PhD Graduates

Jiewei received his PhD degree from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2025. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017. He also earned his Master degree in Physics at The University of Chicago in 2018. He plans to work for Huawei. Graduate Story

Sushant received his PhD degree from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2025. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2016. He also earned his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) at UCSD in 2018. He is currently working at Apple.

Xiaotong received her PhD degree from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2024. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2018. She's currently working at Cisco. Graduate Story

Yi received his PhD degree from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2023. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2017. Graduate Story

Juniyali received her PhD degree from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2023. She received her Bachelor's degree in Engineering with a major in Instrumentation and Control Systems from the University of Mumbai, India and she earned her Masters degree from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2018. She founded and is currently the CEO of Photonect Interconnect Solutions. Graduate Story

Marissa Granados Baez earned her PhD degree in Optics from The Institute of Optics at The University of Rochester in 2022. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2016. She's currently working at Corning Inc. Graduate Story

In 2016 Meiting received her Bachelor's degree in Optics from Tianjin University, China. Her thesis focused on generation and propagation of self-accelerating beams. She also spent two years of her under- graduate study at Nankai University, China. In 2022 she earned her PhD from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. She is a Post Doctoral Scholar in the Cardenas Lab at The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and will soon be a Post Doctoral Scholar at UC Santa Barbara. Graduate Story