People
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”.
Debdeep (DJ) Jena
David E. Burr Professor of Engineering
ECE, MSE and AEP; KIC; Energy Institute; Quantum Institute
Prof. Jena’s simple website
Huili (Grace) Xing
William L. Quackenbush Professor of Engineering
ECE, MSE; KIC; Energy Institute; Quantum Institute; SUPREME – a JUMP2.0 center
Admin Assistants
Research Associates & Visiting Professors
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D. Students
Masters Students
Kun-Yi Lin
MS’23, MSE; device & processing, email
Avijit Kalra
MS’23, CBE; device & processing, email
Cheng Wang
MS’23, MSE; device & processing, email
Chang-Kai Yu
MS’23, MSE; MBE, email
Han Zhang
MS’24, MSE; device & processing, email
Hrithika Bandreddy
MS’24, MSE; device & processing, email
Qiao Liu
MS’24, MSE; device & processing, email
Brendan Mercado
MEng’23, ECE; Quantum devices, email
Mads Berg
MEng’23, AEP; email
Undergraduate Students
Carolyn Kavanagh
ECE/Chem Class of 2024; email
Brad Morell
MSE Class of 2024; ELI awardee; email
Justin Tan
AEP Class of 2023; email
Alumni
PhD Students
Joseph Casamento
MSE, PhD'22; Sloan/Colman fellow
MBE, novel nitrides and oxides
Ryan Page
MSE, PhD'22
MBE of hBN and nitride heterostructures
Nicholas Tanen
MSE
MBE growth of Ga2O3 and related ternaries
Phillip Dang
AEP, PhD'21; NSF GRFP fellow
MBE & transport; with Lam
Austin Hickman
PhD in ECE, 2021
Now at Soctera & Cornell
Xiang Li
PhD in ECE, 2021
Now with Amazon
Reet Chaudhuri
PhD in ECE, 2021
Now at Intel
Jimy Encomendero
PhD'20 in ECE
at Cornell
Kevin Lee
PhD in ECE, 2020
Now at TSMC
Wenshen Li
PhD in ECE, 2020
Now Intel
Shyam Bharadwaj
PhD in ECE, 2020
Now at HRL
Alexander Chaney
PhD in ECE, 2020
Now at AFRL
Brian Calderon*
PhD in ECE, 2018. Now at NRL
Mingda Zhu
PhD in ECE, 2018
II-VI
Mingda Li
PhD in ECE, 2018
Suresh Vishwanath
PhD in ECE, 2017
Now with Meta
Rusen Yan
PhD in ECE, 2016; postdoc'17
Meta
Bo Song
PhD in EE, 2016
Broadcom
Meng Qi
PhD in EE, 2015
Amit Verma
PhD in EE, 2015
Faculty at IIT, Kanpur
Ms. Faiza Faria
PhD in EE, 2015
Intel
SM (Moudud) Islam
PhD in EE, 2015. Postdoc 15-19
Lumiode
Raj Rana
PhD in EE, 2015
Zongyang Hu
PhD in EE, 2014; postdoc 14-19
Wolfspeed
Pei Zhao
PhD in EE, 2014
Guowang Li
PhD in EE, 2014
Waymo
Satyaki Ganguly
PhD in EE, 2014
Now at Wolfspeed-CREE
Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez
PhD in EE, 2013
Faculty at U. of Utah
Ronghua Wang
PhD in EE, 2013
Startup
Jai Verma
PhD in EE, 2013
Now at Intel
Jorge Perez*
PhD in ME, 2012
Mexico Space Agency
Guangle Zhou
PhD in EE, 2012
Intel
Jia Guo
PhD in EE, 2012
Wolfspeed
Tian Fang
PhD in EE, 2012
Now at Amazon
Kristof Tahy
PhD in EE, 2012
Now at Intel
Aniruddha Konar
PhD in Physics, 2011
Now at IBM
Kevin Goodman
PhD in EE, 2010
Now at CRANE
Yu Cao
PhD in EE, 2010
Qorvo
David Deen
PhD in EE, 2010
Quantum Industry
Chuanxin Lian
PhD in EE, 2009
Qorvo
Williams Munoz*
PhD in ME, 2009. Now faculty at Universidad de Chile
John Simon
PhD in EE, 2009
Now at NREL
Albert Wang
PhD in EE, 2008
Now at Transamerica
Postdocs
Mohammad Javad Asadi
Postdoc 2019-22
Millimeter-wave; with Qualcomm
Takuya Maeda
Postdoc; JSPS & KIC Fellow 2020-22
Faculty@ U. of Tokyo
Henryk Turski
Postdoc, 2017
Unipress
Ms. Yuping Zeng
Postdoc, 2011. Now at U. of Delaware.
Yuanzheng Yue
Postdoc, 2011-14. Now with NXP
Wansik Hwang
Postdoc 2013
Facutly in Korea
Ms. Nan Ma
Postdoc 2012-15
Arvind Ajoy
Postdoc 2013-15
Faculty at IIT Palakkad
Shudong Xiao
Postdoc 2013-15
Corning
Ms. Niti Goel
Postdoc, 2005
Intel
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
Master Students
Devansh Saraswat
MS’21, MSE; PhD student at Stanford
Emma Long
MS’21, MSE; PhD student at Georgia Tech
Mingli Gong
MS’21, MSE; PhD student at OSU
Derek Rowe
MS’20 in MSE. Now with HRL
Shao-Ting Ho
MS’20 in MSE. Now with ASML
Jeffrey Miller
ECE, 2017-20; MS
Accoustic resonators
Yuxing Ren
MS’20 in MSE
Vasanth Balakrishnan
MS in MSE’19. Now with ASML
Anni Wu
MS’19 in MSE. Now with ASML
Jui-Yuan (Steven) Hsu
MS’19 in MSE
Ren Zhong
MS’19 in MSE
Brian Schutter
MS 2019
Shuyao Chen
MEng in ECE’19. Now with Intel
Andrew Devine
BS’17, MS’18 in MSE
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
Roland St. Michel
MSE Class of 2022
Simon Ressom
Joseph Zullo
ECE Class of 2021; PhD student at Purdue
Bill Liu
MSE’21; PhD student at MIT
Connor Gerlach
AEP’21; PhD student at MIT
Lucy Raymond
Christopher Mead
MSE BS’20
Nicolas Casazzone
BS’19
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
BS’19 in MSE
Ms. Vineeta Muthuraj
BS'19 in MSE
PhD student at UCSB
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
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
Visiting PhD Student From Kyoto University, JSPS fellow
2019, Ga2O3