People

 

We are an interdisciplinary group, made up of people from many different backgrounds. Our varied skills make for a collaborative research environment with contributions from many different areas.

Faculty

Laura Waller
waller [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Professor, EECS
Affiliate, UCB-UCSF Bioengineering graduate group, QB3
Affiliate, Applied Science & Technology
BS, EECS, MIT, 2004
MEng, EECS, MIT, 2005
PhD, EECS, MIT, 2010

Postdocs and Visiting Scholars

Guanghan Meng Guanghan Meng
guanghan_meng [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, 2021
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2015
Henry Pinkard
hbp [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, Computational Biology, UC Berkeley, 2022
BS, Biology, Duke University, 2011
Kevin Zhou Kevin Zhou
kevinczhou [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2021
MS, ECE, Duke University, 2021
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, 2015
Yunzhe Li
yunzhe.li [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, ECE, Boston University, 2022
MS, EE, Columbia University, 2017
BE, Optoelectronic Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 2015
Nalini Singh Nalini Singh
nalini_singh [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, MIT, 2023
BS, EECS, MIT, 2017
Munkyu Kang
munkyu [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, Physics, Korea University, 2023
BS, Physics, Korea University, 2016
Ruizhi Cao Ruizhi Cao
ruizhi [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD, EE, Caltech, 2024
MS, EE, Caltech, 2021
BS, Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2018

Graduate students

Eric Markley Eric Markley
emarkley [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, Bioengineering
BS, Biomedical Engineering & Applied Math, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, 2019
Ruiming Cao Ruiming Cao
rcao [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, Bioengineering
MS, CS, UCLA, 2019
BS, CS & Applied Math, UCLA, 2017
Neerja Aggarwal Neerja Aggarwal
neerja [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
MEng, EECS, MIT, 2018
BS, EE & Theatre, MIT, 2017
Amit Kohli Amit Kohli
apkohli [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, EE, Stanford University, 2020
Charles Dove Charles Dove
charles_dove [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, EE, Clemson University, 2020
Tiffany Chien Tiffany Chien
tiffany_chien [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
MS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2021
BA, CS & Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 2020
Leyla Kabuli Leyla Kabuli
lakabuli [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2021
BA, Music, UC Berkeley, 2021
Chaoying Gu Chaoying Gu
chaoying_gu [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, EE, Peking University, 2022
Mingxuan Cai Mingxuan Cai
mingxuan_cai [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2022
Zahra Fard Zahra Khodabakhshi Fard
zahrafard [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, Applied Science and Technology
MS, ME, University of Tehran, 2019
BS, ME, University of Tehran, 2017
Mingxuan Cai Dekel Galor
galor [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2022
Shamus Shamus Li
shamus [at] berkeley [dot] edu
MS Student, EECS
BS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2023

Undergraduate Students

David Martinez (EECS)
William Xu (EECS)
Andrew Zhang (EECS)
Keene Boondicharern (EECS)
Thien Le (EECS)
Ashwin Reddy (EECS)
Esther Whang (Cooper Union)
Clara Hung (CS/Physics)
David McAllister (EECS)
Reva Agashe (EECS)
Christian Foley (EECS)
Chris Keokot (Cosumnes College)
Claire Lin (EECS)
Luke Park (U Rochester)
Thi Lan Nhi Pham (Chabot College)
Rahul Sharma (CS)
Samdrea Hsu (San Diego Miramar College)
Quang Nguyen (EECS)

Please fill out this application form if you are an undergraduate student interested in doing research in our group. We will look through the form near the beginning of each semester and contact you if we think there is a project that could be a good fit. We welcome students of all levels and experiences and take seriously our role in increasing access, diversity, and equity in academia, so please don’t hesitate to apply!

Alumni

Graduate Students:
Kristina Monakhova, PhD 2022 (now Assistant Professor, Cornell)
Kyrollos Yanny, PhD 2022 (now at Apple)
Stuart Sherwin, PhD 2021 (now at EUV Tech)
Gautam Gunjala, PhD 2021 (now at ASML)
Fanglin (Linda) Liu, PhD 2021 (now at Google X)
David Ren, PhD 2021 (now at UltraSense Systems)
Regina Eckert, PhD 2021 (now at JPL)
Grace Kuo, PhD 2020 (now at Meta Reality Labs)
Nick Antipa, PhD 2020 (now Assistant Professor, UC San Diego)
Michael Kellman, PhD 2020 (now at Zendar)
Li-Hao Yeh, PhD 2019 (now at ASML)
Michael Chen, PhD 2019 (now at Apple)
Zack Phillips, PhD 2019 (now at Apple)
Hsiou-Yuan (Herbert) Liu, PhD 2018 (now at Path.AI)
Aamod Shanker, PhD 2018 (now at U Rochester)
Teresa Ou, MS 2017 (now at IXL Learning)
Daniel Shuldman, MS 2016
Rene Claus, PhD 2015 (now at TSMC)

Postdocs:
Loza Tadesse, PhD Stanford 2021 (now Assistant Professor, MIT)
Yi Xue, PhD MIT 2019 (now Assistant Professor, UC Davis)
Sixian You, PhD UIUC 2019 (now Assistant Professor, MIT)
Emma Alexander, PhD Harvard 2019 (now Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, PhD Duke 2016 (now Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin)
Emrah Bostan, PhD EPFL 2016 (now at Apple)
Nicolas Pegard, PhD Princeton 2014 (now Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Jingshan Zhong, PhD Nanyang Technological University 2015 (now at KLA-Tencor)
Volker Jaedicke, PhD Ruhr-University Bochum 2014 (now at Apple)
Lei Tian, PhD MIT 2012 (now Assistant Professor, Boston University)
Nick Loomis, PhD MIT 2011 (now at Google X)

Visiting Scholars:
Dr. Yongbing Zhang
Dr. Ziji Liu (UESTC)
Dr. Yao Hu (Tsinghua)
Chenguang Ma (Tsinghua)
Jonathan Dong (ENS Paris)

We may have openings for postdocs and admitted UC Berkeley graduate students who have a background in optics, signal processing, and/or computation.
For graduate admissions information, please see the EECS website.

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