Group leader
Tobias J. Kippenberg is Full Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at EPFL and leads the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements. He obtained his BA at the RWTH Aachen, and MA and PhD at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech in Pasadena, USA).
Curriculum Vitae – List of Talks
Scientific contributions:
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PH D3 355 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
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Office: PH D3 355
Administrative Staff
Administrator , Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (STI/SB)
EPFL SB IPHYS LPQM1
PH D3 354 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
[email protected]
+41 21 693 44 52
Office: PH D3 354
Grant Manager , Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (STI/SB)
EPFL SB IPHYS LPQM1
PH D3 354 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
CH-1015 Lausanne
[email protected]
+41 21 693 44 17
Office: PH D3 354
Laboratory Manager
Biographie
Post-doctoral researchers
Biography
Simone Bianconi is a postdoctoral scholar at EPFL in the group of Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements. His research interests focus on leveraging integrated photonics for laser ranging and sensing (e.g. LiDAR).
He was previously at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Microdevices Laboratory, where he worked on the research and development of innovative LiDAR and quantum sensing instrumentations.
He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in 2021, with a thesis on novel devices for infrared detection and imaging, which was awarded the “Best PhD dissertation” departmental award.
Biography
Andrey Gelash is a postdoctoral scholar at EPFL in the group of Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements. He is an expert in the physics of nonlinear waves and the theory of solitons. In K-lab, his studies focus on dissipative optical structures, integrated photonics, and developing efficient numerical algorithms. Previously, Andrey Gelash was Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (Dijon, France) and senior researcher at Skoltech (Moscow, Russia) as well as Institute of Automation and Electrometry (Novosibirsk, Russia). He graduated from the Physical Department of Novosibirsk State University and obtained his Ph.D. from L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Moscow, Russia). In 2021, he was awarded the Medal of the Russian Academy of Science for Young Researchers.
Fields of expertise
Integrated nonlinear photonics, microcombs, optical computing, and structured light.
Education
Jianqi Hu received the B.E. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2016, and the PhD degree from EPFL in the group of Prof. Camille-Sophie Brès in 2021 and continued as a postdoc from 2021 to 2022. After that, he was an SNF postdoc fellow from 2022 to 2023 in the group of Prof. Sylvain Gigan at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France. Currently, Jianqi is a postdoc researcher at EPFL in the group of Prof. Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements.
Education
PhD
Applied Physics
Stanford University
2021
BASc
Engineering Science
University of Toronto
2015
Fields of expertise
Biography
Education
Doctor
Engineering
Applied physics, The University of Tokyo
25.03.2019
Master
Engineering
Applied physics, The University of Tokyo
24.03.2016
Bachelor
Engineering
Applied physics, The University of Tokyo
25.03.2014
Awards
The 12th Ohbu Researcher Incentive Award
Applications of waveguide quantum electrodynamics in superconducting quantum information processing
17.03.2021
The 15th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
Quantum control and measurement of itinerant microwave photons using superconducting quantum circuits
13.03.2021
The 37th Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
Quantum measurement of itinerant microwave photons using superconducting circuits
04.02.2021
Fields of expertise
Biography
Ph.D. Physics (2019), Moscow State University, Russia
Optical frequency combs and solitons in microresonators.
M.Sc. Physics (2014), Moscow State University, Russia
Research interests
Photonic integrated circuits, terahertz optoelectronics, terahertz imaging systems.
Biography
Xurong Li received B.S. degree from Peking University in 2016. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Prof. Mona Jarrahi’s group in 2018 and 2022, respectively, working on terahertz optoelectronics and systems. He continued as a postdoc scholar in the same group from January 2023 to May 2024. Xurong joined the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM) in EPFL as a postdoctoral researcher in June 2024.
Fields of expertise
Education
PhD
Design, fabrication and measurement of quantum devices based on superconducting circuits
Chalmers University
2016-2021
Citizenship: Russian
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-1076
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Fields of expertise
Professional course
Senior Research Fellow
Russian Quantum Center
06.2016-09.2020
Co-founder of Startup Company, CTO
ShareCloth
01.2014-12.2015
Part-time Researcher
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
01.2017-12.2018
Education
Spesialist
Physics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
09.2006-01.2012
Graduate Student
Lomonosov Moscow State University
03.2012-06.2016
Summer Internship
University of Southern California
06.2011-09.2011
Yi Xia obtained his Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. His Ph.D. research focused on distributed quantum sensing with continuous-variable multipartite entangled states and quantum machine learning under the supervision of Prof. Zheshen Zhang. Then he stayed in the same group working on entanglement-enhanced optomechanical sensing in collaboration with Prof. Dalziel Wilson. Upon joining the LPQM at EPFL, he works on quantum optomechanics with ultra-coherent mechanical oscillators.
Education
PhD
Optical Sciences
University of Arizona
Fields of expertise
Education
PhD
Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019
MS
Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
BS
Electronics Science & Technology
Zhejiang University
2011
Yanfen Zhai is a scientist with a Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include photonics and monolithic integration of MEMS (piezoelectric MEMS and electrostatic MEMS), on-chip integration of THz sources, on-chip integration of Mid-infrared CO2, and on-chip integration of quantum single-photon sources.
