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postdoctoral researchers


name

PI   (click for group site)

Shuquan Cui

Lodge (IRG-2), Bates (IRG-2)

Soumi Das

Reineke (IRG-2), Calabrese (IRG-2)

Jierui Liang

Leighton (IRG-1), Ferry (IRG-2)

Emily McGuinness

Ferry (IRG-2), Ellison (IRG-2)

Devesh Pathak

Stoerzinger (Seed)

Subrata Santra

Lodge (IRG-2), Bates (IRG-2)

Anubhav Sarmah

Calabrese (IRG-2), Ellison (IRG-2)

Luyang Li

Dorfman (IRG-2), Bates (IRG-2)


graduate students

name

PI   (click for group site)

Luca Buiarelli

Birol (IRG-1, Seed), Jalan (IRG-1)

Giselle Campos

Mahanthappa (IRG-2), Lodge (IRG-2)

Rohan Chakraborty

Ferry (IRG-2), Leighton (IRG-1)

Samuel Carlson

Ilic (Seed)

Rashmi Choudhary

Jalan (IRG-1), Birol (IRG-1)

Silu Guo

Mkhoyan (IRG-1), Birol (IRG-1) Jalan (IRG-1)

Alicia Huggett

Reineke (IRG-2), Lodge (IRG-2)

Issam Khayr

Greven (IRG-1), Leighton (IRG-1)

Armand Lannerd

Bartel (IRG-1), Leighton (IRG-1)

Daoyuan Li

Siepmann (IRG-2), Lodge (IRG-2)

Yicheng (Betty) Liu

Holmes (Seed)

Yujie Luo

Ilic (Seed)

Benjamin Magruder

Dorfman (IRG-2), Ellison (IRG-2)

Ayaka Moriyama

Ellison (IRG-2), Ferry (IRG-2)

Sreejith Nair

Jalan (IRG-1), Birol (IRG-1)

Nileena Nandakumaran

Leighton (IRG-1) Greven (IRG-1)

Camila Perales-Rodriguez

Lodge (IRG-2), Mahanthappa (IRG-2)

Arghya Sarkar

Frontiera (Seed)

Hyunsol Son

Leighton (IRG-1), Greven (IRG-1)

Chiou Yang Tan

Greven (IRG-1), Leighton (IRG-1)

Simon Willis

Flannigan (Seed)

Jiazhen Xu

Frisbie (IRG-1), Ferry (IRG-2)

Xiaotian Xu

Wang (IRG-1), Frisbie (IRG-1), Jalan (IRG-1)

Zhifei Yang

Jalan (IRG-1), Mkhoyan (IRG-1)

Chi Zhang

Wang (IRG-1), Jalan (IRG-1), Leighton (IRG-1)

Caini Zheng

Lodge (IRG-2), Siepmann (IRG-2)

He Zhu

Birol (IRG-1, Seed), Wang (IRG-1)


recent MRSEC alumni

name

PI — most recent year of MRSEC participation

Where did they go?

Cesar Ascencio

Low

Kriti Agarwal

Cho — 2019

Intel Corporation

Palak Ambwani

Jalan, Leighton — 2015

Intel Corporation; Process Engineer (Nanotechnology)

Yilikal Ayino

Pribiag — 2020

Intel; Research Staff

Leonel Barreda

Hillmyer — 2018

Adaptive 3D Technologies; Senior Research Scientist

Tathamay Basu

Greven, Leighton — 2021

RGIPT, Assistant Professor

Chad Beaudette

Kortshagen

Lam Research Corp., Process Engineer

Elliot Bell

Wang — 2021

Brian Benton

Campbell — 2018

SkyWater Technology Foundry; Process Development Engineer

Nicholas Bible

Mahanthappa, Ellison — 2021

Boeing; Manufacturing R&D Engineer

Nikolaos Biniskos

Greven — 2020

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; Scientific staff

Sudipta Biswas

Low — 2022

William Boyle

Reineke — 2018

Anoka-Ramsey Community College; Instructor of Chemistry

Vipul Chaturvedi

Leighton, Greven — 2022

Intel Corporation; TD Module and Integration Yield Eng.

