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