Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering
306 N. Wright St. | Urbana, IL 61801 | 217.333.2483

Faculty

J. Gary Eden
Professor

Sung-Jin Park
Adjunct Professor

Andrey Mironov
Research Assistant Professor

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Kavita
Desai
Kabelitz
Lasers and Optical Spectroscopy

Graduate Students

Eric Cheng
UV Laser Spectroscopy

Jingyang
Kong
UV Systems

Stephen
Messing
Lasers and Optical Spectroscopy

Gavin
Wu
Microplasma Devices

Collaborators

University of Illinois:
  • Simeon Bogdanov
  • Stephen Boppart
  • Brian Cunningham
  • Pete Dragic
  • Virginia Lorenz
  • Helen Nguyen
  • David Ruzic
  • Dane Sievers
    • External Collaborators:
  • Jinhong Kim
  • John Ballato (Clemson University)
  • Xiuling Li (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Nan Yu (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

    • Undergraduate Students

  • Ananth Arunkumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Max Bartlett (Psychology)
  • Michael Furlin (Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering)

    • Alumni

    2025

  • Lukas Janavicius (Post-Doc:Nanostructured Semiconductor Materials and Devices Group)
  • Michael Jamrozy
  • Anik Mazumder (Advanced Semiconductor Device and Integration Laboratory, UIUC)

    2024

  • Thomas Reboli (Post-Doc, UIUC)

    2023

  • Kavita Desai Kabelitz (Post-Doc, UIUC)
  • Julian Michaels (Tokyo Electronics)

    2022

  • Austin Steinforth (Xcimer Energy)
  • Xinhang Song (TikTok)

    2021

  • Sehyun Park (Samsung)
  • Jinhong Kim (Intel)

    2020

  • Rui Su (Amazon)
  • Wenyuan Chen (Caltech)

    2019

  • Hee Jun Yang (Samsung)
  • Peter Sun (Intel)
  • Yin Huang (Intel)
  • Oluwayemisi Sonoiki (Lam Research)

    2018

  • Charles Shin (Boeing)
  • Zach Wiersma (Armstrong Teasdale LLP)

    2017

  • Sophie (Wenting) Chen (Microsoft)
  • Hengkan "Jimmy" Ni
  • Jose Rivera (Doximity)
  • William Goldshlag (LGS Innovations)

    2016

  • Andrey Mironov (Post-Doc, UIUC)
  • Kyle Raymond (Intel)

    2015

  • Tom Galvin (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
  • Shengyuan Zhong
  • Thomas Houlahan (Argonne National Labs)
  • Zhen Dai

    2014

  • Huihui "Harvey" Cheng (Visitor)
  • Zaijun Chen (Visitor)
  • Minghui "Amy" Wei (Visitor)

    • 2013

  • Taegon Oh
  • Loann Pommarel
  • Darby Hewitt
  • Min Hwan Kim
  • Yi Ho
  • Peter Peng Sun

    • 2012

  • Eung Soo Kim
  • Brian Ricconi

    • 2011

  • Zheng "Brittany" Jie
  • Ellen Keister
  • Jeffrey Ma
  • Seung Hoon Sung
  • Clark J. Wagner
  • Faye Shen
  • Dae-Sung Lee

    • 2010

  • Jason (J.D.) Readle
  • Paul Tchertchian
  • Tom Spinka
  • Steve Lee
  • Taek-Lim Kim

    • 2009

  • Je Kwon Yoon
  • Efrain B. Mejia
  • Kwang Soo Kim
  • Ho-Jun Lee

    2008

  • Young-Mo Kang
  • Joon Yeong Kim
  • Kuo-Feng(Kevin) Chen
  • Andy Nelson
  • Jeffrey Putney
  • Cy Herring

    2007

  • Dan Kovari
  • Edga Xie
  • Tyler Anderson
  • Andrew Price
  • Yan Xiao
  • Paoyei Chen

    2006

  • Kerstin Kunze
  • Leo Hua
  • Amanda Chang

    2005

  • Jeong Hyun Seo
  • Jennifer Hafez
  • Changjun Zhu
  • Nels Ostrom
  • Aydin Akyurtlu
  • Dae Hee Cho (Daniel)
  • Mariam Konat

    2004

  • Roman Kogler
  • Sung-O Kim
  • Freddy Lee
  • Meghan Riley
  • Dmitri Miftakhutdinov
  • Andrey Senin
  • Lawrence Tai

    2003

  • Min Cai
  • J.R. Allen
  • Zehuang Lu
  • Ron Roth
  • Scott McCain

    2002

  • Amy Oldenburg

    • 2001

  • Josh Conway
  • Efrain Mejia
  • Blake Jacquot

    1998

  • James Frame
  • Dan Cronin
  • Dave Wheeler
  • Pradeep John
  • Dave Funk

    1997

  • Gurkan Figen
  • Jeff Will
  • Pramod John

    • 1996

  • Paul Barnes
  • Hao Tran

    • 1994

  • Jim Alwan