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Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors

 

Denisa Demko

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Denisa assists Professor Daping Chu with administrative tasks related to the Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors. She received a BA Degree in Business Management from Nottingham and a Master’s degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. She worked as a process coordinator at Zeiss Microscopy, as a financial analyst at Bayer and in the financial sector in London.

 

Phoebe Gao

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Phoebe obtained BA and MEng degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in June 2019. Her dissertation (first-class) was on ‘Trap and Move Live Cells Using Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOT)’ under supervision of Prof. Daping Chu. She then joined the Photonic Devices and Sensors Group at the University of Cambridge in October 2019 to pursue her Ph.D. She is a member of Downing College.

 

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Ashutosh Tomar

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Ashutosh Tomar is a PhD student pioneering structural electronics research on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover. Jaguar Land Rover has already unveiled use of this technology as a world's first for next-generation in-car personalisation. Mr Tomar, who is also the Electrical Research Technical Manager at Jaguar Land Rover, has been working on the Lightweight Electronics in Simplified Architecture (LESA) research technology – converting and solving challenges to use technologies used in flexible wearables and curved OLED TVs, to make it robust for automotive industry. It has formed part of his PhD research, under the supervision of Professor Daping Chu, Director of both the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) and the Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors.

 

 

Yuan Tong

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Yuan received her BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester in 2016 and her MRes in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems from the University of Cambridge in 2017. She then joined the group in October 2017 to pursue her PhD. Her research topic is "Next Generation LCoS SLM for Novel Applications".

Yuan is a Jardine Scholar and a member of Peterhouse.

 

Peng Wang

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Peng Wang received his Bachelor’s degree (1st class honors) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham in 2015. After that, he enrolled in the Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems CDT in University of Cambridge and received a master degree in 2016. He joined the Centre for Photonic Devices and Sensors in October 2016. His research topic now is ‘Investigation of optical couplers for the application in optical bus systems for autonomous cars’.

 

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Weijie Wu

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Weijie Wu received his First-Class Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 2019, with a University Prize awarding the best academic performance in the department. In October 2019, he joined the Connected Photonic and Electronic Systems CDT in University College London and received a master degree in 2020. Right after that, he started his PhD study in Photonic Devices and Sensors Group at the University of Cambridge. His research topic is 'Next Generation Optically Addressed Spatial Light Modulators for 3D Holographic Display'. He is a member of Sidney Sussex College.

 

Xuewei Zhang

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Xuewei received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics department from the Shaanxi Normal University in 2017 and obtained her MRes degree in Chemistry department from the Imperial College London in 2018. She then joined the Photonic Devices and Sensors Group at the University of Cambridge in October 2019 to pursue her Ph.D. Her research area is in using density functional theory to predict properties of electronic materials.

Xuewei is a member of Churchill College.