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Prof. Ohtsu of the Univ. of Tokyo comes to
visit.
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Our Fearless Leader
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Lih Y. Lin
lin@ee.washington.edu
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Lih Y. Lin joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the
University of Washington as an Associate Professor in 2003. She received the
Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1996, with thesis topics
on high-power high-speed velocity-matched distributed photodetectors and
micromachined integrated optics. From 1996 to 2000, she worked at AT&T
Labs-Research as a Senior Technical Staff Member. Her main research activities
were in micromachined technologies for optical switching and lightwave
communication system. In March 2000, she joined Tellium, Inc. as Director
of Optical Technologies to work on high-port-count MEMS optical crossconnects,
where she had a sip of telecom start-up frenzy, was gladly terminated, and
happily found her next home back in academia.
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Our Resolute Grads
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Mike Hegg
heggm@u.washington.edu
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Mike earned a B.S. degree in Physics and Physics-Engineering from
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA in 2002. Subsequently, he earned a
M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle,
WA in 2004, where he worked on non-invasive fringing electric field sensors for
materials characterization. Mike joined the group in the fall of 2004 and is now
pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on the design and fabrication
of nano-scale quantum dot phototransistors and photodetectors. He is also
pursuing a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics.
In his spare time, Mike enjoys coaching high school track and field, bicycling,
hiking, amateur astronomy, reading, listening to music, and discussing science.
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Matt Horning
mph@ee.washington.edu
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Matt is originally from Fort Collins, Colorado. He received his B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from Arizona State University in 2003. In 2004 he began pursuing a Ph.D.
at UW, and joined the Photonics Group in Spring of 2005.
In his free time, Matt enjoys cooking and eating, especially Indian food.
If he is away from the office for awhile, it is usually because he is camping,
hiking, or traveling in some far away place. Check
out his personal
homepage here.
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Ludan Huang
ldhuang@u.washington.edu
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Ludan earned her B.S. degree in material science & engineering from
Nanjing University in 2004. Then she decided to further her graduate
studies in physics at Univ. of Washington. She joined the Photonics group
at the Fall 2005. Presently, she is involved in modeling, fabrication and
testing of QD waveguide devices. Previous research includes simulating
the near field distribution of a nano-scale opto-plasmonic tweezer.
In her leisure time, Ludan loves to bake and cook. She is quite ambitious
when it comes to food - she always wants to make everything from scratch.
She is interested in lots of things, among which people, culture, food
and nature have constantly been there.
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Xiaoyu Miao
xiaoyu@ee.washington.edu
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Xiaoyu came from China and he is a fourth-year graduate
student in UWEE. He got his master degree from UW in June 2006, where he
is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree. He is mainly
working on the NSF and NIH funded projects related to micro and
nano manipulations using surface plasmon as a tool. Before
joining UW, he got his B.S. from Tsinghua University in Beijing,
China in July 2003. Between 2003 and 2004, he worked as a
research assistant at the Institute of Biophysics in Tsinghua
University. His primary research interests include nanophotonics,
plasmonics, optofluidics and the interface between biology and
nanotechnology.
When not at the campus, he enjoys watching NBA games and listening to
various kinds of music. He also has a dream to become a professional
photographer! Check out his personal homepage
here.
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Joseph Peach
jetpeach@u.washington.edu
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Joseph grew up enjoying the great outdoors in Alaska. He left to attend Princeton University,
where he received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2003. During that fall, he began his
graduate studies in the Genomation Lab at the University of Washington, where he focused on the
development of microfluidic devices for bioanalysis. In 2006, he joined the Photonics Group and
is co-advised by Prof. Lin and Prof. Jandhyala. His current research involves understanding and
utilizing the dielectrophoretic properties of DNA and other nano-structures.
Outside of the lab, Joseph spends his time doing sports and playing violin in a community orchestra.
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Chang-Ching Tu
tucc@u.washington.edu
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Chang-Ching received his B.S. and M.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2002 and 2004, respectively. There, his research focused on the design
and fabrication of photosensing nanodevice structures with CdSe and Au quantum dots. He began his Ph.D.
at UWEE and joined the Photonics Group in Fall 2006.
In his spare time, Chang-Ching enjoys playing basketball, swimming and seeing movies. .
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Ben Wilson
bewilson@u.washington.edu
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Ben is a native of Kennewick, WA, but has lived several years in Portugal
and the United Arab Emirates. He enjoys playing music on a variety of
instruments and having fun with his wife and daughter.
Ben earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from UW in 2005.
He did research several years with the PNNL glass laboratory in Richland,
WA before joining the UWEE Photonics Lab as an undergraduate. Ben's
research focuses on photonics applications of flexible nano-structures,
which includes their potential use in sensors and polarization controllers.
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