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Fun fact: the current members in the Jena-Xing group were born in 13 different countries and regions around the globe: America, China, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, and Vietnam.  In addition, some of the Jena-Xing alums were born in Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Uruguay, and “New Jersey”.

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  • Principal Investigators
  • Admin Assistants
  • Research Associates & Visiting Professors
  • Postdoctoral Researchers
  • Ph.D. Students
  • Masters Students
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Alumni
  • Former Research Professors, Visiting Professors & Scholars

Principal Investigators

Debdeep (DJ) Jena

Debdeep (DJ) Jena

David E. Burr Professor of Engineering

ECE, MSE and AEP; KIC; Energy Institute; Quantum Institute

Prof. Jena’s simple website

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Huili (Grace) Xing

Huili (Grace) Xing

William L. Quackenbush Professor of Engineering

ECE, MSE; KIC; Energy Institute; Quantum Institute; SUPREME – a JUMP2.0 center

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James Hwang

James Hwang

Research Professor

MSE

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Admin Assistants

Lori Biechele

Admin Assistant (ECE)

For the Jena-Xing Group; email

Research Associates & Visiting Professors

Dr. Vladimir Protasenko

Dr. Vladimir Protasenko

Sr. Research Associate

Lab manager & optoelectronics; email

Dr. Yongjin Cho

Dr. Yongjin Cho

Research Associate

MBE; email

 Dr. Kazuki Nomoto

Dr. Kazuki Nomoto

Research Associate

Device processing and testing; email

Young-Kai (Y.K.) Chen

Young-Kai (Y.K.) Chen

Upson Visiting Professor

email

Postdoctoral Researchers

 Jimy Encomendero

Jimy Encomendero

postdoc

MBE, tunneling, RTDs; email

Gianluca Fabi

Gianluca Fabi

Postdoc

Mm-wave; email

 Austin Hickman

Austin Hickman

(Postdoc) currently on ACTIVATE Fellowship

RF devices; email

Ph.D. Students

Jashan Singhal

Jashan Singhal

ECE, 2017-

email

Zexuan Zhang

Zexuan Zhang

ECE, since 2017

Non-reciprocal wave propagation devices, MBE; email

Jonathan McCandless

Jonathan McCandless

ECE, since 2017; NSF GRFP fellow

MBE growth, Ga2O3; email

Kathleen Smith

Kathleen Smith

AEP, 2018-

Power and RF electronics; email

Lei Li

Lei Li

ECE, since 2019

Millimeter wave devices and circuits; email

Bennet Cromer

Bennet Cromer

MSE, since 2019; Sloan/Colman fellow

Power electronics materials and devices; email

Wenwen Zhao

Wenwen Zhao

AEP, since 2019

Millimeter wave accoustic resonators; email

Len van Deurzen

Len van Deurzen

AEP, since 2019

Deep-UV LEDs and lasers, single-photon sources; email

Xiaopeng Wang

Xiaopeng Wang

ECE, since 2019

Scanning microwave impedance microscopy, mmWave waveguide; email

Chandu Savant

Chandu Savant

MSE, since 2020

MBE; email

Thai-Son Tran Nguyen

Thai-Son Tran Nguyen

MSE, since 2020

MBE; email

Yuhsin (Cindy) Chen

Yuhsin (Cindy) Chen

MSE, since 2021

MBE; email

Joe Dill

Joe Dill

AEP, since 2021

Power Devices; email

Eung Kyun (EK) Kim

Eung Kyun (EK) Kim

ECE, since 2021; NSF GRFP fellow

RF devices; email

Anand Kumar Ithepalli

Anand Kumar Ithepalli

MSE, since 2021

MBE; email

Shivali Agrawal

Shivali Agrawal

CBE, since 2021

Materials; email

Naomi Pieczulewski

Naomi Pieczulewski

MSE, since 2021; NSF GRFP fellow

TEM & MBE; email

Chuan Chang

Chuan Chang

Physics, since 2022

superconducting electronics; email

Sheena Huang

Sheena Huang

ECE, since 2022

opto; email

Madhav Ramesh

Madhav Ramesh

ECE, since 2022

electronics; email

Huijun Di

Huijun Di

AEP, since 2022

quantum electronics; email

Masters Students

Kun-Yi Lin

Kun-Yi Lin

MS’23, MSE; device & processing, email

Avijit Kalra

Avijit Kalra

MS’23, CBE; device & processing, email

Cheng Wang

Cheng Wang

