People

Current Students

Naga Phani Aetukuri

Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: B.Tech, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 2006, National Institute of Technology Warangal, INDIA; Diploma, Metallurgical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Govt. Polytechnic, Hyderabad, INDIA
Research interests: Spintronic Materials and Devices
Email: phani@stanford.edu

Jaesoo Ahn

Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: M.S. Seoul National University 2003, B.S Seoul National University 2001
Research interests: MBE growth of dilute nitride for optoelectronic devices
Email: ahnjs@stanford.edu

Justin Brockman

Ph.D candidate in Applied Physics
Education: B.S Physics, Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University
Research interests: Spintronic materials, oxides
Email: jsbrock[AT]stanford.edu

Robert Chen

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (2008)
Research interests: Tensile-Strained Ge, Column IV Compounds
Email: robert.chen@stanford.edu
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~robert.chen/

Ed Fei

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: B.S. Physics Stanford University 2007
Research interests: Materials integration and metamorphic growth for III-V MOSFETs on silicon substrate
Email: edfei@stanford.edu

Li Gao

Ph.D candidate in Applied Physics
Education: M.S.E.E Stanford University 2007; B.S. Nanjing University, China 2003
Research interests: Spintronics
Email: ligao@stanford.edu

Anjia Gu

Ph.D candidate in Applied Physics
Education: M.S Electrical Engineering 2007, Stanford University
Email: anjia@stanford.edu

Yijie Huo

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S.E.E University of Maryland at College Park, 2004; B.S.E.E Tsinghua University, China, 2002
Research interests: Si-based laser, stopping light with photonics crystals, and nonlinear optics in GaAs
Email: yjhuo@stanford.edu

Altamash Janjua

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin. Dec. 2005
Research interests: Monolithic Mode Locked Lasers for Two Photon Microscopy
Email: altamash@stanford.edu

Meredith M. Lee

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S.E.E. Stanford University 2005, B.S.E.E. Stanford University 2004
Research interests: Simulation and experimental work in nanophotonics, integrated optics, optoelectronic devices
Email: mmlee@stanford.edu
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~mmlee/

Larkhoon Leem

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S. Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, 2004; B.S. Seoul National University, Korea, Electrical Engineering/Ocean Engineering, 2001
Research interests: Spintronic Devices and Simulations
Email: tryon16@stanford.edu

Mingyang Li

Ph.D candidate in Physics
Education: B.S. Physics and Mathematics, Tsinghua University 2008
Research interests: Spintronics, Si-Ge photonics
Email: myli@stanford.edu

Shuang Li

Ph.D candidate in Physics
Education: B.S. Space Physics, Peking University, Beijing China, 2007
Research interests: Graphene
Email: shuangli@stanford.edu

Dong Liang

Ph.D candidate in Physics
Education: B.S Tsinghua University
Research interests: Graphene
Email: dongl@stanford.edu

Paul Lim

Email: lim@snow.stanford.edu

Xiao Hann Lim

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S.E.E. Stanford University 2006, M.Eng, B.A., University of Cambridge 2003
Research interests: Hybrid integration of semiconductor optoelectronic devices including evanescently coupled hybrid lasers.
Email: xhlim@stanford.edu
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~xhlim

Hai LIN

Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: B.S. Fudan University, China 2006
Research interests: MBE growth of group IV optoelectronic materials
Email: hailin@stanford.edu

Angie C. Lin

Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
M.S. candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: S.B. Materials Science and Engineering, MIT 2004
Research interests: III-V MBE Growth for Non-linear Optics
Email: angiel@stanford.edu

Thomas D. O'Sullivan

Education: M.S.E.E. Stanford University 2007, B.S.E.E. Northwestern University 2005
Research interests: Integrated Optical Biosensors
Email: tdo@stanford.edu
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~tdo/

Jun Pan

Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: B.S. Space Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004
Research interests: Photonic Crystals
Email: panjun@stanford.edu

Tim Phung

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S.E.E. Stanford University 2009, B.S. Physics UC Berkeley 2006
Research interests: Spintronics
Email: timphung@stanford.edu

Evan R. Pickett

Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, 2003, M.S., Materials Science, Stanford University, 2008
Research interests: Semiconductor Lasers and Solar Cells
Email: pickett@stanford.edu

Yiwen Rong

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S.E.E. Stanford University 2007, B.S.E.E. Harbin Institute of Technology 2005
Research interests: Sillicon photonics and CMOS compatible laser
Email: ryw@stanford.edu

Tomas Sarmiento

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: M.S.E.E. Georgia Tech 2003, B.S.E.E. Universidad de Los Andes 1998
Research interests: MBE growth and fabrication of dilute nitride optoelectronic devices
Email: tsarmie@stanford.edu
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~tsarmie/

David Seo

M.S. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: B.S. University of California - Berkeley (2002)
Research interests: Graphene
Email: seo.david@gmail.com

Ashutosh Srivastava

M.S. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Education: B.Tech.- Metallurgical & Materials Engineering(2008), National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
Research interests: II-VI compound semiconductors for Spintronic Devices
Email: ashu153@stanford.edu

Sonny Vo

Ph.D candidate in Applied Physics
Education: B.S. Physics, UCLA
Research interests: VCSEL technology and related applications such as bio-sensing, high resolution microscopy and high storage density. Also, Solar Cell research.
Email: svo@stanford.edu

Lele Wang

Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering
Education: B.S.E.E. Zhejiang University, China, 2007
Research interests: III-V MBE Growth
Email: lelewang@stanford.edu

Cheng Han Yang

Email: chya@stanford.edu

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Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Hsin-Chieh Yu

Email: jayyu1@stanford.edu

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Current Professors

Thorsten Hesjedal, Visiting Professor

Visiting from University of Waterloo, Canada in 2009
Email: thesjeda@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca

Ted Kamins, Consulting Professor

Education: B.S., M.S., PhD., University of California, Berkeley; Previous affiliation: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Research interests: Solid-state devices and materials and nanostructures
Email: kamins@stanford.edu
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~kamins

Ofer Levi, Visiting Professor

Education: Ph.D. Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2000
Research interests: Integrated Optical Biosensors
Visiting from University of Toronto, Canada in 2007-2009
Email: levi@snow.stanford.edu
Website: http://biophotonics.utoronto.ca/

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Current Visiting Scientists

An Chen

Visiting from AMD
Email: an.chen@amd.com

Tomasz Ochalski

Visiting from Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland in 2009

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