| Dr. Ilektra Andoni | Graduate student: 9/17 - 7/22 |
Ph.D. July 2022 | Western Digital, San Jose, CA. | iandoni@uci.edu |
| Dr. Nick Drago | Graduate student: 9/17 - 12/22 |
Ph.D. December 2022 | PPG Industries, Sylmar, CA. | dragon@uci.edu |
| Dr. Josh Ziegler | Graduate student: 9/17 - 5/22 |
Ph.D. May 2022 | Intel, Hillsboro, OR. | jmziegle@uci.edu |
| Dr. Apurva Bhasin | Graduate student: 9/15 - 9/20 |
Ph.D. September 2020 | PhageTech Inc., Irvine, CA. | apurvab@uci.edu |
| Ms. Vivian Chen | Graduate student: 9/16 - 9/20 |
M.S. September 2020 | Applications Development Engineer KLA Inc. Hillsboro, OR |
chenvt@uci.edu |
| Dr. Gaurav Jha | Graduate student: 9/14 - 12/19 |
Ph.D. December 2019 | Intel, Hillsboro, OR. | jhag@uci.edu |
| Dr. Alana Ogata | Graduate student: 9/14 - 12/18 |
Ph.D. December 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, David Walt Group Harvard. | alanao@uci.edu |
| Dr. Shaopeng Qiao | Graduate student: 9/13 - 07/18 |
Ph.D. July 2018 | TBD | shaopenq@uci.edu |
| Dr. Girija Thesma Chandran | Postdoctoral Fellow: 9/15 - 05/18 |
n.a. | Xerion Advanced Battery, Dayton, OH. | girija.thesma@gmail.com |
| Dr. Crystin Eggers | Graduate student: 9/11 - 12/16 |
Ph.D. March 2017 | Coastline Community College, Fountain Valley, CA | ceggers@uci.edu |
| Dr. Ragen Dutta | Graduate student: 9/11 - 12/16 |
Ph.D. February 2017 | Intel, Hillsboro, OR. | rajen.k.dutta@gmail.com |
| Dr. Xiaowei Li | Graduate student: 9/11 - 12/16 |
Ph.D. January 2017 | Glidewell Laboratories, Newport Beach, CA | xiaoweiluci@gmail.com |
| Dr. Mya Le Thai | Graduate student: 9/11 - 12/16 |
Ph.D. December 2016 | Intel, Hillsboro, OR. | myalethai@gmail.com |
| Dr. Wenbo Yan | Graduate student: 9/09 - 8/13 |
Ph.D. August 2013 | Magic Leap, Plantation, FL. | leonnieyan@gmail.com |
| Dr. Talin Ayvazian | Graduate student: 9/09 - 8/13 |
Ph.D. August 2013 | Aerospace Corp, El Segundo, CA. | tayvazia@uci.edu |
| Dr. Jung Yun Kim | Graduate student: 9/09 - 8/13 |
Ph.D. August 2013 | Apple Inc., Sunneyvale, CA | jyatuci@gmail.com |
| Dr. Wendong Xing | Graduate student: 9/08 - 9/12 |
Ph.D. August 2012 | Magic Leap, Plantation, FL. | xingwendong@gmail.com |
| Dr. Keith Donavan | Graduate student: 9/08 - 8/12 |
Ph.D. August 2012 | Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA. | kdonavan@uci.edu |
| Dr. Fan Yang | Graduate student: 9/07 - 7/11 |
Ph.D. July 2011 | Postdoctoral fellow Caltech |
fanyang@caltech.edu |
| Ms. Eminet Gebremichael | Graduate student: 7/06 - 9/11 |
M.S. September 2011 | Shasta Crystals, San Francisco, CA. | femikal@yahoo.com |
| Dr. David Taggart | Graduate student: 9/06 - 5/11 |
Ph.D. May 2011 | General Monitors Lake Forest, CA |
davidt@generalmonitors.com |
| Dr. Shengchin Kung | Graduate student: 9/06 - 3/11 |
Ph.D. March 2011 | Applied Materials Sunnyvale, CA |
shengchk@uci.edu |
| Dr. Yongan Yang | Postdoctoral Fellow: 9/08 - 6/1/2010 |
n.a. | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO |
yonyang@mines.edu |
| Dr. Chengxiang(CX) Xiang | Graduate student: 9/06 - 7/10 |
Ph.D. July 2010 | JCAP, Caltech, Pasadena, CA. | cxx@caltech.edu |
| Dr. Megan Sassin | Graduate student: 9/00 - 12/07 |
Ph.D. December 2007 | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC |
meganresearch@gmail.com |
| Dr. Li-Mei Yang | Graduate student: 9/01 - 12/07 |
Ph.D. December 2007 | David Walt Lab, Tufts University Boston, MA |
chu0204@hotmail.com |
