| Name | Employer | |
| Dennis Dobbs | OmniVision Technologies | ddobbs2@fastmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2006 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Optically Tunable Photonic Crystal Reflectance Filters |
| Name | Employer | |
| Greg Slavic | Ocean Technology and Engineering Group, National Oceanography Centre University of Southampton Waterfront Campus | |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| MatSe | MS | 2007 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Fibrous Scaffold Fabrication for Cartilage Engineering Applications |
| Name | Employer | |
| Maria Pineda | Intel Corp. | mfpineda@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | MS | 2008 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Label-free Assays on Photonic Crystal Biosensors: Detection of DNA Binding Proteins, High Throughput Screen Applications,& Virus Detection |
| Name | Employer | |
| Gary Yen | Siugnify | garyyen@law.upenn.edu |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2008 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| New Applications for Guided Mode Resonance Filters |
| Name | Employer | |
| Leo Chan | Nexcelom Bioscience | lylchan@hotmail.com |
| Dept | Degrees | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS,PhD | 2008 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Characterization of Sensitivity- Enhanced Low-Index Porous Dielectric Photonic Crystal Optical Biosensor and Image-Based Self-Referencing Method |
High Throughput Screening Development Using Photonic Crystal Optical Biosensor |
| Name | Employer | |
| Nikhil Ganesh | Intel Corp. | nganesh2@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| MatSe | PhD | 2009 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Guided Mode Resonance In Planar Photonic Crystals: Application to Sensing |
| Name | Employer | |
| Meng Lu | Iowa State University | menglv@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2009 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Label-free Biosensor Based Upon Replica-Molded Vertically Emitting Distributed Feedback Laser |
| Name | Employer | |
| Wei Zhang | Canon | wzhang@cnt.canon.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| MatSe | PhD | 2009 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Deposited Nanorod Films for Biosensor Applications |
| Name | Employer | |
| Ian Block | Entrepreneur | iblock2@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS,PhD | 2009 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Modeling, Optimization, Fabrication, and Characterization of Enhanced Sensitivity Photonic Crystal Optical Biosensors |
Photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence and label-free bioimaging |
| Name | Employer | |
| Alysia Belobraydich | Siemens Medical Solutions, Molecular Imaging |
AlysiaRB@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering | MS | 2009 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Development and Simulations of Label-Free Microfluidic Biosensors |
| Name | Employer | |
| Patrick Mathias | University of Washington – Dept. of Medicine | pcmathias@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | MS, PhD | 2010 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Combined Enhanced Fluorescence and Label-Free Biomolecular Detection with a Photonic Crystal Surface |
Improved Microarray Sensitivity using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence |
| Name | Employer | |
| Kashif Altaf | kashifaltaf1@gmail.com | |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2010 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Graded Resonant Filters for DFB Laser Wavelength Detection |
| Name | Employer | |
| Anja Kohl | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | MS | 2010 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Label free imaging of cell attachment by photonic crystal enhanced microscopy |
| Name | Employer | |
| Fuchyi Yang | KLA Tencor | fuchyi.yang@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS, PhD | 2011 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Energy Transduction in Surface Photonic Crystals |
Tunable Photonic Crystal Optical Reflectance Filter |
| Name | Employer | |
| Charles J. Choi | US Patent Office | cjchoi25@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS, PhD | 2011 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Photonic Crystal Biosensor Integrated Microfluidic Networks for High Throughput Label-Free Bio-Detection Applications |
Study and Development of Label-Free Optical Biosensors for Biomedical Applications |
| Name | Employer | |
| James Polans | ||
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2012 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy |
| Name | Employer | |
| Vikram Chaudhery | Genoa Ventures | vikram.chaudhery@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | BS, MS, PhD | 2012 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Optimization of photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence by excitation laser angle scanning |
Next generation instrumentation for photonic crystal biosensors: a passage to early detection of cancer |
| Name | Employer | |
| Chun Ge | HGST, a Western Digital Company | chun.even.ge@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS, PhD | 2013 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Label-free biosensor based upon a vertically emitting distributed feedback laser |
External Cavity Laser Biosensor |
| Name | Employer | |
| Sherine George | Maxim Integrated | sherineg4@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | MS, PhD | 2013 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Using photonic crystal biosensors for pharmaceutical screening |
