People

Ido Golding

Professor of Physics
Affiliate Professor of Microbiology

UIUC Physics

Tianyou Yao

Postdoctoral Associate

Graduate Student, 2016-2022
[Ph.D. thesis]

Micca Hecht

Ph.D. Student

Ehsan Homaee

Ph.D. Student

Ayesha Bhikha

Ph.D. Student

Wenqing Zhu

Ph.D. Student

Michael Bochert

Ph.D. Student

Susan Born

Ph.D. student

Through the years...

Lab Alumni

Yuncong Geng
Graduate Student, 2021-2025

Arya Desai
Research Assistant, 2024-2025

Yu Fu
Undergraduate Student, 2023-2024

Kevin Mcdonald
Undergraduate Student, 2022-2024

Thu Vu Phuc Nguyen
Postdoctoral Associate, 2023-2024
Graduate Student, 2017-2023 [Ph.D. thesis]

Yichao Guan
Undergraduate Student, 2021-2023

Anushri Gupta
Research Assistant, 2020-2022

Yumu Yang
Graduate Student, 2021-2022

Patrick Koch
Graduate Student, 2021-2022

Mengyu Wang
Postdoctoral Associate, 2018-2021
Graduate Student, 2012-2018 [Ph.D. thesis]

Leiana-Lavette Woodard
Summer Research Student (Fisk University), 2021

Seth Coleman
Graduate Student, 2016-2021 [Ph.D. thesis]

Jing Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate, 2018-2019
Graduate Student, 2013-2018 [Ph.D. thesis]

Gennady Gorin
Undergraduate Student, 2017-2018

Louis McLane
Postdoctoral Associate, 2014-2017

Heng Xu
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2016

Leonardo Sepúlveda
Postdoctoral Associate, 2014-2016
Graduate Student 2007-2014 [Ph.D. thesis]

Samuel Skinner
Postdoctoral Associate, 2014-2016
Graduate Student 2007-2014 [Ph.D. thesis]

Patrick Mears
Graduate Student 2007-2014 [Ph.D. thesis]

Neel Radia
REU Student, 2013

Deepak Chandran
Postdoctoral Associate, 2012

Lok-Hang So
Postdoctoral Associate, 2011-2012
Graduate Student, 2006-2011 [Ph.D. thesis]

Taejin (Lance) Min
Graduate Student, 2007-2012 [Ph.D. thesis]

Lanying Zeng
Postdoctoral Associate, 2007-2011

Michael Bednarz
Graduate Student 2007-2010

Seongjin Park 
Graduate Student 2009-2010

Eli Rothenberg
Postdoctoral Associate, 2008-2010 

Chenghang Zong
Postdoctoral Associate, 2007-2009

Kevin Claytor 
REU Student, 2008

Hazel Kim
Undergraduate Student, 2007

Collaborators

Ariel Amir
Weizmann Institute of Science

Roi Avraham
Weizmann Institute of Science

Yann Chemla
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Avigdor Eldar
Tel-Aviv University

Mike Feiss
University of Iowa

Taekjip Ha
Harvard University

Christophe Herman
Baylor College of Medicine

Gabriel Popescu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chris Rao
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Alvaro Sanchez
University of Salamanca

Ronen Segev
Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Paul R. Selvin
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Anna Sokac
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Trey Westbrook
Baylor College of Medicine

Heng Xu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Itai Yanai
New York University

Lanying Zeng
Texas A&M University

Thomas Zwaka
Mount Sinai Hospital