Research team | Photonics and Nanoelectronics Lab

Principal Investigator - Dayan Ban, Professor

Prof. Dayan Ban is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He spent his sabbatical leave at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT, cambridge, MA, USA in 2009 as a visiting scientist. He was a research staff at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences of National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, before joining the University of Waterloo in 2005. He was a visiting scientist in 2001-2002 at Nortel, where he and his colleagues developed and applied novel scanning probe microscopy techniques. His current research interests include Optoelectronics, semiconductor quantum devices, terahertz quantum cascade lasers, infrared optical upconversion devices, Infrared imaging devices, scanning probe microscopy, nanotechnology and nanofabrication.

Dayan Ban earned B.A. Sc., M.A.Sc degrees at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China in 1993 and 1995, respectively and Ph. D. degree at the University of Toronto in 2003.

Post-doctoral fellows

Shazzad Rassel

Research associates

Dr. Louis Chen Kaysir

PhD students

Abdulrahman Aloraynan

Md Fahim Al Fattah

Majid Haji Bagheri

Md. Soyaeb Hasan

Fangzheng Huang

Asif Abdullah Khan, Vanier Scholar 2020

Md Masud Rana

Xikai Tang

Jian Yin

Master's students

Jiarun Bai

Rebecca Mac

Zhuofu Tan

Undergraduate Research Assistantships (URA)

Karim Habashy

Jiaqi Song

Co-op students

Simon Li

Alumni

Dr. Siyi Wang (PhD, 2016-2022)

Dr. Md. Rejvi Kaysir (Postdoctoral fellow, 2021-2022)

Mr. Chao Li (Master student, 2020-2022)

Mr. Shawn Benedict (Co-Op student, 2021-2022)

Ms. Kailyn Vailancourt (URA student, 2022-2023)

Ms. Manal Fatima (URA student, 2021-2022)

Dr. Boyu Wen (PhD student, 2014-2021, Postdoctoral fellow, 2021 - 2021)

Dr. Weiguang Zhu (Postdoctoral fellow, 2021 - 2021)

Dr. Chao Xu (Postdoctoral fellow, 2017 - 2021)

Mr. Steven Zhang (Research Associate, 2016 - 2020)

Mr. Hossein Anabestani (MASc student, 2019 - 2021)

Dr. Jingkun Xu (PhD student, 2019 - 2020)

Mr. Tim Li (Co-op student, Jan.-Apr. 2021)

Dr. Guangguang Huang (Postdoctoral fellow, 2019 - 2020)

Ms. Joyce Zheng (Co-op student, May-Aug. 2020)

Ms. Kaixi (Cathy) Wang (MASc student, 2018 - 2020)

Mr. Jian Yin (MASc student, 2017 - 2019), PhD at University of Waterloo

Mr. Alam Mahmud (MASc student, 2016 - 2018), PhD at University of Toronto

Mr. Yue Zhuo (MASc student, 2019)

Mr. Xiaoliang He (MASc student, 2019)

Ms. Manasa Kaniselvan (Co-op student, Jan.- Aug. 2018), undergraduate student at University of Waterloo

Mr. Zhongda (Bill) Zhang (Co-op student, May-Aug. 2018), undergraduate student at McMaster University

Dr. Chunlei Wang (visiting scholar 2017-2018), Professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Dr. Shuhong Xu (visiting scholar 2017-2018), Associate Professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Dr. Ghasem Razavipour (Postdoc 2013-2017), National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Mr. Denis Striakhilev (Research Associate 2014-2015), IGNIS Innovation, Waterloo, Canada

Dr. Guocheng Liu (PhD 2010-2015, Postdoc 2015-2017), VueReal Technologies, Waterloo, Canada

Dr. Chao Xu (PhD 2011-2017), Postdoc at University of Waterloo

Mr. Xueren (Jacky) Wang (MASc 2013-2016), Industry

Mr. Jeffrey Watchorn (URA, 2015-2016), Graduate student at University of Waterloo

Prof. Cun Chang (Visiting Professor 2013-2014), Professor at Heilongjiang University.

Dr. Daniel Hailu (Postdoctoral fellow, 2014-2015), TeTechS Inc.

Dr. Rudra Sankar Dhar (Ph.D. student, 2010-2014), Postdoctoral at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Seyed Ghasem Razavipour (Ph.D. student, 2008-2013), Postdoctoral at Waterloo.

Dr. Jun Chen (Ph.D. student, 2007-2011), Stanford Postdoc and now Associate Professor at Soochow University.

Dr. Saeed Fathololoumi (Ph.D. student 2007-2010), McGill Postdoc and now on staff in Los Angles, USA.

Dr. Zhizhong Yan (Postdoc, 2012), now on staff at Macquarie University in Australia.

Dr. Sergey Musikhin (Research Associate 2008-2010)

Dr. Marcel Graf (Research Associate 2008)

Mr. Mark Ferguson (MASc. student, 2013-2015), Industry.

Mr. Simon Ferre (Master student, 2012-2013). Continued to Ph.D. at III-V labs in France.

Mr. Hao Wang (Master student, 2011-2013), Industry.

Mr. Nolan Lassaline (Co-op student, 2011, 2012, 2013), continued graduate study at ETH-Zurich

Mr. Jianchen Tao (Master student, 2010-2012), Continued to US industry

Mr. Zhenzhong Li (Master student, 2010-2012), Continued to Federal government in Ottawa.

Mr. Baolin Tian (Master student, 2009-2011), On staff Teledyne-DALSA.

Ms. Somayyeh Rahimi (Master student, 2007-2008), continued Ph.D. at University of Texas, Austin

Mr. Hao Yang (Summer Intern student, 2015-2015), Summer research project at Waterloo.

Mr. Ji Liu (Summer Intern student, 2015-2015), Summer research project at Waterloo.

Mr. Jeffrey Watchorn (Co-op student, 2014-2014), Undergraduate student at Waterloo.

Ms. Anahita Malvea (Co-op. student, 2014-2014), Co-op at Waterloo.

Mr. Yingxuan Zhi (Co-op student, 2013)

Mr. Aborig Mohamed (Co-op student, 2013)

Mr. Dawid Zygmunt (Exchange student, 2013)

Mr. Daniel Saari (Research project student, 2012)

Mr. Prasahnt Sivarajah (Co-Op student, 2011) Continued to graduate study at Standford University.

Mr. Rohit George John (Co-Op student, 2011)

Mr. Yingxuan(Derek) Zhi (Co-Op student, 2010)

Mr. Jason Chow (4^th year design project student, 2010)

Mr. Jonathan Wu (URA student, 2010)

Mr. Nathan Dyck(URA Student, 2009)

Mr. Jeff Wang (URA student, 2009)

Ms. Lynna Chen (URA student 2009)

Mr. Ravish Malhotra (URA Student, 2008

Ms. Yuhan Ma (4th year design project Student, 2008), continued to Ph.D. at McGill University, Canada.

Mr. Patrick Tsai (Past Master Student 2007)

Dr. Ludmila Bakueva (Visiting Scientist 2007)

Ms. Qin Chen (Undergraduate Research Assisstantship (URA) Student 2007)

Mr. Lei Zhang (Past Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) Student 2006)

*list was last updated October 2021

*incomplete list