Students & Associates

Past Students & Research Associates



Past students, postdocs, and other research associates affiliated with the Kumar Research Group
Prem Kumar's Associates at The Berghoff, Chicago

Postdocs supervised

 

Name Ph.D. Institution,
Year of graduation 		Years at NU Presently at
Dr. Jianguo Liu Nankai University(China), 2007 2010-2011 State Key Lab of Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconducters, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dr. Jan Bogdanski
(Senior Research Associate)		 Stockholm University, Dept. of Physics, 2009. 2010-2011 Australia
Dr. Sarper Ozharar University of Central Florida, 2008 2009 Assistant Professor, Bahcesehir University, TURKEY
Dr. Sheng Feng Univ. of Virginia in Charlottesville 2005-2009 Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Central China
Dr. Shawn X. Wang Purdue University, 2006 2007 -2009 Senior Optical Engineer, NuCrypt Inc., Evanston IL
Dr. Kim Fook Lee Duke University 2004-2008 Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA
Dr. Myung Hun Shin Ph.D., KAIST University, South Korea 2005-2006 South Korea
Dr. Paul Voss Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA), 2003 2004-2005

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Kahraman Guclu Koprulu Bilkent University
(Ankara, Turkey), 2002		 2002-2005

Assistant Professor

TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, TURKEY
Dr. Xiaoying Li Institute of Opto-Electronics (Shaxi University, China), 2001 2001-2005

Assistant Professor

School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering,Tianjin University,Tianjin, P.R.China
Dr. Jay Sharping Northwestern University, (Evanston, IL, USA), 2003 2003

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced
Dr. Jacob Lasri Technion, Haifa, Israel 2002-2004

Product Manager, Ultrafast Lasers

Precision Photonics Corp. , Boulder, CO
Dr. Song Lan Princeton, NJ, USA 2002-2004 Postdoctoral Associate, Case Western University
Dr. Sun-Hyun Youn Seoul National University, South Korea 1994–1995

Associate Professor

Chonnam National University (CNU), KOREA
Dr. Gregory Kanter Northwestern University, (Evanston, IL, USA), 2000 2004-Present

Vice President, Director of Product Development

NuCrypt Inc., Evanston IL

Dr. Sang-Kyung Choi

 

 Northwestern University, (Evanston, IL, USA) ,1999 2003

Research Scientist

Korea Research Institute for Science and Standards, South Korea
Dr. Tae-Gon Noh Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea 1999-2000
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
South Korea
Dr. Darwin Serkland Stanford University 1996-1998

Research Scientist, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM
Dr. Ruo-Ding Li University of Brussels, Belgium 1992–1995 Senior Photonics Architect, Motorola, Inc., Marlboro, MA

 

Ph.D. Thesis supervised


Name Date of Graduation Thesis Title Present Employment
Milja Medic June 2011 Characterization and Utilization of Fiber-Generated Quantum Entanglement Northwestern University
Matt Hall June 2010 Network Technologies for O-Band Quantum Telecommunications Senior Photonic Engineer, EOSPACE.
Burc Gokden     Northwestern University
Jun Chen July 2007 Development and Applications of Fiber-based Entanglement Sources Research Associate at University of Maryland College Park
Sarah Dugan 2006   Research Associate
MCC - Materials Research Inst, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Preetpaul S. Devgan, Received a McCormick's Terminal Year Fellowship

 June 2006 High Speed Signal Processing Using Nonlinear Fibers and Optoelectronic Devices

Research Electrical Engineer for SFA Naval Research Lab, Washington DC
Renyong Tang December 2005

Towards Noiseless Amplification for Fiber-Optic Communications: Utilizing Phase-Sensitive Amplification based on Frequency Non-Degenerate Four-Wave-Mixing in Silica Fibers

 

Optics research scientist

Nuphoton Technologies, Inc., Murrieta, CA

Eric Corndorf, Honorable Mention, ECE Department, Ph.D. Thesis of the Year June 2005 Quantum Cryptography using Coherent States: Randomized encryption and key generation

Medtronic, INC
(Lead Engineer in security and cryptography)

 
Paul Voss, Honorable Mention, ECE Department, Ph.D. Thesis of the Year December 2003 Raman-Induced Performance Limits on Applications of Fiber Parametric Amplifiers

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jay E. Sharping, Co-winner of ECE Department's Best Ph.D. Thesis of the Year Award. June 2003 Fiber-Based Entangled Photon-Pair Generation

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced
Anjali Agarwal June 2001 All-Optical Loadable and Erasable Fiber Storage Buffer Based on Parametric Nonlinearity in Fiber, Senior Reserach Scientist,
Telcordia Technologies, New Jersey
Yikai Su December 2000 Optical Signal Regeneration in High-Speed Fiber-Optic Communication Networks

Professor

Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Gregory Kanter December 2000 All Optical Switching and Squeezed Light Generation in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides

 

Vice President, Director of Product Development, NuCrypt Inc., Evanston IL
Michael Vasilyev June 1999 Multimode Optical Tomography of Quantum States Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington,

Dmitry Levandovsky

Winner of ECE Department's Best Ph.D. Thesis of the Year Award.