Liwen Chen

Mahanthappa, Lodge — 2021

University of Shanghai for Science & Technology; Assistant Professor

Pengyu Chen

Dorfman, Mahanthappa — 2024

Procter & Gamble; Data and Modeling Scientist

Qile Chen

Lodge, Siepmann — 2018

Avient (formerly PolyOne); Research Scientist

Ting Chen

Kortshagen — 2015

Intel Corporation

Xiaoshuang Chen

Hogan — 2020

Washington University, Saint Louis; Postdoctoral Associate

Guo-Kang (GK) Cheong

Dorfman, Bates — 2021

PPG; data scientist

Kyung Gook Cho

Frisbie — 2024

Sooho Cho

Jalan, Mkhoyan

Moon-ki Choi

Tadmor — 2023

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Postdoctoral Associate

Catherine Clark

Aydil, Holmes

Jaeyub Chung

Frisbie, Mahanthappa - 2023

Exxon-Mobil

McKenzie Coughlin

Lodge, Bates— 2021

NIST, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Bryan Cote

Ferry, Ellison — 2022

3M

Daniel Cremons

Flannigan — 2017

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center; Postdoctoral Fellow

Zachery Cresswell

Wang, J.-P.

Wyatt Curtis

Flannigan — 2022

Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, EPFL (Ulrich Lorenz); Postdoctoral Associate

Nayereh Dadoo

Lodge, Reineke — 2019

University of Maine, Process Dev. Center; Chemist

Chunhui Dai

Cho — 2019

University of California, Berkeley; Postdoctoral Associate

Arit Das

Calabrese, Ellison — 2024

Bhaskar Das

Frisbie, Leighton — 2022

Seagate Technology LLC; Senior R&D Engineer

Konstantin Davydov

Wang

Ezra Day-Roberts

Birol, Fernandes — 2024

Arizona State University; Postdoctoral Research Scholar

John Dewey

Leighton, Birol, Greven — 2023

Polar Semiconductor

Dana Dement

Ferry — 2019

CFD Research Corporation

Beth Dewing

Ellison, Mahanthappa — 2021

W. L. Gore & Associates; Research & Development Scientist

Benjamin Druecke

Lee — 2021

Donaldson Company, Inc.

Prabesh Dulal

Stadler — 2017

Seagate Technology LLC; Lead Metrology Engineer

Piril Ertem

Bates, Lodge — 2020

Claros Technologies Inc.

Mohammadali Eslamisaray

Kortshagen — 2023

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Postdoctoral Research Associate

Eliot Estrine

Stadler — 2016

Seagate Technology LLC

Vina Faramarzi

Leighton — 2016

ASML

Thomas Gage

Flannigan, Stadler — 2018

Argonne National Laboratory; Postdoctoral Researcher

Teslim Fasasi

Ferry — 2024

Mitra Ganewatta

Reineke — 2018

Ingevity Corporation, South Carolina; Technology Partnership Manager

Koustav Ganguly

Jalan, Leighton — 2018

Intel Corporation; PTD Module and Integration Device Yield Engineer

Shreyashi Ganguly

Aydil, Kortshagen — 2016

Northern State University, Louisiana; Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Dominique Gautreau

