Team

Associate Professor, EECS

englund -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-525
617.324.7014--Tel

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Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. After a Fulbright fellowship at T.U. Eindhoven, he completed an MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford University in 2008. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined Columbia University as Assistant Professor of E.E. and of Applied Physics. He joined the MIT EECS faculty in 2013. Recent recognitions include the 2011 PECASE, the 2011 Sloan Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2017 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award, and the OSA's 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal, a Bose Research Fellowship in 2018, and a 2020 Humboldt Research Fellowship.

PhD (Appl. Physics), Stanford (2008)
MS (Electrical Engineering), Stanford
BS (Physics), Caltech

Research Scientist

rhamerly -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

R.H. was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1988. He graduated from Boulder High School in 2006 and received a B.S. degree from Caltech in 2010, working with Prof. Yanbei Chen on black hole mergers. In 2016 he received a Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Stanford, for work with Prof. Hideo Mabuchi on quantum control, nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics. In 2017 he was at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo), working with Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto on quantum annealing and optical computing concepts. He is currently an IC postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Prof. Dirk Englund.

PhD (Applied Physics) Stanford (2016).
BS (Physics) Caltech (2010)

Research Scientist

ncw -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-473

Administrative Assistant

balzer -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-825
617.253.7349--Tel

Lab Operations Manager

abirkel -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-341

Andrew recieved a B.S. in physics @ RPI, has worked in various positions at MIT since 2012, Has deep roots in the hacker/maker community and has a broad range of skills (see andrewbirkel.com)

BS (Physics), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2012)

 

Postdoctoral Researcher

jawaher -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-523

Jawaher received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2015. Her thesis was on the additive manufacturing of metals for the next generation of spaceships as the recipient of The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium scholarship. In 2015, she joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Osman Bakr. Her research focused on investigating the synthesis, structural and optical properties of perovskites. For her work, she was awarded a PhD degree in 2020. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, where she worked on yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) superconductors. She Received the Ibn Khaldun Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021, and the Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellowship award in 2022. In Quantum Photonics Group, she works on quantum materials, focusing on the 2D materials for quantum technoloy. Outside of work, she is an avid tea drinker and she enjoys stargazing and practicing archery.

Ph.D (Materials Science & Engineering), KAUST (2020)

Postdoctoral Researcher

earnault -at- mit -dot- edu

 

BA Physics Cornell University (2016)

PhD Physics, MS ECE, Duke University (2022)

Postdoctoral Researcher

choihr -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-531

BS (Electrical Engineering), Seoul National University (2014)

SM (EECS), MIT (2017)

PhD (EECS), MIT (2021)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

melkabba -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

Mohamed earned his B.A. in physics and economics from Illinois Wesleyan University and PhD in physics from Case Western Reserve University. His research background is in femtosecond laser/matter interaction, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. His current research focuses on developing large-scale CMOS-backed photonics, including high-speed SLMs for quantum control.

LL.B. Alexandria Law School (2007), Masters (Law & political economy) Alexandria Law School (2009)

B.A. (physics and economics) Illinois Wesleyan University (2012)

Ph.D. (physics) Case Western Reserve University (2017).

Postdoctoral Researcher

carloseh -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

Carlos Errando Herranz received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, 2013), and his PhD degree in Micro and Nanosystems from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2018. He worked for a year as a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Nano Photonics group (KTH), and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Quantum Photonics, MIT.
Awards include the Swedish Research council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Best Student Paper Award at MEMS 2015 conference, Best Master Thesis at the Engineering School (2013), and second best thesis from the industrial engineer asociacion in Valencia (2013).
His research interests are quantum photonics, integrated photonics, and MEMS.

BS&MS (Electrical Engineering) UPV Valencia, Spain

PhD (Micro and Nanosystems) KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Postdoctoral Researcher

arturh -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

Dr. Artur Hermans received his BSc degree in Engineering (Electronics and Information Technology) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2012. Afterwards, he entered the European MSc in Photonics program during which he spent a semester at Ghent University, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the University of St Andrews, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). At EPFL, he conducted his master's thesis research in the group of Professor T. J. Kippenberg. In 2014, he joined the Photonics Research Group at Ghent University, an associated lab of imec, to work on low-temperature processed thin films of second-order nonlinear optical materials for silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (under supervision of Professor R. Baets and Professor S. Clemmen). For this work he was awarded a PhD degree in 2019. Subsequently, he started working on III-V-on-silicon-nitride mode-locked lasers as a postdoctoral researcher in the Photonics Research Group (under supervision of Professor B. Kuyken).