Sensitive Microarray-based Biomarker Detection Using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence and label-free imaging |
| Name | Employer | |
| Anusha Pokhriyal | Amazon | anusha.322@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| Physics | PhD | 2013 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Evanescent field enhanced fluorescence on a photonic crystal surface |
| Name | Employer | |
| Erich Lidstone | Palomar Health | Erich.Lidstone@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | MS, PhD | 2013 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Identifying small molecule aggregators with photonic crystal biosensor microplates |
Photonic crystal enhanced microscopy for the characterization of cell attachment |
| Name | Employer | |
| Hsin-Yu Wu | Graphene Research Center at National University of Singapore |
rainingwu@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2013 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Study and development of plasmonic biosensors for biomedical applications |
| Name | Employer | |
| Yafang Tan | Lam Research | tanxiaoxiao0103@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS, PhD | 2014 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Distributed Feedback Laser Biosensor in Microplate Format |
Highly sensitive biosensor using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence |
| Name | Employer | |
| Chenqi Zhu | Vectorworks | cqzhu2009@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2014 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Designing, construction and analysis of line-scanning detection instrument for photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence |
| Name | Employer | |
| Meng Zhang | Apple, Inc | zhmnju@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| Physics | PhD | 2015 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| External Cavity Laser Biosensor for Label-Free Detection |
| Name | Employer | |
| Tiantian Tang | Meta | azure3t@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2015 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Silicon based photonic crystal coupled to an optical cavity for highly sensitive biodetection |
| Name | Employer | |
| Gloria See | AgriSource Data, LLC | gloria.g.see@ieee.org |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2015 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Photonic Crystal Enhancement and Tuning of Quantum Dot Emission |
| Name | Employer | |
| Myles Foreman | Ball Aerospace | mforemn2@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2016 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Cavity coupled photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence for high sensitivity biomarker detection |
| Name | Employer | |
| Weili Chen | Apple, Inc | aspire.chan@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2017 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| Photonic crystal enhanced microscopy for imaging of live cell adhesion | Smartphone-based systems for mobile infectious disease detection and epidemiology |
| Name | Employer | |
| Hojeong Yu | Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology | nemorhj@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2017 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Mobile platform based point-of-care diagnostics |
| Name | Employer | |
| Saoud (Sam) Almulla | Intel Corp. | sam.almulla@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | MS | 2017 |
| Masters Thesis Title | ||
| Absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic analysis using compact, linear variable filter based, detection platforms |
| Name | Employer | |
| Jui-Nung Liu | National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | jnliu@ee.ncku.edu.tw |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2015 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Integrated narrowband guided mode resonance photonic filters for advanced mid-infrared microspectroscopy |
| Name | Employer | |
| Kenneth Long | Illinois Medical Scholars Program | long6@illinois.edu |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | MS, PhD | 2018 |
| Masters Thesis Title | PhD Thesis Title | |
| A spectroscopic smartphone biosensor for use in point-of-care diagnostic applications | Development of spectroscopic smartphone biosensors for point-of-care applications |
| Name | Employer | |
| Yue Zhuo | Harvard Medical School | yuezhuo2@illinois.edu |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | PhD | 2014 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Bioimaging with photonic crystal enhanced microscopy |
| Name | Employer | |
| Caitlin Race | 3M | |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2018 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Photonic crystal enhanced light emitters and their use in improving cancer screening and disease progression monitoring |
| Name | Employer | |
| Qinglan Huang | Alphabet | qlhuang.lily@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2020 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Manipulating light at the nanoscale with cooperative plasmonic-photonic hybridization |
| Name | Employer | |
| Fu Sun | Alphabet | |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2021 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Smartphone-based point-of-care detection systems for infectious diseases |
| Employer | ||
| Nantao Li | Apple | nantaolee@gmail.com |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| ECE | PhD | 2022 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Photonic resonator interferometric scattering microscopy |
| Employer | ||
| Congnyu Che | Sanofi | congnyu2@illinois.edu |
| Dept | Degree | Date of graduation |
| BioE | PhD | 2022 |
| PhD Thesis Title | ||
| Multifunctional nanoparticle-coupled photonic resonator for rapid and digital biosensing |