Rui Chen received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2015, the M.Sc. (with distinction) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the CPS group, University of Cambridge. His current research focuses on low power RF sensors, RF antenna design and localisation for passive devices. Rui is a CSC scholar, a member of Fitzwilliam College.

Outside of academia he likes rowing and his team won blades in May Bumps 2019.

Yupeng received his MRes degree in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems from the University of Cambridge in 2015. He joined the CPS group in 2016. His current research is about continuous-variable quantum secure communication. He is interested in both theory and experiment of quantum communication.

In his spare time, he plays football and enjoys watching documentaries.

Constanze Hantschmann joined CPS in 2016 as a PhD student supervised by Prof. Richard Penty and Prof. Ian White. Her current research focuses on Quantum Dot lasers monolithically integrated on Silicon for Silicon Photonics in collaboration with Prof. Huiyun Liu and Prof. Alwyn Seeds at University College London. Constanze receives PhD funding from Qualcomm Inc., and she is an honorary Cambridge Trust Vice Chancellor's and Kurt Hahn Trust scholar. She is a member of Hughes Hall, where she received the Peter Richards Award for her work as the college's Punt Club Admiral.

Prior to coming to Cambridge, she obtained the M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany. She gained research expertise working on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers under supervision of Prof. Dieter Bimberg and Prof. James Lott.

In her spare time, Constanze helps reschooling rescue and ex-race horses and enjoys outdoor activities and travelling.

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Yi Liu joined the CPS Group in 2018 as a PhD student. Prior to his arrival, Yi received an MRes degree in Integrated Photonics and Electronics System from University College London (UCL). In 2017, Yi received his B.Eng. degree from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. in 2017. His current research focuses on Visible Light Communication (VLC) system.

Zheng Liu received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. in 2017 and the M.Res. degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2018. He is currently a Ph.D student within the CPS group. His current research focuses on passive RFID localisation using mobile platforms.

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Shengjun Ren joined group in 2015 as MRes student in integrated photontics and electronics system at the university of Cambridge and then continued research as PhD student focusing on " Next generation of information-secure system based on self-reference continuous variable quantum key distribution" from 2016. Prior to the MRes, he received B.Eng (first class honors) in electrical and electronics engineering at the university of Bristol and was awarded the Toshiba scholarship and sander scholarship for the best B.Eng student. His research interests include security analysis of quantum key distribution, quantum attack, integrated classical/quantum signals' full network and data-card based integrated quantum communication system.

Shengjun is the member of Churchill college and was the president of Chinese Student and Scholars Association. He is also the member of the Churchill college basketball team and enjoys tennis, skiing, e-sports and travelling.

Nicolas Scirocco joined the CPS group in 2016 as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and is supervised by Prof. Richard Penty, Prof. Ian White and Dr. Michael Crisp. Nicolas holds a Master's degree from Cambridge (Jesus College) in Integrated Photonic and Electronics Systems and graduated at the top of his year from King's College London in Physics. His current research interests include alternative power transmission methods in RFID for next generation passive sensing and antenna design.

Arastu is currently a PhD student at Jesus College, Cambridge working in the CPS group in association with Microsoft Research, Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof Ian White and Prof Richard Penty. He received studentship from Microsoft and is a Cambridge Trust scholar. His research is focused on New generation nano-photonic architectures for high performance computing, aimed at proposing and analysing energy efficient on-chip and on-board computer architectures that will be necessary future computing in data centres and super-computers.

Previously, he recieved MRes in Integrated Photonics and Electronics Systems at Clare Hall, Cambridge in 2018. During his MRes he researched on quantum communication based on CVQKD under Prof Ian White. He received the Boak Studentship support fund from Clare Hall to present his research at Secure Quantum Communication Conference in Baiono, Spain. In 2017, Arastu graduated in BEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Bristol with first class honours. He scored highest average in his cohort in the first year of undergrad and was awarded the Merchant Ventures EEE department scholar award. In the undergraduate individual research project he researched on Modelling of nanostructured ITO surfaces for increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells under the supervision of Prof. Martin Cryan. During his undergraduate, Arastu also interned with Ericsson.

Arastu rows for Jesus College Men Rowing Team. He is also the Treasurer of Jesus College MCR. He is a bibliophile, loves spending time in reading and penning his ideas in the form of Hindi poetry.

Gurashish Singh graduated with First in Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India in 2016. He went on to pursue Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical) with major in Optical and Photonics Sciences from the University of Sydney, Australia and graduated in 2018 with a First Class honours. With prior research experience in undergraduate degree, he worked on early detection of Keratoconus, a rare irreversible cornea disorder, using optical and photonics sensors in his master's thesis.

In 2018, he commenced his PhD in the University of Cambridge with the CPS group under the aegis of Prof. Ian White and Prof. Richard Penty. Currently his research is focused on high-speed photo-detection using flexible plastic devices based on organic electronics. The work involves both simulation and fabrication of organic photodetectors to make all-polymer high speed communication network.

He is a member of St. Edmund's College and first-ever CR BME Officer of the college. He is on the executive committee of the Cambridge University Sikh Society as an active member and lifetime student fellow of IEEE-HKN. He enjoys weightlifting and painting.

Ilana Toledano graduated from her MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 2016 and then obtained an MRes degree in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems at the University of Cambridge 2017. She then joined the CPS group in 2017 to pursue her PhD; her research focuses on Surface waves for fast copper data communication.

Junfei Xia is a current PhD student in the Department of Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He received B.Eng in optoelectronic engineering at Huazhng University of Science and Technology, and received dual master degrees from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Cambridge in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He once worked on nonlinear silicon photonics technologies and slow light in photonic crystal waveguide in 2015 at Laboratoire de Photonique Nationale (LPN), and the advanced modulation format in the passive optical network as well as advance time-dependent holography generating algorithm in 2017 at University of Cambridge. His current research interests are in architecture and algorithm design for high-performance low-cost optical switching techniques used in the next generation of data centres.

Junfei Xia is currently the 36th president of Cambridge Chinese Students& Scholars Association. He is also the secretary of Huazhong University of Sci & Tech alumni association in the UK.

Sicheng Yu received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2017 and then the MRes degree in Integrated Photontics and Electronics System from University of Cambridge in 2018. He is currently a PhD student within the CPS group. His current research is about long range IoT backscatter system.

Marcin Ziarko received his MEng degree from University College London in 2013 and then MRes degree in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems from University of Cambridge in 2015. His PhD research focused on erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers (EDWAs) compatible with the polymer platform.