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current:

Edward T. Yu
Principal Investigator
ety at ece dot utexas dot edu
Li Ji
Research Associate
nmgjili at utexas dot edu
Ariel Barr
B.S. (Physics/Mathematics) student
beso_de_angel at utexas dot edu
Gabriel Cossio
Ph.D. student
gcossio14 at utexas dot edu
Alex De Palma
Ph.D. student
alex dot c dot depalma at gmail dot com
Claire Ganski
Ph.D. student
claireganski at utexas dot edu
Brian Gawlik
Ph.D. student
bgaw1ikbmg at gmail dot com
Royce Hong
B.S. (EE) student
rhchen73 at utexas dot edu
Cassandra Huff
B.S. (EE) student
chraen98 at yahoo dot com
Tae-Hyeon (“Ted”) Kim
Ph.D. student
kth9149 at gmail dot com
Kalhan Koul
B.S. (EE/Plan II) student
kalhankoul at utexas dot edu
Soonil Lee
Ph.D. student
soondiku at utexas dot edu
Rolando Martinez
B.S. (EE) student
martinezrolando2 at gmail dot com
Shang-Hsuan (“Andy”) Wu
Ph.D. student
andyshwu at gmail dot com
Jerry Yang
B.S. (EE) student
jerryyang747 at utexas dot edu
Joshua Yang
B.S. (EE/Mathematics) student
joshua dot yang at utexas dot edu

 

alumni (partial list):

 