BS (Engineering: Electronics and Information Technology) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2012)
European MS (Photonics) Ghent University, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, University of St Andrews, UK (2014).
PhD (Photonics Engineering) Ghent University, Belgium (2019).

Postdoctoral Researcher

Room 36-523

Yong Hu received his B.S. in Material Physics from Hefei University of Technology in 2014 and his M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics from Nanjing University in 2017. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University at Buffalo in 2022. He is a recipient of the 2022 MMM-INTERMAG Best Student Presentation Finalist; 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Awards; 2021 MRS Science as Art Competition Award, and 2020 Dean’s Graduate Achievement Award. His current research focuses on low-dimensional quantum material devices, including quantum emitters in 2D materials and graphene plasmonics for nonlinear frequency conversion and photodetection.

B.S. (Material Physics), Hefei University of Technology (2014)
M.S. (Condensed Matter Physics), Nanjing University (2017)
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), University at Buffalo (2022)

Postdoctoral Researcher

huangbev -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-523

Ph.D. (Physics) University of Washington (2020)

Postdoctoral Researcher

lbkim -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-529

Postdoctoral Researcher

lichao -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-521

B.S. (Physics), Jilin University (2016)

Ph.D. (Physics), Georgia Institute of Technology (2022)

Postdoctoral Researcher

amenssen -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

BS (Physics) Goethe Univ., Ger (2011)
M.Sc (Physics) Goethe Univ., Ger (2014)
PhD (Physics) Univ. of Oxford, UK (2019)

Postdoctoral Researcher

vsaggio -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-521

Valeria Saggio received her Ph.D. at the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2021, where she worked on entanglement detection in photonic cluster states as well as on applications of quantum mechanics to reinforcement learning. She carried out her Master thesis at the University of Florence (Italy) and did an internship at the Queen's University Belfast (UK) during her studies at the University of Catania (Italy), where she obtained her B.A. and M.S. in Physics. She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Quantum Photonics Laboratory, MIT.

Ph.D. (Physics), University of Vienna, Austria (2021)

Postdoctoral Researcher

sivantra -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-535

Sivan Trajtenberg Mills recieved her BsC in Physics and Computer science from Tel Aviv Univeristy (TAU). She holds a PhD in Physics from TAU in the field of nonlinear optics, supervised by prof. Ady Arie. She was an officer in the Israeli defence forces in the field of cyber-security, and continued instructing high-school students in cyber related academic programs throughout her PhD. She has been active in promoting women in STEM. Outside the lab, she was a second-league vollyball player and referee, as well as part of a semi-proffesional classical Choir.

B.Sc. (Physics and computer science), Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ph.D (Physics) Tel Aviv University, Israel

Postdoctoral Researcher

srikv -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Sri received a B.Tech. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Physics, from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India, in 2016. In 2021, he obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Eli Yablonovitch, from the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. work explored spectroscopic lineshape theory for tunnel transistors, and physics-based combinatorial optimization solvers.

B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) IIT Bombay, India, 2016.
Ph.D. (EECS) UC Berkeley, 2021.

PhD Student

haz -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

BS (EE) Purdue (2019)

PhD Student

saumilb-at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

Saumil received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2017 and 2018, respectively. For his work on room-temperature nanowire infrared detectors, Saumil received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award in 2013. As an undergraduate, he worked in several areas, including 2D materials at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, novel materials for receivers in free-space optical communication at Facebook's Connectivity Lab, and modeling of long-haul fiber-optic networks for the Telecom Infra Project with Facebook's Network Hardware Engineering team. For his Master's thesis, Saumil worked on frequency conversion systems for enabling distributed quantum networks with diamond color centers. Since then, his work has transitioned to silicon photonic integrated circuits for classical and quantum information processing. Before starting his PhD, Saumil worked on silicon photonics as a Senior Photonics Engineer at Elenion Technologies. Saumil is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory.

SB, Electrical Science and Engineering, MIT (2017)

MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2018)

PhD Student

lbern -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Liane received her Bachelor of Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal in 2016, specializing in Photonics. There, in the groups of Profs. Frédéric Leblond and Caroline Boudoux, she worked extensively on advancing biomedical imaging techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography. Subsequently, Liane took up a summer internship at Photon Etc, where she worked on improving the signal-to-noise ratio of hyperspectral imagers. In fall 2016, Liane started her graduate work in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where in 2018, she earned her Master of Science for “Ultrahigh-Resolution, Deep-Penetration Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography” in Prof. Andy Yun’s group. She is currently developing both theoretical descriptions as well as experimental demonstrations of optical deep neural networks in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory. Outside the lab, Liane loves to climb rocks and play the flute.

