Alumni
Yu Xia
Undergraduate student, UW-Madison
Natasha Rachel Ninan
Undergraduate student, University of Akron
Yuzhe Xiao
Postdoctoral Scholar, UW-Madison
Asst. Scientist (ECE), UW–Madison
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
Xiao Group Website
Chenghao wan
Ph.D. and M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering), UW–Madison
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
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]
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]
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]
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