Lightwave Research Laboratory Research Group
Professor Keren Bergman (Principal Investigator)
Location: 805 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-2280
Fax: 212-854-2900
Keren Bergman is the primary investigator of the Lightwave Research Laboratory of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Aleksandr Biberman (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 803 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-5348
Fax: 212-854-2900
Aleksandr Biberman received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 2006, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 2008. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.
Aleksandr's research interests include silicon nanophotonic devices for networks-on-chip and inter-chip communication, photonic interconnection networks for chip multiprocessor architectures, optical networking in high-performance computing systems, as well as silicon photonic devices for parametric optical processes and systems.
Daniel Brunina (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 804 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-5874
Fax: 212-854-2900
Daniel Brunina received a B.S and M.S degree from Boston University in 2004 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 until 2008 he worked in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group doing chip integration, logic design, and microarchitecture in Boston, MA. His research interests include architectures for optics on chip and optical interconnection networks.
Johnnie Chan (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 817 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-0336
Fax: 212-854-2900
Johnnie Chan received his B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering in 2005 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, VA. His research interests include physical modeling of nano-photonic devices for on- and off-chip communications.
Ajay Garg (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 817 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-0336
Fax: 212-854-2900
Ajay Garg received his B.S. EE and B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering (with a minor in economics) from Rensselear Polytechnic University in Troy, NY in 2007. He is currently a PhD student at Columbia University with research interests that include interfacing optical networks to high performance computing.
Gilbert Hendry (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 817 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-0336
Fax: 212-854-2900
Gilbert Hendry obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY in 2007. Since then he has been a PhD student at Columbia University with a research focus on chip-scale optical interconnection networks for high performance architectures.
Caroline Lai (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 803 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-5348
Fax: 212-854-2900
Caroline Lai received the B.A.Sc. degree (with honours) in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2006, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 2008. Her research interests lie in optical packet switching networks and cross-layer communications for enhanced optical performance monitoring in optical networks.
Noam Ophir (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 804 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-5874
Fax: 212-854-2900
Noam Ophir received a B.Sc. with a concentration in Math & Physics from Hebrew University in 2002 and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 2006. He worked as a communications and signal processing engineer for I.N., Israel from 2002-2008. His research interests include silicon photonic devices and wave propagation in stochastic media.
Howard Wang (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 803 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-5348
Fax: 212-854-2900
Howard Wang received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (minoring in computer science and economics) from Columbia University in 2006 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2008. His research interests involve interfacing optical interconnection networks for high-performance computing.
Michael Wang (Ph.D. Candidate)
Location: 817 Schapiro CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-0336
Fax: 212-854-2900
Michael Wang graduated from Princeton University in 2008 with a BSE in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) and a Certificate Program in Finance. During his undergraduate years, his research interests included computer architecture and computer security. Currently, his research interests include architectures for photonic interconnection networks and parallel programming for high performance computing applications.