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Dr. Anjan Barman

Anjan obtained his PhD from the Jadvapur University and came to UCSC as a postdoctoral researcher in 2005. His interests included magnetization dynamics in single-domain nanomagnets. He is now Assistant Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology IIT New Delhi.

Dr. Naser Qureshi

Naser was a postdoc in the group from 2002 to 2004. His interests included time-resolved NSOM measurements, magneto-optic spectroscopy of nanomagnetic structures, and methods to improve the senistivity of magneto-optical measurements. He is now Associate Professor of Physics at UNAM in Mexico City.

naserqureshi@yahoo.com

 

Dr. Dongliang Yin

Dongliang obtained his MS in Optical Engineering from the HUST University in Huazhong and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCSC in 2006. His research interests included design, simulation and testing of novel photonic waveguide structures with emphasis on biophotonic sensing of single molecules. Dongliang received a UC-GREAT Fellowship for Adaptive Biotechnolgy in 2005. He is now working at Innolume.

Dr. Wenge Yang

Wenge obtained his PhD from the University of Arkansas working with Min Xiao on bistability and chaos in three-level systems. He joined the group in June 2005 for his postdoctoral research, and worked on single photon optics in integrated waveguide structures. He is now working at Gemfire.

Dr. Suqin Wang

Suqin received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCSC in 2007. She obtained her MS in Optoelectronic Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Huazhong. Her research interests included studies of nanomagnetic structures using scanning probe microscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy. She is now working at Cobalt Biofuels.

Jessica Ashizawa

Jessica graduated from UCSC in Spring 2006 with an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. Her research interests included intersubband transitions in semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots. Jessica is now working at Novellus Semiconductors.

Wesley Zuber

Wesley graduated from UCSC in 2007 with a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked on computer control of various experiments. His interests included electronic circuits and audio technology. Wesley received an NSF REU fellowship and a Dean's award for undergraduate research in 2005.

Stephane Grenat

Stephane attended UCSC through the Education Abroad Program (EAP) in 2004. He set up a pump-probe experiment for time-resolved optical studies with sub-picosecond time resolution. After returning to France, he completed his degree and is now working at National Instruments.

Will

Will Melitz

Will graduated from UCSC in 2007 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. His interests included nanotechnology and computer control of lab experiments. He received an NSF REU fellowship in 2006 and 2007. In 2007, Will received Dean's and Chancellor's Awards and the Huffman Prize for his undergraduate thesis work on near-field studies on nanomagnets. Will is now attending UC San Diego for his graduate studies.

 

Alex

Alexsandr Polyakov           

Alex graduated from UCSC in 2007 with a B.S. in Applied Physics. While at UCSC he was interested in the field of magneto-optics. He received an NSF REU fellowship in 2007. Aleksandr is now attending UC Berkeley for his graduate studies.

 

Senait Gebredingle

Senait built a setup for far-field measurements on optical waveguides. She was a UC LEADS fellow and received Dean's and Chancellor's Awards for undergraduate research for her senior thesis on optical waveguide measurements on ARROW waveguides. After graduating with her B.S. in EE from UCSC in 2004, she is currently attending Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo for her graduate studies.

Palmer Taylor

Palmer was a Physics and Electronic Music student at UC Santa Cruz. He completed his senior thesis on atomic spectroscopy and optical coherence phenomena in rubidium vapor. He received a Dean's Award for his work and graduated in 2005. Palmer is now pursuing a career as independent film maker.

Heather Levin

Heather graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. She worked on automation of experiments using LabView and magneto-optical spectroscopy. Heather's work was funded by an NSF REU supplemental grant. She also spent a summer at the Nanofabrication Facility at Penn State University as part of an NNUN fellowship. She is now a component design engineer at Intel.

heathermarielevin@yahoo.com

Steve Kuhn

Steve graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. He built an optical autocorrelator for laser pulse characterization. Steve's work was funded by an NSF REU supplemental grant.