Frank Wise
Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering Applied and Engineering Physics
(607) 255-1184, fww1
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Frank Wise received a BS in Engineering Physics from Princeton University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Before PhD studies, he worked on advanced integrated circuits at Bell Laboratories. Since receiving the PhD in 1988, he has been on the faculty in Applied Physics at Cornell. From 2007 to 2011 he served as Director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics.
Current Members
Yi-Hao Chen
Post-doc (yc2368)
Loves judo, physics, and math. Also a practitioner of the principles of judo, seiryoku zen’yō (maximum efficiency, minimum effort) and jita kyōei (mutual welfare and benefit). He is currently working on nonlinear fiber optics hoping to make something different.
Wenchao Wang
Post-doc (ww498)
Wenchao’s previous research mainly focused on nonlinear dynamics and interesting physical phenomena in fiber lasers. Now he is committed to generating ultrafast lasers with high pulse energy through nonlinear amplification, to provide reliable light sources for scientific research and practical applications.
Varun Sharma
Post-doc (vs527@cornell.edu)
As a cycling enthusiast with a fervent love for soccer and badminton, I find joy and fulfillment in the outdoor sports. My academic pursuit in the realm of photonics focuses on the development of coherent sources of light, nonlinear optics and integrated photonics. I am particularly fascinated by the complexities of the multimodal nonlinear optics and interested in developing methods to generate, control and manipulate spatio-temporal degrees of freedom.
Myungjoon Kim
Post-doc (mk2689)
Myungjoon focuses on the inverse design of nonlinear multimode optical systems, developing advanced optical devices with enhanced or innovative functionalities through physics-informed machine learning. In his free time, he enjoys table tennis, reading, and watching basketball.
Nicholas Bender
Post-doc (neb78)
Nick’s interests revolve around using wavefront shaping to create and control complex light in free space and in disordered media.
Past Members
Graduate Students:
| Name | Graduation | Experience | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Proctor | 1992 | Consultant, McKinsey and McKinsey | Thesis |
| Janet Machol | 1992 | Research Staff, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Thesis |
| Mark Gitin | 1993 | Vice-President and General Manager, Diodes, Fibers and Systems Business Unit, Coherent Laser, Inc.; Senior Vice-President and General Manager, MKS Instruments, Inc.; Now, CEO of IPG Photonics | Thesis |
| Andrew Davidson | 1997 | Technical Staff Member, New Focus Corporation | Thesis |
| Todd Krauss | 1997 | Postdoctoral associate in Chemistry, Columbia University Now, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester | Thesis |
| Inuk Kang | 1998 | Postdoctoral Associate in Physics at University of California, Berkeley Now, Principal optical investigator LGS Innovations | Thesis |
| Sylvia Smolorz | 2000 | Research Scientist, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Berlin, Germany | Thesis |
| Xiang Liu | 2000 | Technical Staff Member, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel; Now, at Futurewei Technologies | Thesis |
| F. Ömer Ilday | 2004 | Postdoc at MIT; Professor of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey; Now, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Ruhr University (Bochum, Germany) | Thesis |
| Kale Beckwitt | 2004 | Technical Staff Member, Intel Corporation | Thesis |
| Hyungsik Lim | 2005 | Postdoctoral Associate at Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY, New York; Now, Professor, University of Indiana | Thesis |
| Jeffrey Harbold | 2005 | Technical Staff Member, The Aerospace Corporation | Thesis |
| Yi-Fan Chen | 2005 | Technical Staff Member, Intel Corporation; Now, Google | Thesis |
| Stephen Clark | 2006 | Colorado Laser | Thesis |
| Joel Buckley | 2006 | Sandia National Laboratories; Now, Senior Physics Engineer, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems | Thesis |
| Shian Zhou | 2007 | Research Scientist,SUNX Ltd. and Cornell University; Now, Gauss Laser, Shanghai, China | Thesis |
| Jeff Moses | 2008 | Postdoctoral Associate in MIT; Now, Assistant Professor at Cornell University | Thesis |
| Lyuba Kuznetsova | 2008 | Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard University; Now, Associate Professor of Physics, San Diego State University | Thesis |
| Andy Chong | 2009 | Professor at Pusan National University | Thesis |
| Adam Bartnik | 2010 | Staff scientist at Cornell Synchrotron, Cornell University | Thesis |
| Simon Lefrancois | 2012 | Post-doctoral research associate, CUDOS, University of Sydney; Now, Computer Analyst at Université de Montréal | Thesis |
| Heng Li | 2012 | Software engineering at VMware | Thesis |
| William Renninger | 2012 | Post-doctoral researcher, Yale University; Now, Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | Thesis |
| Hui Liu | 2013 | Post-doctoral researcher, Boston University; Now, scientist at Candela, Inc. | Thesis |
| Erin Lamb | 2015 | Postdoc at NIST, Boulder, Colorado Now at OFS | Thesis |
| Jun Yang | 2015 | Postdoc at Corning, Incorporated, Sullivan Park, NY; Now, Research Scientist, Corning, Incorporated | Thesis |
| Yuxing Tang | 2017 | Associate at Wells Fargo. Now, Research Scientist at Facebook | Thesis |
| Zhanwei Liu | 2017 | CoAdna Photonics | Thesis |
| Logan Wright | 2018 | Assistant professor at Yale University | Thesis |
| Walter Fu | 2019 | Scientist, Singular Genomics | Thesis |
| Zimu Zhu | 2019 | Optical Investigator, LGS Innovations (subsidiary of CACI) | Thesis |
| Michael Buttolph | 2022 | Thesis | |
| Yuhang Wu | 2023 | Photonics Industries; Now, Optical Test Engineer at OPTOFIDELITY | Thesis |
| Yi-Hao Chen | 2023 | Thesis | |
| Henry Haig | 2024 | Founder – Oscillate Photonics | |
| Yishai Eisenberg | 2025 |
Postdoctoral Associates:
| NAME | EXPERIENCE |
|---|---|
| Yang (Henry) Pang | Director of Engineering, Scientific Business Unit, Coherent Inc. Now, Chief Operating Officer,Lighthouse Photonics |
| Victor Yanovsky | Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan |
| Yung-Chun Lee | Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
| Liejia Qian | Professor,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China |
| Peer Fischer | Rowland Junior Fellow, Harvard University; Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany (alumni) |
| Khanh Kieu | Research Professor, Optical Sciences Center Now, Assistant Professor, Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona |
| Liangfeng Sun | Now, Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University |
| Luming Zhao | Professor, Jiangsu Normal University, China. Now, Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China |
| Byung-Ryool “Yul” Hyun | Now, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen |
| Haitao Zhang | Corning, Incorporated, Sullivan Park, NY Now, Research Scientist, Corning, Incorporated |
| Hamed Pourbeyram Kaleibar | Optical Engineer at Waymo |
| Pavel Sidorenko | Professor, Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Thulasi Srinivasan |