Visiting Researchers
| Dr. Matthew Halsall | University of Manchester | Summer 2006 | |
| Hartmut Roskos | Universitat Frankfurt Am Main | Spring/Summer 2005 | |
| Prof. Martin Koch | Technische Universitat Braunschweig | 2003 | |
| Dr. Junichiro Kono | Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Rice University | ||
| Dr. Karl Unterrainer | Technical University, Vienna | ||
| Prof. Chris Phillips | Imperial College, London | ||
 | Philippe Boucaud | l’Institut d’electronique Fondamentale, Grenoble, France | |
 | James Heyman | Professor, Physics Department, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN | 2004 |
Former Postdocs
 | Antonin (Tonda) Sojka | Lidar Engineer, Honeywell | 2025 |
 | Xiaoling (Cocoa) Wang | Assistant Professor, CSU East Bay | 2021 |
 | Marzieh Kavand | Research Associate, The Ohio State University | 2020 |
 | Mengchen Huang | 2017 | |
 | Nutan Guatam | JDSU, Milpitas CA | 2014 |
| Brian Youngblood | Lecturer, UCSB | 2015 | |
| Mattias Fehr | 2013-2014 | ||
 | Vinh Quang Nguyen | Assistant Professor, Virginia Institute of Technology, Blacksburg, VA | 2012 |
 | Sascha Preu | Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-NurembergChair of Applied Physics [Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Physik] Staudstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen Germany | 2011 |
 | Susumu Takahashi | University of Southern California | 2010 |
 | Ethan Pratt | 2009-2010 | |
 | Dominik Stehr | Staff Scientist, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf | 2007-2009 |
 | Brendan Serapiglia | Law Student, Southwestern | 2004 |
 | Victoria Ciulin | Reseacher, Dept. of Chem, University of Aarhus, Denmark | 2004 |
 | Tom King | Industrial Physicist – High Temperature Superconductors, New Zealand | 2002 |
 | Bryan Cole | Toshiba Research Lab, Cambridge | |
 | Frank Hegmann | Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |
| James Heyman | Professor,Physics Department, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN |
Graduated Ph.D. Students
 | Brad Price | Staff Scientist, University of Washington (ARGON National Labs) | 2025 |
 | Seamus D. O’Hara | Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania | 2023 |
 | Joseph Costello | Exponent, Menlo Park, CA | 2023 |
 | Changyun Yoo | Postdoc, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA | 2022 |
 | Blake Wilson | National Institute of Health (NIH), MD | 2019 |
 | Darren Valovcin | Mathworks, MA | 2019 |
 | Jessica Clayton | Design Verification Test Engineer, Karl Storz, Goleta CA | 2017 |
 | Jonathan Essen | 2017 | |
 | Hunter Banks | US Office of Naval Research | 2017 |
| Devin Edwards | Postdoc, University of Colorado Boulder | 2012 | |
 | Ben Zaks | Product Engineer, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA | 2012 |
 | Chris Morris | Postdoc, Physics department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA | 2011 |
 | Cristo Yee | Posdoc, Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City | 2009 |
 | Sang-Woo Kim | Staff Scientist, Tanner Research | 2009 |
 | Dan Allen | Staff Researcher, Sandia National Laboratory | 2008 |
 | Nathan Jukam | Postdoc, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France | 2006 |
 | Kohl Gill | Serving a one year democratic mission in India | 2005 |
 | Sam Carter | Staff Scientist, Naval Research Lab | 2004 |
 | Matt Doty | Post-Doctoral Scholar, Naval Reasearch Labs | 2004 |
 | Mark Su | Staff Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2001 |
 | Jon Williams | Post-Doctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology | |
 | Carey Cates | Electro-Optical Engineer, Lockheed-Martin | 2002 |
| John Cerne | Associate Professor, University at Buffalo | 1996 | |
| Brian Galdrikian | Senior Software Engineer, Mathengine, Inc. | ||
| Keith Craig | William Bewley Staff member, Naval Research Lab | ||
| Chris Felix | Staff member, Naval Research Lab | ||
| John Plombon | Staff member, Surface Interface | ||
| Andrea Markelz | Associate Professor, University at Buffalo | 1995 | |
| Jeremy Levy | Professor, University of Pittsburgh | 1993 |
Graduated Bachelors/Visiting Students
 | Angie Yao | 2024 | |
 | Jeffrey Wang | 2024 | |
 | Leonardo Ramirez-Mireles | 2024 | |
 | Leila Elrgdawy | 2024 | |
 | Miranda Claypool | 2022 – 2024 | |
 | Lucas Lau | 2022 – 2024 | |
| Robert Krumland-Dunning | 2022 – 2024 | ||
| Lillia Hammond | 2023 | ||
 | Audri Sewal | 2020-2021 | |
 | Cameron Cannon | 2020-2021 | |
 | Juntian (Oliver) Tu | 2020-2021 | |
 | Alex Penzaloza | 2017-2019 | |
| Simon Lange | 2019 | ||
 | Yuanqi Lyu | 2017-2018 | |
 | Carmen Roelcke | 2018 | |
 | Sam Aronson | 2015-2017 | |
 | Michael Balcewicz | 2015-2017 | |
| Clara Di | 2016 | ||
 | Sophia Han | 2016 | |
 | Ben Jargowsky | 2017 | |
 | Sijia Zhao | 2016 | |
 | Andrew Pierce | Harvard University | 2012-2015 |
| Mary Lou Bailey | Yale University | 2012-2015 | |
 | Nana Shumiya | Visiting student from University of California, Berkeley | 2014 |
| Aaron Ma | University of California, San Diego | 2014-2015 | |
 | Aaron Simon | 2015 | |
 | Brad Katz | 2015 | |
 | Dominik Peller | Visiting student from Regensburg University | 2014 |
| Andrea Hofmann | Visiting student from Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich | 2013 | |
| Allegra Lattimer | Stanford University | 2013-2014 | |
| George Kontsevich | |||
| Nico Krauss | Visiting student from University of Konstanz, Germany | 2009-2010 | |
| Sahar El Abbadi | REU student | Summer 2009 | |
| Stephen Parham | University of Colorado | 2008 | |
| Kiyo Akabori | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2007 | |
| Melissa Anholm | University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | 2007 | |
| James Less | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne | 2005 | |
| Tristan Rocheleau | Cornell | 2005 | |
| Nicholas Moskovic | University of Hawaii | 2003 | |
| Sachin Patel | |||
| Xerxes Lopez-Yglesias | Caltech | ||
| Sean Roy | Stanford | ||
| Andrew Rothfuss | |||
| Greg Maskel | Cornell | ||
| Kevin Sparkman | Hughes | ||
| Basil Sabbah | |||
| Suzanne Kyre | UCSB-high-energy physics | ||
| Jeremiah Pope |