Lab Members

Dr. Changyong Cao

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

Dr. Brittany Smith

(2024 PhD)
Dissertation: "Carbon-based inks and printing processes for environmentally friendly sensors and transistors"
Currently: Postdoc at Duke

Dr. Faris Albarghouthi

(2024 PhD)
Dissertation: "Addressing scalability, stability, and sensitivity in nanomaterial-based electronic biosensors"
Currently: Power R&D Process Development Engineer at Wolfspeed

Dr. Brittani (Carroll) Huegen

(2024 PhD)
Dissertation: "Customized electrodes for printed biosensors and wearable electronics"
Currently: Research Scientist at Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)

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: Research Scientist at Meta

Dr. Steven Noyce

(2020 PhD)
Dissertation: "Mapping Sensitivity of Nanomaterial Field-Effect Transistors"
Currently: Senior Scientist at Bridgestone 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) Ferguson

(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: Business Development at Yole Intelligence

Alexander Mangus

(2022 Masters in ECE)

Hope Meikle

(2022 Masters in MSE)

Shulin Ye

(2021 Masters in ECE)

Rowena Ge

(2023 REU Student)

Jeiko Pujols

(2023 REU Student)

Eeshta Bhatt

(2022-2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Alison Kuo

(2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Ashley Lo

(2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Ryan Wence

(2021-2023 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Simon Gorbaty

(2021-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Aneesh Karappur

(2021-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Iman Khanani

(2022 REU Student)

Joshua Medway

(2020-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Peter Ballentine

(2018-2022 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Rubimarie Vasquez

(2022 REU Student)

Nathan Choe

(2018-2021 Pratt Research Fellow)

Maya Parekh

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Brendan Peercy

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Spencer Schutz

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Joseph Zhang

(2021 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Matthew Barbano

(2016-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Nathaniel Brooke

(2018-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Joanne Zheng

(2018-2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Zoe Fowler

(2019 REU Student)

Cesar Lasalde Ramirez

(2019 REU Student)

Shreya Singh

(2017-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Max Smith

(2018-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Justin Wang

(2018-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Nate Watson

(2017-2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Favour Dada

(2018 REU Student)

Chin Jie (CJ) Lim

(2017-2018 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Jugal Mehta

(2017 REU Student)

Jacob Mullett

(2016-2017 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Sophia Upshaw

(2017 REU Student)

Vipin Prajapati

(2016 REU Student)

Kirstin Schauble

(2016 REU Student)

Chuanze (Tom) Wu

(2015-2016 Undergraduate Student Researcher)

Abhinay Kumar

(2015 REU Student)

Jian Guan

(2017-2018 Visiting PhD Student)
Currently: Postdoc at Chongqing CAS

Sina Najmaei

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