Colin Mitchell
Colin Mitchell received his PhD from UMIST in 2005 for work in strained and strain compensated materials for intersubband optical devices (QCL and QWIP). He is currently employed as a Research Fellow in the Silicon Photonics group at the University of Southampton. His work focuses mainly on laser integration (on-chip) with group IV materials and developing nanoparticle-enhanced rare earth-doped dielectric waveguide lasers. Other work include projects on the germanium platform for detection and optical integration across the infrared spectrum and systems for standoff detection.
He worked at The University of Manchester between 2005 and 2010 investigating materials for optical and high speed devices. He has also worked for Hyundai Semiconductors Europe and on projects with various industrial and government partners leading to professional qualifications in project management – Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). During his PhD he won an IEEE best conference paper for his work on high strained and strain compensated near infrared intersubband optical devices.
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Xia Chen
Dr. Xia (Ken) Chen is a senior research fellow at ORC, University of Southampton. Xia received his BEng and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 2006 and 2010, respectively. After graduation, he worked on the UK Silicon Photonic Project in University of Surrey and University of Southampton. In December 2013, he joined Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd as a Senior Engineer to work on photonic packaging for silicon photonic devices. In 2015, he rejoined University of Southampton. He was awarded the TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award in 2010, and the Newton International Fellowship by the Royal Society in 2011. He has authored or coauthored over 80 papers in technical journals and international conferences and 4 patent applications.
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Ke Li
Ke Li (M’10) received his MSc.degree in radio-frequency communications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic engineering from the University of Southampton U.K, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He has nine years (14 chips) silicon proven experience in fully customized analogue and microwave signals (>40Gb/s) CMOS IC design down to 28nm by using variety industry standard processes. He is currently a research fellow with the silicon photonics group in Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. He is also working with Wireless Communication Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science to investigate the physical implementation of fully parallel LDPC/Tuobe decoders. His Research interest includes design of high speed modulator driver and TIA circuit, modelling and design of ultra-wide band VCO and PLL circuit.
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Callum G. Littlejohns
Dr Callum Littlejohns completed his PhD in the field of Silicon Photonics at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton in March 2015, having previously obtained a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey. He has now begun his career as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, but remains part of the Silicon Photonics group as a visitor. He has a track record of excellence, having received multiple awards throughout his academic life, including the Information Overload category winner at the 2015 EPSRC ICT Pioneers Award and the runner-up prize in the Best Student Poster award at the 2014 Optoelectronics Research Centre Photonics Day. His work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals including Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group journal. His work was also selected as a prestigious post-deadline paper at the IEEE Group IV Photonics conference in Paris, 2014. The work completed during Callum’s PhD has been protected by two separate patents, both fully supported by the University of Southampton.
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Milan Milosevic
Dr. Milan Milosevic is a research fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, working on both industry and research council funded projects, led by Prof. Graham Reed. Previously he was working as an engineer and technology consultant in the US and Japan, and as a research fellow at the University of Surrey where he also obtained his PhD degree and received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Excellence in 2012. He is particularly involved in high speed optical transceiver technology and is one of the pioneers in mid-infrared silicon photonics technology for emerging applications.
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Milos Nedeljkovic
Milos is a research fellow in the Silicon Photonics group at the Optoelectronics Research Centre in the University of Southampton, working on the EPSRC funded project DzMIGRATIONdz, lead by Prof. Goran Mashanovich. His research is in the field of mid-infrared group-IV material photonics, focusing on integrated photonic devices with possible applications in a broad range of sensing related applications. He has authored or coauthored more than 80 papers in technical journals and international conferences. He was also selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore in 2014, and received the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering Dean’s Award for Early Career Excellence in 2015. He completed his Ph.D., entitled DzSilicon photonic modulators for the mid-infrareddz at the ORC in 2014, having started his PhD at the University of Surrey and moved to Southampton with the other members of the Silicon Photonics group in 2012. Previously he received his undergraduate Master’s degree in Communications Engineering from Durham University in 2009.
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Mehdi Banakar
Mehdi received his bachelor’s degree in 2005 and a Master degree with distinction from the University of Southampton in 2008. His PhD at University ofSouthampton was in DzSub-micron texturing for photovoltaic antireflection and light-trappingdz, he has explored 3 novel anti-reflection schemes based on sub-micron scale texturing of silicon and received his degree in 2015.He has a strongbackground in photovoltaic, extensive experience with micro/nanofabrication processes. Mehdi joined The Silicon photonic Group in 2015 to explore optical modulation/detection and integration.
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Xingzhao Yan
Xingzhao Yan received his B.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex and M.Sc. in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology from the School of Electronics and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton. From 2013 to 2017, he was working towards to his PhD in rare-earth-doped solid-state nanowire waveguide lasers with intensive cleanroom working experience. He joined the Silicon Photonics Group in July 2017 and is working with the CORNERSTONE project.
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Weiwei Zhang
Weiwei Zhang joined the group from September 2017 as research fellow, focusing on advanced silicon modulator design and fabrication. Previously, he received his B.S. from East China Normal University (Shanghai, 2012) and Master degree of nanoscience from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2013, now is École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay). From 2013, he joined the Center for NanoScience and Nanotechnology, University Paris Sud (University Paris Saclay) for his PhD/Postdoc under ANR POSISLOT project (Erbium-doped material hybrid integration, on-chip optical amplifier), and CARTOON FP7 project (Carbon nanotube photonic devices on silicon). His research fields include silicon photonic device design and fabrication, nanomaterial integration on chip and photoluminescence characterization, photonic/plasmonic cavities, slow light, sensing and nonlinear optics.
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Thalia Dominguez Bucio
Dr. Thalia Dominguez Bucio is a research fellow in the Silicon Photonics group at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton. She recieved her B.S degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico, 2012) and her M.Sc in photonic technologies from the University of Southampton (UK 2013). In 2018 she recieved her PhD degree for her thesis entitled "NH3-free PECVD Silicon Nitride for Photonic Applications" at the ORC. Her research interests lie in the development of new material platforms, particularly silicon nitride, for photonic applications.
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Dave Rowe
Dave is a research fellow in Silicon Photonics, specialising in clinical applications and microfluidic integration for mid-infrared spectroscopy. He joined the group in 2018, having previously spent five years in the Integrated Photonic Devices group at the ORC. He received his BEng in Electronic Engineering from Cardiff University in 2009. He completed his PhD (‘Microfluidic microwave resonant sensors’) between the Schools of Engineering and Pharmacy at Cardiff University in 2012. He has received various undergraduate and postgraduate awards including the 2011 Institute of Physics Mansell Davies Award.
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