Roark Chao

Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara - B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Minor in Physics

Bio

Hey! I'm Roark (pronounced like "dork", but with an 'r' instead of a 'd'), and I'm an undergraduate/graduate student in the BS/MS Electrical and Computer Engineering program here at UCSB. I joined the group in the beginning of 2022, with a project focused on developing novel metasurfaces for the enhancement of magnetic-dipole-like emission in the visible spectrum. Since then, I've become involved in projects focused around metasurface vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), beam steering, and retroreflectors. Light-matter interactions are particularly interesting to me, as they are the foundations of what allows us as people to see, well, anything!