BEng (Engineering Physics), Polytechnique Montreal (2016)
MS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2018)

Order of the White Rose Scholarship (2016)
FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (2018-2021)

PhD Student

cbrabec -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-533

B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Caltech (2021)

PhD Student

ichr -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-535

Ian received his BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Washington. There, he worked with Professor Kai-Mei Fu on nitrogen-vacancy center quantum computation. Ian will continue similar work in the Quantum Photonics Lab.
Ian runs kinda fast.

BS (Math, Physics) University of Washington (2017)

Recipient of the QISE-NET award.

PhD Student

mgd -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-533

B.A. (Computer Science & Physics) University of California, Berkeley

PhD Student

radavis4 -at- mit -dot- edu

PhD Student

sophiayd -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-529

Sophia received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2019, where she worked on 2D ferroelectric material and p-bits simulation with Prof. Peide Ye and Supryio Datta. Later on, she spent a year exploring micro-robotics at Prof. Robert Wood lab, where she worked on designing robust and power-autonomous micro-bee. Inspired by the beauty of nature, Sophia joined the Quantum Photonics Lab at MIT to work on vertical cavity with artificial atom array. She is a recipient of Edwin Webster Fellowship. Outside of the lab, Sophia is a traditional/contemporary dance choreographer at MIT ADT, a classical musician, and renaissance art and Assyriology enthusiast.

B.S. (EE) Purdue University (2019)

PhD Student

connormg -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-541

B.S. (Applied and Engineering Physics), Cornell University (2021)

PhD Student

ibwharri -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-531

B.A.Sc. (Nanotechnology Engineering) University of Waterloo, Canada (2018)

PhD Student

hlarocqu -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

Hugo completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the University of Ottawa where he worked with Ebrahim Karimi and Robert Boyd on generating and characterizing topologically structured waves. The methods that he developed there involve applications in several fields including quantum cryptography, electron microscopy, materials science, nonlinear optics, and fundamental physics. Hugo joined the Quantum Photonics Lab as a graduate student in 2018.

B.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2016).

M.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2018).

PhD Student

linsenli -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-531

Linsen Li received his BS in Microelectronics from Tsinghua University in 2019. He was a gold medal winner in the 16th Asian Physics Olympiad in 2015. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the Tsinghua Presidential Award, the highest honor in Tsinghua University. He has pursued the advanced curriculum and undertaken several research projects during his undergraduate period at Tsinghua University, MIT, and Stanford University. Linsen Li is a recipient of the Analog Devices Fellowship in MIT EECS. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, skiing, and golf.

BS (Microelectronics), Tsinghua University (2019)

PhD Student

mihika -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-521

SB (Electrical Engineering), MIT (2015)
SB (Physics), MIT (2015)

PhD Student

tpropson -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-523

Thomas received a BA in Physics from the University of Chicago in 2021. There, under the guidance of Fred Chong, he developed techniques for improving the performance of quantum algorithms on NISQ devices. He completed his senior thesis in the lab of David Schuster, where he developed a numerical optimization protocol for making quantum gates robust to control imperfections and applied it to fluxonium-type superconducting circuits. For his undergraduate work, Thomas was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and a full-tuition scholarship for his senior year from the UChicago Physics Department. Following graduation, he joined the Quantum Photonics Group at MIT as a Ph.D. student with the support of the NSFGRFP and the MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship. At MIT, Thomas is excited to develop photonic technologies for controlling quantum devices.

B.A. (Physics), University of Chicago (2021)

PhD Student

raniwala -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-529

B.S. (Applied Physics) California Institute of Technology (2020)

PhD Student

asludds -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Alex received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2018. His research interests include the application of optics to data management and access for computation as well as novel techniques for interfacing CMOS and Photonic Systems.

