Graduate Students

Dibyendu Dey

He is from the city of joy "calcutta", India and completed his Integrated (BS&MS) Masters in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2005. He has been working on the project "Tunable Cascade Laser". Other than research, He loves to watch foreign films, listen to sufy music and hang around with his friends [:)]

Jack Kohoutek

He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a BS in EE in 2005. He spent the following year in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, and started at Northwestern in the Fall of 2007. His research interests lie in the area of single photon counting modules, optoelectronics, optics, and electromagnetics. He is also interested in engineering and math education.

Ryan Gelfand

He studied physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. After graduating he worked as a chemist for Heinz and then Abbott Labs. He is interested in surface plasmons and opto-electronic devices. When not in the lab you can find him in the kitchen, on the soccer field, or at the symphony.

Omer Gokalp Memis

He is from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, where he got his Bachelor's ('03) and Master's degrees ('05). He is currently working mainly on single photon detectors, with a side interest in novel optoelectronic designs for lasers and detectors. He enjoys taking photos, skiing, sweating in a squash court, watching movies and modding gadgets. He loves to chill on the Mediterennean.

Wei Wu

He got his BS in Microelectronics from Peking University, China in 2006. His current research project is tunable quantum dot infrared detectors (T-QDIP) based on a novel nanolithography technique. His research interests include micro and nano-optoelectronic devices, nanotechnology (nanolithography, quantum dots, and quantum wells), photonic crystals, and nanoelectronic devices. In his spare time, he likes to play sports, listen to music and cook.

Undergraduate Students

Alexander Antaris

Andrew Dai

Ivy Yoke Leng Wan

Alex Katsnelson (Former post doctoral fellow)

Alex is currently working at Princeton Lightwave.

Bradley Crowe (Former undergraduate student)

Bradley is pursuing his Bachelors degree in EE with a minor in Spanish and will graduate in 2009 from Northwestern University.  His studies focus on Solid State and Electromagnetic tracks in the EE department.  He enjoys sports,being at Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, and visiting his family in Arizona and Colorado. 

Lucas Bruderer (Former exchange student)

Sanjay S Kumar (Former undergraduate student)

Soon Cheol Kong (Former post doctoral fellow)

Prior to working in BISOL, Soon-Cheol was a Post-doc at MIT. He is currently working with Prof. Taflove at Northwestern University.

Sevil Shafee Fazel (Former student)

Pascal Behr (Former exchange student)

Pascal joined us from ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. He worked on the development of a two-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation during the winter and spring of 2006.

Marco Tomamichel (Former exchange student)

Marco joined us from ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. He worked on the development of a three-dimensional finite-element-method simulation during the summer of 2005.