Members

Former Members 

• Kunal Lakhanpal

  • kl89@rice.edu

• Jingyi Zhou

• Gopal Narmada Naidu

• Anvy Kuriakose

  • ak119@rice.edu

  • Anvy is continuing her PhD Thesis in the Membrane Auditory Bioengineering Group at Rice University headed by Dr. Robert Raphael 

• Yage Zhou

  • now works at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

• Burak Gerislioglu 

  • Patent Agent at Chamberlain Hrdlicka 

• Minhan Lou 

  • now a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Utah

• Ming Zhang

  • Now an AI and ML researcher at Meta

• Huatian Hu 

  • now a research associate at Wuhan University

• Jian Yang 

  • an algorithm engineer at trip.com  group                                                                                               

• Arash Ahmadivand 

  • now a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University                                                     

• Luca Bursi 

  • now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Texas, TX, US                              

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2017-2019)                                                                                                              

  • Website: http://www.materialab.org/luca-bursi-cv.html                                                                                            

• Runmin Zhang 

  • now a quantitative analyst at Squarepoint                                                                                               

  • PhD thesis (2018) - A First Principles Approach to Understand Plasmonic Phenomena in Physical Systems                                                                                                                 

• Dr. Alessandro Alabastri 

  • now a visiting professor at Rice University                                                                         

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2015-2018)                                                                                                                   

  • Website: http://alabastri.rice.edu                                                                                                                                           

• Mattin Urbieta Galarraga 

  • now a PhD candidate at University of the Basque Country.                                               

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattin-urbieta-galarraga-487065113/                                                                   

• Hangqi Zhao 

  • now a data scientist at Visa Inc.                                                                                                                   

  • PhD thesis (2017) - Hot Carrier Generation in Nanostructures for Efficient Photocatalysis and Photodetection               

  • Master thesis (2015) - A Comparison of Plasmon-induced and Photoexcited Hot Carriers in Metallic Nanostructures                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

• Andrea Schirato 

  • now an undergraduate student at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.                                                             

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-schirato-289881119/                                                                                              

• Xiao Yang 

  • now a quantitative analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • PhD thesis (2017) - Extraordinary Light-Induced Local Field, Angular Momentum and Force near Metallic Nanoparticles                                                                                                                                                                                 

• Yue Zhang

  • now a research engineer at JD.com. 

  • PhD thesis (2017) - Interacting Surface Plasmon with Electron Beam and Acoustic Vibration                                     

  • Master thesis (2015) - Tunable Charge Transfer Plasmon                                                                                             

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuezhang89/

• Yao Cui 

  • now a data scientist at KUKA. 

  • PhD thesis (2016) - Molecular Plasmonics                                                                                                                     

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaocui11                                                                                                    

• Jun Liu 

  • now a research scientist at Xtal Inc. 

  • PhD thesis (2016) - Dynamics of Plasmon-Induced Hot Carriers in Metallic Nanoparticles                                        

• Dr. Hui Zhang

  • now a seismic imaging analyst at CGG.  

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2014-2016) 

• Thawda Aung 

  • now a quantitative analyst at Invesco.

• Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas 

  • now an assistant professor at UNM.  

  •  Postdoctoral Research Associate (2013-2015) 

  • website: https://sites.google.com/site/manjavacasresearch/

• Vikram Kulkarni 

  • now a research staff member in cyber security at Institute for Defense Analyses.

  • PhD thesis (2015) - A First Principles Approach to Describing Novel Plasmonic Phenomena.

• Yang Cao 

  • now a geophysicist at CGG. 

  • PhD thesis (2015) - Optical properties of core-shell nanoparticles, Nanoring-based structures, and periodic nanostructures, EELS.

• Lifei Liu 

  • now a geophysicist at Shell. 

  • PhD thesis (2014) - Plasmonic properties of Aluminium Nanostructures.

• Yumin Wang 

  • now research scientist at Xtal Inc. 

  • PhD thesis (2014) - Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Nanostructures for Photodection and Signal Modulation.

• Dr. Montacer Dridi

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2014)

• Dr. Nicolas Large 

  • now an assistant professor at UTSA.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2014)

  • website: http://physics.utsa.edu/nlarge

• Dr. Ke Zhao 

  • now Processing Geophysicist at Schlumberger

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2013)

• Yurong Zhen 

  • now Seismic Imager at CGG Veritas

  • PhD thesis (2013) - Plasmonic properties and applications of metallic nanostructures.

