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Past Members

Ph.D. Students Graduated

  • Yuntian Zhu, 1994 (North Carolina State University)
  • In S. Lee, 1995 (Dongeui University, Korea)
  • Lan Zhang, 1996 (Solar Junction Corporation)
  • Jun P. Tang, 1997
  • Jaekook Kim, 1997 (Chonnam University, Korea)
  • Srinivas Guggilla, 1998 (Applied Materials)
  • Jonathan D. Stolk, 1999 (Olin College)
  • Tad J. Armstrong, 2000 (Bloomenergy)
  • Yeon U. Jeong, 2000 (Kyungpook University, Korea)
  • Ramanan V. Chebiam, 2001 (Intel)
  • Seungdon Choi, 2001 (LG Chem, Korea)
  • Dongmin Im, 2002 (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)
  • Youngjoon Shin, 2003 (LG Chem)
  • Venkatraman Sivaramakrishnan, 2004 (Shell, India)
  • Bo Yang, 2004 (Altergy Systems)
  • Liufeng Xiong, 2004 (Boston Power)
  • Ki-Tae Lee, 2006 (Chonbuk University, Korea)
  • Jeh Won Choi, 2006 (Samsung Electronics)
  • Yongzhu Fu, 2007 (School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering – Zhengzhou University)
  • Wonchang Choi, 2007 (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
  • Arun Kumar Tiruvannamalai, 2007 (SolidEnergy Systems)
  • Abraham Arceo, 2007 (Sematech)
  • Emilio Alvarez, 2007 (Exxon-Mobil)
  • Yan Wu, 2008 (General Motors)
  • Jung-Hyun Kim, 2009 (General Motors)
  • Wen Li, 2009 (Apple, Inc.)
  • Arindam Sarkar, 2009 (Indian Institute of Technology)
  • Eungje Lee, 2010 (Argonne National Laboratory)
  • Murali Theivanayagam, 2010 (Dow Chemical)
  • Juan Zhao, 2010 (Fujifilm Dimatix)
  • Young Nam Kim, 2011 (Ford Motor Company)
  • Danielle Applestone, 2012 (Other Machine Company)
  • Katharine Harrison, 2012 (Sandia National
  • Eun Sung Lee, 2012 (Samsung SDI, Korea)
  • B. Reeja Jayan, 2012 (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Thomas Cochell, 2013 (University of Kentucky)
  • Katharine Chemelewski, 2013 (Axium Nanofibers, LLC)
  • Yu-Sheng Su, 2013 (Axium Battery, LLC)
  • Preethi Mathew, 2013
  • Arturo Gutierrez, 2014 (Argonne National Laboratory)
  • Longjun Li, 2014 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  • Matthew West, 2014 (Intel)
  • Daeil Yoon, 2014 (Hyundai Motor Company)
  • Chih-Liang Wang, 2014 (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)
  • Zachary Moorhead-Rosenberg, 2015 (SpaceX)
  • Sheng-Heng Chung, 2015 (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Chenxi Zu, 2015 (Stanford University)
  • Eric Allcorn, 2015 (Sandia National Laboratory)
  • James Knight, 2015 (SACHEM)
  • Sang Ok Kim, 2016 (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Craig Milroy, 2016 (Texas Research International)
  • Michael Klein, 2017 (TowerJazz)
  • Karl Kreder, 2017 (GridPlus Inc.)
  • Chi-Hao Chang, 2018 (Dow Chemical)
  • Ke-Yu Lai, 2018 (Intel)
  • Wangda Li, 2018 (UT Austin)
  • Pauline Han, 2018
  • Martha Gross, 2019 (Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Liu Luo, 2019 (Albemarle Corp.)
  • Jianyu Li, 2019 (Tesla)
  • Robert Pipes, 2020 (G.RAU Inc.)
  • Sanjay Nanda, 2020 (Cuberg)
  • Qiang Xie, 2020 (Wildcat Discovery Technologies)
  • Daniel Park, 2021 (Argonne National Lab.)
  • Abhay Gupta, 2021 (Argonne National Lab.)
  • Brian Heligman, 2021
  • Julia Lamb, 2022 (TexPower)
  • Jayse Langdon, 2022 (TexPower)
  • Amruth Bhargav, 2022 (Lyten)
  • Alex Mesnier, 2023
  • Zehao Cui, 2023 (UT Austin, Research Associate)
  • Richard Sim, 2023
  • Jake H. Sul, 2024
  • Michael Yi, 2024
  • Steven Lee, 2024
  • Joseph Brandon Adamo, 2024
  • Joe Darga 2025
  • Seamus Ober 2025
  • Zezhou Guo 2025

