PI & Group Leader
Prof. Volker J. Sorger (he/him)Bio:
Volker J. Sorger is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Institute on AI & Photonics, the Head of the Devices & Intelligent Systems Group at the George Washington University. His research areas include devices & optoelectronics including emerging semiconductor- and functional materials, photonic- & electronic chips, AI/ML accelerators and ASIC packaging, quantum matter & quantum processors, and cryptography. For his work, Dr. Sorger received multiple awards including the SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, the Presidential PECASE Award, the AFOSR YIP, the Emil Wolf Prize, and the National Academy of Sciences award of the year. Dr. Sorger is an Editor for Optica, Nanophotonics, Applied Physics Rev., eLight, Chips, and was the former editor-in-chief of Nanophotonics. He is a Fellow of The Optical Society (former OSA), SPIE, and The German National Academic Foundation, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is a co-founder of Optelligence. Google Scholar Editorships: Optica | Applied Physics Rev. | Nanophotonics | Chip | eLight |
Research Associate Professor |
Dr. Hamed DalirResearch Interests
Google Scholar Linkedin Email: hdalir@gwu.edu |
Professional Affiliates
Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Maria Solyanik-GorgoneResearch Interests
Email: msolyanik@gwu.edu Dr. Rubab AminResearch interests
Email: rubabmn@gwu.edu Personal site: rubabmn.weebly.com Dr. Matthew Lumb Research Interests
Email: mlumb@gwu.edu |
Ph.D. Students
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Zibo HuResearch Interests
Email: huzibo@gwu.edu Website: www.huzibo.com |
Armin Mehrabian (Co-advised)Research Interests
Email: armin@gwmail.gwu.edu Linkedin Google Scholar |
Jiawei MengResearch Interests:
Email: mengj@gwu.edu |
Chandraman PatilResearch Interests:
Email: chandramanpatil@gwu.edu LinkedIn Google Scholar |
Chen ShenResearch interests:
Email: imchucklate@gwu.edu |
Haoyan KangResearch Interests:
Email: haoyan_kang@gwmail.gwu.edu |
Jiachi YeResearch interests:
Email: alcatraz@gwmail.gwu.edu Chaobo DongResearch interests:
Email: chaobo17@gwu.edu |
Salem AltalebResearch Interests:
Email: salem12@gwmail.gwu.edu |
Geoffrey GreenwaltResearch Interest:
Email: ggreenwalt@email.gwu.edu |
Master Thesis Students
Undergraduate Researchers
Summer 2021
Alumni & Placements
- Rishi Maiti (Postdoctoral Associate), Columbia University
- Mario Miscuglio (Display Engineer), Apple Inc.
- Ruoyu Zhang (PhD candidate UCD) LinkedIn
- Shuai Sun (Optoelectronics Engineer), API LinkedIn
- Zhizhen Ma (Display Engineer), Apple Inc. LinkedIn
- Brandon Waller (GPU Verification Engineer at Intel Corporation) LinkedIn
- Mohammad H. Tahersima (Mitsubishi) LinkedIn
- Tianyu Yang (Data Science Intern at KnowSun Data Consulting) LinkedIn
- Kazuya Kikunaga (Postdoctoral Associate) k-kikunaga@aist.go.jp
- Ke Liu (Postdoctoral Associate) liukcityu@gmail.com
- Hasan Goktas (Postdoctoral Associate) treede@gwu.edu LinkedIn
- Chenran Ye (Visiting Scholar) yechenran@gmail.com
- Liza Gebre (Visiting Scholar)
- Yuming Ren (Master-Thesis) renyuming@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Sarah Pickus (Undergraduate) pickus91@gmail.com
- Seyed Hamed Haghshenas (Master-Research) shhaghshenas@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Iury Barbosa Pinto Rodrigues (Undergraduate) iuryrodrigues15@gmail.com
- Elnaz Akabri (Visiting Scholar) elnaz@email.gwu.edu LinkedIn
- Zhuoran Li (Master-Research)
- Hani Nejadriahi (Master-Thesis) hani_nejadriahi@gwmail.gwu.edu LinkedIn
- Talya Weinshel (Undergraduate) tweinshel@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Huang Wang (Master-Research)
- Caitlin Carfano (Master-Research) ccarfano@gwmail.gwu.edu LinkedIn
- Sikandar Khan (Ph.D.) sikandar@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Rohit Anil Hemnani rohithemnani@gwu.edu LinkedIn