Current Members

Andrew MacRae

Adjunct Assistant professor, Sr. Lab Instructor

Brendan MacKey

2024 (NSERC USRA), 2026 Research Supervisor

Project: Pretty much all of 'em

Owen Sandner

2023 (VKURA fellow), 2024 (NSERC USRA), 2026 Thesis

Project: Theory of multimode quantum state detection, MOT, DAVLL

Yuyang Liu

MSc Student 2024-present

Project: High OD MOT

Aaron Dayton

2025-2026 Honours Thesis Student

Project: Rb to Telecom conversion theory

Parker Burt

2025-2026 Honours Thesis Student

Project: Fiber coupled Bell State analyzer

Liam Reimer

2025-2026 Honours Thesis Student

Project: Pound Drever Hall Lock

Alumni

Jamal Mohammad Khani

Project: Transient Effects in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Now: Xanadu Quantum Computing

Ash Enefer

Project: Entanglement Source

Now: Canadian Space Agency

Diana Gao

Project: FPGA based entanglement detector

Now: Student at UVic

Hayden Snauwaert

Project: Magneto Optical Trap

Now: MSc Student at McGill

Matthew Newton

Project: Four Wave Mixing Theory

Now: MSc Student, University of Alberta

Maxwell Brown

Project: Polarimter

Now: BSc Student UVic

Neelam Esmail

Project: Pound Drever Hall Lock

Now: Integral Ecology Group

Thomas Bourgeois

Project: Microcontroller adapters for laser drivers

Now: BSc Physics at UVic

Zaina Siddiqui

Project: FPGA based analyzer for the entanglment source

Now: BSc Hon at UVic

Arsh Singh

Project: Polarimeter

Now: Data Analyst | B2B B2C Business Intelligence

Rowan Meronek

Project: 4WM Theory

Now: CSC Student at UVic

Will Stokes

Project: Stokes(!) Polarimeter

Now: BSc Student at UVic

Abid-Ali Ratanshi

Project: Custom Photodetectors

Now: MSc Student at KIT

Charlie Squires

Project: PDH Lock

Now: Bsc Student at UVic

Jake Neijmeijer

Project: FPGA based Laser Locks

Now: Student at UVic

Janay Ma

Project: SPDC Entanglement Source

Now: Web developer

Joe Howie

Project: DAVLL Circuit

Now: Interior Health Authority

Kenny Gregory

Project: Poiund Drever Hall Locking

Now: PhD Student, Kupchak group at Carleton

Kevin Kuo

Project: Scanning Fabry Perot Cavity

Now: MSc Student, NCU

Kje Rybar

Project: Frequency Counter Programming

Now: BSc Student at UVic

Matt Forbes

Project: Mouse Brain Imaging

Now: MSc Student Baker Group (UVic)

Ruhee Janmohamed

Project: Fast Photodetectors

Now: Research Analyst, University of Victoria

Sarah Alshamaily

Project: ENtanglement Source

Now: MSc student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Seth Fleming-Alho

Project: Laser Ramp Generator

Now: Electronics Technician, Fisheries Canada

Swapnil Daxini

Project: External Cavity Diode Laser Design

Now: PhD Student at Loock Lab (UVic)

Alex Tofini

Project: Pound Drever Hall Lock

Now: Photonic Inc.

Aydan McKay

No bio available

Project: Polarimeter

Now: PhD Student in Astrophysics at UVic

Colin Jones

Project: Cavity QED calculations of EIT

Now: Grad Student at McGill

Devon Rousavy

Project: Optical Metamaterial Design

Now: Canada Border Services

Dezy Manuel

Project: External Cavity Diode Lasers

Now: Software Developer at Appsquire Consulting

Jakob Rimmer

Project: External Cavity Diode Lasers

Now: PhD Student in Particle Physics (UVic)

Noah Gorgichuck

Project: DAVLL

Now: PhD Candidate, Institute for Quantum Computing

Scott Wilkinson

Project: Polarimeter

Now: PhD Student in Astrophysics, UVic

Sophia Jefferson

Project: LED measurements

Now: BSc CSC UVic

Zhelun Li

Project: SPDC entanglement Source

Now: PhD student at University of Toronto

Akash Saji

Project: Magneto Optical Trap, Polarimeter

Now: MSc Student, Intl. School of Photonics, CUSAT

Andres Felipe-Ramos

Project: Magneto Optical Trap, Polarimeter

Now: BSc Student, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Lauren Hall

Project: Polarimeter

Now: BSc Physics Student, UVic