MS’23, MSE; device & processing, email

Chang-Kai Yu

Chang-Kai Yu

MS’23, MSE; MBE, email

Hardik Murarka

Hardik Murarka

MSE, since 2022

electronics; email

Han Zhang

Han Zhang

MS’24, MSE; device & processing, email

Hrithika Bandreddy

Hrithika Bandreddy

MS’24, MSE; device & processing, email

Qiao Liu

Qiao Liu

MS’24, MSE; device & processing, email

Brendan Mercado

Brendan Mercado

MEng’23, ECE; Quantum devices, email

Mads Berg

Mads Berg

MEng’23, AEP; email

Undergraduate Students

Carolyn Kavanagh

ECE/Chem Class of 2024; email

Brad Morell

Brad Morell

MSE Class of 2024; ELI awardee; email

Justin Tan

Justin Tan

AEP Class of 2023; email

Alumni

PhD Students

 Hyunjea Lee

Hyunjea Lee

ECE, PhD'22

Ferroelectrics, 2D materials & devices; email

 Joseph Casamento

Joseph Casamento

MSE, PhD'22; Sloan/Colman fellow

MBE, novel nitrides and oxides

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Ryan Page

Ryan Page

MSE, PhD'22

MBE of hBN and nitride heterostructures

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 John Wright

John Wright

MSE, PhD'22

Advanced nitride materials, superconductors; email

 Nicholas Tanen

Nicholas Tanen

MSE

MBE growth of Ga2O3 and related ternaries

Phillip Dang

Phillip Dang

AEP, PhD'21; NSF GRFP fellow

MBE & transport; with Lam

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 Austin Hickman

Austin Hickman

PhD in ECE, 2021

Now at Soctera & Cornell

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 Xiang Li

Xiang Li

PhD in ECE, 2021

Now with Amazon

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Reet Chaudhuri

Reet Chaudhuri

PhD in ECE, 2021

Now at Intel

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 Jimy Encomendero

Jimy Encomendero

PhD'20 in ECE

at Cornell

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Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now at TSMC

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 Wenshen Li

Wenshen Li

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now Intel

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 Shyam Bharadwaj

Shyam Bharadwaj

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now at HRL

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Samuel James Bader

Samuel James Bader

PhD in AEP, 2020

Now at Intel

See sambader.net

Alexander Chaney

Alexander Chaney

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now at AFRL

Brian Calderon*

PhD in ECE, 2018. Now at NRL

Mingda Zhu

Mingda Zhu

PhD in ECE, 2018

II-VI

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Mingda Li

Mingda Li

PhD in ECE, 2018

Facebook

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Suresh Vishwanath

Suresh Vishwanath

PhD in ECE, 2017

Now with Meta

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Rusen Yan

Rusen Yan

PhD in ECE, 2016; postdoc'17

Meta

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Bo Song

Bo Song

PhD in EE, 2016

Broadcom

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Meng Qi

Meng Qi

PhD in EE, 2015

Facebook

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Amit Verma

Amit Verma

PhD in EE, 2015

Faculty at IIT, Kanpur

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Ms. Faiza Faria

Ms. Faiza Faria

PhD in EE, 2015

Intel

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 SM (Moudud) Islam

SM (Moudud) Islam

PhD in EE, 2015. Postdoc 15-19

Lumiode

Raj Rana

Raj Rana

PhD in EE, 2015

Zongyang Hu

Zongyang Hu

PhD in EE, 2014; postdoc 14-19

Wolfspeed

Pei Zhao

Pei Zhao

PhD in EE, 2014

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Guowang Li

Guowang Li

PhD in EE, 2014

Waymo

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Satyaki Ganguly

Satyaki Ganguly

PhD in EE, 2014

Now at Wolfspeed-CREE

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Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

