Mark C. Harrison

Mark is currently a PhD student at the University of Southern California studying Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in optical devices. Mark is a member of Dr. Andrea Armani's research group. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Computer Architecture and Controls from USC in May 2010. As an undergraduate, he performed research involving carbon nanotubes at USC with Dr. Steve Cronin. Mark's current research is focused on investigating novel uses for integrated optical waveguide devices. Aside from research, Mark enjoys several other recreational activities, such as snowoarding, disc golf, and playing his guitar.

September 2012: Mark's first publication, "Serpentine low loss trapezoidal silica waveguides on silicon", was publishedin Optics Express! Congrats to labmates Xiaomin Zhang and Audrey Harker, who were also authors on the paper.

June 2012: Mark completed a summer course in microfluidics at Brandeis University.

April 2012: Mark will be presenting a poster at USC's Graduate Student Government Poster Symposium entitled "Silica suspended waveguide splitter-based biosensor". Mark was selected (along with labmate Kelvin Kuo) to attend a summer course in microfluidics at Brandeis University.

March 2012: Mark has officially earned is Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from USC!

January 2012: Mark presented his research on biosensors in a talk titled "Silica suspended waveguide splitter-based biosensor" at SPIE Photonics West BIOS in San Francisco, CA.