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Postdoc

  • Leepsa Mishra 

PhD Students

  • Doyun Kim (10/2023, thesis: Mechanical Properties of Emerging 2D Semiconductors; 2024 MSEN Best Ph.D. Thesis Awardee); Immediate next stop: postdoc at North Carolina State University; Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Master Students

  • Arushi Chaudhry (Sept. 2023 – May 2025, non-thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • Li Chen Hsiao (Oct. 2022 – Aug. 2024, co-chair; Thesis: Investigation of Structural, Mechanical, Electronic and Dielectric Properties of Inorganic Halide Perovskites through Density Functional Theory; Immediate next stop: PhD student at Penn State University)
  • Yeonju Yu (05/2023, thesis: Chemistry Evolution of Carbon Fiber from Mesophase Pitch during Thermal Treatment); Immediate next stop: PhD student in Materials Science & Engineering at TAMU
  • Mohammed Shyikh (12/2021, thesis: Charge Screening and Charge Injection in 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites); Immediate next stop: application engineer in Applied Materials
  • Raj Patel (06/2021, thesis: Frictional Properties of 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites); Immediate next stop: PhD student in Materials Science & Engineering at TAMU
  • Fangqing Xia (non-thesis, 08/2020); Immediate next stop: Master student in ISEN at TAMU

Visiting Scholar

  • Changwoo Lee (Associate Professor from the Department of Nanotechnology Engineering at Pukyung National University, May 2023 to April 2024)

Undergraduate Students

  • Gannon Amendola, Undergraduate Researcher, from MSEN department at TAMU (Fall 2022 to Spring 2025, Samsung Austin Semiconductor Fellowship (Spring 2024 – Spring 2025))
  • Shyla Peterson, Texas A&M Semiconductor Insititute Summer REU, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (Summer 2024)
  • Saskia Straub, Undergraduate Researcher, from MSEN department at TAMU (Fall 2023 to Fall 2023)
  • Matthew Betz, Undergraduate Researcher, from MSEN department at TAMU (Fall 2022 to Fall 2023, 2023 TAMU USRG REU).
  • Philip Starnes, Undergraduate researcher, from MSEN department at TAMU (Spring 2022 to summer 2023)
  • Juan Bustos, Undergraduate researcher, from MSEN department at TAMU (Spring 2022)
  • Raphael Francisco, online REU student (2021 summer) from Georgia Institute of Technology

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