Principal Investigator

Abdoulaye Ndao

Assistant Professor, Sloan Research Fellow (Physics), Scialog Fellow, and Hellman Fellow Deptarment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC San Diego

Dr. Ndao is a recipient of many prestigious awards, including the 2023 Beckman Young Investigator Award, Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, 2023 Boston University ECE, Outstanding Teaching Award, 2023 Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award, 2022 Sculpted Light in the Brain Innovation Grant, 2022 Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award, 2022 Boston University ECE Outstanding Faculty Committee Service Award, 2021 Reidy Family Career Development Professorship. “the very best young faculty”, 2021 Rising Star of Light by Nature’s Light Science and Applications journal, 2020 Top 50 Chemistry and Materials Sciences Articles, 2018 Best oral presentation, 6th Annual UC San Diego Postdoctoral Research Symposium, 2018 Gordon Research Travel, 2017 Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of 2017 : first topological laser, 2017 Triton Innovation Challenge grand prize winner for Lidar applications, 2017 Prize winner of Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at UC San Diego, 2014 Ph.D. candidate, obtained with awards: Jury’s congratulations, 2011 – 2014 Ministry Research Fellowship to name a few. His research interests span wide-ranging topics in photonics, material sciences, and physics..

Post Doctoral Researcher

Asad Nauman

Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

M. Waleed Khalid

Graduate Student

Sina M. Baharlou

Graduate Student

Guli Gulinihali

Graduate Student

Christopher Mekhiel

Graduate Student

Alumni

  • Jeongho Ha (Ph.D.)
  • Alon Pavlov (Master's)
  • Jay Sun (Undergraduate)
  • Guang Yang (Ph.D.)
  • LiYi Hsu (Postdoc)