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PI (click for group site)
Sri Aashrita Boddu
Ferry (Seed)
Giselle Campos
Mahanthappa (IRG-2), Lodge (IRG-2)
Zachery Cresswell
Wang, J.-P. (Seed)
Jung-Jae Do
Oh (Seed)
Johnathas D'arf Severo Forte
Low (Seed)
Clare Froehlich
Ferry (Seed)
Zichen Huang
Bartel (Seed)
Yun Kim
Wang, X. (Seed)
Yeon Lee
Leighton (Seed)
Hyeonseo Park
Birol (Seed)
Binit Santra
Frontiera (Seed)
Haoyue Sun
Wang, X. (Seed)
Gourav Kumar Tanti
Holmes (Seed)
Koki Yaita
Frontiera (Seed)
Fan Yang
Birol (Seed)
Akib Zaman
Holmes (Seed)
name
PI — most recent year of MRSEC participation
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Cesar Ascencio
Low
Kriti Agarwal
Cho — 2019
Intel Corporation
Palak Ambwani
Jalan, Leighton — 2015
Intel Corporation; Process Engineer (Nanotechnology)
Koray Aydoğan
Head-Marsden
Yilikal Ayino
Pribiag — 2020
Intel Corporation; Research Staff
Rana Bachnak
Dutcher — 2025
Intel Corporation; LTD Module Engineer
Leonel Barreda
Hillmyer — 2018
Adaptive 3D Technologies; Senior Research Scientist
Tathamay Basu
Greven, Leighton — 2021
RGIPT, Assistant Professor
Chad Beaudette
Kortshagen
Lam Research Corporation; 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
Samuel Carlson
Ilic
Rohan Chakraborty
Ferry, Leighton — 2025
Aerospace Corporation; Optical Material Scientist
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
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT); Senior Researcher
Sooho Cho
Jalan, Mkhoyan
Moon-ki Choi
Tadmor — 2023
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Postdoctoral Associate
Rashmi Choudhary
Jalan, Mkhoyan — 2025
Applied Materials; Process Engineer
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
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
Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Chemical Sciences Division
Bhaskar Das
Frisbie, Leighton — 2022
Seagate Technology LLC; Senior R&D Engineer
Soumi Das
Reineke, Calabrese — 2025
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 Corporation, 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/Leighton
Brandon Hosford
Lamb
Faegheh (Fafa) Hoshyargar
Siepmann, Mahanthappa — 2023
Thermo Fisher Scientific; Scientist
Yi Huang
Shklovskii — 2023
Katharine Hunter
Kortshagen — 2019
3M; Corporate Research Engineer
Michael Hyatt
Mahanthappa, Bates — 2022
MD Noushad Javed
Lozano — 2024
Texas A&M University; Postdoc
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
Jongkyeong (Martin) Kim
Walker
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
Thomas Lee
Román
Seungjun Lee
Low
Yeon Lee
Mkhoyan, Jalan
Dustin Lattery
Wang
Seagate Technology LLC
William Lenart
Ellison, Calabrese, Dorfman, Bates - 2021
University of Chicago; Postdoctoral Researcher
Shutong Li
Birol, Jalan — 2022
Google LLC; Software Engineer
Chenxi Li
Hogan — 2018
Laboratory for Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich; Postdoctoral Associate
Daoyuan Li
Siepmann, Lodge — 2025
TikTok
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
Jierui Liang
Leighton, Ferry — 2026
Northeast Normal University
Lucy Liberman
Lodge, Bates — 2022
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor
Yicheng (Betty) Liu
Holmes
Zihao Lin
Cho
Fengdeng Liu
Jalan
Ke (Lucas) Luo
Siepmann, Mahanthappa - 2022
Google LLC; Software Development Engineer
Yujie Luo
Ilic
Rui Luo
Lee
Rui Ma
Koester — 2020
Apple; Testing Consultant
Mahmoud Matar Abed
Haynes
Benjamin Magruder
Ellison, Dorfman — 2025
University of Cambridge, England; Research Associate
Madhulika Mazumder
Bartel — 2024
University of Birmingham; Research Associate
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
Ayaka Moriyama
Román, Ferry
Benjamin Micklavzina
Dutcher
Svetlana Morozova
Lodge — 2019
Case Western Reserve University; Assistant Professor
Sreejith Nair
Jalan/Mkhoyan — 2026
Lam Research Corporation
Nileena Nandakumaran
Leighton, Greven
Christopher Neal
Calabrese — 2024
Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Scientific Associate
Hannah Neighbor
Bates, Dorfman — 2024
Minnesota Department of Health; District Engineer
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
Devesh Pathak
Stoerzinger - 2025
Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (INST Mohali), India
Arpita Paul
Birol — 2020
IIT Jammu; Assistant Professor
Damjan Pelc
Greven — 2020
University of Zagreb; Assistant Professor
Yi Peng
Cheng
Camila Perales-Rodriguez
Lodge, Mahanthappa — 2026
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
Subrata Santra
Lodge, Bates — 2025
Arghya Sarkar
Frontiera
Prachi Sharma
Fernandes, Birol — 2024
IQM Quantum Computers (Germany); Quantum Algorithm Engineer
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 Corporation; 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
Simon Willis
Flannigan — 2025
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
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT); Senior Researcher
Fazel Zare Bidoky
Frisbie — 2019
Dupont; Research Investigator
Chengjian Zhang
Francis — 2023
Micron Technology
Chi Zhang
Wang, Jalan, Leighton — 2025
Kuan Zhang
Gonella — 2020
Mayo Clinic; Research Scientist
Tao Zhang
Holmes — 2019
Lam Research Corporation; 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
Caini Zheng
Lodge, Siepmann — 2025
Dow Chemical Company (DowDuPont)
Jukuan Zheng
Reineke — 2017
Intel Corporation; Yield Engineer
Bo Zhi
Haynes — 2019
Zeon; Senior Research Scientist
He Zhu
Birol — 2025
Dropbox; Machine Learning Engineer
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