Current Members
Andrew MacRae
Adjunct Assistant professor, Sr. Lab Instructor
Yuyang Liu
MSc Student
Alumni
Jamal Mohammad Khani
2023-2024 MSc Student
Project: Transient Effects in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Now: Xanadu Quantum Computing
Ash Enefer
Summer 2023
Project: Entanglement Source
Now: BSc Student at UVic
Brendan MacKey
NSERC USRA 2024
Project: Magneto Optical Trap, Polarimeter
Now: Student Researcher with Gangloff group in Cambridge
Diana Gao
Summer 2023
Project: FPGA based entanglement detector
Now: Student at UVic
Hayden Snauwaert
Project: Magneto Optical Trap
Now: Sarnia
Matthew Newton
2023 Summer student
Project: Four Wave Mixing Theory
Now: MSc Student, University of Alberta
Maxwell Brown
2023 Summer student
Project: Polarimter
Now: BSc Student UVic
Neelam Esmail
2022 Summer student
Project: Pound Drever Hall Lock
Now: Integral Ecology Group
Owen Sandner
2023 (VKURA fellow), 2024 (NSERC USRA)
Project: DAVLL, Balanced Homodyne Detector
Now: Research Assistant, Brolo Lab (UVic)
Thomas Bourgeois
Summer 2023
Project: Microcontroller adapters for laser drivers
Now: BSc Physics at UVic
Zaina Siddiqui
Summer 2024
Project: FPGA based analyzer for the entanglment source
Now: BSc Hon at UVic
Arsh Singh
Summer Student 2023
Project: Polarimeter
Now: Data Analyst | B2B B2C Business Intelligence
Project:
Now:
Rowan Meronek
2023 Summer Student
Project: 4WM Theory
Now: CSC Student at UVic
Will Stokes
Summer 2024
Project: Stokes(!) Polarimeter
Now: BSc Student at UVic
Abid-Ali Ratanshi
2018-2019
Project: Custom Photodetectors
Now: MSc Student at KIT
Arshpreet Singh
Project:
Now:
Charlie Squires
Summer 2023
Project: PDH Lock
Now: Bsc Student at UVic
Jake Neijmeijer
Summer 2022 (Coop Student)
Project: FPGA based Laser Locks
Now: Student at UVic
Janay Ma
2019 Summer student
Project: SPDC Entanglement Source
Now: Web developer
Joe Howie
2019 Nonours Thesis
Project: DAVLL Circuit
Now: Interior Health Authority
Kenny Gregory
2022 SUmmer Student, 2023 Honours Thesis
Project: Poiund Drever Hall Locking
Now: PhD Student, Kupchak group at Carleton
Kevin Kuo
2022 Summer student
Project: Scanning Fabry Perot Cavity
Now: MSc Student, NCU
Kje Rybar
2023 Summer student
Project: Frequency Counter Programming
Now: BSc Student at UVic
Matt Forbes
2022 Summer student
Project: Mouse Brain Imaging
Now: MSc Student Baker Group (UVic)
Ruhee Janmohamed
2019 Summer Student
Project: Fast Photodetectors
Now: Research Analyst, University of Victoria
Sarah Alshamaily
Summer 2022
Project: ENtanglement Source
Now: MSc student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Seth Fleming-Alho
Summer 2023
Project: Laser Ramp Generator
Now: Electronics Technician, Fisheries Canada
Swapnil Daxini
2021 Honours Thesis student
Project: External Cavity Diode Laser Design
Now: PhD Student at Loock Lab (UVic)
Alex Tofini
2019 Honours Thesis Student
Project: Pound Drever Hall Lock
Now: Photonic Inc.
Aydan McKay
2019-2020
Project: Polarimeter
Now: PhD Student in Astrophysics at UVic
Colin Jones
2018 (Honours Thesis)
Project: Cavity QED calculations of EIT
Now: Grad Student at McGill
Devon Rousavy
2019 (Honours Thesis)
Project: Optical Metamaterial Design
Now: Canada Border Services
Dezy Manuel
2019
Project: External Cavity Diode Lasers
Now: Software Developer at Appsquire Consulting
Jakob Rimmer
2019 Summer student
Project: External Cavity Diode Lasers
Now: PhD Student in Particle Physics (UVic)
Noah Gorgichuck
2019 Honours Thesis Student
Project: DAVLL
Now: PhD Candidate, Institute for Quantum Computing
Scott Wilkinson
Summer 2020
Project: Polarimeter
Now: PhD Student in Astrophysics, UVic
Sophia Jefferson
Summer 2021 HS student
Project: LED measurements
Now: BSc CSC UVic
Zhelun Li
2018
Project: SPDC entanglement Source
Now: PhD student at University of Toronto
Akash Saji
2024 Mitacs gobolink Scholar
Project: Magneto Optical Trap, Polarimeter
Now: MSc Student, Intl. School of Photonics, CUSAT
Andres Felipe-Ramos
2024 Mitacs gobolink Scholar
Project: Magneto Optical Trap, Polarimeter
Now: BSc Student, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Lauren Hall
2024 Summer research intern
Project: Polarimeter
Now: BSc Physics Student, UVic