Birol, Mkhoyan — 2022

Souvik Ghosh

Hogan — 2019

Intel Corporation; Component Research Engineer

Supriya Ghosh

Mkhoyan, Jalan — 2024

Intel Corporation; Process Development Integration Engineer

Ryan Gnabasik

Flannigan — 2021

Eeshani Godbole

Poerschke — 2022

GE Global Research Center, NY; Research Scientist

Ethan Gormong

Reineke, Calabrese — 2022

H.B. Fuller Company; Senior Scientist

Benjamin Greenberg

Aydil, Kortshagen — 2018

Naval Research Lab; Postdoc

Sajna Hameed

Greven, Leighton — 2021

MPI, Stuttgart, Germany; Postdoc

Alexander Hamill

Wang — 2023

Institute of Science and Technology Austria; Postdoctoral Research Associate

Nazila Haratipour

Koester — 2017

Intel, OR; Components Research Group

Jiayi He

Haynes — 2022

McKinsey & Company; Consultant

Siliang He

Holmes

Tao He

Frisbie, Leighton — 2019

Shandong University, China; Professor

Brett Heischmidt

Pribiag — 2021

Jacob Held

Mkhoyan — 2020

ETH Zurich; Postdoctoral Associate

Kei Heltemes

Leighton — 2020

Samantha Hill

Kortshagen — 2019

Donaldson Company, Inc.; Innovation Specialist

Nicholas Horton

Greven/Fernandes

Brandon Hosford

Lamb

Faegheh (Fafa) Hoshyargar

Siepmann, Mahanthappa — 2023

Thermo Fisher Scientific; Scientist

Yi Huang

Shklovskii — 2023

University of Maryland; Postdoctoral Asscociate

Katharine Hunter

Kortshagen — 2019

3M; Corporate Research Engineer

Michael Hyatt

Mahanthappa, Bates — 2022

MD Noushad Javed

Lozano — 2024

Joseph Jaye

Reineke, Lodge — 2022

Donaldson; Senior R&D Engineer

SeongHo Jeon

Hogan — 2016

Intel Corporation; Research Engineer

Qi Jia

Wang, J.-P.

Yaming Jiang

Lodge, Reineke — 2018

DowDuPont; New Product Development Engineer

Jasmine Johnson

Kortshagen — 2017

Bruker; Customer Service Specialist

Seyoung Jung

Lodge, Reineke — 2017

Intel Corporation; Senior Engineer

Saumitran Kasturirangan

Burnell — 2023

KoBold Metals; Data Scientist

Kaveh Khaliji

Low — 2022

Intel Corporation

Donghwan Kim

Jalan, Mkhoyan

Yun Kim

Wang, X.J.

Daniel Kindem

Ilic — 2021

Joseph Kinney

Goldman — 2015

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Process Development Engineer

Sandhaya Koirala

Koester — 2018

University of Georgia; Postdoc

Grace Kresge

Calabrese — 2021

Santosh Kumar Sankar

Hong

Jennifer Laaser

Lodge — 2016

University of Pittsburgh; Assistant Professor

Seungjun Lee

Low

Yeon Lee

Mkhoyan, Jalan

Dustin Lattery

Wang

William Lenart

Ellison, Calabrese, Dorfman, Bates - 2021

University of Chicago; Postdoctoral Researcher

Shutong Li

Birol, Jalan — 2022

Google LLC; Software Engineer

Chenxi Li

Hogan, Chris — 2018

Laboratory for Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich; Postdoctoral Associate

Tuoqi Li

Bates, Francis — 2016

The Dow Chemical Company; Senior Chemist

Xiaolan Li

Dorfman, Kevin — 2018

Google; Engineer

Yangmu Li

Greven — 2017

Brookhaven National Lab; Neutron Scattering Group

Lucy Liberman

Lodge, Bates — 2022

Technion- Israel Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor

Zihao Lin

Cho

Fengdeng Liu

Jalan

Ke (Lucas) Luo

Siepmann, Mahanthappa - 2022

Google LLC; Software Development Engineer

Rui Luo

Lee

Rui Ma

Koester — 2020

Apple; Testing Consultant

Mahmoud Matar Abed

Haynes

Madhulika Mazumder

Bartel — 2024

University of Birmingham; Postdoctoral Researcher

Amanda Maxwell

Bates, Lodge — 2016

Boston Scientific; Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist Engineer

