Faraon, Andrei

Committee Member — 104 thesises

• Peng, Siying — 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals: Synthesis, Characterization and Topological Phenomenon (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krause, Alexander Grey — Acceleration Sensing, Feedback Cooling, and Nonlinear Dynamics with Nanoscale Cavity-Optomechanical Devices (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fatemi, Seyed Mohammadreza — Active Flat Optics Wavefront Manipulation for Imaging, Ranging, and Sensing (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Wenyuan — Additive Nanofabrication of 3D TiO₂ Metaoptics via Two-Photon Lithography (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deceglie, Michael Gardner — Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Device Physics and Design (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Charbonneau, Andrew J. — Advancing Large-Scale Snow Modeling with Data-Driven Parameterizations (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Popescu, Paula Flor — An Optofluidic Ring Resonator Platform for Rapid and Robust Sensing (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Boqiang — Applications and Integration of Optical Frequency Combs (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hood, Jonathan David — Atom-Light Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seah, Samuel Kai Wen — Black Phosphorus Nanodevices for Active Polarization Control (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garza Gonzalez, Emmanuel — Boundary Integral Equation Methods for Simulation and Design of Photonic Devices (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meenehan, Sean Michael — Cavity Optomechanics at Millikelvin Temperatures (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ren, Hengjiang — Cavity Optomechanics for Hybrid Quantum Systems (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Akbari, Hamidreza — Characterization and Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lei, Chan U — Circuit Cavity Electromechanics in the Quantum Regime (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Ana Maii — Classical and Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Metals (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fukumori, Rikuto — Collective Interactions in Cavity-Coupled Rare-Earth Ion Ensembles for Quantum Technologies (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horie, Yu — Controlling the Flow of Light Using High-Contrast Metastructures (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roberts, Gregory David — Design, Realization, and Applications of 3D Multifunctional Nanophotonics (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwon, Hyounghan — Dielectric Metasurfaces for Integrated Imaging Devices and Active Optical Elements (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa — Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan Teck Keng, Adrian — Digital Quantum Simulation of Physical Systems on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Shi-Ning — Digital Quantum Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Systems (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thureja, Prachi — Electrically Reconfigurable Optical Metasurfaces for Universal Wavefront Shaping (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sisler, Jared — Electrically Tunable Optical Active Metasurfaces in Space and Time (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biswas, Souvik — Electro-Optic Excitations in van der Waals Materials for Active Nanophotonics (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh — Electro-Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for a Comprehensive Control of Properties of Light (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gu, Yiran — Emerging Directions in Active and Multi-Layer Meta-Optics (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Chun-Ju — Engineering Quantum Resources for Quantum Networking Using Single Rare-Earth Ions Inside Crystals (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Dongwan — Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Bohan — Frequency Stabilization and Frequency Conversion in High-Q Silicon Nitride Microresonators (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Faraji Dana, Mohammad Sadegh — From Metasurfaces to Compact Optical Metasystems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brouillet, Jeremy Jean — Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Lue Leo — Greater Than One Billion Optical Q Factor for On-Chip Microresonators (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porsandeh Khial, Parham — High Sensitivity Time-Varying Systems In Photonics and Electronics (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wray, Parker Ryan — How to Make Small Things Do Big Things: Exploring Engineered Disorder for Massively Scalable Metasurfaces and Metamaterials (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Zhewei — Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers for Next-generation Coherent Optical Communication (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gurses, Baris Volkan — Information Technologies at the Fundamental Physical Limits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Dong Yoon — Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Devices (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Jie — Integrating Quantum Optical and Superconducting Circuits with Quantum Acoustics for Scalable Quantum Network and Computation (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bozkurt, Alkım Berke — Interfacing Long-Lived Mechanical Oscillators and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kamakari, Hirsh — Investigation of Quantum Computers for Quantum Simulation and Machine Learning (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Taeyong — Investigation of Transport Phenomena of Thermal Acoustic Excitations in Semi-Crystalline and Amorphous Materials Using Transient Grating Spectroscopy (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Heming — Kerr Solitons and Brillouin Lasers in Optical Microresonators (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jhalani, Vatsal A. — Light Emission and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in III-V Semiconductors from First Principles (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Yonghwi — Light Modulation with Vanadium Dioxide-Based Optical Devices (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lei, Mi — Many-Body Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Spin Dynamics with an Ensemble of Rare-Earth Ions (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sendonaris, Elina Maria — Measuring and Characterizing Ultrafast Quantum States Using Nanophotonic Optical Parametric Amplifiers (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Arbabi, Ehsan — Metasurfaces: Beyond Diffractive and Refractive Optics (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Libersky, Matthew Murray — Microwave Spectroscopy for Probing Electronuclear Modes in Quantum Magnets (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi — Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Macioce, Theodore Kenneth — Mock Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Massive Galaxy Clusters and a Six-Layer Integral Antireflective Structure for Silicon