RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS

KAREN CANAAN

Administrative Assistant

Email: kc3387@columbia.edu

MICHAEL DAPOLITO

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Nano-optics technique development 2D materials.

Email: md4108@columbia.edu

YINAN DONG

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Cryogenic scanning nearfield techniques, quasiparticle behavior under high bias, exciton and phonons in special Van der Waals materials.

Email: yd2400@columbia.edu

HALEY ELLANT

Barnard College

Email : hre2110@barnard.edu


MATTHEW FU

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Nano-optics of excitons in 2D heterostructures and development of nano-optic techniques

Email : mf3364@columbia.edu

NEIL HAZRA

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Nano-optical properties of vdW materials

Email : nh2792@columbia.edu

YUNFEI HUANG

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Ultrafast transportation, optoelectronics

Email: yg3527@columbia.edu

YUCHEN LIN

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Time-resolved nano-imaging and spectroscopy

Email : yl5341@columbia.edu


ANNA MA

Undergraduate Student

Computer Support & Information Services Assistant

Email : sm5157@columbia.edu

SAMUEL MOORE

Graduate Student

Research interests: Near-field modifications of optical transition spectra, ultrafast/non-equilibrium near-field phenomena.

Email : slm2236@columbia.edu

FRANK RUTA

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Near-field optics of materials with highly anisotropic dielectric tensors or polariton modes with tunable isofrequency topology or coupling

Email:  f.ruta@columbia.edu

YIFAN SU

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Email : ys3945@columbia.edu


FUYANG TAY

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Email : ft2623@columbia.edu

ROCCO VITALONE

Graduate Student

Research Interests: Correlated Electron Systems

Email : rav2140@columbia.edu

ROCCO VITALONE

Graduate Student

Research Interests: THz nano-imaging and nano-spectroscopy, ultrafast optics, and machine learning

Email: sx2277@columbia.edu