| Mr. Cobey Cross | Graduate student: 9/01 - 11/06 |
M.S. December 2006 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Fremont, CA |
cobey.cross@gmail.com |
| Dr. Erik Menke | Graduate student: 9/00 - 4/06 |
Ph.D. June 2006 | Asst. Professor, Department of Natural Sciences UC Merced Merced, CA |
emenke@ucmerced.edu |
| Dr. Qiguang Li | Graduate student: 9/01 - 11/05 |
Ph.D. December 2005 | Applications Development Engineer KLA Tencor Milpitas, CA |
qiguang.li@kla-tencor.com |
| Dr. Ben Murray | Graduate student: 9/00 - 7/05 |
Ph.D. June 2005 | Applications Development Engineer KLA Tencor Milpitas, CA |
benjamin.murray@kla-tencor.com |
| Dr. Erich Walter | Graduate student: 9/99 - 8/04 |
Ph.D. June 2004 | Scientist NIST Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Univ. |
erich.walter@nist.gov |
| Ms. Stacey Rogers | Graduate student: 9/01 - 6/04 |
M.S. July 2004 | Trabucco Hills High School Mission Viejo, CA |
ROGERSS@svusd.k12.ca.us |
| Dr. Mike Zach | Graduate student: 9/97 - 7/02 |
Ph.D. July 2002 | Glenn Seaborg Professor of Chemistry University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point |
mzach@uwsp.edu |
| Dr. Kwok Ng | Graduate student: 9/97 - 7/02 |
Ph.D. May 2002 | Applications Development Engineer KLA Tencor Milpitas, CA |
kwok.ng@kla-tencor.com |
| Dr. Hongtao Liu | Graduate student: 9/96 - 7/01 |
Ph.D. May 2001 | Applied Materials Sunnyvale, CA |
hongtao.liu@gmail.com |
| Dr. Becca Stiger | Graduate student: 9/92 - 10/98 |
Ph.D. August 1998 | Chemist PPG Inc. Pittsburgh, PA |
rstiger@ppg.com |
| Dr. Georg Erley | Postdoc: 5/96 - 5/98 |
n.a. | Process Engineer Fraunhofer IPMS Dresden, Germany |
georg.erley@web.de |
| Dr. Sasha Gorer | Postdoc: 6/96 - 12/97 |
n.a. | Chemist/Surface Scientist Calera Inc. Los Gatos, CA |
sgorer@calera.com |
| Dr. Ralph Nyffenegger | Postdoc: 10/95 - 7/97 |
n.a. | Engineer KLA Tencor, Inc. Milpitas, CA |
Ralph.Nyffenegger@kla-tencor.com |
| Dr. Gregor Hsiao | Graduate student: 9/91 - 6/96 | Ph.D. June 1996 | Product line director Lasentec Inc. San Carlos, CA |
ghsiao@MT.com |
| Dr. Jim Zoval | Graduate student: 9/91 - 6/96 |
Ph.D. June 1996 | Chemist Marc Madou Labs, UCI Engineering |
JZoval@uci.edu |
| Mr. Matt Anderson | Graduate student: 9/93 - 10/96 |
M.S. Jan. 1997 | Applications Chemist Orion Research Inc. Boston, Mass |
m.anderson@ orionres.com |
| Dr. Jorma Virtanen | Postdoc: 6/91 - 6/95 |
n.a. | Professor of Nanoscience University of Jyvaskyla Department of Chemistry |
virtanen@home.com |
| Dr. Wenjie Li | Graduate student: 9/91 - 6/95 |
Ph.D. June 1995 | Quality Director Micelle Labs, Inc. Lake Forest, CA. |
wli@micelle.com |
| Mr. Samuel Lee | Graduate student: 9/91 - 6/93 |
M.S. June 1993 | Archivist/Historian Living Stream Ministries Anaheim, CA |
samuel@lsm.org |
| Undergraduates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Liu | Undergraduate student: 9/16 - 6/18 | B.S. June 2018 | National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C. | |
| Thien To | Undergraduate student: 9/15 - 12/17 | B.S. June 2018 | TBD. | |
| Michael Thompson | Undergraduate student: 1/04 - 6/07 | B.S. June 2007 | Stanford University, Department of Chemistry | |
| EmilyJane Sunga | Undergraduate student: 9/05 - 6/07 | B.S. June 2007 | USC School of Dentistry | |
| Shahrooz Szaghi | Undergraduate student: 9/95 - 6/97 | B.S. June 1998 | ||