Optics (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allmaras, Jason Paul — Modeling and Development of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ballew, Conner Kiley — Multifunctional Volumetric Metaoptics (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baspinar, Ayse Bilgehan — Multilayer Meta-Optics for Next-Generation Multifunctional Photonics (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Su-Peng — Nano-Photonic Platform for Atom-Light Interaction (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Norte, Richard Alexander — Nanofabrication for On-Chip Optical Levitation, Atom-Trapping, and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shayegan, Komron Joseph — Nanophotonic Engineering of Thermal Emitters (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Callahan, Dennis Michael — Nanophotonic Light Trapping In Thin Solar Cells (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Ramon — Nanophotonic Lightsail Optomechanics for Long-Range Optical Manipulation and Interstellar Exploration (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ng, Ryan Cecil — Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miyazono, Evan Tsugio — Nanophotonic Resonators for Optical Quantum Memories based on Rare-Earth-Doped Materials (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ding, Ding — Nanoscale Thermal Transport with Photons and Phonons (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vilenchik, Yaakov — Narrow-Linewidth Si/III-V Lasers: a Study of Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suh, Myoung-Gyun — Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Qifan — Nonlinear Physics in Soliton Microcombs (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Chuting — On-Chip Photonic Devices for Coupling to Color Centers in Silicon Carbide (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ji, Qingxin — Optical Frequency Division Using High-Q Integrated Photonics (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Jian — Optical Light Manipulation and Imaging Through Scattering Media (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papadakis, Georgia Theano — Optical Response in Planar Heterostructures: From Artificial Magnetism to Angstrom-Scale Metamaterials (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Darbe, Sunita — Optics for High-Efficiency Full Spectrum Photovoltaics (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blasius, Timothy Dobson — Optomechanical Inertial Sensors and Feedback Cooling (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De Lorenzo, Laura Anne — Optomechanics with Superfluid Helium-4 (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roy, Arkadev — Parametrically-Driven Nonlinear Optical Resonators and their Networks for Sensing and Computing (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thomas, Nathan Hoover — Passive and Active Control of Radiative Heat Flow (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacCabe, Gregory Scott — Phonon Dynamics and Damping in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Bandgap Cavity-Optomechanical Resonators (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eisler, Carissa Nicole — Photonic and Device Design Principles for Ultrahigh-Efficiency (>50%), Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Banker, Jash Haren — Photonic and Phononic Band Gap Engineering for Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Transduction (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yi, Xu — Physics and Applications of Microresonator Solitons and Electro-optic Frequency Combs (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yuan, Zhiquan — Physics and Applications of Optical Nonlinearity in High-Q Microresonators (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fakonas, James Spencer — Quantum Interference and Entanglement of Surface Plasmons (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mueller, Andrew Sterling — Quantum Measurements with Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, Steven Andrew — Quantum Microwave to Optical Transduction with Light-Robust Superconducting Circuits (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kindem, Jonathan Miners — Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Craiciu, Ioana — Quantum Storage of Light Using Nanophotonic Resonators Coupled to Erbium Ion Ensembles (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zheng, Tianzhe — Reconfigurable Metasurfaces in Nanoelectromechanical and Silicon-Organic Systems (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xie, Tian — Scalable On-Chip Platforms for Quantum Microwave-Optical Interface with Solid-State Ensembles (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manetsch, Hannah Jean — Scaling Neutral Atom Tweezer Arrays to 6,100 Qubits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abiri, Behrooz — Silicon Integrated Arrays: From Microwave to IR (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fowler, Trevor Michael — Silicon Neural Probes for Stimulation of Neurons and the Excitation and Detection of Proteins in the Brain (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruskuc, Andrei — Single Rare-Earth Ions in Solid-State Hosts: A Platform for Quantum Networks (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Xueyue — Superconducting Circuit Architectures Based on Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kalaee, Mahmoud — Superconducting Electromechanical and Nanophotonic Devices for Quantum Measurement and Conversion (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fang, Michael Tianyu — Suspended Trace Air-Gap Resonators for Low Loss Superconducting Circuits (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davis, Samantha Isabel — Teleportation from Quantum Networks to Traversable Wormholes: the Physics and Technology of Entanglement (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harfouche, Mark — The Coherence Collapse Regime of High-Coherence Si/III-V Lasers and the Use of Swept Frequency Semiconductor Lasers for Full Field 3D Imaging (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ravichandran, Navaneetha Krishnan — Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Phonon Boundary Scattering in Thin Silicon Membranes (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mendoza, Sean A. — Toroidal Plasmoid Generation via Extreme Hydrodynamic Shear: Optical and Magnetic Studies (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tokpanov, Yury — Towards Next Generation of Optoelectronics: from Quantum Plasmonics and 2D Materials to Advanced Optimization Techniques of Nanophotonic Devices (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ledezma, Luis M. — Towards Universal Integrated Laser Sources with Nonlinear Photonics (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Gordon Han Ying — Ultrafast Computing with Nonlinear Photonics (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mitskovets, Anna — Using DNA Origami to Create Hybrid Nanophotonic Architectures for Single-Photon Emitters (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Eun Jong — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ferreira, Vinicius Thaddeu dos Santos — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Slow-Light Waveguide Circuits (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))