Group picture (February 2024):
Group picture (August 2021):
Principal investigator:
Mikael C. Rechtsman
mcrworld -at- psu.edu
Professor, Department of Physics
Dr. Johnathon Gales
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Hengbin Cheng
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Jonas Karcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Maria Barsukova
Graduate student
Zeyu Zhang
Graduate student
Kyle Linn
Graduate student
Koorosh Sadri
Graduate student
Jiachen Wang
Graduate student
Abhijit Chaudhari
Graduate student
Brian Gould
Graduate student
John Marchisotto
Undergraduate 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:
| Marius Jürgensen (Ph.D. 2024) | Postdoc at Stanford with Jon Simon |
| Sachin Vaidya (Ph.D. 2023) | Postdoc at MIT with Marin Soljačić |
| Jonathan Guglielmon (Ph.D. 2020) | Analog Photonics (offer of postdoc at Stanford, declined) |
| Jiho Noh (Ph.D. 2020) | Postdoc at Sandia National Lab with Igal Brener |
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 |