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Principle investigator

Dr. Tsing-Hua Her                               

Professor Tsing-Hua Her is the 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 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2015-2016 US Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, and is a senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He has over 100 publication.

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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)
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Patrick Thewlis

  • Ph.D. student, Optical Science and Engineering (2015-present)
  • B.S. Physics, UNC Charlotte (2015)
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 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
  

 

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