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
PhD student (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.
Henry Haig
PhD Student (tsh67)
Henry is interested in developing ultrafast fiber lasers for applications and in studying nonlinear spatiotemporal waves in multimode fiber.
Yishai Eisenberg
PhD Student (ye44)
Yishai hopes to learn new and old physics, then manipulate it to create new technologies. When he’s not working on that he enjoys hiking and doing nothing.
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.
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.
Past Members
Graduate Students:
| Name | Graduation | Experience | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Proctor | 1992 | Consultant, McKinsey and McKinsey | |
| Janet Machol | 1992 | Research Staff, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
| Mark Gitin | 1993 | Vice-President and General Manager, Diodes, Fibers and Systems Business Unit, Coherent Laser, Inc. Now Senior Vice-President and General Manager, MKS Instruments, Inc. | |
| Andrew Davidson | 1994 | Technical Staff Member, New Focus Corporation | |
| Todd Krauss | 1997 | Postdoctoral associate in Chemistry, Columbia University Now, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester | |
| Inuk Kang | 1998 | Postdoctoral Associate in Physics at University of California, Berkeley Now, Principal optical investigator LGS Innovations | |
| Sylvia Smolorz | 2000 | Research Scientist, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Berlin, Germany | |
| Xiang Liu | 2000 | Technical Staff Member, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel Now at Futurewei Technologies | |
| F. Ömer Ilday | 2004 | Postdoc at MIT Now, Professor of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey | Thesis |
| Kale Beckwitt | 2004 | Technical Staff Member, Intel Corporation | Thesis |
| Hyungsik Lim | 2005 | Postdoctoral Associate at Harvard Medical School Now, Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY, New York | |
| 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 | |
| Jeff Moses | 2008 | Postdoctoral Associate in MIT Now, Assistant Professor at Cornell University | |
| Lyuba Kuznetsova | 2008 | Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard University. Now, Associate Professor of Physics, San Diego State University | Thesis |
| Andy Chong | 2009 | Now, 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 | |
| Yuxing Tang | 2017 | Associate at Wells Fargo. Now, Research Scientist at Facebook | |
| Zhanwei Liu | 2017 | CoAdna Photonics | |
| Logan Wright | 2018 | Assistant professor at Yale University | |
| Walter Fu | 2019 | Scientist, Singular Genomics | |
| Zimu Zhu | 2019 | Optical Investigator, LGS Innovations (subsidiary of CACI) | |
| Michael Buttolph | 2022 | ||
| Yuhang Wu | 2023 | Photonics Industries |
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 Now, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 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 |