People

Our group members come from a variety of disciplines such as Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, and Applied Physics. Our expertise ranges from electromagnetism theory to materials and devices characterization and fabrication.

Principal Investigator

Michal Lipson

Administrative

Tamar Sotnicov

Postdoc

Omar Florez

PhD

Hans Blomenkamp

PhD

Shriddha Chaitanya

PhD

Graydon Flatt

PhD

Aryeh Yoseph Krischer

PhD

Karl Jacob McNulty

PhD

Eric Rong

PhD

Jacob Louis Solomon

PhD

Richard Hay Thomson

PhD

Oliver Liu Wang

PhD

Vivian Zhou

Visiting Student

Gabriel Couto Rickli

Alumni

Number of Ph.Ds : 40 (+2 M.S. Students)

Number of Postdocs : 28

Number of Research Associates : 6

Number of Visiting Ph.Ds : 9

Total number of Lipson Alumni : 82

Name: Arthur Nitkowski (2011)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D Student
Starting/Current Position: Sr. R&D Technical Manager at LGS Innovations

Name: Yoon Ho Daniel Lee (2015)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: J.D. Candidate at NYU School of Law

Name: Lian-Wee Luo (2013)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Integration Manager at Advanced Micro Foundry

Name: Vishal Chandrasekar
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer at MACOM

Name: Kyle Preston (2011)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Principal Optical Engineer at 4Catalyzer

Name: Nicolas Sherwood-Droz (2011)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Director of Application Engineering at DigiLens

Name: Jacob Levy (2011)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Staff Engineer at Cruise Automation

Name: Hugo Lira (2011)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position

Name: Debo Olaosebikan
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Founder and CTO at Gigster

Name: Lucas H. Gabrielli (2012)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Professor at UNICAMP

Name: Biswajeet Guha (2014)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Staff Engineer at Intel

Name: Yisu Yang
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position

Name: Renato Ribeiro Domeneguetti
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position

Name: Austin G. Griffith (2015)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Data Science Manager at MACOM

Name: Kevin Luke (2015)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Head of Manufacturing at HyperLight

Name: Shreyas Shah (2015)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Photonics Design Engineer at Rockley Photonics

Name: Mian Zhang (2015)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Co-founder and CEO at HyperLight

Name: Lawrence Tzuang (2015)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Principal Engineer at Voyant Photonics

Name: Jaime Cardenas (2016)
Position at Lipson Group: Research Associate
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Rochester

Name: Raphael St-Gelais (2016)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa

Name: Felippe Barbosa (2016)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at UNICAMP

Name: Goran Kovacevic (2017)
Position at Lipson Group: Visting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Associate at Goldman Sachs

Name: Romy Fain (2017)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Founder and CEO at Heat Inverse

Name: Avik Dutt (2017)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Maryland

Name: Brian Stern (2018)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Researcher at Bell Labs

Name: You-Chia Chang (2018)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at National Chiao Tung University

Name: Mohammad Amin Tadayon (2018)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Senior Photonics Design Engineer at Fluke

Name: Steven A Miller (2018)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: CTO at Voyant Photonics

Name: Christopher Thomas Phare (2018)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: CEO at Voyant Photonics

Name: Mohammad Soltani (2014)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Researcher at Raytheon

Name: Amy C. Foster (2009)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University

Name: Carl B Poitras (2006)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoc+Research Associate
Starting/Current Position: Senior Research Associate at Cornell University

Name: Gustavo S. Wiederhecker (2011)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at UNICAMP

Name: Jacob T. Robinson (2008)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Associate Professor at Rice University

Name: Sasikanth Manipatruni (2010)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Director at Intel

Name: Jagat Shakya (2005)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Senior Staff Engineer at Intel

Name: Michael Menard
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Associate Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal

Name: Qianfan Xu (2007)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Design Engineer at FutureWei Technologies

Name: Bradley S. Schmidt (2008)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: CEO at Panaxium

Name: Sameer Pradhan (2004)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Engineer at Intel

Name: Carlos Angulo Barrios (2004)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Name: Vilson Rosa de Almeida (2004)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica

Name: Bernardo B. C. Kyotoku (2010)
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Researcher at Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações

Name: Long Chen (2009)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Manager of Photonics Engineering at Acacia Communications

Name: Alexander Gondarenko (2009)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Sensing System Architect at Rockley Photonics

Name: Danilo H. Spadoti (2009)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Associate Professor at UNIFEI

Name: Po Dong (2008)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Department Head of Silicon Photonics, Bell Labs

Name: Roberto R Panepucci (2004)
Position at Lipson Group: Research Associate
Starting/Current Position: Researcher at Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer

Name: Stefan F. Preble (2007)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology

Name: P. Andrew Anderson
Position at Lipson Group
Starting/Current Position

Name: Linnell Martinez (2006)
Position at Lipson Group: M.S. Student
Starting/Current Position: Chief Scientist at MKS Instruments

Name: Christina Manolatou
Position at Lipson Group: Research Associate
Starting/Current Position: Research Associate at Cornell University

Name: Nathalia Beretta Tomazio (2019)
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Ph.D. at Universidade de São Paulo

Name: Jakob Gillespie Hinney (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student+Postdoc
Starting/Current Position

Name: Ying Tan (2019)
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Ph.D. at Zhejiang University

Name: Alexandre Passos Freitas (2019)
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Ph.D. at UNICAMP

Name: Moshe Zadka (2020)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Physicist at DustPhotonics

Name: Daniel Carvalho (2014)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position

Name: Tong Lin (2020)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position

Name: Ohad Westreich (2020)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position

Name: Brian S. Lee (2020)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Senior Design Engineer R&D at Rockley Photonics

Name: Aseema Mohanty (2020)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Assistant Professor at Tufts University

Name: Samantha P. Roberts (2020)
Position at Lipson Group: Research Associate
Starting/Current Position

Name: Oscar Adrian Jimenez Gordillo (2021)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Researcher at Photonic Devices Group, Politecnico di Milano

Name: Xingchen Ji (2021)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Name: Utsav Deepak Dave (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Photonics Scientist at Quantum-Si

Name: Euijae Shim (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position

Name: Kaiyuan Yao (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position

Name: Yair Antman (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position

Name: Min Chul Shin (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: M.S.+Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Research Scientist at Meta

Name: Ipshita Datta (2022)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University

Name: Janderson Rodrigues (2023)
Position at Lipson Group: Research+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Research Scientist at Corning Inc.

Name: Andres Gil Molina (2023)
Position at Lipson Group: Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Senior Photonics Engineer at Xscape Photonics

Name: Mateus Corato Zanarella (2023)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Photonic Development Scientist at Toptica Photonics Inc.

Name: Gaurang Bhatt (2023)
Position at Lipson Group: Ph.D.+Postdoctoral Associate
Starting/Current Position: Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories

Name: Stephanie Willms (2023)
Position at Lipson Group: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Starting/Current Position: Ph.D. at Leibniz Universität Hannover