Name Position/Degree First/Current Position
Postdoctoral/Research Associates
Xiaozhong Dang postdoctoral researcher, UCSD, 1998-2000;
Ph.D., Peking University
currently Director at Western Digital
Vaishno Dasika postdoctoral researcher, UT Austin, 2011-14;
Ph.D., University of Michigan
currently Research Scientist at Wolfspeed (Cree)
Hsien-Yi (“Sam”) Hsu research associate, UT Austin, 2016-17; Ph.D., University of Florida currently Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Ronald X. Hu postdoctoral researcher, UCSD, 1996 currently Executive Director at TCL Capital, Ltd. (Shenzhen, China)
Xiaolu Kou postdoctoral researcher, UT Austin, 2014-15;
Ph.D., UCLA
currently Principal Failure Analysis Engineer at Western Digital
Cengiz Ozkan postdoctoral researcher, UCSD, 1997-98;
Ph.D., Stanford University
currently Professor at UC Riverside
Daniel M. Schaadt postdoctoral researcher, UCSD, 2003-04;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2003
currently Professor at TU Clausthal/Goslar Energy Center (Germany)
Lei Zhu postdoc, UT Austin, 2009-11;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2009
currently Trading Analyst at Metacapital (New York, NY)
Ph.D. students
Christopher Brennan graduate student, UT Austin, 2013-18;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2018
currently Research Staff Member, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Shadi Dayeh graduate student, UCSD, 2004-08;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2008
currently Professor, ECE, at UCSD
Daniel Derkacs graduate student, UCSD, 2004-09;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2009
currently Senior Scientist at SolAero Corporation
Chengqing Hu graduate student, UT Austin, 2010-15;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2015
currently Senior R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation
Li Ji graduate student, UT Austin, 2011-16;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2016
currently Research Associate at UT Austin
Jeremy Law graduate student, UCSD, 2005-09;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2009
currently Senior Systems Engineer at Gener8
Albert Lew graduate student, UCSD, 1992-97;
Ph.D., UCSD, 1997
currently Validation Engineer at Texas Instruments
Ping-Chun Li graduate student, UT Austin, 2010-15;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2015
currently RET Design Engineer at Intel Corporation
Xiaohan Li graduate student, UT Austin, 2009-14;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2014
currently Product Development Engineer at Finisar Corporation
Swee Hoe Lim graduate student, UCSD, 2004-09;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2009
currently Hardware Development Engineer at Apple
Claiborne McPheeters graduate student, UCSD, 2007-09; graduate student, UT Austin, 2009-12;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2012
currently Senior Principal Engineer at SolAero Corporation
Eric Miller graduate student, UCSD, 1997-2003;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2003
currently Chief Engineer, Technology Insertion at Boeing Satellite Systems (El Segundo, CA)
Keunwoo Park graduate student, UCSD, 2008-09; graduate student, UT Austin, 2009-13;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2013
currently Senior Front End Device Reliability Engineer at Intel Corporation
Sourobh Raychaudhuri graduate student, UCSD, 2003-09;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2009
currently Scientist at PARC (Palo Alto, CA)
Paul A. Rosenthal graduate student, UCSD, 1997-2002;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2002
currently Senior Principal Engineer at Raytheon (Los Angeles, CA)
Daniel M. Schaadt graduate student, UCSD, 1997-2003;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2003
currently Professor at TU Clausthal/Goslar Energy Center (Germany)
Blake Simpkins graduate student, UCSD, 1999-2004;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2004
currently Research Scientist at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Kurt V. Smith graduate student, UCSD, 1995-2000;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2000
currently VP of Quality/Reliability at VisIC Technologies (Santa Barbara, CA)
Brett L. Stein graduate student, UCSD, 1993-98;
Ph.D., UCSD, 1998
currently Director, Web Engineering and Analytics at ENSO Financial Analytics
Hongtao Zhang graduate student, UCSD, 2001-06;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2006
currently Senior Staff Design Engineer at Xilinx
Zhongjian Zhang graduate student, UT Austin, 2012-18;
Ph.D., UT Austin, 2018
currently Research Engineer at Exponent, Inc.
Xiaotian Zhou graduate student, UCSD, 2002-07;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2007
currently Investment Director at BOE Ventures
Lei Zhu graduate student, UCSD, 2002-09;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2009
currently Trading Analyst at Metacapital (New York, NY)
Songlin Zuo graduate student, UCSD, 1997-2002;
Ph.D., UCSD, 2002
currently Engineer at Ampere (Sunnyvale, CA)
M.S./other graduate students
Heng-Lu (“Henry”) Chang graduate student, UT Austin, 2014-17;
M.S., UT Austin, 2017
currently at AI/ML startup, Los Angeles area
Bin Feng graduate student, UCSD, 2003-05;
M.S., UCSD, 2005
currently Founder/CEO, Microduino, Inc.
Jennifer Kim graduate student, UCSD, 1993-95;
M.S., UCSD, 1995
subsequently at Qualcomm Corporation
Mo Li graduate student, UCSD, 2001-03;
M.S., UCSD, 2003
Ph.D., Caltech, 2007; currently Associate Professor at University of Washington
Mark Llorente graduate student, UCSD, 2008-09; subsequently graduate student at UCSD
Peter Matheu graduate student, UCSD, 2005-07;
M.S., UCSD, 2007
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2012; currently at Google Brain
Christopher McKinney graduate student, UCSD, 1997-2002;
C.Phil., UCSD, 2002
subsequently engineer at City of San Diego, CA
Wesley T. Salzillo graduate student, UCSD, 1998-2001;
M.S., UCSD, 2000
