Graduate Students
Brian Li (PhD 2024), now at nLIGHT, Inc.
- 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 with Eurofins-EAG
- First position- 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 by Rocket Lab
- 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 Principal Researcher at Center for Quantum Technology, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology (UST), Korea.
- 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 Energizer
- First position- Quorvo, Inc.
- 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 with IBM
- First position- Global Foundries
- 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
- PhD Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
- BS and MS Physics, Clarkson University
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
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- 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