PhD in EE, 2013

Faculty at U. of Utah

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Ronghua Wang

Ronghua Wang

PhD in EE, 2013

Startup

Jai Verma

Jai Verma

PhD in EE, 2013

Now at Intel

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Jorge Perez*

PhD in ME, 2012

Mexico Space Agency

Guangle Zhou

Guangle Zhou

PhD in EE, 2012

Intel

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Jia Guo

Jia Guo

PhD in EE, 2012

Wolfspeed

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Tian Fang

Tian Fang

PhD in EE, 2012

Now at Amazon

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Kristof Tahy

Kristof Tahy

PhD in EE, 2012

Now at Intel

Aniruddha Konar

Aniruddha Konar

PhD in Physics, 2011

Now at IBM

Kevin Goodman

Kevin Goodman

PhD in EE, 2010

Now at CRANE

Yu Cao

Yu Cao

PhD in EE, 2010

Qorvo

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David Deen

David Deen

PhD in EE, 2010

Quantum Industry

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Chuanxin Lian

Chuanxin Lian

PhD in EE, 2009

Qorvo

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Williams Munoz*

PhD in ME, 2009. Now faculty at Universidad de Chile

John Simon

John Simon

PhD in EE, 2009

Now at NREL

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Albert Wang

Albert Wang

PhD in EE, 2008

Now at Transamerica

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Postdocs

Mohammad Javad Asadi

Mohammad Javad Asadi

Postdoc 2019-22

Millimeter-wave; with Qualcomm

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Takuya Maeda

Takuya Maeda

Postdoc; JSPS & KIC Fellow 2020-22

Faculty@ U. of Tokyo

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Henryk Turski

Henryk Turski

Postdoc, 2017

Unipress

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Ms. Yuping Zeng

Postdoc, 2011. Now at U. of Delaware.

