Graduate Student
Ryan Baum earned both his B.S. (2024) and M.S. (2025) in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. While at UCSB, he designed and implemented an optical test setup to characterize high power heterojunction phototransistors. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he is a member of the Lightwave Research Laboratory. His research focuses on developing silicon photonic integrated circuits for scalable systems.