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Chunlei Guo Principal Investigator / Ph. D. / Professor
Prof. Guo's research interest is in femtosecond laser-matter interactions, nanophotonics, and strong-field atomic/molecular physics.
His research at Rochester has led to the discoveries of a range of highly functionalized materials produced through femtosecond laser processing, including the so-called black and colored metals, and superhydrophillic and superhydrophobic surfaces. These discoveries could enable a wide range of technological applications, and have been widely featured in the news media. He is an elected Fellow of American Physical Society, Optica, and Int'l Academy of Photonics and Laser Engineering. He has authored about 370 refereed journal articles and plays an active role in serving the scientific community.
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Subhash Chandra Singh Ph. D. / Scientist
Dr. Subhash C. Singh is a scientist at Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Allahabad, India in 2009. Prior to joining the Guo Group, Dr. Singh was an IRCSET-EMPOWER Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dublin City University, Ireland for two years and DST-SERB Young Scientist at University of Allahabad, India for three years. Dr. Singh has more than ten years of research experience in a wide range of field including lasers, plasma, nanomaterials, spectroscopy, and energy applications. He has published more than 50 articles in high IF refereed journals and conference proceedings. His current research interest includes development of materials for water sanitation, space and electronic device cooling, solar and thermal energy harvesting and energy storage. Dr. Singh served as main editor for Wiley-VCH book “Nanomaterials; Processing and characterization with lasers” and guest editor for special issues of many journals.
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Mohamed ElKabbash Ph. D. / Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Mohamed ElKabbash did his bachelors in physics and economics from Illinois Wesleyan University, USA, and PhD in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, USA. His research background is in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. His interest includes active control of the spontaneous emission rate, cooperative effects of quantum emitters, thin-film based metamaterials, perfect light absorbers, biosensors, and ultrafast phenomenon. His current research projects include ultrafast imaging of nanostructures, development of novel types of metasurfaces, developing hybrid solar energy based materials, and and developing novel thin-film metamaterials for optical switching, control of spontaneous emission rate, and enhanced third-order nonlinearity. Dr. Mohamed also has a bachelors and masters in Law and political economy from Alexandria University, Egypt.
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Kwang Jin Lee Ph. D. / Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Kwang Jin Lee is postdoctoral researcher in Institute of Optics at University of Rochester. He received Ph.D degree in AJOU university in South Korea in research on theoretical optics. Before joining the Prof. Guo's research group, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Ewha Womans University for 5 years. His main research interest is tailoring photophysics based on nanophotonics. Currently his research focuses on ultrafast carrier dynamics in various emerging materials and controlling them by using metamaterial structures.
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Erik Garcell Graduate Student
Erik Garcell is a senior Ph.D. student in the lab. He received his B.S. of the University of Florida . His currently research interest is in laser-material processing including producing regular surface structures and surface colorization. He was a NSF IGERT Fellow.
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Billy Lam Graduate Student
Billy Lam graduated from Stony Brook University in 2015 with double majors in Physics, and Applied Mathematics & Statistics. He is currently a PhD student in this research group with research primarily focused on the characterization of ultrashort pulses. His research interests include Ultrafast optics, Polarization optics, and Quantum Optics.
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Cong Cong Graduate Student
Cong Cong graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 2018, majored in Physics. Now he is a PhD student in the research group. His research interest is about simulating patterns produced by laser-matter interaction.
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Jon Strauss Graduate Student
Jon Strauss got B.A. from Cornell U. and M.D. From Loyola Stritch Med School, fellow Family Medicine ABFP. He Published "Smart Questions to Ask Your Doctor". Currently he is in University of Rochester, BME / ERG Masters Program. He is Interested in energy.
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Chun-Hao Fann Graduate Student
Chun-Hao Fann was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. Currently, he is studying a Master's degree in Optics at the University of Rochester. His main study is on plasmonic metamaterial absorbers in the infrared which has applications in sensors, spectroscopy, and photovoltaics.
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Ran Wei Graduate Student
Ran Wei, graduated from Wuhan University in July 2017, with a Bachelor degree in Optoelectronic Information Science and Technology. In 2017, he was admitted into the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester as a Master student. His research interest lies in imaging with metasurface and inverse design of nanophotonic devices with neural network.
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Zihao Li Graduate Student
Zihao Li received his bachelor's degree in material engineering at South China University of Technology. He is now pursuing his master’s degree at University of Rochester. His research interest mainly focuses on microstructure fabrication of materials.
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Dita Banjarnahor Graduate Student
Dita Banjarnahor got her BS degree in Engineering Physics (2016) from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. In 2018, she started her graduate study (MS level) in The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, US. Currently she is a member of High Intensity Femtosecond Laser Group led by Prof. Chunlei Guo, involved in a research about water transport on micro-capillary. The capillary material is manipulated using high intensity femtosecond laser to be hydrophilic, with variation in geometry and porosity.
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Zilong Li
Graduate Student
Zilong Li is a first year master student of optics in the group. He got his B.S. of optics engineering also from university of rochester. He is currently doing projects related to water evaporation of black metal.
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James Rutledge Undergraduate Student
James Rutledge is currently an undergrad at the university studying optical engineering. He is researching solar technologies.
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Bhabesh Regmi
Visiting Undergraduate Student
Bhabesh Regmi is a 4th year Mechanical Engineering student at RIT. He is currently working as an undergraduate in the Guo Optics group. His primary research focus is developing an evaporative cooler using their super-hydrophilic aluminum; their hope is to displace a significant number of the compression based air conditioning systems, with environmentally friendly and low cost evaporative systems.
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