Postdoctoral Fellows Completed

  • Chi F. Tsang, 1995-1996
  • Jaekook Kim, 1998-1999
  • Venkatesan Manivannan, 1996-1997
  • Yin Xia, 1998-1999
  • Fernando D. Prado, 1998-2001 and 2007-2008
  • A. M. Kannan, 1999-2000
  • Wen-Jie Zhu, 1999-2002
  • Muthuvel Manivel Raja, 2000
  • Karuppasamy Gurunathan, 2000-2001
  • Sunmin Wang, 2001
  • Nig Ye, 2001-2002
  • Lionel Vayssieres, 2002-2003
  • Raghuveer Vadari, 2002-2005
  • Chun-Mo Yang, 2004-2005
  • Ki-Tae Lee, 2006
  • Sungwon Choi, 2006-2007
  • Hao Liu, 2006-2010
  • Jeong Lee, 2007-2008
  • Jie Gao, 2007-2008
  • Jun Liu, 2007-2009
  • Vadivel Murugan, 2007-2010
  • Aravindan Ponnu, 2007-2010
  • Liufeng Xiong, 2008
  • In-su Park, 2008-2009
  • Yoon Seok Jung, 2009
  • Kalaiselvi Nallathamby, 2009
  • Sukeun Yoon, 2009-2010
  • Ragupathy Pitchai, 2009-2010
  • Zenqiang Deng, 2009-2011
  • Eungje Lee, 2010-2011
  • Junqing Pan, 2010-2011
  • Arun Murthy, 2010-2011
  • Yuanqin Zhu, 2009-2011
  • Wenbin Luo, 2010-2011
  • Anmin Cao, 2010-2011
  • Hong Young Chang, 2010-2011
  • Dong Wook Shin, 2010-2012
  • XinSheng Zhao, 2010-2013
  • Wei Li, 2010-2013
  • Jianmin Ma, 2011
  • Shuangyin Wang, 2011-2012
  • Kug-Seung Lee, 2011-2012
  • Zhongqing Jiang, 2011-2013
  • Zicheng Zuo, 2011-2103
  • Chih-Chieh Wang, 2011-2013
  • Yongzhu Fu, 2011-2013
  • B. Reeja Jayan, 2012-2013
  • Il Tae Kim, 2012-2014
  • Thandavarayan Maiyalagan, 2012-2014
  • Thomas Cochell, 2013
  • Eun Sung Lee, 2013
  • Samick Son, 2013-2014
  • Jianming Zheng, 2014-2015
  • Veronica Augustyn, 2013-2015
  • Guangmin Zhou, 2014-2015
  • Jorpin Joseph, 2014-2015

  • Wang Hay Kan, 2014-2015
  • Guang He, 2013-2015
  • Jin-Yun Liao, 2013-2015
  • Longjun Li, 2014-2015
  • Yubao Zao, 2014-2015
  • Pilgun Oh, 2014-2015
  • Seung-Min Oh, 2014-2015
  • Long Qie, 2014-2016
  • Padmasree Padmadas, 2015-2016 and 2019-2020
  • Ya You, 2015-2018
  • Bohang Song, 2014-2016
  • Gil-Pyo Kim, 2015-2016
  • Sheng-Heng Chung, 2015-2019
  • Junseop Lee, 2015-2016
  • Watchareeya Kaveevivichai, 2015-2016
  • Henghui Xu, 2015-2016
  • Shaofei Wang, 2015-2017
  • G. Gana Kumar, 2016-2017
  • Sunghoon Ahn, 2016-2017
  • Karl Kreder, 2017-2018
  • Evan Erickson, 2017-2019
  • Jung Yup Lim, 2018-2019
  • Wangda Li, 2018 – 2020
  • Jiarui He, 2018 – 2021
  • Byong Yong Yu, 2019-2020
  • Seong, Won Mo, 2019-2020
  • Kim, Seona, 2019-2020
  • Xie, Qiang, 2020-2021
  • Youngjin Kim, 2017-2021
  • Feng Zou, 2019 – 2021
  • Xianhui Zhang, 2020 – 2021
  • Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl, 2017 – 2021
  • Feng Zou, 2019 – 2021
  • Ruijun Pan, 2020 – 2021
  • Anil Parameswaran Thankam, 2020 – 2022
  • Brian Heligman, 2021
  • Xianhui Zhang, 2020 -2021
  • Woochul Shin, 2021 – 2022
  • Eunmi Jo, 2020 – 2022
  • Yuxun Ren, 2021 – 2022
  • Dong Guo, 2021 – 2022
  • Lalit Sharma, 2021 – 2022
  • Amruth Bhargav, 2022
  • Hanseul Kim, 2021- 2023
  • Hongjun Park, 2021 – 2023
  • Rudy Torres, 2022 – 2023
  • Laisuo Su, 2021-2023
  • Dongsoo Lee, 2022-2023
  • Weiqi Yao 2023
  • Zehao Cui, 2023
  • Hoang Nguyen, 2024
  • Panawan Vanaphuti, 2024
  • Steven Kmiec, 2024
  • Krishnakanth Sada, 2024
  • Biyu Jin, 2025

