photonics laboratory @ ucla led by prof. bahram jalali HOME PEOPLE RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS JOBS CONTACT Popular Articles Optics & Photonics News - Green Silicon Photonics Wired - Fastest Camera Scientific American - Making Silicon Lase Open Positions Postdoc Available We are looking for highly motivated postdoctoral scholars with excellent academic records. Applicable projects are primarily focused on ultrafast imaging for biomedical applciations. Interested candidates should send their CV to Dr. Mohammad H. Asghari. Please see additional details in the job description. Research Opportunities Exciting projects are available for postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students. Postdocs and students with fellowships will be given priority. Interested candidates should read this page and e-mail a brief introduction and CV to Claire Chen. People The Photonics Laboratory at UCLA consists of the director, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, development engineers, undergraduate students, and visiting scientists. The Photonics Laboratory occasionally hires undergraduate students as interns. We currently have open research positions and are accepting applications from interested candidates. Director Bahram Jalali, Ph.D. Professor, Northrop Grumman Endowed Chair Departments of Electrical Engineering & Bioengineering Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine California NanoSystems Institute email link1 link2 Postdoctoral Researchers Eric Diebold, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering California NanoSystems Institute Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard B.S., Electrical Engineering, Duke email Mohammad H. Asghari, Ph.D. NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, INRS-EMT M.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif B.S., Electrical Engineering, KNTU email link Jost Adam, Ph.D. German Research Fellow Department of Electrical Engineering California NanoSystems Institute Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, CAU zu Kiel M.S., Mathematics, CAU zu Kiel email Staff Scientists Akhil Shah, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Physics, UCLA B.S., Physics, UCLA email Daniel R. Solli, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Physics, Berkeley B.S., Physics, Berkeley email Graduate Students David Borlaug Department of Electrical Engineering M.S., Electrical Engineering, UCLA B.S., Electrical Engineering, UCSB email Ata Mahjoubfar Department of Electrical Engineering California NanoSystems Institute M.S., Electrical Engineering, Tehran B.S., Electrical Engineering, Tehran email Peter DeVore Department of Physics M.S., Physics, UCLA B.S., Physics, Berkeley email Brandon Buckley Department of Physics M.S., Physics, UCLA B.S., Physics, Cornell email Farid Fayaz Department of Electrical Engineering M.S., Microwave & Photonics, Sharif B.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif email Claire Chen Department of Bioengineering B.S., Optical Engineering, Fudan email Cejo Lonappan Department of Electrical Engineering B.Tech., Electronics & Communication Engneering, MEC email Daniel Lam Department of Electrical Engineering M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University B.S., Optical Sciences, University of Arizona email Chanju (CJ) Kim Department of Electrical Engineering B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University email Sumit Rao Department of Electrical Engineering B.Tech., Electronics & Communication, NIT Hamirpur email Jeff Chen Department of Electrical Engineering B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington email Abhishek Bhatia Department of Electrical Engineering B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar email Jacky Chan Department of Electrical Engineering B.S., Nanoengineering, University of Waterloo email Visiting Scientists Akio Yazaki Hitachi Corporation Staff Scientist M.S., Physics, Chuo University B.S., Physics, Chuo University email Zhenzhou (Aaron) Cheng Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph.D. Candidate M.S., Optics, Nankai University B.S., Physics, Nankai University email Undergraduate Students Sien (Grace) Mao Department of Electrical Engineering email Jim Lin Department of Physics email Jerry Tai Department of Physics email Xi (Nancy) Li Department of BioEngineering email Allen Huang Department of Electrical Engineering email Taira Miyatake Department of Mechano Informatics Engineering, Univ of Tokyo email Najva Akbari Department of Electrical Engineering email Maryam Zolghadr Department of Electrical Engineering email Alumni Koichiro Kishima, Ph.D. (former visiting scientist) Sony corporation, Senior manager Ph.D., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology email Abe Ellison (Former Undergraduate Student) Department of Electrical Engineering email Karma Sonam Bhutia (Former Graduate Student) Design Engineer at Silicon Labs, Austin, Tx email Adam Schwartz (Former High School Intern) email Sean Huang (Former Lab Assistant) Department of Electrical Engineering email Chao Wang, Ph.D. (Former Postdoctoral Researcher) Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Electronic Systems School of Engineering and Digital Arts University of Kent Homepage email link Jason Liu (Former Undergraduate Student) Department of Chemical Engineering email James Chung (Former Undergraduate Student) Department of Chemical Engineering email Hongwei Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering Tsinghua University Homepage email link Kam Yan Hon, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Senior Engineer Luxtera email Keisuke Goda, Ph.D. (Former Program Manager) Professor Department of Chemistry University of Tokyo Homepage email link Rebecca Brown (Former Undergraduate Student) Medical Student Morsani College of Medicine University of South Florida email Nora Brackbill (Former Undergraduate Student) National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow Graduate Student Department of Physics Stanford University Homepage email link Jagannath Sadasivam (Former Graduate Student) Senior Design Engineer Microsemi Corporation Homepage email link Ali Fard, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Postdoctoral Researcher Wellman Center for Photomedicine Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School email Niusha Sarkhosh, Ph.D. (Former Postdoctoral Researcher) Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Shimon Weiss Group UCLA email Zhongwei Tan, Ph.D. (Former Visiting Scientist) Associate Professor Institute of Lightwave Technology Beijing Jiaotong University email Alexander Weidel (Former Visiting Scientist) Graduate Student Hamburg University of Technology, Germany email Ali Ayazi, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Electrical Engineering Nanophotonics Laboratory University of Washington email Kevin K. Tsia, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Assistant Professor Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Applied Life Photonics Laboratory University of Hong Kong email link Shalabh Gupta, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay email link Ozdal Boyraz, Ph.D. (Former Postdoctoral Researcher) Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of California, Irvine email link Sasan Fathpour, Ph.D. (Former Postdoctoral Researcher) Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Integrated Photonics & Energy Solutions Laboratory University of Central Florida email link Varun Raghunathan, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Agilent, (Santa Clara, CA) email Prakash Koonath, Ph.D. (Former Postdoctoral Researcher) Senior Engineer OE Waves, Inc. email Jason Chou, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory email Gilbert Fu (Former Undergraduate Student) Graduate Student Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Omer Malik (Former Undergraduate Student) Graduate Student Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Alan Quach (Former Undergraduate Student) Graduate Student Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Evan Chen (Former Undergraduate Student) Graduate Student Department of Electrical Engineering Duke University Adam Weinstein (Former High School Intern) Undergraduate Student Princeton University email Daniela Grasso (Former Visiting Scientist) Researcher email Rick C. J. Hsu (Former Graduate Student) Broadcom Dimitri Dimitropoulos (Former Graduate Student) Imagination Technologies, (London, UK) Yan Han, Ph.D. (Former Graduate Student) Infinera Daniel Kim (Former Graduate Student) Software Engineer Carbon Design Systems, Inc. email Crystal Yang (Former Visiting Scientist) Graduate Student University of Science and Technology of China email Steffen Moessner (Former Visiting Scientist) Research Scientist email Collaborators Keisuke Goda - GODA Lab at Univ. Tokyo Hongwei Chen - Tsinghua University Aydogan Ozcan - Biophotonics at UCLA Manuel Penichet - Surgical Oncology and Immunology at UCLA Dino Di Carlo - Microfluidic Biotechnology at UCLA Diana Huffaker - Integrated Nano-Materials at UCLA Katsushi Arisaka - Biophysics at UCLA Tatsuo Ito - Microwave Electronics at UCLA William H. Steier - Polymer Photonics at USC Alan E. 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