Partial List of Alumni

John Zoutendyk

1968

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retired

Jean-Pierre Laussade

1969

Vice President of Sony Semiconductor America

Lee Casperson

1971

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

David Hall

1971

Northrop Grumman Corp.

Stephen Kurtin

1971

Lane Research

Uri Ganiel

1971 visitor

Professor Emeritus, Department of Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science

James Pearson

1972

Director of Research and Administration, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida

David Vahey

1973

Accuray

Michiharu Nakamura

1973 visitor

Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Head of R&D, Hitachi Corporation

Jack Comly

1974

Los Alamos National Labs

Harold Stoll

1974

 

C. P. Lee

1974

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Abraham Katzir

1974

Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University

Elsa Garmire

1974 postdoc

Professor of Engineering , Dartmouth College

Avraham Gover

1976

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Alexis Livanos

1977 postdoc

Northrop Grumman, VP Space Technology

Pochi Yeh 

1978 

Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara 

Willie Ng

1978

Manager of the Photonics Department, Principal Research Scientist, Hughes Research Laboratories

Jeffrey Shellan

1978

The Optical Sciences Company

John Auyeung

1979

Chromux Technologies

Dan Fekete 

1979 

Professor of Physics, Technion, Isreal 

Chi-Shain Hong

1979

Luxxon Technology

Richard Moyer 

1980 

Northrop Grumman

Chun-Ching Shih

1980

Northrop Grumman

Isreal Ury 

1980 

Founder and Vice President ORTEL Corporation

David Pepper

1980

Malibu Scientific Consulting

Pinchas Agmon

1980

Laserop

Joseph Katz

1981

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Baruch Fischer

1981 postdoc

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Isreal

Pei-Chuang Chen

1981 

Vice President, Wafer Fabrication, ORTEL Corporation/Emcore

Kam Lau

1981 

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Wilt

1981

Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Nadav Bar-Chaim 

1981 postdoc 

Vice President ORTEL Corporation

Henry Blauvelt

1982

Xponent Photonics Inc.

Thomas Koch

1982 

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Physics, Lehigh University

Joseph Nilsen

1982

Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Shlomo Margalit

1982 visitor

Founder and director of MRV

Eli Kapon

1983 postdoc

Professor of Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Christoph Harder

1983

Bookham Technology

Paul Yu 

1983 

Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego 

Liew-Chuang Chiu

1983

Northrop Grumman

Mark Cronin-Golomb 

1983 

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University 

Jeffrey White

1985

Laser and Spectroscopy Facility Director, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Kerry Vahala

1985 

Professor of Applied Physics, Caltech

Anders Larsson

1985 visitor

Chalmers University of Technology

John Stephen Smith 

1986 

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Founder and President, Beckmen Displays, Berkeley, California

Norman Kwong 

1986 

Archcom, VSK Photonics

Robert Lang

1986

Origami artist, mathematician, and author

Yasuhiko Arakawa

1986 visitor

Professor, University of Tokyo

Kazuo Kyuma

1986 visitor

Director of the Central Research Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Co.

George Rakuljic

1987

Executive VP, Kotura Inc.

Pamela Derry

1989

Boeing

Michael Mittelstein

1989

 

Yasuo Tomita

1989

Professor of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Joel Paslaski 

1990 

Xponent Photonics

David Mehuys

1990

Infinera

Koichi Sayano

1990

Research and Development Laboratories

Hal Zarem

1990

President and CEO, Silicon Light Machines

Victor Leyva 

1991 

Staff Scientist, ORTEL Corporation

Sidney Kan

1991 

 

Steven Sanders

1992

Silicon Light Machines

Charles Neugebauer

1993

ST Microelectronics

Rudolf Hofmeister 

1993 

Finisar

Ilan Grave

1993 

Professor, Department of Physics/Engineering, Elizabethtown College

Lars Eng

1993

Finisar

Thomas Schrans 

1994 

Technology Consultant

Bin Zhao

1994

Manager, Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Design, Skyworks Solutions

Gert Cauwenberghs

1994

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Moti Segev

1994 postdoc

Professor of Physics, Technion, Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Gilad Almogy

1995

Vice President, Applied Materials

John Iannelli

1995

Staff Scientist, ORTEL Corporation/Emcore

Anthony Keywitsch

1995

Vice President, Arroyo Optics, Santa Monica, California

John Kitching

1995

Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Ali Shakouri

1995 

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz

Volnei Pedroni

1995

Federal Center of Technological Education of Paran

John O'Brien

1996

Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

Sergei Orlov

1996

Research Associate, Stanford University

Randal Salvatore

1996

Infinera

Aharon Agranat

1997 visitor

Professor of Applied Physics, Hebrew University

Jing Feng

1997

Woodfield Enterprise Solutions

William Marshall

1997

Epilimnion Technology consultant

Boaz Salik

1997

Consultant

Yuanjian Xu

1997

Boeing

Matthew McAdams

1998

CEO of Senware Inc.

Doruk Engin

1998

Optical Air Systems

Xiaolin Tong

1998

Technology Consultant

Reginald Lee

2000

Research Scientist, Orbits Lightwave

Eva Peral

2000

Ortel/Emcore

Dan Provenzano

2001

Production Engineer, Orbits Lightwave

Roger Koumans

2001

Luxtera

Avishay Eyal

2002 postdoc

Professor of Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Shayan Mookherjea

2003

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego

George Ouyang

2004
Engineer's Degree

Wavien Inc.

Yong Xu

2001 PhD,
2004 postdoc

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

Will Green

2005

Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

George Paloczi

2005

Research Scientist, Agility Communications

Yanyi Huang

2005 postdoc

Associate Professor of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, College of Engineering, Peking University

Jacob Scheuer

2006 postdoc

Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Philip Chak

2006 postdoc

Quantitative analyst

John Choi

2007

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Joyce Poon

2007

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Wei Liang

2008

OEwaves, Inc.

Lin Zhu

2008

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University

Avi Zadok

2009 postdoc

Senior lecturer, School of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University