Group

GRADUATE STUDENTS
PhD students:

Afrouz Taherian (PhD, Since F-2022)
Geofrey Nyabere (PhD, since S-2024)
Miguel Gomez (PhD, since S-2025)

MS students:

None currently

Postdocs:

Wei Jia (postdoc, since F-2023)

ALUMNI

Wei Jia (PhD 2023, “Inverse design of multifunctional diffractive optics for holograms and imaging applications across a broad spectrum range”).

SPIE Education Scholarship, 2022

University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowship, 2022

Outstanding dissertation award, ECE department, University of Utah, 2024.

Jackeline Cooke (PhD 2022, “Optical and structural properties of gallium oxide and aluminum gallium oxide alloys: a characterization of the effect of extended defects), (postdoc, 2022-2023)

Minhan Lou (postdoc, F-2021 to S-2023)

Leila Ghadbeigi (postdoc, F-2019 to S-2021)

Apratim Majumder (research assistant professor, co-mentor, Since S-2020 to F-2024)

Prashanth Gopalan (PhD 2021, Terahertz spectroscopic characterization of two-dimensional materials systems and beta-gallium oxide).

NIST student award at the 62^nd Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), 2020.

Sourangsu Banerji (PhD 2020, “Solving Optical Inverse Design Problems through Computational Methods”), current position: Senior Optical Engineering at Momentum Optics.

Student poster award at the São Paulo School of Advanced Science (SPSAS) + XIV Jorge André Swieca School on Non linear and Quantum Optics (SWIECA), 2018.

Runner up for the student award at IRMMWTHz-2018, Nagoya, Japan.

Best paper award in Imaging Systems and Applications, OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2019, Munich, Germany.

Best student paper award (finalist), OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2020, Vancouver, Canada.

OSAF Milton Chang travel award to attend CLEO 2020.

Mehdi Hasan (PhD 2018, “Emerging field effect transistors for THz detection”), current position: Senior Engineer (Antenna and RF Circuits Design) at Mimosa by Airspan.

Hugo Condori (PhD 2018, “Terahertz characterization of III-Nitride compound semiconductors and novel device structures”), current position: RF/mm-wave Engineer at Starry, Inc.

Fulbright Scholar

Second place at the ECE Graduate Poster Competition, 2015.

Student travel award to attend the APS/URSI conference 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

Outstanding dissertation award, ECE department, University of Utah, 2019.

Sara Arezoomandan (PhD 2017, “THz metamaterials and plasmonics using 2D materials & highly conductive transparent oxides”), current position: Optical Network Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Honorable mention at the ECE Graduate Poster Competition, 2015.

Xinbo Wang (M.S, F-2015 to F-2017).

Kai Yang (M.S. 2014, “Improved Bisection Method to Reconstruct a Response Surface with Minimum Data Points”), current position: Director of Semiconductor R&D at Novus Energy Technologies inc.

James Hirst (M.S. 2015, “Plasmonic Metasurfaces and Dynamic Beam-steering at THz Frequencies”)