Graduate Students
Brian Li (PhD 2024)
- PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
- MS Electrical Engineering, UIUC
- NASA Space Technology Research Fellow (2019-2023)
- BS Engineering Physics, The Ohio State University
Mijung Kim (PhD 2023), now a postdoc at UCLA
- PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
- MS Materials Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MS Mat Sci, BS ChemE, UNIST
Ryan Hool (PhD 2022), now with SolAero Technologies
- PhD Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
- Best student oral presentation prize, PVSC 2020, 2021
- BS Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
- NASA Space Technology Research Fellow (2018-2022)
Pankul Dhingra (PhD 2022), now with Apple
- PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
- Best student oral presentation prize, ICMBE 2021
- Best student oral presentation prize, NAMBE 2019
- BTech Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Yukun Sun (PhD 2020), now with KLA Tencor
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- Best poster prize, PVSC 2019
- BS Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Brendan Eng (MS 2020), now with Intel
- MS Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- BS Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Carver Fellowship
Michelle Vaisman (PhD 2018), now with Dell
- First position- Bain
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- Best student oral presentation prize, NAMBE 2016
- NASA Space Technology Research Fellow 2015-2018
- BS Chemistry, BA Applied Mathematics UC Berkeley
Daehwan Jung (PhD 2016), now Senior Researcher at Center for Opto-electronic Materials and Devices and Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology (UST), Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
- First position- postdoctoral associate at UCSB
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- BS Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas
Joseph Faucher (PhD 2016), now with McKinsey & Company
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- Best student oral presentation prize, NAMBE 2015
- Best oral presentation prize winner, MRS Fall Meeting 2012
- ScB Electrical Engineering, Brown University
Kevin Nay Yaung (PhD 2016), now consulting
- First position- postdoctoral associate with the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- Best student presentation prize, IEEE PVSC 2014
- Clean Energy Scholarship PhD student 2010-2016
- BS Engineering Science, National University of Singapore
Christopher Yerino (PhD 2015), now at Qorvo, Inc., Greensboro, NC
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- Best student presentation award, Electronic Materials Conference (2012)
- DOE Graduate Fellow 2010-2013
- BS Physics, Yale University
Yuncheng Song (PhD 2014), now at Global Foundries, Malta, NY
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- MS Electrical Engineering, Peking University
- BS Electrical Engineering, Peking University
Stephanie Tomasulo (PhD 2014), now a staff scientist at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
- PhD Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
- NRC Postdoctoral fellowship (2014)
- Best student presentation prize, IEEE PVSC (2013)
- Best student poster award, North American conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2010)
- DOE Graduate Fellow 2010-2013
- MS Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- BS Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Postdocs
David Montealegre, postdoc 2022-2024, now a research engineer at HMNTL, UIUC.
- PhD Solid State Physics, University of Iowa
- BS Physics, Iowa State University
George Nelson, postdoc 2021-2022, now a research scientist at AIM Photonics
- BS and MS Physics, Clarkson University
- PhD Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Shizhao Tony Fan, postdoc 2016-2020, now a research scientist at Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences
- PhD Electrical Engineering, McGill University
- BS Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Xue Huang, postdoc 2013-2014, now at Acacia Communications Inc., (Cisco)
- First position after Lee Group- HP Labs
- PhD Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
- MS Optical Engineering, Tsinghua University
- BS Elec. Sci. & Tech., UESTC
Jordan Lang, postdoc 2012-2014, now at Apple Inc.
- First position after Lee Group- Technical Staff at Solar Junction,
- Best poster prize, IEEE PVSC (2013)
- PhD Materials, UCSB
- BS Engineering Physics, UC Berkeley
Paul Simmonds, postdoc 2009-2011, now an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University.
- First position after Lee Group- Research Scientist at UCLA
- PhD Semiconductor Physics, University of Cambridge
- MSc Physics of Laser Communication, University of Essex
- BSc Physics and Mathematics, University of Durham
John Simon, postdoc 2009-2011, now Staff Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- PhD Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
- MS Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
- BS Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Visiting Professor
Diego Martin
- Ph.D. in III-V Semiconductor Devices, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
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M.S. and B.S in Physics, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Visiting Fellows
Taizo Masuda
- PhD Physical Chemistry, Keio University
- MS Physical Chemistry, Keio University
- BS Chemistry, Keio University
Andrea Lenz
- PhD Physics, TU Berlin
- MS Physics, TU Berlin
- BS Physics, CAU Kiel
Visiting Students
Erica Krivoy, May-June 2012, from the LASE Group at UT Austin ECE
Stefan Kirnstötter, Sept 2014-Feb 2015, from TU Graz
Martin Faccinelli, Feb 2015, from TU Graz
Undergrads
Karen Yang- BS MatSE 2022, now in graduate school at MIT
Amanda Loutris- BS MatSE 2022, now in graduate school at Colorado School of Mines
Rachel Tham- BS MatSE 2021, now in graduate school at CalTech
Erik Ratta- BSMatSE 2020
Emily Moog- BSEE 2019
Yuji Chai- BSEE 2018, now a PhD candidate at Harvard
Megan Phelan– BS Intensive Physics 2015, now at CalTech Materials Science
Benjamin Prawdzik- BS Applied Physics, BA Economics 2014
Rachel Kurchin- BS Intensive Physics 2013
Laura Brink- BS EE 2015, now at Berkeley EECS
Andrew Kim- BS Applied Physics 2012, best senior thesis prize
Madeline Yozwiak- BS Applied Math, BA Economics 2014
Jonathan Biagiotti- BS EE 2011, best senior thesis prize
Danny Hakim- BS Physics 2010
Aryestis Vlahakis- BS EE 2009