Former and Present Graduate Students

At A.F. Ioffe Institute in 1992-1997 I was a Leader of the group and a PI in the opal project. My group:

Yurii Vlasov - quantum wells and opals, Ph.D. 1995 (Ioffe), Current employment: Leader of the group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Oleg Karimov - quantum wells and opals, Ph.D. 2000 (U. Bath, UK), Current employment: Research scientist at Toshiba Cambridge, UK

At the University of Sheffield in 1997-2001 I was a co-supervisor of Ph.D thesis work for the following students:

Alan Bristow – photonic crystal waveguides, Ph.D. 2003 (Sheffield). Current employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado

Ali Adawi – opals, Ph.D. 2002 (Sheffield), Current employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK

Mohammed Emam-Ismail – semiconductor microcavities, Ph.D. 2002 (Sheffield), Current employment: University Lecturer, Egypt

Mark Stevenson – semiconductor microcavities and photonic crystals, Ph.D. 2000 (Sheffield), Current employment: Research scientist at Toshiba Cambridge, UK

At UNC-Charlotte in 2002-2007:

Seungmoo Yang – modeling and experiments on semiconductor pillars and coupled microspheres since 2006, Ph.D. planned in 2008

Shashanka Ashili – coupled whispering gallery modes in microspheres since 2003, Ph.D. 2007. Current employment: Postdoc, University of Missouri-Columbia

Jason Franchak – coupled whispering gallery modes in microspheres, M.S. 2004. Currently studying to become an Orthodox Priest