June 1999 Quantum Noise Suppression in Optical Fibers Business in Chicago Area

Sang-Kyung Choi

Sang-Kyung Choi received Ph.D. in Physics.

 June 1999 Traveling-Wave Optical Parametric Amplifier: Quantum Noise Reduction and Application to Optical Imaging

Research Scientist

Korea Research Institute for Science and Standards, South Korea
Glenn D. Bartolini June 1998 All-fiber optical storage of picosecond pulse packets using phase-sensitive amplification

Senior Product Engineer

Aegis Semiconductor Corporation, Boston, MA
David O. Caplan December 1996 Optical amplification and quantum noise reduction via four-wave mixing in semiconductors

Research Scientist,

MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington MA
Chonghoon Kim December 1993 Nonclassical light generation using a traveling-wave optical parametric amplifier Professor, South Korea
Matthew B. Poelker June 1992 Stimulated Raman Scattering in Sodium Vapor,”

Research Scientist,

Argon National Labs, IL
Jianming Huang December 1991 Squeezed Light and Quantum Measurement  
Orhan B. Aytür June 1991 Squeezed Light and Twin Beams Generation with a Q-switched Laser

Professor,

Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey

Ph.D. Thesis Co-supervised in MIT


Name Year of Graduation Thesis Title Present Employment & Coordinates
Seng-Tiong Ho March 1989 Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Squeezed State Generation in Two-Level Media Professor, (Northwestern University, Evanston IL)
Mari W. Maeda, February 1987 Squeezed Quantum Noise Measurements in Four-Wave Mixing Professor, (Northwestern University, Evanston IL)
Roy S. Bondurant July 1983 Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Quantum Noise Reduction and Precision Measurement

Associate Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division, (Lincoln Laboratory)

M.S. Thesis/Projects Supervised in Northwestern University


Name Year of Graduation Thesis Title Present Employment & Coordinates
Adam Altman, Murphy Fellow August 2004 Spatial Coincidence Patterns of Twin Photons Entangled in Angular Momentum Consultant for Inforte, Chicago, IL
Ayodeji Coker June 2002 Group Velocity Dispersion Measurement in Microstructure Fiber Texas Am University
Xu Duproject December 2001 Evolution of Quantum Noise in Fiber-Optic Four-Wave Mixing  
Max Raginski June 2000 Quantum Noise Control in Fiber-Optic Lines Research Scientist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Paul Voss June 2000 Measurement of Single-Mode Photon Statistics of Zeros and Ones from an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
Asrul Fazim Abu Samah December 1999 Performance of InGaAs/InP Avalanche Photodiode as 1064 nm Gated-Mode Photon Counter Caterpillar, Inc.
Yi Sun December 1999 “Studies of Cuprite 1S Exciton Photoluminescence Under Two-Photon Excitation  
Anjali Agarwal December 1997 Saturable absorber mode-locked Er/Yb fiber laser  
Gregory Kanter December 1996 Modeling of a Physically Realizable Phase-Sensitive Optical Storage Device

 

Vice President, Director of Product Development, NuCrypt Inc., Evanston IL
Jerry LaChapelle June 1996 Er/Yb Doped Fiber Lasers: Assembly and Operation of Three Practical Devices Hellet Pekkard, IL
Franco Chiappori December 1995 Frequency Stabilization of a Mode-Locked Nd:YLF Laser Switzerland
David R. Gerwe March 1994 Degenerate Parametric Amplification in a Quasi-Phase-Matched Lithium Niobate Channel Waveguide Boeing, LA
David O. Caplan December 1992 Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in a ?(3) Nonlinear Medium  
Alex Kaz December 1989 Nd:YAG Laser End Pumped by a Laser Diode Array  
Joe Hoke December 1989 Second-Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibers  
Sina Balkir December 1989 Second-Harmonic Generation in Planar Dielectric Waveguides  
Jianming Huang June 1989 Photon-Counting Statistics of Multimode Squeezed Light  
Dave Hochfelder June 1989 Generation and Detection of Squeezed Optical States  
Matt Poelker June 1988 Frequency Correlated Laser Beam Generation in a Three-Level System: Density and Pump Intensity Dependence  
Esther Kerbis June 1988, Optical Phase Conjugation via Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Dye-Doped Boric-Acid Glass  
M. Madabushi June 1988 Generation of Squeezed States of Light Using Forward Four-Wave Mixing in Sodium Vapor  
Robert H. Nakata June 1985(MIT) Feedback Stabilization of Optical Interferometers  


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