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

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

Ruizhi Cao Taeyoung Kim
ty_kim [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD student, EEE, Yonsei University
BS, EEE, Yonsei University, 2021

Graduate students

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
Dekel Galor Dekel Galor
galor [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
BS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2022
Alma Halgren Alma Halgren
almahalgren [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, Bioengineering
MA, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, 2023
BS, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, 2019
BA, Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2019
Vasilisa Vasilisa Sergeyevna Ponomarenko
ponoma [at] berkeley [dot] edu
PhD Student, EECS
Co-advised by Prof. Guanghan Meng
BS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2025

Undergraduate Students

David Martinez (EECS)
Qijun Li (CS/Math)
Krishna Mani (CS)
Yihui Liang (EECS)
Rishi Athavale (EECS)
Ahyan Malik (CS, Berkeley City College)

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:
Eric Markley, PhD 2025 (now at Atomic Machines)
Neerja Aggarwal, PhD 2025 (now at GLASS Imaging)
William Xu, MS 2025 (now at IMC Trading)
Ruiming Cao, PhD 2024 (now at Adobe)
Shamus Li, MS 2024 (now at Cornell)
Henry Pinkard, PhD 2022 (now at NDEA)
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 Insitro)
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 Google)

Postdocs:
Yunzhe Li, PhD Boston University 2022 (now Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Guanghan Meng, PhD Berkeley 2021 (now Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley)
Kevin Zhou, PhD Duke 2021 (now Assistant Professor, University of Michigan)
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)
Dr. Anat Levin (Technion)

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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