People

Principle investigator

Dr. Tsing-Hua Her                                     More information

Professor Tsing-Hua Her is the associate professor in the Department of Physics and Optical Science at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the faculty in the interdisciplinary graduate programs of Optical Science and engineering, and Nanoscale Sciences at UNC Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Harvard University in 1998 and completed his postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley in 2000. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hills, New Jersey until the end of 2002. He became a visiting Research scientist at Wellman Photomedicine Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School before coming to UNC Charlotte. Professor Her received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008, and is a senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He has published over 30 papers and holds 3 patents. He is a naturalized US citizen.

Current members

Mark Green Ph.D. student, Optical Science and Engineering (2011 – present) B.S. Physics, UNC Charlotte
Yuanye Liu Ph.D. candidate, Optical Science and Engineering (2012-present) M. Eng. Physical Electronics, Harbin Institute of Technology,  P.R. China BE, Electronic Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology,  P.R. China
Zeba Naqvi Ph.D. student, Optical Science and Engineering (2013-present) B.Tech., Information Technology, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India (2010)
Patrick Thewlis Ph.D. student, Optical Science and Engineering (2015-present) B.S. Physics, UNC Charlotte (2015)

 Past members

Jacob Chesna M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering (2012 – 2015) B.S. ME, UNC Charlotte co-advised with Professor Stuart Smith, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, UNC Charlotte
Adam Dittli M.S., Optical Science and Engineering (2009 – 2012) B.S., Applied physics, UC Irvine Currently employed at nLight, WA.
Chaofan Wang M.S., Optical Science and Engineering, UNC Charlotte, 2012 B.S., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Research Engineer, Senstar Inc. 2015 – present.
Lei Zhao M.S., Optical Science and Engineering, UNC Charlotte, 2011 M.S., Applied Physics, Central South University, China B.S., Physics, Central South University, China
Mingzhen Tang Ph.D., Optical Science and Engineering, UNC Charlotte, 2010 B.S., Electrical Engineering, Normal University, China Postdoc at Clemson U (2011). Intel Corporation (2012 -)
Zhida Gao Duke Energy postdoctoral researcher, UNC Charlotte (2008-2009) Ph.D., Physics, Nanjing University B.S., Physics, Nanjing University Professor, Department of Physics, Northeast University, China (2010 -)
Xianyu Ao Postdoctoral researcher, UNC Charlotte (2008-2009) Ph.D., Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University B.S., Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Hossein Alisafaee Ph.D. student, Optical Science and Engineering (2012 – 2013). Switched to other group. M.S., Photonics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2010 B.S., Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2006