Yuanzheng Yue

Postdoc, 2011-14. Now with NXP

Wansik Hwang

Wansik Hwang

Postdoc 2013

Facutly in Korea

Ms. Nan Ma

Ms. Nan Ma

Postdoc 2012-15

Arvind Ajoy

Arvind Ajoy

Postdoc 2013-15

Faculty at IIT Palakkad

Shudong Xiao

Postdoc 2013-15

Corning

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Ms. Niti Goel

Postdoc, 2005

Intel

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Tom Zimmermann

Tom Zimmermann

Postdoc/VRAP, 2006-11

Facutly at MSU

Qingling Hang

Postdoc, 2008

Ms. Xiangning Luo

Postdoc, 2008

Emcore

Rui Wang

Postdoc, 2010

Prem Kandasamy

Postdoc, 2011

IMEC

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Master Students

Devansh Saraswat

Devansh Saraswat

MS’21, MSE; PhD student at Stanford

Emma Long

Emma Long

MS’21, MSE; PhD student at Georgia Tech

Mingli Gong

Mingli Gong

MS’21, MSE; PhD student at OSU

Derek Rowe

Derek Rowe

MS’20 in MSE. Now with HRL

Shao-Ting Ho

Shao-Ting Ho

MS’20 in MSE. Now with ASML

 Jeffrey Miller

Jeffrey Miller

ECE, 2017-20; MS

Accoustic resonators

Yuxing Ren

Yuxing Ren

MS’20 in MSE

 Vasanth Balakrishnan

Vasanth Balakrishnan

MS in MSE’19. Now with ASML

 Anni Wu

Anni Wu

MS’19 in MSE. Now with ASML

 Jui-Yuan (Steven) Hsu

Jui-Yuan (Steven) Hsu

MS’19 in MSE

 Ren Zhong

Ren Zhong

MS’19 in MSE 

Brian Schutter

MS 2019

Shuyao Chen

Shuyao Chen

MEng in ECE’19. Now with Intel

Andrew Devine

Andrew Devine

BS’17, MS’18 in MSE

 Connor Dempsey

Connor Dempsey

MEng’18. Now PhD student at UCSB

Aditya Sundar

MS MSE, ’17. Now PhD candidate at UMich

Liheng Jerry Zhang

MS, MSE ’17

Huai-Hsun Burt Lien

MS, MSE ’17. Now PhD candidate at UMich

Yuxin Ji

MEng ECE ’17. Now with TSMC

Hank Liu

MEng ECE ’17. Now with TSMC

Feng-Ming Chang

MEng, ECE’16. Now with TSMC

Kasra Pourang

MS in EE, 2015

Joe Loof

MS in EE, 2014

Xiaodong Yan

MS in EE, 2014

Ms. Subrina Rafique

MS in EE, 2014

Amol Singh

MS in EE, 2010

Ms. Rachel Rasmussen

MS'09

MS. Jing Zhou

MS in EE, 2006

Anubhav Khandelwal

MS in EE, 2005

Undergraduate Students

Luka Radosavljevic

Master student@Stanford

MSE’22; email

Roland St. Michel

MSE Class of 2022

Sheena Hwang

Sheena Hwang

PhD student @Cornell

ECE’22; ELI awardee; email

Frank Zhang

Frank Zhang

PhD student @Princeton

ECE’22; Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar email

Simon Ressom

Sophia Handley

Sophia Handley

PhD student @UPenn

AEP’22; ELI awardee; email

Joseph Zullo

ECE Class of 2021; PhD student at Purdue

Bill Liu

MSE’21; PhD student at MIT

Connor Gerlach

Connor Gerlach

AEP’21; PhD student at MIT

Lucy Raymond

MSE Class of 2021

Christopher Mead

MSE BS’20

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Nicolas Casazzone

Nicolas Casazzone

BS’19

Joshua Lederman

Joshua Lederman

AEP'19; PhD student at Princeton

Ms. Miaoxiu Tian

BS’18 in MSE

Ms. Malavika Attaluri

BS’19 in ECE

Ms. Xinyi Cai

Ms. Xinyi Cai

BS’19 in MSE

Ms. Vineeta Muthuraj

Ms. Vineeta Muthuraj

BS'19 in MSE

PhD student at UCSB

Ms. Ava Tan

Ms. Ava Tan

ECE ’16, Cornell. PhD’21, UC Berkeley

Ms. Bihan Zhu

BS’14 in Physics, EE

John Weisenberger

BS’15 in EE

Ms. Katrina Magno

Ms. Katrina Magno

BS’15 Physics. Now with Lincoln Lab

Phil Cook

RET

Science teacher, Culver Academy

Ian Lightcap

RET, Clay High School

PhD at U. of Notre Dame

Mark Prochaska

RET’10.  Culver Academy

Jon Valenzuela

BS'09 in EE

PhD at UTEP

Ian Evans

BS’09 in EE

Jason Kulick

BS'09 in EE

President, Co-Founder of Indiana Integrated Circuits, LLC

Ms. Barbara Raynal

BS'11 in EE

Ms. Jane Fleming

BS'11 in Chemistry, EE

CocaCola.

Kevin Burke

BS’12 in Civil Engineering

Former Research Professors, Visiting Professors & Scholars

Enrique Marin

Transport theory

Yusuke Hayashi

Assist. Prof. Mie University

AlN

Swann Duboz

INSA Lion

HEMTs

Xiangyang Li

Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS

Photodetectors

Ms. Michelle Kelly

RAP, UND

graphene

Lei Liu

RAP, UND

THz

Erhard Kohn

Prof.Ulm University

HEMTs

Dr. Tongbo Wei

Assoc. Prof. Institute of Semiconductors, CAS

DUV technologies

Ms. Riena Jinno

Ms. Riena Jinno

Visiting PhD Student From Kyoto University, JSPS fellow

2019, Ga2O3

Kavli Institute at Cornell
Cornell University Department of Materials Science Engineering
Cornell University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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