Bachelor in Science Graduates

Tengqian joined our group as a rising senior at the University of Rochester pursuing a B.Sci. in Optical Engineering and a minor in business. He is interested in researching the theories behind integrated photonics and its applications. He remained in our group as a PhD student.

Shuo joined our group as a rising senior in the undergraduate program at the University of Rochester, pursuing a major in Optics Engineering. His interests include integrated photonics and laser optics. Graduate Story

Tingxia joined our group as a rising senior student at the University of Rochester pursuing a B.Sci. in Optical Engineering. He was excited to explore interest in integrated photonics. He went on for an M.Sci. at Columbia University.

Kelsey joined our group as a third-year undergraduate at the University of Rochester pursuing a B.Sci. in Optical Engineering.  She was excited to learn about photonics and its many applications and to find new interests within optics.  Kelsey was also pursuing a B.M. in piano performance at the Eastman School of Music. Graduate Story

Nicholas joined Cardenas lab at the start of his sophomore year and shortly began working on laser frequency stabilization for on-chip interferometry under the guidance of Meiting Song. Following his work with Meiting, Nicholas began working in quantum optics, devising a new method of generating hyperentangled photon pairs on-chip using nonlinear optics. In the fall of 2022, he was able to present this work at the University of Rochester Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics. For his capstone project, he is currently working on observing and characterizing single photon emitters in silicon nitride thin films.

Next fall, Nicholas will pursue a PhD in applied physics with a focus in quantum and nonlinear integrated photonics. Graduate Story

The lab's friendly environment helped propel me and my research skills to land an internship at MIT Lincoln Lab summer of 2022, where I was fortunate enough to win first place in their intern design competition. [I have been accepted to Columbia for my PhD, where I will be working with professor Keren Bergman on her Center for Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), and I couldn't be more excited.] I wouldn't be where I am today without the help of the entire Cardenas lab family. Graduate Story

Sinabu joined our group as a third-year undergraduate student in the class of 2022 at the University of Rochester pursuing a B.Sci. in Optical Engineering.

Raymond joined our group as an undergraduate student of the University of Rochester class of 2019 majoring in Optical Engineering at the Institute of Optics. He had worked at Brooklyn College in a material science lab and at the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics at City College of New York.

Jonathan joined our group as an undergraduate student of the Institute of Optics Class of 2018. At the University of Pennsylvania, he worked in polaritronics and since then has worked in biomedical imaging and optical semiconductor research groups at the University of Rochester.