People
Fun fact: the current members in the Jena-Xing group were born in 12 different countries and regions around the globe: America, Bangladesh, China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. In addition, some of the Jena-Xing alums were born in Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, 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
Admin Assistants
Research Associates & Visiting Professors




Takumi Ikenoue
Visiting Professor
Kyoto University
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D. Students

Prof. Jena's students













Prof. Xing's students








Masters Students

Prof. Jena's students

Akshey Dhar
MS’24, MSE, Device & Processing, email

Qiao Liu


Avijit Kalra

Prof. Xing's students

Kun-Yi Lin

Han Zhang

Aryan Goli
MS’25, MSE; device & simulation, email

Kai Qi
MS’25, MSE; device & processing, email
Xiaobo Wang
MSE’25, MSE; device & processing; email
Xianzhi Wei
MS’25, MSE; device & processing, email

Undergraduate Students

Prof. Xing's students

Brad Morell

Saumya Vashishtha
AEP '25

Akhansha Arvind
ECE '26

Prof. Jena's students

Ambrose Yang
ECE ’24
Alumni
PhD Students

Jonathan McCandless
ECE, PhD'23; NSF GRFP fellow
Now with Cornell




Joseph Casamento
MSE, PhD'22; Sloan/Colman fellow
Now at MIT

Ryan Page
MSE, PhD'22
Now at Sweden


Nicholas Tanen
MSE

Phillip Dang
AEP, PhD'21; NSF GRFP fellow

Austin Hickman
PhD in ECE, 2021
Now at Soctera & Cornell

Xiang Li
PhD in ECE, 2021

Reet Chaudhuri
PhD in ECE, 2021

Jimy Encomendero
PhD'20 in ECE

Kevin Lee
PhD in ECE, 2020

Wenshen Li
PhD in ECE, 2020

Shyam Bharadwaj
PhD in ECE, 2020


Alexander Chaney
PhD in ECE, 2020
Brian Calderon*

Mingda Zhu
PhD in ECE, 2018

Mingda Li
PhD in ECE, 2018

Suresh Vishwanath
PhD in ECE, 2017

Rusen Yan
PhD in ECE, 2016; postdoc'17

Bo Song
PhD in EE, 2016

Meng Qi
PhD in EE, 2015

Amit Verma
PhD in EE, 2015

Ms. Faiza Faria
PhD in EE, 2015

SM (Moudud) Islam
PhD in EE, 2015. Postdoc 15-19

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

Satyaki Ganguly
PhD in EE, 2014

Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez
PhD in EE, 2013

Ronghua Wang
PhD in EE, 2013

Jai Verma
PhD in EE, 2013
Jorge Perez*
PhD in ME, 2012

Guangle Zhou
PhD in EE, 2012

Jia Guo
PhD in EE, 2012

Tian Fang
PhD in EE, 2012

Kristof Tahy
PhD in EE, 2012

Aniruddha Konar
PhD in Physics, 2011

Kevin Goodman
PhD in EE, 2010

Yu Cao
PhD in EE, 2010

David Deen
PhD in EE, 2010

Chuanxin Lian
PhD in EE, 2009
Williams Munoz*

John Simon
PhD in EE, 2009

Albert Wang
PhD in EE, 2008
Postdocs



Mohammad Javad Asadi
Postdoc 2019-22

Takuya Maeda
Postdoc; JSPS & KIC Fellow 2020-22

Henryk Turski
Postdoc, 2017
Ms. Yuping Zeng
Yuanzheng Yue

Wansik Hwang
Postdoc 2013

Ms. Nan Ma
Postdoc 2012-15

Arvind Ajoy
Postdoc 2013-15
Shudong Xiao
Postdoc 2013-15
Ms. Niti Goel
Postdoc, 2005

Tom Zimmermann
Postdoc/VRAP, 2006-11
Qingling Hang
Postdoc, 2008
Ms. Xiangning Luo
Postdoc, 2008
Rui Wang
Postdoc, 2010
Prem Kandasamy
Postdoc, 2011
Master Students

Cheng Wang

Brendan Mercado

Mads Berg

Devansh Saraswat

Emma Long

Mingli Gong

Derek Rowe

Shao-Ting Ho

Jeffrey Miller
ECE, 2017-20; MS
Accoustic resonators

Yuxing Ren

Vasanth Balakrishnan

Anni Wu

Jui-Yuan (Steven) Hsu

Ren Zhong
Brian Schutter

Shuyao Chen

Andrew Devine
BS’17, MS’18 in MSE

Connor Dempsey
Aditya Sundar
Liheng Jerry Zhang
Huai-Hsun Burt Lien
Yuxin Ji
Hank Liu
Feng-Ming Chang
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


Simon Ressom

Joseph Zullo
Bill Liu

Connor Gerlach
Lucy Raymond
Christopher Mead

Nicolas Casazzone

Joshua Lederman
AEP'19; PhD student at Princeton
Ms. Miaoxiu Tian
Ms. Malavika Attaluri

Ms. Xinyi Cai

Ms. Vineeta Muthuraj
BS'19 in MSE

Ms. Ava Tan
Ms. Bihan Zhu
John Weisenberger

Ms. Katrina Magno
Phil Cook
RET
Ian Lightcap
RET, Clay High School
Mark Prochaska
Jon Valenzuela
BS'09 in EE
Ian Evans
Jason Kulick
BS'09 in EE
Ms. Barbara Raynal
BS'11 in EE
Ms. Jane Fleming
BS'11 in Chemistry, EE
Kevin Burke
Former Research Professors, Visiting Professors & Scholars

Visiting Professors
Prof. Jia Wang
Nagoya University

Dr. Xiangyang Li
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS
Photodetectors
Ms. Dr. Michelle Kelly
RAP, UND
graphene
Prof. Lei Liu
RAP, UND
THz
Prof. Erhard Kohn
Prof.Ulm University
HEMTs
Prof. Tongbo Wei
Institute of Semiconductors, CAS
DUV technologies
Prof. Yusuke Hayashi
Osaka University
AlN

Visiting students
Swann Duboz
INSA Lion
Enrique Marin

Ms. Riena Jinno
Visiting PhD Student From Kyoto University, JSPS fellow