Group Leader
 

Sergey Ponomarenko

Ph.D., University of Rochester, USA

Email: serpo@dal.ca

Telephone: (902) 494 - 3270

Fax: (902) 422 - 7535

 
Postdoctoral Fellows

Davud Hebri

Starting Date: December 2022

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Wave revivals, space-time coupled light, singular optics, diffractive optics

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Ph.D. Candidates
 

Saad Alhadlaq

Starting Date: July 2021

Research Interests: Rogue waves and extreme events in oceans and optical fibers

Email: s.alhadlaq@dal.ca

 

Sajjad Bashiri

Starting Date: January 2022

Research Interests: Self-similarity and multi-fractality in nonlinear optics, application of machine learning to optical pattern identification

Email: s.bashiri@dal.ca

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Morteza Hajati

Killam Predoctoral Fellow

Starting Date: January 2019

Research Interests: Atmospheric Turbulence and Plasmonics

Email: mhajati@dal.ca

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Xiaofei Li

Starting Date: October 2022

Joint Ph.D (JPD) candidate, Dalhousie University & Shandong Normal University, China

Research Interests: Self-similarity and similariton fiber lasers

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Visiting Graduate Students
 

Zhiheng Xu

Starting Date: September 2018

Research Interests: Free space optical communications with structured random light

Email: zhihengxuahax@hotmail.com

 
Alumni
 

Chunhao Liang, PhD, 2016-2019

  Currently an associate professor at Shandong Normal University, China

Yashar Monfared, PhD, 2014-2018

  Currently a lead scientist, joint appointment between Dalhousie and Columbia University, USA

Franklin Che, PhD, 2011-2017

  Currently corporate scientist with BlueLight Analytics, Halifax, NS, Canada

Hitesh Yadav, MSc, 2012-2017

  Currently technician with Best Buy, Halifax, NS, Canada

Nimisha Subash, MSc, 2014-2016

  Currently project manager with Andra Motion Focus Technologies & Systems, Halifax, NS, Canada

Laleh Mokhtarpour, PhD, 2011-2016

  Currently an optical scientist at 3E Nano Inc., Oakville, ON, Canada

Shunchuan Yang, PhD, 2012-2015

  Currently an associate professor at Beihang University, China

Liyuan Ma, MSc, 2012-2015

  Currently at IBM Halifax, NS, Canada

Hao Cheng, MSc, 2012-2015

  Currently a technician at Comsale Company Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada

Luyu Wang, MSc, 2011-2013

  Currently Research Engineer at Borealis AI, Toronto, ON, Canada

Soodeh Haghgoo, PhD, 2008-2012

  Currently a staff embedded software engineer at Rivian, San Francisco, USA

Gazi Habiba Akter, MSc, 2008-2011

  Currently at Intelligent Dynamics Canada, LTD and, Research Associate, NSCC Applied Research, Halifax, NS, Canada

Montasir Qasymeh, PhD, 2005-2010

  Currently full professor at Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates

Mengdi Li, MSc, 2005-2008

 Currently at OZ Optics, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Weihong Huang, PDF, 2006-2008

 Currently a Medical Physicist at Eastern Health, St. John’s, NL, Canada