M.S. Students Graduated

  • Jui-fa Kuo, 1992
  • Jun P. Tang, 1993
  • Srinivas Guggilla, 1994 (Applied Materials)
  • Dananjay Ananthasayanam, 1994
  • Chandra S. Ramanujan, 1995 (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Rahul Gupta, 1996 (Lucent)
  • Yeon U. Jeong, 1997 (Kyungpook University, Korea)
  • Seungdon Choi, 1999 (LG Chem, Korea)
  • Philip D. Fulmer, 1999 (Applied Materials)
  • Jiong Chen, 2000 (Applied Materials)
  • Titash Sridharan, 2002 (Cyprus Semiconductor)
  • Arun Kumar Tiruvannamalai, 2004 (SolidEnergy Systems)
  • Francisco Romero, 2004
  • Richard Harrison, 2007 (Sandia National Laboratory)
  • Qiang Luo, 2008 (A123)
  • Qiongyu Wang,2008 (Apple, Inc.)
  • Garrett Salpeter, 2010 (NeuFit)
  • Brent Wise, 2010 (DuPont)
  • Shelley Zieren-Florence, 2011 (NXP Semiconductors)
  • Joshua Leibowitz, 2014 (Samsung Austin Semiconductor)
  • Robert Anthony O’Donovan-Zavada, 2014 (Stages Northwest)
  • Travis Turner, 2014 (Intel)
  • Nora Colligan, 2015 (Samsung)
  • Siyang Liu, 2015 (LG Chem, China)
  • Gaurav Assat, 2015 (College de France, France)
  • Soham Agarwal, 2019 (Intel)
  • Patrick Crowley, 2022
  • Kyler Krupp, 2024

Undergraduate Research Assistants Completed

  • Anne-Sophie Vernier, 1992
  • Brent Clothier, 1994
  • Mahan Mirza, 1994
  • Maria L. Herrera, 1994
  • Timothy S. Butcher, 1994
  • Christopher Heitz, 1994
  • Sum Y. Lai, 1995
  • Mohammed S. Shaarawi, 1995
  • Philip Tavernier, 1996
  • Philip D. Fulmer, 1997
  • Michael C. Simmons, 1998
  • Muhammad K. Imam, 1999
  • Nicholas Folse, 2000
  • Michael Linford, 2004
  • Heather Myint, 2004
  • David Bierschenk, 2005
  • Andrew Bellay, 2006
  • Justin Hrbacek, 2010
  • Kathryn Dix, 2011
  • Kevin Berba, 2011
  • Jason Paladini, 2012
  • Aaron Dangerfield, 2012
  • Martin Trujillo, 2012
  • Christina Ortiz, 2012-2014
  • Kristen Bateman, 2012-2013
  • Grace Wu, 2012-2014
  • Christina Ortiz, 2012-2014
  • Kristen Bateman, 2012-2013
  • Grace Wu, 2012-2014
  • David Gonzalez, 2012-2013
  • Rita Collier, 2013
  • Karina Pieratt, 2013
  • Phuong Huynh, 2014
  • Priyanka Dochibhotla, 2014
  • Sneha Goteti, 2014
  • Kevin Yee, 2014
  • Emmanuel Buabeng, 2014
  • Tchaa Taro, 2014
  • Riley Hendricks, 2014
  • Nick Patterson, 2015
  • Emilio Pascual, 2015
  • Hyunsu Kong, 2015
  • Joshua Colton Wauson, 2015
  • Sinan Feng, 2017
  • Yanhong Li, 2017
  • Ruojiao Sun, 2019
  • Lauren Stokes, 2020
  • Rachel Schmidt, 2023
  • Thi Hoang, 2023-2024
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