Current Members
Andrew MacRae
Adjunct Assistant professor, Sr. Lab Instructor
Charlie Squires
Yuyang Liu
MSc Student
Liam Stewart
Summer research intern
Parker Burt
Summer Research Intern
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:
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