From 2021 to 2023, she worked as a Senior Scientist at Silicon Austria Labs GmbH in Austria, where she co-led several projects involving on-chip photoacoustic sensors (design + fabrication), dual-frequency piezoelectric MEMS microphones(fabrication), high-performance PMUTs (fabrication), high spectral-ratio α-Si columns for CO2 sensors(fabrication), Piezo Micromirror + Metasurfce (part design + fab). She also designed photonic crystal-coupled plasma waveguides and participated as main applicant in several funded projects such as SFB, European Horizons and FFG.
From 2019 to 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher at KAUST, where she worked on on-chip integrated graphene-resonators and advanced THz sources. She also contributed to the reverse design of plasma metasurfaces and fabrication of MEMS and metasurfaces for 3D imaging.
From 2017 to 2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher at KTH in Sweden, where she collaborated with Senseair AB and AKM Corp. to quantify mid-infrared waveguide transmission loss and optimize on-chip integrated CO2 sensors.
From 2016 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Tohoku University in Japan, where she worked on Huawei’s project on on-chip integrated MEMS optical switch arrays.
During her Ph.D. studies at Tsinghua University, Yanfen Zhai pioneered the study of chalcogenide glass (ChG) waveguides and their quantum applications, culminating in the creation of a high-quality quantum single photon source at room temperature.
Biography
Yichi Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of california, Davis in 2023. His PhD research focus is photonic integrated circuits for optical sensing and communication. Currently, Yichi Zhang is a postdoc researcher at EPFL in the group of Prof. Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements.
Scientific Assistants
Doctoral students
Research interests
Education
Thesis: Room temperature cavity optomechanics with high cooperativity systems
B.Sc. in Physics at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2018
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2018
Biography
Education
Bachelor | Physics | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | 2018 – 2021
Education
Bachelor in Engineering Sciences
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
2013-2016
Master in Engineering Physics
Double degree program.
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
2016-2018
Master in Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics
Double degree program. Master thesis under the supervision of Professor Junko Hayase : “Quantum state tomography of ultrafast optical pulses at telecom wavelength by broadband balanced homodyne detection”
Keio University, Japan
2017-2019
Education
MSc in Electrical Engineering
Microwave and Optical Communications Major
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Sep 2017-Dec 2019
BSc in Electrical Engineering
Communications Major
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Sep 2013-Sep 2017
Biography
Xiaoyi Cheng is a doctoral student with a background in AMO physics from USTC. Prior to joining LPQM, he concentrated on free-space optical field modulation. His current research interests include quantum cavity electro-optics in the field of integrated photonics.
Education
Bachelor | Physics | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | 2020 – 2024
Education
2019-2021 MSc in Photonics and Quantum Materials, nanomaterials application for nonlinear optics, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
2015-2019 BSc in Physics, Department of theoretical physics, particles and field theory, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Fields of expertise
Nonlinear optics, lasers, optical frequency combs
Fields of expertise
Biography
Education
Master
Applied Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2019 – 2021
Bachelor
Applied Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2015 – 2019
Biography
Education
Master Degree in Physics, EPFL 2019-2021
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
Wuhan University 2015-2019
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 2017-2019
Education
Master Degree in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 2022
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 2016-2020
Graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor’s degree in optics. Currently working on LiNbO3 integrated photonic device and related nanofabrication technology.
Education
Master’s Degree in Microengineering
EPFL 2021-2023
Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Science and Technology
Zhejiang University 2017-2021
Education
Bachelor of Science
Mathematics and Physics
Tsinghua University, Beijing
2019
Biography
Biography
Citizenship: Indian
Fields of expertise
Biography
- Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics (B.Tech) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati
- Master of Technology in Applied Optics (M.Tech) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
Fields of expertise
Biography
Education
Bachelor of Science
Physics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
2014 – 2018
Master of Science
Quantum Electronics and Quantum Optics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
2018 – 2020
Awards
R. V. Khokhlov Award
given to the Radiophysics students who demonstrated outstanding academic achievements during their studies
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
OSA Best Poster Award
given the best poster presentatations held on the Summer School on Topological Photonics (2019)
Biography
Junyin Zhang graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a graduation project on inertial electrostatic confinement fusion. Before joining LPQM he was fascinated by several research topics, including the combination of machine learning and statistical physics, and optomechanics like Brillouin scattering.
Biography
Shuhang Zheng is a PhD student with a background in opto-electronic science and engineering from Zhejiang University. Before joining LPQM he was fascinated by several research topics, including optical phased array with LNOI and algorithms on place recognition for automous driving. Now, his research interests include quantum cavity electro-optics. and the application of ferroelectric materials at cryogenic temperatures.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (2020-2024)
Major: Opto-electronic Science and Engineering
University: Zhejiang University
Fields of expertise
Biography
Since 2021, Alessio is Ph.D. student at EPFL in the group of Tobias Kippenberg at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (K-Lab).
Education
BSc in Physics
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2016-2019
MSc in Theoretical Physics
Master’s Degree in Theoretical Physics, with emphasis on QED, QFT and General Relativity topics.
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2019-2021