Principal Investigator
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Principal Investigator
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Ofer Levi
Lab Supervisor
E-mail: ofer (dot) levi (at) utoronto (dot) ca
“I feel very fortunate to do what I love for work, and engage everyday with enthusiastic and motivated students and postdocs.”
Graduate Students
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Matthew Downing
Graduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
E-mail: matthew (dot) downing (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Dylan Dao
Graduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
E-mail: dylan (dot) dao (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Jie Jiao
Graduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
E-mail: jie (dot) jiao (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Sarvath Sharma
Graduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
E-mail: sarvath (dot) sharma (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Sidy Ndiongue
Graduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
E-mail: sidy (dot) ndiongue (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
Undergraduate Students
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Maria Betty
Undergraduate Student – Engineering Science
E-mail: maria (dot) betty (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Terrisa Zong
Undergraduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
t (dot) zong (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Deni Straus
Undergraduate Student – Engineering Science
E-mail: deni (dot) straus (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
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Matthew Oliveira
Undergraduate Student – Engineering Science
E-mail: matthewhonorio (dot) oliveira (at) mail (dot) utoronto (dot) ca
Alumni
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Lindsay Kuramoto
Graduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Eric Zhu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Now AR Hardware Engineer at Google
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Ryan Chu
Graduate Student (MHSc) – Clinical Engineering
Now Software Engineer at SBI ALAPharma
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Jackson Russett
Undergraduate Student – Engineering Science
Now MASc Candidate at UofT
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Dene Ringuette
Graduate Student (PhD)
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Senior Bioinformatics Analyst at Donald K. Johnson Eye Institute (UHN)
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Joshua Lockwood
Graduate Student
Now Software Engineer at Kindred
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Soroosh Ahmadi
Graduate Student
Now Senior Software Engineer at Wave HQ
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Cory Rewcastle
Graduate Student
Now Lead Fabrication and Device Specialist at TransEON Inc.
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Raanan Gad
Postdoctoral Researcher
Project: Nanobiosensing and Neurophotonics
Now Senior Physicist (Israel)
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Suzie Dufour
Postdoctoral Researcher
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Solutions Manager for BioMedTech at INO
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Yaaseen Atchia
Graduate Student
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Software Engineer at Amazon
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Iliya Sigal
Graduate Student (PhD)
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Sr. Design Engineer at ASML
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Costa Nicholau
Graduate Student
Project: Nanophotonics
Now Technical Consultant at Salytics Inc.
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Hooman Akhavan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Project: Nanobiosensing
Now Senior Optical Scientist at Voxtel Inc.
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Deniz Aydin
Graduate Student
Project: Nanobiosensing
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Ryan Schilling
Graduate Student
Project: Nanobiosensing
Now Research Scientist at Corning Inc.
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Apoorva Srivastava
Undergraduate Student – Electrical & Computer Engineering
Project: Remote Vital Sign Monitoring
Now Software Engineer at Citi
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Justin Wee
Undergraduate Student
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Resident at Schulich – General Surgery
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Kai Li
Undergraduate Student
Project: Nanobiosensing
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Adam Pan
Undergraduate Student
Project: Nanobiosensing
Now Associate at Williams & Connolly LLP
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Xiaofan Jin
Undergraduate Student
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Postdoc at UCSF
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Hart Levy
Graduate Student
Project: Neurophotonics
Now Imaging & Computer Vision Engineer at Google
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Mohamed El Beheiry
Graduate Student
Project: Nanobiosensing
Now Co-Founder / CTO at AVATAR MEDICAL
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Elizabeth Munro
Graduate Student
Project: Neurophotonics
Now COO at Ironstone Product Development
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Kelvin So
Project: Neurophotonics