Advanced Electronic and Photonic Technology


Electrical Engineering Department
University of Southern California

Post Doctoral Students and Research Associates

Barton Sano

09/94 - 09/96
Gilberto Mayor 01/97 - 04/97

Sherali Zeadally

01/96 - 12/98

Newton Frateschi

09/98 - 08/99
Alex Tarasyuk 12/02 - 12/03
Ioan Gheorma 12/02 - 12/03

Fong Pong

08/03 - 04/04

Bharath Raghavan

05/03 - 06/04

Bindu Madhavan

08/02 - 12/05
Wei Hsin 03/05 - 03/06
Omid Nohadani 12/05 - 03/06
Petra Schmidt 09/04 - 09/06
Ilya Grigorenko 02/05 - 09/06
Donghai Zhu 05/06 -

PhD Graduates

Ashok Kanjamala graduated in January 1997.
Thesis title:  "Multi-cavity Lasers"

Bindu Madhavan graduated in July 2000.
Thesis title: "
Multi-Gigabit/s/channel Parallel Optical Data Link Design in CMOS Technology"

Sumesh Thiyagarajan graduated in February 2001.
Thesis title: "
Scaled Microdisk Lasers"

David Cohen graduated in February 2001.
Thesis title:
"Lithium Niobate Microphotonic Modulators"

Bharath Raghavan graduated in March 2001.
Thesis title: "
Multi-Gigabit/second Parallel Fiber-optic Ring Network for Multimedia Applications"

Mani Hossein-zadeh graduated in December 2004.
Thesis title: "Electro-optic microdisk  wireless RF receiver
"

MS Graduates

Tsu-yau Chang 12/97
Panduka Wijetunga 05/98
Gheorghe-Vasile Gheorghiu 05/98
Serdar Bulut 12/99
Sunjoo Kim 05/99
Bindu Madhavan 08/00
Hooshmand Torabi 08/01
Fernando Harriague 12/01
Mani Hossein-zadeh 12/01
Ashirwad Bahukhandi 12/02
Karan Gupta 05/03
Kundan Patidar 05/03