ESE PhD Alumni

• MEMS Development Engineer at SiTime
• Advisor: Professor Troy Olsso
• Thesis Title: Multiferroic Resonators for Wireless Power Transfer and Magnetic Field Sensing in Biomedical Systems
• Graduation Year: 2025

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BIOTICS Lab

• Postdoc at Institute Photovoltaïque d’Île de France
• Advisor: Professor Deep Jariwala
• Thesis Title: Novel van der Waals Chalcogenides for Sustainable Light Harvesting
• Graduation year: 2025

• Position: Controls Engineer – Legged Loco-Manipulation at Ghost Robotics
• Advisor: Professor George J. Pappas
• Thesis Title: Symmetries-infused safe & scalable multi-robot policies
• Graduation Year: 2026

Robert Broberg

Advisor: Prof. Lee C. Bassett

Thesis Title: QUANTUM INTEGRATED NETWORK TIMING 

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

Graduation Year: 2025

Quantum Engineering Laboratory

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• Senior Guidance & Control Engineer at DSO National Labs
• Advisor: Professor George Pappas and Professor M. Ani Hsieh
• Thesis Title: Learning-based Model Predictive Control for Aerial Vehicles
• Graduation Year: 2025

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ScalAR Lab

• Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State
• Advisor: Professor Alejandro Ribeiro
• Thesis Title: Graph Neural Networks for Communication in Multi-Agent Systems
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Alelab /āl·lab/

Advisor: Prof. Troy Olsson

Thesis Title: Magnetostatic Surface Wave and Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Tunable and Energy Efficient Radio Frequency Filters

Position: Chief Technology Officer, OneFiltr 

Graduation Year: 20225

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• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
• Advisor: Professor Nader Engheta
• Thesis Title: Wave Interaction with Nonreciprocal Swift-Electron Platforms and Reconfigurable Metasurfaces
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Engheta Group

Advisor: Professor Liang Feng

Thesis: Non-Hermiticity-Driven Photonic Switching: Ultrafast Routing and Robust Power Transfer

Position: Photonics Engineer at Lightmatter

Graduation Year: 2026

Feng Group

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• MEMS Development Engineer II
• Advisor: Professor Troy Olsson
• Thesis Title: Piezoelectric Resonators and Filters Based on Periodically Polarized AlScN and Low-Jitter Temperature-Compensated AlN Oscillators
• Graduation Year: 2026

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BIOTICS Lab

• Engineer at Atomic Semiconductor
• Advisor: Professor Marc Miskin
• Thesis Title: Towards General Microscopic Robots
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Miskin Lab

• Member of Technical Staff at Princeton Innotech
• Advisor: Professor Marc Miskin
• Thesis Title: Microscopic Surface Electrochemical Actuators for Voltage-Tunable Optical Elements
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Miskin Lab

Advisor: Prof. Daniel Koditschek 

Thesis Title:Spatial Compositions for Agile Quadrupedal Locomotion 

Position: Controls Engineer at Ghost Robotics 

Graduation Year: 2026

Kod*lab

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• Principle Photolithography Sustaining Engineer at Northrop Grumman
• Advisor: Professor Cherie Kagan
• Thesis Title: Tunable Dielectric Nanocrystal Metasurfaces for Colorimetric Sensing
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Kagan Group

• Postdoctoral Fellow at the ETH AI Center
• Advisor: Professor Nikolai Matni
• Thesis Title: Statistical Limits and Efficient Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Control
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Matni Group

• Research Scientist at JPMorganChase
• Advisor: Professor Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Professor Hamed Hassani
• Thesis Title: Neural Compression: Estimating and Achieving the Fundamental Limits
• Graduation Year: 2025

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• Postdoctoral Scholar in Professor Mark Brongersma’s group at Stanford University.
• Advisor: Professor Deep Jariwala
• Thesis Title: “Low-Dimensional Excitons for Electro-Optics”
• Graduation Year: 2026

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Device Research and Engineering Laboratory

• Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Advisor: Professor Nader Engheta
• Thesis Title: Inverse design for engineering complex light-matter interaction
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Engheta Group

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University
• Advisor: Professor Lee Bassett
• Thesis Title: Design and control of dynamical systems: a classical to quantum perspective
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Bassett Lab

• Research Scientist at Meta
• Advisor: Professor Alejandro Ribeiro
• Thesis Title: Machine Learning for Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Alelab /āl·lab/

• FPGA Architecture at AMD
• Advisor: Professor Andre DeHon
• Thesis Title: Software-like Incremental Refinement on FPGA using Partial Reconfiguration
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Implementation of Computation Group

• Photonics Engineer at Lightmatter
• Advisor: Professor Firooz Aflatouni
• Thesis Title: Energy-efficient Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Systems for the Next Generation of Optical Transceivers
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Electronic Photonic Microsystems Lab

• AI & Quantitative Finance Fellow at Nasdaq Inc.
• Advisor: Professor George Pappas
• Thesis Title: A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Optimization Algorithms
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Pappas Group

• Research Scientist at Google Deepmind
• Advisor: Professor Insup Lee
• Thesis Title: Training Adaptive and Sample-Efficient Autonomous Agents
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Precise Center

• Electrical Engineer, KLA
• Advisor: Professor Mark Allen
• Thesis title: Design and optimization of laminated metallic cores for high-frequency transformers and inductors
• Graduation year: 2026
  

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MicroSensors and MicroActuators Group

• Postdoctoral Fellow at HDSI, UC San Diego; Incoming Assistant Professor at ESE, Washington University in Saint Louis
• Advisor: Professor Alejandro Ribeiro
• Thesis Title: Manifold Filters and Neural Networks: Geometric Graph Signal Processing in the Limit
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Alelab /āl·lab/

• Quantitative Researcher at Point 72
• Advisor: Professor George Pappas
• Thesis title: Learning-based Safe and Robust Control for Multi-Agent Systems
• Graduation year: 2025

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• Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University
• Advisor: Professor Liang Feng
• Thesis Title: Twisted Photons: From Integrated Generation To Robust Teleportation
• Graduation Year: 2025

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Feng Group

Advisor: Professor Troy Olsson
Thesis Title: Co-Design of Resonators Piezoelectric Materials, and Acoustic Modes for
Timing, Communication, and Power Applications
Position: ASIC System Level Test Engineer at Google
Graduation Year: 2026

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