  • MS thesis (2011) - Optical Properties of Pd Nano-particles with Monomer and Dimer Cavities.

• Heidar Sobhani Khakestar 

  • now Trainer at CGG Veritas

  • PhD thesis (2012) - Plasmonics Manipulation of Light for Sensing and Photovoltaic Applications.

  • MS thesis (2009) - Subradiant, superradiant and Fano resonances in dimer and ring/disk nanocavities.

• Yang Li 

  • now at CGG Veritas

  • PhD thesis (2012) - Manipulation of energy propagation, redirection, and dissipation by tunable plasmonic nanostructures.

  • MS thesis (2011) - Angle- and spectral-dependent light scattering from plasmonic nanocups.

• Kui Bao 

  • now Processing Geophysicist at Shell

  • PhD thesis (2012) - Plasmon hybridization in real metals.

  • MS thesis (2009) - Fano resonances in plasmonic nanoparticle aggregates.

• Jorge Zuloaga 

  • now Risk Manager for an insurance company, Mexico

  • PhD thesis (2011) - Quantum plasmonics: A first-principles investigation of metallic nanostructures and their optical properties.

  • MS thesis (2009) - Quantum description of the plasmon resonances of a nanoparticle dimer.

• Tamer A. Ali 

  • now Assistant Professor at Cairo University, Egypt

  • PhD thesis (2010) - Optical and plasmonic properties of metallic tip/surface junctions.

• Tae-Ho Park 

  • now Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

  • PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures.

  • MS thesis (2005) - Numerical renormalization group studies of the Anderson-Holstein model.

• Feng Hao

  • now Advance Research Geophysicist at TGS

  • PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmon hybridization in complex nanostructures.

  • MS thesis (2006) - Plasmonic coupling between a metallic nanosphere and a thin metallic wire.

• Yanpeng Wu

  • now Associate at KCG Holdings Inc.

  • PhD thesis (2009) - Plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures with reduced symmetry.

  • MS thesis (2005) - Plasmon hybridization in nonconcentric nanoshells.

• Fei Le 

  • now Scientist at Baker Hughes Inc.

  • PhD thesis (2008) - Plasmonic properties of nanoparticle-film systems and periodic nanoparticle arrays.

  • MS thesis (2005) - Plasmons in the metallic nanoparticle-film system as a tunable impurity problem.

• Ali I. Goker 

  • now Associate Professor at Sheikh Edebali Bilecik University, Turkey

  • PhD thesis (2007) - Kondo effect in quantum dots: A non-crossing approximation study.

  • MS thesis (2005) - Optical properties of a spherical 2D electron gas in the presence of a uniform magnetic field.

• Daniel W. Brandl 

  • now Automation Engineer at NNE Pharmaplan, Morrisville, NC

  • PhD thesis (2007) - Plasmon hybridization in generalized metallic nanostructures.

  • MS thesis (2005) - Plasmon hybridization in nanoshell dimers.

• Chris Oubre 

  • now at Exxon Mobil Corporation

  • PhD thesis (2005) - Finite-Difference Time-Domain studies of the optical properties of metallodielectric nanostructures.

  • MS thesis (2002) - Interaction of xenon Rydberg atoms with a metal surface in an electric field.

• Emil Prodan 

  • now Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Yeshiva University

  • PhD thesis (2003) - Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and optical properties of metallic nanoshells.

• John A. Wolfgang 

  • now Instructor at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

  • PhD thesis (2000) - Electron dynamics and impurity scattering on gold nanoshell surfaces.

  • MS thesis (2000) - Inelastic ion scattering from semiconductor surfaces. 

• Hilary C. Akpati 

  • now Therapeutic Radiologic Physicist

  • PhD thesis (1997) - A theoretical study of the effects of an external electric field on adsorbate-surface systems.

  • MA thesis (1996) - A theoretical study of cluster reactivity and the effects of electric field on atom-surface interaction.

• Jason P. Modisette 

  • now at Pipeline Simulation Interest Group, ATMOS International Ltd

  • PhD thesis (1997) - Wavelets in electronic structure calculations.

  • MA thesis (1995) - A theoretical study of CN on alkalihalide and alkali metal surfaces using density functional theory.