Michael McGovern

Dorfman, Morse — 2017

Dassault Systemes; Research and Development Developer

Athena Metaxas

Dutcher — 2020

Avient (formerly PolyOne); Leadership Development

Benjamin Micklavzina

Dutcher

Svetlana Morozova

Lodge — 2019

Case Western Reserve University; Assistant Professor

Christopher Neal

Calabrese — 2024

Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Scientific Associate

Hannah Neighbor

Bates, Dorfman — 2024

Kyle Noordhoek

Leighton

Michael Odlyzko

Mkhoyan — 2015

Epic Systems

Samuel Odoh

Gagliardi — 2016

University of Nevada, Reno; Assistant Professor

Jinwoo Oh

Ellison, Mahanthappa — 2023

Samsung Electronics; Staff Engineer

Leo Oquendo

Hillmyer — 2017

Procter & Gamble

Peter Orth

Fernandes — 2016

Iowa State University; Assistant Professor

Hyeong-Ryeol Park

Oh — 2016

Chungbuk National University, South Korea; Assistant Professor of Physics

Sang Hyun Park

Low

Sojung Park

Dorfman, Bates — 2023

University of Delaware; Postdoctoral Associate

Yensil Park

Hogan

Oak Ridge National Labs; Postdoctoral Associate

Arpita Paul

Birol — 2020

IIT Jammu; Assistant Professor

Damjan Pelc

Greven — 2020

University of Zagreb; Assistant Professor

Yi Peng

Cheng

Hung Pham

Gagliardi — 2021

Dayne Plemmons

Flannigan — 2018

Detector Electronics; Optical Research Scientist

William Postiglione

Leighton, Greven — 2023

NVE Corporation

Sunipa Pramanik

Haynes — 2019

Columbia University; Senior Safety Advisor

Davide Presti

Gagliardi — 2019

University of Bologna, Italy; Research Associate

Jia Qin

Xiong

Yunxiang Qin

Kortshagen — 2018

Micron Technology; Boise Idaho; Process Development Engineer

Matthew Quan

Ferry - 2021

Iontra Inc.

Rishi Raj

Mkhoyan, Jalan

Anil Rajapitamahuni

Jalan, Mkhoyan - 2022

Brookhaven National Laboratory

William Ramos

Lamb

Debmalya Ray

Gagliardi

Konstantin Reich

Shlovskii — 2017

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; Researcher

Spencer Reisbick

Flannigan — 2020

Brookhaven National Laboratory; Postdoctoral Associate

Wei Ren

Wang

Xinglong Ren

Frisbie — 2018

Yale University; Postdoctoral Associate

Matthew Robbins

Koester — 2019

Honeywell; Senior Semiconductor Engineer

Zachary Robinson

Kortshagen — 2020

Los Alamos Laboratory; Postdoctoral Associate

Rebeca Rodriguez

Haynes — 2022

Institute for Defence Analysis

Eric Ruud

Dutcher — 2015

MEI Research, Ltd.; Mechanical Engineer

Amartyajyoti Saha

Birol

Michael Sammon

Shklovskii — 2019

University of Minnesota Electrical and Computer Engineering; Postdoctoral Associate

Cristiam Santa Chalarca

Reineke, Lodge — 2020

AkzoNobel; R&D Team Leader II

Prachi Sharma

Fernandes, Birol — 2024

Saarland University (Germany)

Karl Schliep

Flannigan — 2017

NIST; NRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Kevin Schmalbach

Mara

Bruker Nano; Postdoctoral Scientist

Elliot Schmidt

Frisbie — 2017

Medtronic; Staff Scientist

Peter Schmidt

Bates, Lodge — 2018

Avient (formerly PolyOne); Senior Analytical Rheologist

Morgan Schulze

Hillmyer — 2016

University of California, Santa Barbara; Postdoctoral Researcher

Dongjea Seo

Oh

Vaidyanathan Sethuraman

Dorfman — 2020

Oak Ridge National Labs; Postdoctoral Associate

Daniel Shaffer

Burnell, Fernandes — 2020

Emory University; Postdoctoral Associate

Jay Shah

Birol, Mkhoyan

Kamal Sharkas

Gagliardi — 2017

LCT Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory; Paris, France

Anirudh Sharma

Stadler — 2015

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Postdoctoral Fellow

Zhengyuan (Don) Shen

Siepmann, Lodge — 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Applied Scientist

