PhD Alumni

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Bingtao Gao

Title/Position
PhD, 2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Zhejiang University (Professor Hongsheng Chen's group)
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Wenqi Duan

Title/Position
PhD, 2020
Current Position: New Product Information (NPI) Scientific Writer at Thorlabs Inc.
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Amir Asgharzadeh Shishavan

Title/Position
PhD, 2019
Current Position: Photovoltaic Systems Engineer at NEXTracker

MS Alumni

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Tori Eng

Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2020
Current Position: Technical Marketer, Thorlabs Inc.
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Alexandar C. Walhof

Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2019
Current Position: Engineer, Firefly Photonics
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Abby N. Venable

Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2018
Current Position: Electrical Engineer at Missile Defense Agency (Navy)
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Lauren M. Davidson

Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2017
Current Position: Systems Engineer, John Deere

BS Alumni

2023

Nicholas Natarajan

Nicholas Natarajan

Title/Position
Undergraduate ICRU Fellow, Summer 2023
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Tyler Nelson

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2023
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Xavier Uhrmacher

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2023 - Fall 2023

2022

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Myles Cline

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2022
2022 NSF Nano REU Researcher
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Ryan Edwall

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021 - Fall 2022
Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award, 2022 College of Engineering Research Open House; Outstanding Student Researcher Award, 2022 College of Engineering Student Excellence Awards
Jimmy Nguyen

Jimmy Nguyen

Title/Position
Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2022
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Summer Research Program Intern
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Alaeldin Saeed

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2022 - Fall 2022
UI Decarb Initiative Researcher
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Jacob Sindt

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
One of three student researchers from the College of Engineering featured in the 2022 Dare to Discover Campaign by UI OVPR; College of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholar

2021

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Greyson Davis

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2021;
Graduate Researcher, Spring 2022
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Daniel Phetmanysay

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2021
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Armando Revelez

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2021;
Graduate Researcher, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

2020

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Eric Larson

Title/Position
Winter 2018 - Spring 2020
ICRU Fellow, NREL Renewable Energy School Attendee

2018

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Joshua Deutsch

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2018
Honors Research Practicum, Best Undergraduate Poster Award, 2018 College of Engineering Research Open House
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Clarissa Dietz

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring - Summer 2018
Honors Research Practicum, ICRU Research Fellow
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Nate Dvorak

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2018
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
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Olivia Haider

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2018
NSF REU Researcher
Suram Liyanage

Suram Liyanage

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2018
ICRU Fellow
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Seth Lopez

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2018
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Oliver Rost

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2018
JPEC Summer Intern
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Aaron Silva

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2017 - Spring 2018
Outstanding Student Researcher, DAAD Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow

2017

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Constance Erickson

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2017
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Daniel Kelly

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2017
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Daniel Machlab

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2017
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Masanori Miwa

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2017
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Logan M. Nichols

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 - 2017
NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead, ICRU Fellow
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Jason W. Ryan

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2015, Spring 2016

2016

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Joshua J. Larson

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2016
ICRU Fellow
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Tom Lubenow

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2016
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Leland J. Nordin

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2015 - Spring 2016
Noyce/Intel Fund Award (Grinnell College), Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) Award (Grinnell College)
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Suman Sherwani

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2016
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Matthew J. Thommana

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2016
ICRU Fellow
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Ella L. Wassweiler

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, August 2015 - July 2016
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David Wu

Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2016
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Grant

K-12 Alumni

2023

Reyna Alam

Reyna Alam

Title/Position
SSTP Intern, Summer 2023
Sebastian Hazlett

Sebastian Hazlett

Title/Position
SSTP Intern, Summer 2023
Maxwell Leonard

Maxwell Leonard

Title/Position
SSTP Intern, Summer 2023
Dorothy Zhang

Dorothy Zhang

Title/Position
SSTP Intern, Summer 2023

2022

Sneha Chakraborty

Sneha Chakraborty

Title/Position
K-12 Researcher, Summer 2022
Luke Huang

Luke Huang

Title/Position
K-12 Researcher, Summer 2022
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Brady Lin

Title/Position
K-12 Researcher, Summer 2022

2021

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Ethan Chang

Title/Position
High School Researcher, Summer 2021
Connor Houtman

Connor Houtman

Title/Position
High School Researcher, Summer 2021
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Krisha Kapoor

Title/Position
High School Researcher, Summer 2021
Mara Maas

Mara Maas

Title/Position
High School Researcher, Summer 2021
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Collin Van Weelden

Title/Position
High School Researcher, Summer 2021

2016

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David Rains

Title/Position
Junior High Researcher, Spring - Summer 2016