Our People

Principal Investigator

Hadiseh Alaeian
Assistant Professor
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Junior Group Leader, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2017 - 2020
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bonn, Germany, 2015 - 2016
Ph.D., Stanford University, US, 2015
B.S., University of Tehran, Iran, 2009

Postdocs

Chanchal
Post Doc Research Associate
Chemistry
(joint postdoc with Prof. Valentin Walther and Libai Huang)
Research Interests: Exciton-Polariton Dynamics
Ziqi Niu
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Electrical And Computer Eng
(joint postdoc with Prof. Shengwang Du)
Research Interests: AONN, strongly correlated Rydberg excitons in Cu2O

PhD. in Atomic Physics, College of William & Mary, US, 2024

Graduate Students

Omar Mashaal
Graduate Research Assistant
Electrical and Computer Eng
(joint PhD student with Prof. Valentin Walther)
Research Interests: strongly correlated Rydberg excitons in Cu2O

B.S. in Computer Engineering, Arab Academy of Science & Technology, Egypt, 2017
Navdeep Singh Narsinghia
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests: collective quantum effects

M.S. in Physics, BITS Pilani, India
B.E. in Computer Science, BITS Pilani, India
Aanal Jayesh Shah
Graduate Research Assistant
Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests: open quantum system
Xinzhe Xu
Graduate Research Assistant
Electrical and Computer Eng
(joint PhD student with Prof. Shengwang Du)
Research Interests: all-optical neural networks

B.S. in Computer Engineering, Purdue University, US, 2024

Undergraduate Students

Ruben Canora Alvarez
Surf Fellowship
Electrical and Computer Eng
Research Interests: all-optical neural networks

Physics Engineering and Industrial Technologies Engineering, University Carlos III of Madrid
Julio Herreros Garcia
Surf Fellowship
Electrical and Computer Eng
Research Interests: Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide

Physics Engineering and Industrial Technologies Engineering, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Alumni

Kinjol Barua
Graduate Student (2021 - 2024)
Chemistry
kbarua@purdue.edu
BRK 1234 (office), BRK 1031 (Lab)
(G4-ECE)
Co-supervised with A. Boltasseva
Jacob Delange
MSc Student (PMRI Fellow 2021 - 2023), MSc. May 2023 (Next: DoD National Lab)
Preston Hardcastle
Undergraduate Student (2022 - 2023)
Ankit Kundu
Graduate Student (2023 - 2024)