Alexandra Boltasseva, Assistant Professor

Teaching and students supervision

Bachelor, Master and PhD Students:

[1] Rasmus B. Nielsen MS Technical University of Denmark (2007) co-advisor
[2] Kasper B. Joergensen BS University of Southern Denmark (2008) co-advisor
[3] Maksim Zalkovskij MS DTU (2009) co-advisor
[4] Claus Jeppesen PhD DTU (2011, now at DTU) co-advisor
[5] Rasmus B. Nielsen PhD DTU (2010, now at ASML, Netherlands) advisor
[6] Tiberiu Rosenzveig PhD University of Iceland (2010) co-advisor
[7] Paul R. West PhD Purdue (2008-2014, now at Intel) supervisor
[8] Gururaj V. Naik PhD Purdue (2009-2013, now Assist Prof at Rice) advisor
[9] Naresh K. Emani PhD Purdue (2009-2014, now at DSI, Singapore) advisor
[10] Jongbum Kim PhD Purdue (2009-2016, now at UMaryland) advisor
[11] Nathaniel Kinsey PhD Purdue (2010-2016, now Assist Prof at VCU) advisor
[12] Justus C. Ndukaife PhD Purdue (2011-2017, now Assist Prof at Vanderbilt) advisor
[13] Zuoxian Wang PhD Purdue (2011-2018, now at ASML) advisor
[14] Aveek Dutta PhD Purdue (2015-2020, IBM) advisor
[15] Sajid M. Choudhury PhD Purdue (2014-2019, Assist Prof in BUET) co-advisor
[16] Krishnakali Choudhury PhD Purdue (2014-2019, Intel) advisor
[17] Soham Saha PhD Purdue (2018-2022, Argonne) co-advisor
[18] Sarah Chowdhury PhD Purdue (2019-2022, IBM) advisor
[19] Xiaohui Xu PhD Purdue (2019-2023, Princeton) advisor
[20] Zach Martin PhD Purdue (2020-2024, TSMC) advisor
[21] Blake Wilson PhD Purdue (2020-2024, Quantinuum) advisor
[22] Yuheng Chen PhD Purdue (in progress) advisor
[23] Morris Yang PhD Purdue (in progress) advisor
[24] Miroslava Marinova PhD Purdue (in progress) advisor
[25] Owen Matthiassen PhD Purdue (in progress) advisor
[26] Jake Choi PhD

Undergraduate research projects supervision at Purdue:

- Ogaga Odele (Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
- Ikuko Kitamura (Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
- Renju Liu (Fall 2013)
- Yugang Jing (Spring 2014, SURF program, summer 2014)
- Elizabeth Grubbs (Summer, Fall 2014)
- Carolina Aguilar (Summer 2017)
- Erin Shelton (Fall/Spring 2017)
- Fidel Galano (Fall 2017)
- Jihan Salsabila (Fall 2017)
- Scott Criswell (Fall/Spring 2017)
- Oksana Makarova (Fall 2015 – Spring 2019, DURI research grant)
- Jack Havey (Spring 2019)
- Advay Welling - F23 - S24
- Sarthak Tandon - F23 - S24
- Trang Do - F23 - S24
- Geetika Chitturi - F23 - S24
- Lee Dongeun - Su23 - F23
- Rohan Malavathu - S23 - S24
- Rohan Ojha - S23 - S24
- Jaxon Pottle - S23 - S24
- Daksh Kumar Singh - F22 - S24
- Michael Bezick - F22 - S24
- Vaishnavi Iyer - F21 - S24
- Seoyoung Cho - Su23

Teaching at Purdue:

Person in charge:

ECE 30414 Elements of Electro- and Fiber Optics, Purdue (2009-present)
ECE 30416 Introduction to Engineering Optics, Purdue (2010-2019)
ECE 395 Introduction to Nanotechnology (Spring 2019, 2020, 2021)
ECE 30653 Introduction to Nano- and Quantum Technology (Spring 2022-present)

Teaching outside Purdue:

- Three-week undergraduate research courses on Plasmonics and Nanofabrication, Technical University of Denmark (2003, 2004)
- Course on Nanophotonics for graduate students, Technical University of Denmark (¼ course, Spring 2007, 2008)
- Women in Photonics (WiP) School on Photonic Metamaterials, Paris, France, April 13-17, 2008 - Invited lecturer, 2-hours tutorial
- Metamorphose PhD school on “Fabrication and optical properties of nanostructured metamaterials,” Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, June 12-13, 2009 - Invited lecturer, 1.5-hour lecture
- Development and teaching of 1-week course on “Nanophotonics,” ECTS 2.5, Erlangen Master Program in advanced optical technologies (MAOT), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Fall 2009)
- 1-week course on “Nanophotonics,” ECTS 2.5, Erlangen Master Program in advanced optical technologies (MAOT), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Fall 2010)
- International School of Quantum Electronics, 52nd Course on Advances in Nanophotonics, Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 17-29, 2012 - Invited lecturer, 2-hours tutorial
- Summer School on Plasmonics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, August 26-30, 2013 – Invited lecturer, 1.5-hour lecture
- Short course on nanophotonics in Kazan Federal University, Russia, June 2014 – invited lecturer, 6-hours of lectures
- School on Complex Photonics, International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Como lake, Italy, July 12-18, 2015 – invited lecturer, 3 hours of lectures
- International Summer School on Nonlinear Optics, August 25-27, 2020, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk – 1-hour lecture (online)
- The VIII International School and Conference on Photonics (Photonica2021), Belgrade, Serbia, 24-27 August 2021 – Invited lecture (online)
- 2021 MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA, November 29 – December 2, 2021 – Tutorial
- Lake Como School on Advanced Studies on Machine Learning Photonics, Como, Italy, August 28 to September 2, 2022 – Invited lecturer