Team

Principal Investigator

David Burghoff

Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Burghoff is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to this, he was a postdoc and research scientist at MIT and faculty at Notre Dame. Dr. Burghoff’s research primarily focuses on the confluence of phase-active nonlinear photonic devices and long-wavelength photonics for applications in sensing, computing, and energy. His work emphasizes broadband devices and systems, and he is particularly known for his work in the mid-infrared and terahertz wavelength ranges.

Awards and recognition:

Postdoctoral researchers

Xingwei Gao

Ph.D., University of Southern California

Nicholas Kosan

Ph.D., Princeton University

Graduate students

Bella Longo

B.S., University of Colorado Boulder

Hou Xiong

B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara

Youssef Bakr

B.S., University of Texas at Austin

Chan-Chi Wang

M.Sc., Imperial College London
B. Eng., University of Manchester

Mithun Roy

M.S., Concordia University

Jiayang Cheng

M.S., Tianjin University

Rongxing Tang

M.S., Cornell University

Zheheng Xu

B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Alumni

Zhuoran Han (undergrad): Display Electrical Engineer, Apple Inc. (Ph.D. from UIUC)
Dingding Ren (postdoc): Associate Professor, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology
Chao Dong (Ph.D.): Research Engineer, HPE Labs
Zhenyang Xiao (Ph.D.): Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

Quantum and Nonlinear Optoelectronics Group