BS (EECS) MIT 2018

PhD Student

hanfengw -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-533

B.S. (Applied Physics), USTC (2020)

PhD Student

rwilcox -at- mit -dot- edu

 

Visiting Scholar

B.E (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Visiting Scholar

markdong -at- mit -dot- edu

Mark earned his B.S. from Cornell University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in EECS. His research, both theoretical and experimental, covers a broad range of topics including nonlinear optics in fibers, semiconductor laser physics, device fabrication, and optical frequency comb metrology. He has received several Rackham research awards from UM, a Graduate Student Instructor of the Year award, and was a finalist for the Carl E. Anderson Dissertation Award. Currently, he is working in a collaboration between MITRE and MIT on quantum information processing in photonic integrated circuits.

B.S. (Applied Physics & EE) Cornell University (2012)

M.S. (EECS) University of Michigan (2013)

Ph.D. (EECS) University of Michigan (2018)

 

Currently Photonic Device Engineer at Cisco, Inc.

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Currently at Robert Bosch GMBH.

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Currently Assistant Professor at ICFO

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PhD, 2011

Currently the CEO and Founder of Dust Identity.

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PhD 2010, MIT

Currently the CTO at Dust Identity.

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Currently Professor at Gachon University

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Currently at Dust Identity.

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PhD, 2015

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Ultra Capital LLC

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Currently an Assistant Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin.

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Currently Assistant Professor at CUNY

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PhD (Physics) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
MSc (Physics) University of Padua

Currently a Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing Inc.

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PhD (Photonics Engineering), Ghent University (2016)
MSc (Engineering Physics), Ghent University (2011)

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Delaware.

MS (Nanophysics and Nanostructructures) Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France

PhD (Materials Science), University of Rochester, NY, USA (2018).

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Postdoctoral Researcher

B.Sc. (Physics), Guanajuato University, Mexico (2012).
Ph.D (Physics) University of Maryland (2020).

Research Scientist

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD, 2016

Currently at IBM Laboratories, Mountain View, CA.

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PhD, 2017

Currently at Draper Laboratory

PhD, 2015

Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Capital One.

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PhD, 2015

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Ultra Capital LLC

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PhD 2017

Currently at Analog Photonics

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MS (EE) Columbia University
MS (EE) National Taiwan University
BS (Physics) National Taiwan University

PhD, 2017

Currently a Technical Staff at Lincoln Laboratory.

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MA (Physics), Columbia University (2013)
BA (Physics), Wellesley College

PhD 2018

Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley

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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2011)
BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2010)

PhD 2018

Currently a Research Scientist at Facebook

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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2013)
SB (Physics and Electrical Engineering), MIT (2012)

PhD 2018

Currently a Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing Inc.

MS (Physics), Korea University (2013)
BS (Physics), Korea University (2011)

PhD, 2019

Currently a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at LightMatter.

BS (Physics), The University of Texas at Austin (2013)
BS (Mechanical Engineering), The University of Texas at Austin (2013)

PhD, 2020

Currently at Apple Inc.

BA (Mathematics), Cornell University (2013)
BA (Physics), Cornell University (2013)

PhD, 2020

BS (Physics), Georgia Tech (2013)

PhD, 2020

Currently a Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories.

BS (Physics), MIT (2013)
BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2013)

PhD 2020

BS (Electrical Engineering), Caltech (2013)

PhD 2020

Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Systems & Technology Research

SM (Applied Physics), Harvard University (2014)
BS (Engineering Physics), Cornell University (2011)

PhD 2021

BA (Physics) Columbia University (2014)

PhD Student

PhD Student

PhD Student

B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology (2020)

PhD (2021)

MS (EECS), Seoul National University (2012)
BS (EE), Seoul National University (2010)

PhD Student

BS (Materials Science, Physics) MIT 2019

PhD 2022

BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), The Citadel (2015)

PhD 2022

BS (Electrical Engineering and Physics), United States Naval Academy (2017)

PhD Student (2022)

Currently PhD student at Harvard University

Currently MEng student at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Currently PhD student at Yale University

Currently PhD student at Stanford University

Undergraduate 2018

Currently a PhD student at MIT

Currently Professor in School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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Visiting Student

M.S. (Communication Engineering) Tohoku University, Japan (2015)
B.S. (Information Engineering) Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China (2013)

RSI high school student (2017)

RSI high school student (2017)

RSI high school student (2016)

RSI high school student (2016)

RSI high school student (2016)

MRSP (2016)

MSRP (2015)

Visiting Scholar

B.Sc. (Physics), TU Wien (2015)

M.Sc. (Physics), TU Wien (2017)

Visiting Scholar

Currently at Xanadu Corporation.

isacsson -at- mit -dot- edu

 

Visiting Scholar

BS (Electrical Engineering) University of Florida