M.A., 2005; M.Div., 2009, Dominican School of Philosophy; currently Ph.D. student in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Ruifeng Sun graduate student, UCSD, 2001-03;
M.S., UCSD, 2003
subsequently graduate student at University of Oregon
Song Sun graduate student, UCSD, 2006-09;
M.Eng., UCSD, 2009
Jonathan Talcott graduate student, UCSD, 2003-04;
M.S., UCSD, 2004
subsequently at Rockwell Collins (Des Moines, IA)
Raymond Yakura graduate student, UCSD, 1996-98;
M.S., UCSD, 1998
subsequently at Teradyne (Agoura Hills, CA)
Undergraduate students
Anton Arriagada summer research student, 2005, 2006;
B.S. (EE), Cal Poly Pomona, 2006
M.S., UCSD, 2009; currently Senior Staff Engineer, Manager at Qualcomm
Ronald Ballouz undergraduate researcher, 2017-18;
B.S. (EE), UT Austin, 2018
currently graduate student at UC Santa Barbara
Mark Blei summer REU student, 2016;
B.S. (Physics), Arizona State University
currently graduate student at ASU
Sara Bodde undergraduate researcher, 2001-02;
B.S. (ChE), UCSD, 2002
subsequently graduate student at UCSD
Bryan Brasile summer REU student, 2015;
B.S. (ChE), Ohio State University, 2016
subsequently graduate student at Penn State University
Mark Cerutti undergraduate researcher, 2003-04;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 2004
subsequently graduate student at UCSD
Michael Clovis undergraduate researcher, 1996-97;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 1997
subsequently at Intel Corporation
Jennie Lou De Quinto undergraduate researcher, 2002-03;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 2003
subsequently graduate student at USC
Kristel Deems undergraduate researcher, 2011-13;
B.S. (EE), UT Austin, 2013
M.S., UC Berkeley, 2015; currently at Intel Corporation
Matthew Dicken undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 2002-03;
B.S. (EE/Physics), UCSD, 2003
Ph.D., Caltech, 2009; subsequently at Booz Allen Hamilton
Ryan Donohue undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 1994-96;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 1996
subsequently graduate student at Stanford
Alex Dunlap summer research student, UCSD, 2007;
B.S. (EE), San Jose State University, 2010
subsequently graduate student at Georgia Tech
Natalie Goddard Summer REU student, UT Austin, 2019 undergraduate student at Rice University
Stephen Hamann undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 2008-09;
B.S. (EE), UCSD
undergraduate student at UCSD
Byron Ho undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 2007-08;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 2008
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2012; currently at Intel Corporation
Li-Jen (Leon) Ko undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 1994-96;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 1996
subsequently graduate student at UCLA
Jihwan Lee undergraduate researcher, UT Austin, 2016-18;
B.S. (EE), UT Austin, 2018
currently graduate student at UC San Diego
Warren Mar undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 2003-05;
B.S. (EE/Physics), UCSD, 2005
Ph.D., Stanford, 2012; currently at BloomReach
Adam McMullen summer research student, UT Austin, 2012;
B.S. (ME), Rice University, 2015
subsequently graduate student at UT Austin (Petroleum Engineering)
Alexander Mo undergraduate researcher, UT Austin, 2014-6;
B.S. (EE), UT Austin, 2017
currently at Texas Instruments
Jessica Nguyen undergraduate researcher, UT Austin, 2014;
B.S. (EE), UT Austin, 2016
currently at Lockheed Martin
Scott Petersen undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 1996-97;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 1997
subsequently at Systems Engineering Associates (San Diego, CA)
Edward J. Preisler undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 1997-98;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 1998
Ph.D., Caltech, 2003; currently at Jazz Semiconductor
Ted Sanders undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 2008-09;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 2010
Ph.D., Stanford, 2016; currently at Boston Consulting Group
Jonathan Shaw undergraduate researcher, UCSD, 2005-06;
B.S. (EE), UCSD, 2006
Ph.D., Cornell, 2012; currently Technical Manager at TSMC
Visitors and Other Alumni
Olivia Barrow RET researcher, Summer 2019 4th grade teacher, Volma Overton Early College Prep (Austin, TX)
Arianna Dial RET researcher, Summer 2021 Elementary school teacher, Voigt Elementary School (Round Rock, TX)
Joshua Dunning laboratory intern, UT Austin, 2017;
graduate of Westlake High School, 2018
currently undergraduate student at Rice University
Marzella Goerig visiting graduate student, UT Austin, 2013 graduate student at TU Clausthal (Germany)
Kai Huang visiting researcher/professor, UT Austin, 2014-15 Professor of Physics, Xiamen University
Dara Reeder RET researcher, Summer 2018 5th grade teacher, Callison Elementary School (Round Rock, TX)
Rebecca Spillers RET researcher, Summer 2019 4th grade teacher, Purple Sage Elementary School (Round Rock, TX)
Cunda Wang visiting researcher/professor, UCSD, 1997-98 Professor of Applied Physics, Tianjin University
Zachary Wilborn RET researcher, Summer 2021 Elementary school teacher, Ruth Barron Elementary School (Pflugerville, TX)
Evan Yu laboratory intern, UT Austin, 2018 currently student at Westlake High School

Contact:

Edward T. Yu
ety at ece dot utexas dot edu
phone: +1.512.232.5167
fax: +1.512.471.8969
web: https://sites.utexas.edu/etylab

Locations:

Mailing address:
Microelectronics Research Center
10100 Burnet Road, Building 160
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78758

Offices:
Primary: MER 1.206M
Main campus: UTA 7.221

Directions:

From downtown Austin and UT main campus:
  • N on I-35 to US-183 N (Exit 240B)
  • US-183 N to Burnet Road exit
  • Right onto Burnet Road
  • Left into Pickle Research Campus visitor entrance
From AUS:
  • W on TX-71 to US-183 N
  • US-183 N to Burnet Road exit
  • Right onto Burnet Road
  • Left into Pickle Research Campus visitor entrance
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