Ivan Temnykh AEP '08: Follow your passion
Ivan Temnykh, AEP '08, pursues his passion using knowledge gained as an engineering physics major A: Your career path after Cornell took an interesting turn. Please tell us about it. A: After... Read more
Ivan Temnykh, AEP '08, pursues his passion using knowledge gained as an engineering physics major A: Your career path after Cornell took an interesting turn. Please tell us about it. A: After... Read more
Why Cornell, and why AEP in particular? I came to Cornell for its engineering program, the engineering project teams and the beautiful campus. I initially thought I wanted to major in mechanical... Read more
Why Cornell, and why AEP in particular? My interest in physics was sparked by my high school physics teacher and the exciting demonstrations in physics class. I chose Cornell—and AEP in particular... Read more
Gloria Davidova, an AEP senior, has recently been named one of Optica's 2023 Optica Women Scholars . This prestigious and highly competitive award recognizes 20 exceptional students worldwide. The... Read more
Kara Zielinski is a 4th-year Ph.D. student who is working to better understand life’s essential processes by developing technology to capture interactions between biological molecules. She is a member... Read more
Assistant Professor, Applied and Engineering Physics Academic focus: Condensed matter physics, quantum materials, ultrafast/nonlinear optics, thin films and interfaces Research summary: My research... Read more
Yandong Li is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Gennady Shvets’ group who focuses on topological photonics, a new field that is inspired by condensed-matter physics and explores how to robustly control the... Read more
Winner of the Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize from JOSA B, a prize that recognizes "a student or early-career researcher (within five years of earning their highest degree) who is the first author of a paper that a committee of JOSA B editors judges to be outstanding," Yi-Hao Chen will receive his award in October 2022. Read more
Congratulations to our graduating class of 2022! View and download graduation day photos taken by our staff photographer on our Flickr site , or purchase this photo (and others) taken by our... Read more
When Zui Tao was in elementary school in Hefei, China she was obsessed with magic. She practiced tricks every day and performed a magic show each year at her school’s New Year Festival. But that all... Read more