Members

Lab PI

Hossein Taheri is an assistant research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). His areas of interest and expertise include nonlinear and ultrafast optics, synchronization phenomena and nonlinear dynamics, integrated photonics, and optical techniques for medical diagnosis. Prior to joining UCR, he was an R&D engineer at Foxconn Optical Interconnect Technology (now Broadcom Inc.) in San Jose CA, working on optical transceivers with a pioneering team which was previously part of organizations known as Avago Technologies, Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett Packard (HP) Optical Communications Division. He has been a consulting scientist with Bioxytech Retina, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was a research scientist at OEwaves Inc. in Pasadena CA, a JPL NASA spin-off company focused on microwave photonics products and the first to commercialize frequency comb generation in high-Q optical microresonators. He received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering with minor in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta GA, and his bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Tehran. His Ph.D. work focused on frequency comb and ultra-short pulse generation in optical microresonators with Kerr nonlinearity and on integrated photonic devices for on-chip optical data processing.

Project Scientist

Mohammadreza Ghasemkhani is a project scientist in the Light-Matter Nonlinear Interactions Laboratory. His areas of expertise include design and development of optical, electro-optical, and laser systems, and he has extensive hands-on experience in optical metrology, interferometry, spectroscopy and material characterization, nonlinear optics, laser frequency stabilization, and whispering gallery mode microresonators. Prior to his appointment at UCR, he was a member of technical staff at OEwaves Inc. in Pasadena CA. He earned his PhD at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque NM, where he worked on cavity-enhanced optical refrigeration and spectroscopy.

Adil Han Dogan is a visiting undergraduate researcher from the Electrical Engineering and Information Technology program at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He has worked as a technical assistant responsible for PCB design in various projects at the Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications Engineering at his home institution. In 2018, Adil interned at the Electrical Drives Division of Bosch Corporation in Yokohama in Japan. His research experience as a student includes numerical simulation of magnetic force and flux density in a magnetic gear and development of microcontrollers for remote control of model self-driving cars.

Buddy Okechukwu Ugwumba is an undergraduate student at UCR majoring in Electrical Engineering. Formerly, Buddy was a Peer Tutor and Supplemental Instructor/Mentor at Mt. San Jacinto College.

Melody Asghari is an undergraduate student at UCR majoring in Computer Engineering. She has extensive experience with C++ and object-oriented programming. Previously, she worked as a consultant for laser welding companies such as Amada Miyachi and Marman Industries.