Lab Members

Faculty

Dr. Aaron D. Franklin

Addy Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and
Department of Chemistry
Associate Dean for Doctoral Education (Pratt School of Engineering)
Office:  CIEMAS 3473
919-681-9471
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PhD Students

Faris Albarghouthi

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
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Brian Cole

Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science
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Jay Doherty

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science
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Hansel Alex Hobbie

Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
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Brittani (Carroll) Huegen

Ph.D. Candidate, NSF GRFP Fellow
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
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Brittany Smith

Ph.D. Student, NSF GRFP Fellow
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
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Baiyu Zhang

Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
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Undergraduate Students

Eeshta Bhatt
BME major, joined lab in 2022

Ashley Lo
BME major, joined lab in 2023

Ashley Kuo
BME major, joined lab in 2022

Quentin MacFarlane
ECE major, joined lab in 2022

Xiongxiong Pei
ECE major, joined lab in 2021

Matthew Salfity
BME major, joined lab in 2022

Ryan Wence
BME major, joined lab in 2021

Alumni

PhD Student Alumni

Dr. Hattan Abuzaid
(2022 PhD)
Dissertation: "On the impact of materials and processes on edge-contacted 2D transition metal dichalcogenide transistors"
Currently: Consulting Lead at KAPSARC in Saudi Arabia
 

Dr. Shiheng Lu
(2022 PhD)
Dissertation: "Aerosol jet printing of carbon nanotube thin-film transistors"
Currently: Research Engineer at Huawei
 

Dr. Nick Williams
(2021 PhD)
Dissertation: "Custom inks and printing processes for electronic biosensing devices"
Currently: Director of Product at X-COR Therapeutics
 

Dr. Jorge Cardenas
(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "In-Place Printing of Carbon Nanotube Transistors at Low Temperature"
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Lab
 

Dr. Yuh-Chen Lin
(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "Two-Dimensional Negative Capacitance-FETs with Ferroelectric HfZrO2"
Currently: Applied Scientist at Amazon
 

Dr. Steven Noyce
(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "Mapping Sensitivity of Nanomaterial Field-Effect Transistors"
Currently: Senior Scientist at Tyrata and CEO at Versametrics
 

Dr. Joseph Andrews
(2019 PhD)
Dissertation: "Printed carbon nanotube thin films for electronic sensing"
Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin - Madison
 

Dr. Zhihui Cheng
(2019 PhD)
Dissertation: "Modification and scaling of metal contacts to 2D materials using an in-situ argon ion beam"
Currently: Research Engineer at Intel
 

Dr. Kate Price
(2019 PhD)
Dissertation: "On the impact and growth of plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition high-k dielectrics on 2D crystals"
Currently: Research Scientist at Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
 

Dr. Daniel Joh
(2018 PhD, co-advised with A. Chilkoti, BME)
Dissertation: "Molecular and biofunctional modification of conformal POEGMA bottlebrush coatings and applications toward in vitro diagnostics"
Currently: MD resident at Duke
 

Dr. Felicia McGuire
(2018 PhD)
Dissertation: "Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide negative capacitance field-effect transistors"
Currently: Nanofabrication Center Manager at NYU
 

Masters Student Alumni

Alexander Mangus
(2022 Masters in ECE)
 

Hope Meikle
(2022 Masters in MSE)
 

Shulin Ye
(2021 Masters in ECE)
 

Postdoc Alumni

Dr. Changyong Cao
(2015-2016 Post Doc)
Currently: Assis. Professor at Michigan State Univ

Undergraduate Student Alumni

Peter Ballentine
(2018-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Matthew Barbano
(2016-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Nathaniel Brooke
(2018-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Jorge Cardenas
(2015 REU Student)

Nathan Choe
(2018-2021 Pratt Research Fellow)

Favour Dada
(2018 REU Student)

Zoe Fowler
(2019 REU Student)

Simon Gorbaty
(2021-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Alex Hobbie
(2018 REU Student)

Cesar Lasalde Ramirez
(2019 REU Student)

Chin Jie (CJ) Lim
(2017-2018 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Aneesh Karappur
(2021-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Iman Khanani
(2022 REU Student)

Abhinay Kumar
(2015 REU Student)

Joshua Medway
(2020-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Jugal Mehta
(2017 REU Student)

Jacob Mullett
(2016-2017 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Maya Parekh
(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Brendan Peercy
(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Xiongxiong Pei
(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Vipin Prajapati
(2016 REU Student)

Kirstin Schauble
(2016 REU Student)

Spencer Schutz
(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Max Smith
(2018-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Shreya Singh
(2017-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Sophia Upshaw
(2017 REU Student)

Rubimarie Vasquez
(2022 REU Student)

Nate Watson
(2017-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Justin Wang
(2018-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Chuanze (Tom) Wu
(2015-2016 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Joseph Zhang
(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Joanne Zheng
(2018-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Visiting Researcher Alumni

Jian Guan
(2017-2018 Visiting PhD Student)
Currently: PhD Student at Jilin University

Sina Najmaei
(2015-2016 Visiting Researcher)
Currently: Research Scientist at ARL