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

Principal Investigators

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

William L. Quackenbush Professor of Engineering

ECE, MSE; KIC; Energy Institute; Quantum Institute; Dean’s Office

Grace Xing CV

James Hwang

Research Professor

MSE

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Admin Assistants

Kim Budd

Admin Assistant (ECE)

For the Jena-Xing Group; email

Wendy Bakal

Executive Assistant (Dean's Office)

For Prof. Xing’s Associate Dean affairs; email

Research Associates

Dr. Vladimir Protasenko

Sr. Research Associate

Lab manager & optoelectronics; email

Dr. Yongjin Cho

Research Associate

MBE; email

Dr. Kazuki Nomoto

Research Associate

Device processing and testing; email

Postdoctoral Researchers

Mohammad Javad Asadi

Postdoc

Millimeter-wave design & biosensors; email

Takuya Maeda

Postdoc

Ferroelectrics & Power Electronics; email

Jimy Encomendero

postdoc

MBE, tunneling, RTDs; email

Austin Hickman

Postdoc

RF devices; email

Reet Chaudhuri

Postdoc

Epitaxy and devices; email

Ph.D. Students

Joseph Casamento

MSE, since 2016

MBE, characterization of novel nitrides and oxides; email

Phillip Dang

AEP, since 2016

MBE and magnetotransport studies; email

Hyunjea Lee

ECE, since 2016

Ferroelectrics, 2D materials & devices; email

John Wright

MSE, since 2016

Advanced nitride materials, superconductors; email

Jashan Singhal

ECE, 2017-

Jonathan McCandless

ECE, since 2017

MBE growth, Ga2O3; email

Zexuan Zhang

ECE, since 2017

Non-reciprocal wave propagation devices, MBE; email

Ryan Page

MSE, since 2017

MBE of hBN and nitride heterostructures; email

Nicholas Tanen

MSE

MBE growth of Ga2O3 and related ternaries

Kathleen Smith

AEP, 2018-

Power and RF electronics; email

Wenwen Zhao

AEP, since 2019

Millimeter wave accoustic resonators; email

Len van Deurzen

AEP, since 2019

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

Xiaopeng Wang

ECE, since 2019

Scanning microwave impedance microscopy; email

Lei Li

ECE, since 2019

Millimeter wave devices and circuits; email

Bennet Cromer

MSE, since 2019

Power electronics materials and devices; email

Chandu Savant

MSE, since 2020

MBE; email

Thai-Son Tran Nguyen

MSE, since 2020

MBE; email

Joe Dill

AEP, since 2021

Power Devices; email

EK Kim

ECE, since 2021

RF devices; email

Masters Students

Kun-Yi Lin

MS’23, MSE

Cheng Wang

MS’23, MSE

Chang-Kai Yu

MS’23, MSE

Undergraduate Students

Sheena Hwang

ECE Class of 2022; email

Frank Zhang

Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar

ECE Class of 2022; email

Roland St. Michel

MSE Class of 2022

Simon Ressom

Brad Morell

MSE Class of 2024; email

Sophia Handley

AEP Class of 2022; email

Carolyn Kavanagh

ECE/Chem Class of 2024; email

Luka Radosavljevic

MSE Class of 2022; email

Alumni

PhD Students

Austin Hickman

PhD in ECE, 2021

Now at Soctera & Cornell

Xiang Li

PhD in ECE, 2021

Reet Chaudhuri

PhD in ECE, 2021

Now at Soctera & Cornell

Jimy Encomendero

PhD'20 in ECE

at Cornell; email

Kevin Lee

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now at TSMC

Wenshen Li

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now a postdoc at UC Berkeley

Joseph Zullo

ECE Class of 2021

Shyam Bharadwaj

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now at HRL

Bill Liu

MSE Class of 2021

Samuel James Bader

PhD in AEP, 2020

Now at Intel

See sambader.net

Alexander Chaney

PhD in ECE, 2020

Now at AFRL

Brian Calderon*

PhD in ECE, 2018. Now at NRL

Mingda Zhu

PhD in ECE, 2018

Skyworks

Mingda Li

PhD in ECE, 2018

Facebook

Suresh Vishwanath

PhD in ECE, 2017

Intel

Rusen Yan

PhD in ECE, 2016; postdoc'17

Facebook

Bo Song

PhD in EE, 2016

ADI

Meng Qi

PhD in EE, 2015

Uber

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

Facebook

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

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

Honeywell

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

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 2014-15

Faculty at IISc

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

Lucy Raymond

MSE Class of 2021

Connor Gerlach

AEP’21; PhD student at MIT

Nicolas Casazzone

BS’19

Ms. Ava Tan

ECE ’16, Cornell. PhD’21, UC Berkeley

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

Joshua Lederman

AEP'19; PhD student at Princeton

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