Group Members
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Will Schmid
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. candidate at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on the development of fully decentralized solar thermal desalination technologies.
Department: ECE
Office: BRK 322
Email: ws33@rice.edu
Qian Ye
Physics Ph.D. candidate at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on computational nanophononics and thermal transport in plasmonic nanostructures.
Department: PHYS
Office: BRK 322
Email: qy19@rice.edu
Kunal Lakhanpal
Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on thermal emission control through metasurface design.
Department: APP
Office: BRK 322
Email: kl89@rice.edu
Giuseppe Giorgio
Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on nanophotonics and plasmonic metasurfaces for THz generation.
Department: APP
Office: DH 3060
Email: gg57@rice.edu
Umar Arshad
Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on hot-carrier-driven photocatalysis.
Department: APP
Office: DH 3027
Email: umar.arshad@rice.edu
Hang Qian
Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on metasurfaces for deep brain stimulation and photoacoustics.
Department: APP
Office: BRK 322
Email: hq16@rice.edu
Elijah Kritzell
NRT fellow co-advised with Prof. Kono.
Applied Physics Ph.D. candidate at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on ultrastrong light-matter coupling for quantum information, spintronics, and novel cavity-enabled technologies.
Department: APP/ECE
Office: OES 220
Email: Kritzell@rice.edu
Alan Covarrubias
NRT fellow co-advised with Prof. Kono.
Applied Physics Ph.D. student at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on optical cavities for the control of quantum materials.
Department: APP/ECE
Office: OES 220
Email: ac227@rice.edu
VISITING RESEARCHERS
Andrea Schirato, Ph.D.
Junior Assistant Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) and Marie Curie Fellow at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on the theoretical study and numerical modelling of the ultrafast light-matter interaction at the nanoscale in nonlinear optical nanostructures and metasurfaces.
Department: Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano
Office: BRK 322
Email: andrea.schirato@polimi.it
Sina Nazifi, Ph.D.
Visiting Researcher at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on the mechanical design and prototyping of solar-thermal desalination systems.
Department: ECE
Office: BRK 322
Email: sn53@rice.edu
Zhuofei Li
Physics undergraduate student at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China) working on the computational modeling of THz emission from split-ring resonators.
Department: ECE
Office: BRK 322
Email: zl220@rice.edu
Marlene Fuhr
Bioengineering M.S. exchange student at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Rice University (Houston, TX) working on brain connectivity modeling in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine.
Department: ECE
Office: N/A
Email: mf88@rice.edu
Jim Shi
Physics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) working on metasurface systems for deep brain stimulation.
Department: ECE
Office: DH 3027
Email: js511@rice.edu
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Anthony Iturbe
Electrical and Computer Engineering undergraduate student at Rice University (Houston, TX) working on the optimization of numerical methods for brain connectivity modeling in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine.
Department: ECE
Office: N/A
Email: ai36@rice.edu
ALUMNI
| Name | Role | Following Position |
|---|---|---|
| GRADUATE STUDENTS | ||
| Narmada Naidu | (2020-2024), PhD in Applied Physics | Postdoctoral Fellow at EPFL, Switzerland |
| Bryant Jerome | (2020-2023), MSc in Applied Physics | IT sector |
| POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS | ||
| Keith Sanders | Rice Academy of Fellows (2021-2023) | Research Scientist, Army Research Laboratory |
| VISITING RESEARCHERS | ||
| Aubin Touraquet | Master’s student (2023-2024) | PhD student, Institut d’Optique, France |
| Maria Crespo | IMFAHE Fellow (2022-2023) | Research Assistant, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Maria Basanez | IMFAHE Fellow (2022-2023) | PhD applicant |
| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS | ||
| Alessandro Bordone | Undergraduate Research intern (2023) | Tandon School of Engineering, NYU |
| Isabella Chiodi | Undergraduate Research intern (2021) | Chemical Engineering sophomore, Rice University |
| Joao Cunha | Visiting Scholar (2020) | Research Fellow, INL |
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