People – Photonics Initiative

Administration

Andrea Alù, Ph.D.
Director, Photonics Initiative
Einstein Professor of Physics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Professor of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York
Email: aalu@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3260

Diana Strickland, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Photonics Initiative
Email: dstrickland@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3264

Leah Abraha
Administrative Coordinator, Photonics Initiative
Email: labraha@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3261

Faculty and Core Facility Directors

Gabriele Grosso, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Photonics Initiative
Assistant Professor of Physics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Email: ggrosso@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3372
Qiushi Guo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Photonics Initiative
Assistant Professor of Physics, CUNY Graduate Center
Email: qguo@gc.cuny.edu
Viktoriia Rutckaia
Assistant Professor, Photonics Laboratory Facility Director
Email: viktoriia.rutckaia47@gc.cuny.edu
Matthew Y. Sfeir, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Photonics Initiative
Associate Professor of Physics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Email: msfeir@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3270
Arno Thielens
Research Associate Professor, Photonics Initiative
Director, Radio Frequency and Millimeter Wave Facility
Email: athielens@gc.cuny.edu

Research Staff

Lin Jing
postdoc, Photonics
Email: lin.jing35@gc.cuny.edu
Dmitriy Korobkin
Research Associate, Photonics Initiative
Email: dkorobkin@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3263

Postdoctoral Researchers

Yuan Chen, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: ychen6@gc.cuny.edu
Michele Cotrufo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: mcotrufo@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3266
Federico De Luca, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email:
David Fernandes  Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Coimbra – Instituto de Telecomunicações
Email:
Emanuele Galiffi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: egaliffi@gc.cuny.edu
Heedong Goh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: heedong.goh@utexas.edu
Guanyu Han
Postdoc, Photonics
Email: guanyu.han22@gc.cuny.edu
Guiying He, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sfeir Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: ghe@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3268
Seunghwi Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: skim6@gc.cuny.edu
Sander Mann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: smann@gc.cuny.edu
Evripidis (Evros) Michail, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sfeir Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: emichail@gc.cuny.edu
Nikita Nefedkin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: nnefedkin@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3375
Ryan Nolen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: jnolen@gc.cuny.edu
Adam Overvig, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: aovervig@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3263
Jiamin Quan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: jiaminquan@utexas.edu
Mingsong Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: mwang2@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3273
Yao-Ting Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: ywang5@gc.cuny.edu
Gengyu (Paul) Xu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: gxu@gc.cuny.edu
Simon Yves, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Alù Group, Photonics Initiative
Email: simon.yveslambert@gmail.com

Students

Doctoral Students

Ashok Adhikari
Graduate student , Grosso Lab
Email: ashok.adhikari81@login.cuny.edu
Akshaj Arora
Doctoral Student, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: aarora@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Saeed Bilaki
Doctoral Student, Alu
Email: sbilaki@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Aneek Biswas
Doctoral Student, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: abiswas@ccny.cuny.edu
Philip Cairns
phd student, Physics/Photonics
Email: pcairns@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Rodrigo Câmara
Ph.D. Student , University of Lisbon– Instituto de Telecomunicações
Email:
Saroj Chand
Doctoral Student, Grosso Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: schand@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Alexandre Delory
Ph.D. Student, Université PSL Paris
Email:
Shuwei Guo
Doctoral Student, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: sguo000@citymail.cuny.edu
Siedeh Hall
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sfeir Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: shall@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Siedah Hall
Doctoral Student, Sfeir
Email: shall@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Yoshiaki Kasahara
Doctoral Student, Alù group, Photonics Initiative
Email: ykasahara@utexas.edu
Mehdi Kiani
Doctoral Student, Alu
Email: mkiani@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Anton Kyrylenko
Doctoral Student, Sfeir
Email: akyrylenko1@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Enrique Mejia
Doctoral Student, Photonics Initiative
Email: emejia@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Yamuna Paudel
Doctoral Student, Sfeir Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: ypaudel@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Kamyar Rahidi
Doctoral Student, Sfeir
Email: krashidi@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Shaina Raklyar
Doctoral Student, Grosso Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email:
Erik Ramjattan
phd student, Photonics
Email: erikramjattan@gmail.com
Enrico Renzi
Doctoral Student, Alù group, Photonics Initiative
Email: erenzi@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Bernardo Salcido
Doctoral Student, Sfeir Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: bsalcidosantacruz@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Sahitya Singh
Doctoral Student, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: ssingh11@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Wei Wang
Doctoral Student, Alù Lab, Photonics Initiative
Email: wwang3@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Yu Wang
graduate student , Photonics
Email: yuuwang@umich.edu
Yu Wang
phd student, Photonics
Email: yuuwang@umich.edu
Shixiong Yin
Doctoral Student, Alù group, Photonics Initiative
Email: syin000@citymail.cuny.edu

Undergraduate Students

Anas Ashraf
Undergraduate Student, Grosso Lab, Photonics Initiative