People

Prof. S.J. Ben Yoo

Principal Investigator

Office: Kemper Hall 3110

Email: sbyoo@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Ashish Prajapati

Bio: Ashish Prajapati is a postdoctoral scholar.

Dr. Ahmed Mortuza Saleque

Bio: Dr. Ahmed Mortuza Saleque joined Prof. Yoo’s group in March 2023 as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Prior to joining Prof. Yoo’s group, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interest involves nano-micro fabrication, 2D materials, MXene, photothermal energy conversion, optics, and photonics. Dr. Ahmed earned his Ph.D. (Applied Physics) from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) support. From 2013 to 2015, he was awarded the Erasmus Mundus scholarship for the Master’s program. He received a joint Master’s degree in Sustainable Transportation and Electrical Power Systems (EMMC-STEPS) from the University of Nottingham, the University of Oviedo, and the University of Rome. He was also a visiting scholar at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, in 2015. He also received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Telecommunications from American International University-Bangladesh in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He served American International University-Bangladesh as a Lecturer and was later promoted to Assistant Professor. He has over 12 years of academic and research experience.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: asaleque@ucdavis.edu

Yichi Zhang

Bio: Yichi Zhang received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing University, China, in 2016. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, USA.His current research involves silicon photonics devices and integration.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: nszhang@ucdavis dot edu

Yi-Chun Ling

Bio: Yi-Chun Ling received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in photonics technology from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, USA. His current research interest focuses on fabricating three-dimensional integrated optical devices via ultrafast laser inscription.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email:ycling@ucdavis dot com

Anirban Samanta

Bio: Anirban received a B.E. degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Mesra, India, in 2012 and an M.S. degree from the University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, in 2014. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at The University of California, Davis, Davis, CA. He has previously worked with the ARIANNA Neutrino Detector Group at Irvine, developing sensor systems. His current research interests focus on electronic-photonic co-simulation, co-design, and integration with applications in high-performance computing and data centers

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: asamanta@ucdavis dot edu

Humphry Chen

Bio: Humphry received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis in June 2018. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Davis. His current research involves system design and experimentation of imaging systems using photonic integrated circuits.

Office: Kemper 2229

Email:hzchen@ucdavis dot edu

Hang Su

Bio: Hang Su received his B.Eng. degree in Optical Information Science and Engineering from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China in June 2018. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. His current research involves design and fabrication of integrated silicon photonics devices and systems.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email:hxsu@ucdavis dot edu

Marjan Fariborz

Bio: Marjan received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, and her MSc degree from Lehigh University, PA. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Her research interest lies in the area of computer architecture and optical interconnects in computing systems.

Office: Kemper 3116

Email:mfariborz@ucdavis dot edu

Mehmet Berkay On

Bio: Mehmet received a B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara/Turkey. His research interests are energy-efficient neuromorphic computing, optical communication, and RF-photonic signal processing.

Office: Kemper 2229

Email: mbon@ucdavis dot edu

Jingwei Wan

Bio: Jingwei Wan received a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2018. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, US. His current research interests include the design and fabrication of SiN-based integrated photonic devices such as arrayed waveguide gratings and their applications in optical neural networks.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email:jiwwan@ucdavis dot edu

Che-Yu Liu

Bio: Che-Yu received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2012 and his M.S. degree from the University of California, Davis, in 2016. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. His current research is mainly on machine learning and transfer learning in multi-domain elastic optical networks. 

Office: Kemper 2229

Email:cyliu@ucdavis dot edu

Yun-Jhu Lee

Bio: Yun-Jhu Lee received a B.S. degree in Life Science and an M.S. degree in Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics from National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computing engineering at the University of California, Davis. His research interest focus on neuromorphic computing.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: fexlee@ucdavis dot edu

Mingye Fu

Bio: Mingye received his B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2018. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis. He is currently working on the design and fabrication of an on-chip, scalable wavelength routing system based on arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs) for intra-data-center applications.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: myfu@ucdavis dot edu

Rijuta Ravichandran

Bio: Rijuta has over 10 years of cleanroom fabrication and microscopy experience working as a process staff between academic and industrial environments. She received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (’13) from UC Davis. Her focus is to push the limits of fabrication, integrate unconventional materials, and develop low-loss structures. In particular, working with Lithium Niobate on Silicon Nitride integrated photonics

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: rravicha@ucdavis dot edu

Deniz Gozel

Bio: Deniz is holding his Bachelor’s in Electrical&Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in 2021. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. His main interests are integrated photonics, heteregonous integration, functional AWG designs, neuromorphic photonics, and pushing the limits of device fabrication.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: dgozel@ucdavis.edu

Georgios Charalampous

Bio: Electrical Engineer specializing in the interdisciplinary field of microwave and photonics. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. under the supervision of a distinguished prof. Ben Yoo in integrated RF-Photonics. Worked for three years as a technical manager on two projects funded by the European Space Agency for photonically-assisted mm-wave generators and converters for future satellite payload systems. Implemented integrated photonics, optoelectronic oscillators, microwave photonic signal processors, and analog radio-over-fiber systems. He is an author of fourteen peer-reviewed publications and co-author of two. Georgios Chralampous obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cyprus and his Master’s degree in Photonics Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: gcharalampous@ucdavis.edu

Luis El Srouji

Bio: Luis El Srouji received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics with an emphasis in Physical Electronics and a minor in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis, with research interests in full-stack neuromorphic computing and engineering. Fascinated by the capabilities of the human brain, Luis aims to bring adaptability and autonomous discovery into the realm of silicon devices.

Office: Kemper 2227

Email: lzelsrouji@ucdavis.edu

Jake Smith

Bio: Jake received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis in 2023. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with research interests focusing on optical network management, high-performance computing networks, and quantum communication security.

Office: Kemper 3114

Email: jsssmit@ucdavis.edu 

Jaxon Brown

Bio: Jaxon received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 2020. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. His research interests are in computer architecture and photonic interconnects for High-Performance Computing (HPC). His current research investigates Silicon Photonic (SiPh) Networks on Chip (NoC) for coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures in HPC.

Office: Kemper 3112

Email: jxbrown@ucdavis.edu