Alumni

Yuzhe Xiao

Postdoctoral Scholar, UW-Madison

Asst. Scientist (ECE), UW–Madison

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  • People’s Choice Award (best talk), UW-Madison Postdoctoral Research Symposium (2018)

  • Finalist, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award (2021)


After departure: Asst. Professor at Uni. of North Texas
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Chenghao wan

Ph.D. and M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering), UW–Madison

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  • Finalist, James Harper Award (American Vacuum Society (AVS) Thin-Film Division) (2021)

  • Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship (AVS National Graduate Student Award) (2021)

  • Best Student Paper, 2nd Prize; OSA Novel Optical Materials and Applications (2020)

  • Finalist, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award (2021)

After departure: Postdoc at Stanford University

Zhaoning (April) Yu

MS (ECE), UW-Madison

Ph.D. (Physics), UW-Madison

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  • Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium Seed Project (2016)

  • OSA Foundation and the Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Fund Award (2020)

  • SPIE Officer Travel Award (2020)


After departure: Meta Reality Labs

Jad Salman

MS (ECE), UW-Madison [2014-2016]

Ph.D. (ECE), UW-Madison [2017-2021]

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  • Frank Rogers Bacon Fellowship (2015)

  • Chancellor's Opportunity Fellowship (2018, 2019)

  • Innovative Signal Analysis Fellowship (2019)

  • Finalist, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award (2021)


After departure: Honeywell Aerospace

Raymond Wambold

Ph.D. (ECE), UW-Madison [2016 - 2021]

  • Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (2016)

  • DoD SMART Scholarship, sponsored by AFRL (2018)

  • Directed Energy Professional Society Sam Blankenship Award (2018)


Internship: Air Force Research Laboratory


After departure: Air Force Research Laboratory

Alireza Shahsafi

MS and Ph.D. (ECE), UW-Madison [2016-2021]

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Internships: Tesla [Jan 2020 - Aug 2020], Quantum-Si [Aug 2020 - Jan 2021]


After departure: Lead Optical Scientist at Quantum-Si

Presently: NeoPhotonics

Purva Bhumkar

MS (ECE), UW-Madison [2019 - 2021]

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After departure: Ph.D. student at Boston University

Brad Gundlach

MS Student, UW-Madison [2015 - 2018]

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow


After departure: Medical student (fully funded) at UCLA

Patrick Roney

MS Student, UW-Madison [Spring 2015]

Sandia's Critical Skills Master's Program Fellow


After departure: Engineer at Sandia National Lab

Bryan E. Rubio Perez

M.S. (ECE), UW-Madison [2018 - 2021]

  • International Colour Vision Society Summer School (2020)

  • Graduate Engineering Research Scholar (2018)

  • Advanced Opportunity Fellowship (2018)


Intern from University of New Mexico [Summer 2017]

  • UW-Madison Graduate Engineering Scholars (GERS) Summer Fellow


After departure: Ph.D. student in Prof. Filiz Yesilkoy's group at UW-Madison

Currently: Apple

Anthony Wang

Undergraduate researcher [Fall 2016 - Spring 2017], UW-Madison ECE student


After departure: Research Intern at UW-Madison (Physics), then MS Student at UCLA

Michel Frising

Visiting researcher, doing his MS research while @ ETH Zurich [2017]

Received for his MS thesis: Foundation Enovos Prix d’Excellence (2018)


After departure: Ph.D. student at the Autonomous University of Madrid, with La Caixa INPhINIT doctoral fellowship (2018)

Manuel Martinez

Intern [Summer 2016], visiting from UT-El Paso

  • UW-Madison Graduate Engineering Scholars (GERS) Summer Fellow


After departure: returned to UT-El Paso to finish his BS, then Ph.D. student

Nolan Urbanek

Undergraduate researcher [Fall 2016], UW-Madison ECE student


After departure: Electronic Design Engineer at Boeing

Graham Joe

Co-op student [2017], visiting from the University of Waterloo


After departure: returned to Waterloo, then Ph.D. student at Harvard

Jack Yang

Undergraduate researcher [Fall 2017 - Spring 2020], UW-Madison CS student


After departure: Unity Developer at Holos, Inc

Chunhui Yao

Intern [Summer 2019 - Spring 2020], visiting from Shanghai Jiao Tong University


After departure: returned to SJTU to finish his BS, then Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge

Ian Maywar

Remote intern [Summer 2020], visiting from Skidmore College


After departure: returned to Skidmore to finish his BS

Raphael Liu

Undergraduate researcher [Spring 2020], UW-Madison AMEP student (class of 2021)


Shaoheng Zhou

Undergraduate researcher [Fall 2017 - Spring 2020], UW-Madison CS student


After departure: Software Engineer at Google

Nicholas Stanisic

Undergraduate researcher [Fall 2017], UW-Madison ECE student


After departure: Techincal solution engineer at Epic