab/test
- Integrated quantum photonics
Where are they now?:
Matt was a NIST Postdoctoral Researcher working on quantum frequency conversion and amplitude modulation of single photon sources. He is now a Senior Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories, where he works on quantum computing.
Yuxiang Liu
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.
Jin Liu
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.
Qing Li
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.
Karen Grutter
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.