| Dennis Dobbs | OmniVision Technologies | ddobbs2@fastmail.com | ECE | MS | 2006 | Optically Tunable Photonic Crystal Reflectance Filters |
| Greg Slavic | Ocean Technology and Engineering Group | | MatSE | MS | 2007 | Fibrous Scaffold Fabrication for Cartilage Engnieering Applications |
| Maria Pineda | Intel | mfpineda@gmail.com | BioE | MS | 2008 | Label-free Assays on Photonic Crystal Biosensors: Detection of DNA Binding Proteins, High Throughput Screening Applications and Virus Detection |
| Gary Yen | Signify | | ECE | MS | 2008 | New Applications for Guided Mode Resonant Filters |
| Leo Chan | Revitty | lychan@hotmail.com | ECE | MS, PhD | 2008 | High Throughput Screening Development using Photonic Crystal Optical Biosensors |
| Nikhil Ganesh | Intel | nganesh2@gmail.com | MatSE | PhD | 2009 | Guided Mode Resonance in Planar Photonic Crystals: Application to Sensing |
| Meng Lu | Iowa State University | menglv@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2009 | Label-free Biosensor Based Upon Replica-Molded Vertically Emitting Distributed Feedback Laser |
| Wei Zhang | Canon | wzhang@cnt.canon.com | MatSE | PhD | 2009 | Deposited Nanorot Films for Biosensor Applications |
| Ian Block | Entrepreneur | iblock2@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2009 | Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence and Label-Free Bioimaging |
| Alysia Belobraydich | Siemens Medical Solutions | alysiaRB@gmail.com | Sys. Eng. | MS | 2009 | Development and Simulations of Label-Free Microfluidic Biosensors |
| Patrick Mathias | U. Washington, Dept. of Medicine | pcmathias@gmail.com | BioE | MS, PhD | 2010 | Improved Mmicroarray Sensitivity using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence |
| Kashif Altaf | | kashifaltaf1@gmail.com | ECE | MS | 2010 | Graded Resonant Filters for DFB Laser Wavelength Detection |
| Anja Kohl | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | BioE | MS | 2010 | Label Free Imaging of Cell Attachment by Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy |
| Fuchyi Yang | KLA Tencor | fuchyi.yang@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2011 | Tunable Photonic Crystal Optical Reflectance Filter |
| Charles Choi | US Patent Office | cjchoi@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2011 | Study and Development of Label-Free Optical Biosensors for Biomedical Applications |
| James Polans | | | ECE | MS | 2012 | Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy |
| Vikram Chaudhery | Genoa Ventures | vikram.chaudhery@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2012 | Next Generation Instrumentation for Photonic Crystal Biosensors: A passage to Early Detection of Cancer |
| Chun Ge | Western Digital | chun.even.ge@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2013 | External Cavity Laser Biosensor |
| Sherine George | Maxim Integrated | sherineg4@gmail.com | BioE | PhD | 2013 | Sensitive Microarray-Based Biomarker Detection Using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence and Label-Free Imaging |
| Anusha Pokhriyal | Amazon | anusha.322@gmail.com | Physics | PhD | 2013 | Evanescent Field Enhanced Fluorescence on a Photonic Crystal Surface |
| Erich Lidstone | Polomar Health | erich.lidstone@gmail.com | BioE | PhD | 2013 | Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy for the Characterization of Cell Attachment |
| Hsin-Yu Wu | National University of Singapore | rainingwu@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2013 | Study and Developmetn of Plasmonic Biosensors for Biomedical Applications |
| Yafang Tan | Lam Research | tanxiaoxiao0103@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2014 | Highly Sensitive Biosensor using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence |
| Chenqi Zhu | Vectorworks | cqzhu2009@gmail.com | ECE | MS | 2014 | Designing, Construction, and Analysis of Line-Scanning Detection Instrument for Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence |
| Meng Zhang | Apple | zhmnju@gmail.com | Physics | PhD | 2015 | External Cavity Laser Biosensor for Label-Free Detection |
| Tiantian Tang | Meta | azure3t@gmail.com | ECE | MS | 2015 | Silicon Based Photonic Crystal Coupled to an Optical Cavity for Highly Sesnsitive Biodetection |
| Gloria See | AgriSource Data | gloria.g.see@ieee.com | ECE | PhD | 2015 | Photonic Crystal Enhancement and Tuning of Quantum Dot Emission |
| Myles Foreman | Ball Aerospace | mforemn2@gmail.com | ECE | MS | 2016 | Cavity Copuled Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence for High Sensitivity Biomarker Detection |
| Weili Chen | Apple | aspire.chan@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2017 | Smartphone-Based Systems for Mobile Infectious Disease Detection and Epidemiology |
| Hojeong Yu | Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology | menorhj@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2017 | Mobile Platform Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
| Saoud Almulla | Intel | sam.almulla@gmail.com | ECE | MS | 2017 | Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopic Analysis using Compact, Linear Variable Fiilter Based Detection Platforms |
| Jui-Nung Liu | National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | jnliu@ee.ncku.edu.tw | ECE | PhD | 2015 | Integrated Narrowband Guided Mode Resonance Photonic Filters for Advanced Mid-Infrared Microspectroscopy |
| Kenneth Long | | long6@illinois.edu | BioE | PhD | 2018 | Development of Spectroscopid Smartphone Biosensors for Point-of-Care Applications |
| Yue Zhuo | Yale University | yuezhuo2@illinois.edu | BioE | PhD | 2014 | Bioimaging with Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy |
| Caitlin Race | 3M | | ECE | PhD | 2018 | Photonic Crystal Enhanced Light Emitters and Their Use in Improving Cancer Screening and Disease Progression Monitoring |
| Qinglan Huang | Alphabet | qlhuang.lily@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2020 | Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Cooperative Plasmonic-Photonic Hybridization |
| Fu Sun | Alphabet | | ECE | PhD | 2021 | Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Detection Systems for Infectious Diseases |
| Nantao Li | Apple | nantaolee@gmail.com | ECE | PhD | 2022 | Photonic Resonator Interferometric Scattering Microscopy |
| Congnyu Che | Sanofi | congnuy2@illinois.edu | BioE | PhD | 2022 | Multifunctional Nanoparticle-Coupled Photonic Resoator for Rapid and Digital Biosensing |
| Yanyu Xiong | Stanford | yanyux2@illinois.edu | ECE | PhD | 2024 | Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence for Single-Molecule Biosensing and Early Disease Detection |
| Weijing Wang | UCSF | weijingggg4@gmail.com | BioE | PhD | 2024 | Overcomign Kinetic Limitations in Biomolecule Detection of Rapid and Precise Diagnostics Using PRA< |
| Sydney Khemtonglang | | khemtonglang@gmail.com | BioE | MS | 2024 | A Portable Smartphone-Linked and Miniaturized Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscopy for Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
| Weinan Liu | MIT | weinan81@mit.edu | ECE | PhD | 2025 | Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscopy for Dynamic Point of Care Biosensing |
| Leyang Liu | | | ECE | PhD | 2026 | Engineering Photoluminescence with Photonic Crystal Platforms |
| Joseph Tibbs | | | BioE | PhD | 2026 | Assays for the Digital Detection of Viral Particles via Photonic Resonator Interferometric Scattering Microscopy |
| Han Keun Lee | UIUC | hankeun2@illinois.edu/a> | ECE | PhD | 2026 | Translating Laboratory Assays to the Point of Care: Portable Diagnostic Platforms for Disease Detection and Future Directions |
| Amanda Bacon | | | BioE | PhD | 2026 | Development of Point of Care Assays for Human and Animal Virus Detection |
| Skye Shepherd | | | BioE | PhD | 2026 | Target Amplification Methods for Ultrasensitive Biomarker Detection using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy |