people

Group picture (February 2024):

Group picture (August 2021):

 

Principal investigator:

Mikael C. Rechtsman
mcrworld -at- psu.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Dr. Jonas Karcher
Postdoctoral researcher

Maria Barsukova
Graduate student

Marius Juergensen
Graduate student

Zeyu Zhang
Graduate student

Mritunjay Joshi
Graduate student

Kyle Linn
Graduate student

Koorosh Sadri
Graduate student


Jiachen Wang
Graduate student

Abhijit Chaudhari
Graduate student

Brian Gould
Graduate student

Alumni:

Postdocs:

Christina Jörg Junior Professor, Technical University Kaiserslautern
Sebabrata Mukherjee Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Wladimir Benalcazar Assistant Professor, Emory University
Alexander Cerjan Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Lab
Shashank Pandey Intel
Matthew Collins Xanadu Inc. (Quantum computing startup)

Graduate students:

Jiho Noh (Ph.D. 2020) Postdoc at Sandia National Lab with Igal Brener
Jonathan Guglielmon (Ph.D. 2020) Analog Photonics (postdoc at Stanford, declined)
Sachin Vaidya (Ph.D. 2023) Postdoc at MIT with Marin Soljačić

Undergraduates:

Yuezhou Lyu Graduate student at Northwestern
Han Yu Graduate student at U. of Minnesota
Jingjing Pan Graduate student at Yale University
Lauren Bittner Undergraduate student at St. Vincent College
Alison Weiss Undergraduate student at Amherst College
Megan Goh Undergraduate student at Amherst College
Kanchita Klangboonkrong Graduate Student at Brown University
Kyle Linn Current graduate student in Rechtsman group at Penn State