| Moe Shaaban | Undergraduate student: 9/95 - 6/97 | B.S. June 1997 | Rockwell Inc. Irvine, CA |
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| Ben Craft | Undergraduate student: 9/95 - 6/97 | B.S. June 1997 | Graduate student, UCI Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering |
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| Mr. Mike Barskey | Undergraduate student: 9/91 - 6/93 | B.S. June 1993 | Graduate student, UCLA Dept. of Chemistry |
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| Mr. James Stinnett | Undergraduate student: 9/91 - 6/93 | B.S. June 1994 |
Graduate Student, Dept. of Chemistry, CSU Long Beach | |
| Mr. Peter Biernacki | Undergraduate student: 9/92 - 6/94 | B.S. June 1994 |
Medical Student UCI Medical School | |
| Ms. Layla Roshan | Undergraduate student: 9/94 - 9/96 |
Undergraduate student UC Davis | ||
| Visitors | ||||
| Prof. WonKook Choi | Gas Sensing and Biosensing with Nanowires and Nanofibers | summer 2018 | Materials and Life Science Division, KIST, Korea | wkchoi@kist.re.kr |
| Prof. Il-Doo Kim | Gas Sensing and Biosensing with Nanowires and Nanofibers | 2017-2018 | The Department of Chemical Engineering, KAIST University, Korea | idkim@kaist.ac.kr |
| Mr. Hiro Asano | Electrical Energy Storage | 2017-2018 | The Japan Patent Office, Tokyo, Japan. | hasanofxp@gmail.com |
| Prof. Nicola Cioffi | Gas Sensing with Metal Nanowires | N.A. | The Department of Chemistry, University of Bari | cioffi@chimica.uniba.it |
| Mr. Scott Roberts | Electrodeposition of nanowires composed of memory metals | N.A. | 2006 IM-SURE Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University | sr2e@andrew.cmu.edu |
| Prof. Jian Ming Wang | Electrodeposition of nanowires | N.A. | Professor Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China | wjm@cmsce.zju.edu.cn |
| Prof. Robert Dryfe | Electrodeposition of nanostructures powdered by insoluble organic crystals | N.A. | Professor University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology | robert.a.dryfe@umist.ac.uk |
| Dr. Gisela Kaltenpoth | Preparation of novel sensors based on nanoscopic metal structures | N.A. | Scientist Daimler-Chrysler Inc. | gisela.kaltenpoth@ daimlerchrysler.com |
| Dr. Fred Favier | Electrocatalytic growth of nanomaterials on metal nanoparticles. | N.A. | Scientist CNRS Montpellier, France | fredf@univ-montp2.fr |
| Ms. Cara Evans | NSF-REU student Summer 1991 | N.A. | Graduate student, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota | |
| Mr. Tim Duong | NSF-REU student Summer 1992 | N.A. |
Graduate student, Dept. of Chemistry, Washington University | |
| Ms. Jennifer Stokes | NSF-REU student Summer 1993 | N.A. |
Graduate student, Dept. of Chemistry, University of N. Carolina | |
| Dr. Norbert Breuer | Visiting student Summer & Fall 1994, KFA Germany | N.A. |
Atotech Deutschland GmbH, Berlin | |
| Ms. Astid Piertz | Graduate student Fall `93 & Winter/Spring `94, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany | N.A. | ||
| Prof. Annalisa Bonfiglio | Visiting postdoctoral Fall `93 &Winter `94, University of Genoa Italy |
N.A. |
Professor of Chemistry Dept. of Elect. Engineering University of Cagliari |
annalisa@diee.unica.it |
| Mr. Christoph Nuetzenadel | Graduate student Fall `97 University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
N.A. | N.A. | Christoph. Nuetzenadel@unifr.ch |
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