Current Members

Tingjun Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of ECE & CS
Director of the FuNCtions Lab
Email: tingjun.chen [at] duke.edu

Wei Cheng

Ph.D. student (co-advised with Prof. Yiran Chen)
Email: wei.cheng [at] duke.edu

ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2025)

Zhihui Gao

Ph.D. student (co-advised with Prof. Yiran Chen)
Email: zhihui.gao [at] duke.edu

CUbiC Scholar Leadership Award (2024)

Mingzhe Han

Ph.D. student
Email: mingzhe.han [at] duke.edu

Yiming Li

Ph.D. student
Email: yiming.li416 [at] duke.edu

Zhenzhou Qi

Ph.D. student
Email: zhenzhou.qi [at] duke.edu

IEEE/Optica OFC’23 Top-Scored Paper, ACM SIGMOBILE Student Community Grant Award

Sam Rivera

Ph.D. student
Email: sam.rivera [at] duke.edu

Chung-Hsuan Tung

Ph.D. student
Email: chunghsuan.tung [at] duke.edu

CUbiC Scholar Leadership Award (2024)

Zehao Wang

Ph.D. student
Email: zehao.w [at] duke.edu

ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2025), IEEE/Optica OFC’24 Top-Scored Paper, IEEE/Optica OFC’24 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition Finalist, ECOC’23 Highest Scoring and Best Paper, IEEE/Optica OFC’23 Top-Scored Paper, ACM SIGMOBILE Student Community Grant Award

Yuncheng (Peter) Yao (co-advised with Prof. Danyang Zhuo)

Ph.D. student
Email: peter.yao [at] duke.edu

Junyao (Bill) Zheng

Ph.D. student
Email: junyao.zheng [at] duke.edu

Kelvin Zhang

ECE Undergraduate Student
Email: kelvin.zhang [at] duke.edu

Scarlett Francini

ECE Undergraduate Student
Email: scarlett.francini [at] duke.edu

Yi-Chyun Wong

ECE Undergraduate Student
Email: yichyun.wong [at] duke.edu