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