Gaurav Shukla

Wentzcovitch — 2017

Florida State University; Postdoctoral Fellow

Ian Slauch

Ferry — 2020

Arizona State University; Postdoctoral Scholar

Dustin Sprouse

Reineke — 2015

Aveda Corporation; R&D Cosmetic Formulation Chemist

Kimberly Struk

Siepmann — 2017

3M; Senior Quality Engineer

Ruitao Su

McAlpine

Sean Patrick Sullivan

Bartel

Yuhang Sun

Swisher

Karthika Suresh

Calabrese, Bates, Ellison — 2021

University of Illinois Chicago and Motif FoodWorks; Postdoctoral Associate

Victoria Szlag

Haynes, Reineke — 2018

Boston Scientific; Senior Scientist

Semere Tadesse

Li — 2016

Intel Corporation

Zhe Tan

Reineke — 2019

Eli Lilly; Research Engineer

Laxman Raju Thoutam

Jalan — 2019

SE University; Assistant Professor

Mehmet Topsakal

Wentzcovitch — 2016

Brookhaven National Laboratory; Research Associate

Nancy Trejo

Aydil — 2018

Kan-Ting Tsai

Wang — 2023

SEEQC; Cryogenic Test Engineer

Qiaomiao Tu

Kortshagen — 2022

KLA Corporation; Application Development Engineer

Jeff Walter

Frisbie, Leighton — 2018

Seagate Technology LLC; Senior Engineer

Helin Wang

Leighton, Frisbie — 2020

Yangtze Memory Technologies

Tianqi Wang

Jalan — 2018

Lam Research; Process Engineer

Zhao Wang

Stein

Adam Weidling

Swisher

Jiaxuan Wen

Cho — 2024

Intel Corporation

Whitney Wenger

Aydil, Bates — 2018

Perspectives, Inc.; Senior Research Analyst

Susith Wickramaratne

Reineke — 2015

Intel Corporation; Process Technology Development Engineer

Caleb Widstrand

Gonella — 2023

Ground Improvement Engineering

Nikolas Wilkinson

Dutcher — 2017

MAXXON Corporation; Research Scientist

Bryce Williams

Aydil, Francis — 2016

Honeywell

Jeslin Wu

Kortshagen, Campbell — 2015

Micron Technology

Ryan Wu

Mkhoyan — 2018

University of California, Berkeley; Postdoctoral Associate

Xuewang Wu

Wang — 2019

Seagate Technology LLC; Senior Engineer

Yan Wu

Francis — 2018

3M; Senior Product Engineer

Zuoti Xie

Frisbie — 2020

Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology (GTIIT); Assistant Professor

Peng (Andrew) Xu

Jalan — 2017

Micron Technology; R&D Process Development Engineer

Mridul Yadav

Bates, Morse - 2020

Intel Corporation; Sr. Imaging Data Scientist

Boyi Yang

Goldman

Li Yao

Hillmyer — 2015

3M; Senior Research Engineer

Xiaoxiao Yao

Haynes

Szu-Ming Yang

Ellison, Mahanthappa - 2023

DuPont Taiwan Innovation Center; Research and Development Chemist

Daehan Yoo

Oh

Youngdong Yoo

James — 2018

Ajou University, South Korea; Professor of Chemistry

Sang (Gil) Youm

Frisbie, Mahanthappa

Morgan Yount

Flannigan — 2021

Biqiong Yu

Greven — 2020

Analog Sciences; Data Science Expert

Guichuan Yu

Greven — 2018

University of Minnesota Characterization Facility; Data Analytics Specialist

Ziwei Yu

Frontiera — 2023

Applied Materials; Optical Metrology Application Engineer

Jin Yue

Jalan, Greven — 2021

Micron; Process Engineer

Hwanhui Yun

Mkhoyan, Birol — 2020 PhD, 2022

University of Minnesota; Postdoctoral Associate

Fazel Zare Bidoky

Frisbie — 2019

Dupont; Research Investigator

Chengjian Zhang

Francis — 2023

Micron Technology

Kuan Zhang

Gonella — 2020

Mayo Clinic; Research Scientist

Tao Zhang

Holmes — 2019

Lam Research; Process Engineer

Yichao Zhang

Flannigan — 2021

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Postdoctoral Associate

Youchi Zhang

Sarupria — 2023

Yingying Zhang

Wang, Leighton — 2022

Intel Corporation; Research and Development Engineer

Jukuan Zheng

Reineke — 2017

Intel; Yield Engineer

Bo Zhi

Haynes — 2019

Zeon; Senior Research Scientist





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