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Principal Investigator


Prof. Andrew C. Kummel

Hometown: NYC - Yeah baby!
Nickname: ACK!
Education: BS Chemical Engineering, Yale University; MS Chemical Engineering, PhD Chemistry, Stanford University
Favorite Beverage: Delirium Tremens
Favorite music: Prefers modern dance (2 for 1)
Favorite movie: Saturday Night Fever
Favorite food: Xiaolongbao
Can be heard saying: Forget talking, his disdainful glares are worth a thousand words
Lab duties: Raking in the bucks, literally



Current PostDoc


Dipayan Pal

Hometown: Hooghly, India
Education: PhD, Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore
Favorite music: Rabindra Sangeet
Favorite movie: Interstellar
Favorite food: Biriyani
Favorite beverage: Scotch
Lab duties: ALD-MOF deposition


Dohyun Go

Hometown: Jeju, Korea
Nickname: Go
Education: PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Favorite color: Green
Favorite music: Piano Man - Billy Joel
Favorite movie: Forest Gump
Favorite food: Everything
Favorite beverage: Sports drink
Lab duties: Aerosol deposition


SeongUK Yun

Hometown: Daegu, Korea
Nickname: Yun
Education: PhD, Chemical Engineering
Favorite color: sky blue
Favorite music: Aroha
Favorite movie: New world
Favorite food: gal-bi
Favorite beverage: ice americano
Lab duties: Deposit phosphide


Current Graduate Students


Naeun Yang

Hometown:Incheon, Korea
Education:BS, Fiber Convergence Materials Engineering
Favorite music:Hip-hop
Favorite movie:The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Mission: Impossible
Favorite food: Sushi, Korean BBQ
Favorite beverage:Diet Coke
Lab duties:ALD and MOF conversion


Amy Ross

Hometown:Los Angeles, California
Education:BS, Chemical Engineering, UCSD
Favorite music:Indie
Favorite movie:Pulp Fiction
Favorite food: Avocado Roll
Favorite beverage:Rose Latte with Oatmilk
Lab duties:AutoCAD, TiN deposition, AFM


Xinyu Wang

Hometown:Beijing, China
Education:MS, Chemical Engineering, UCSD
Favorite music:City of Stars
Favorite movie:Emma
Favorite food: Omurice
Favorite beverage:Apple juice
Lab duties:


Diego Contreras

Hometown:Bogotá, Colombia
Education:BS Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Favorite music: Hip-hop
Favorite movie:Three idiots
Favorite food: Steak
Favorite beverage: Coke
Lab duties:


Jing Mu

Hometown:Shanxi China
Education: MS, Materials Science Engineering, UCR
Favorite music:Hip-hop
Favorite movie: Inception
Favorite food: Hotpot
Favorite beverage: oke
Lab duties: Transfer samples, XPS, and ALD deposition.


Jannick Fammels

Hometown:Bonn, Germany
Education: MSc. Crystalline Materials, Freiburg University
Favorite music: Daughter
Favorite movie: Lord of the Rings
Favorite food: Tomato Dal
Favorite beverage: Ginger Beer
Lab duties:Praying for the EPX pump


Abraham (Abe) Phung

Hometown:San Francisco, California
Education: BS, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
Favorite music: Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland
Favorite movie: Departures
Favorite food: Beef Bourguignon
Favorite beverage: Ramune
Lab duties: providing check-out services for our guests in the vivarium


Ping Che Lee

Hometown: Taiwan
Nickname: PC
Education: M.S., material science, National Cheng Kung University
Favorite color: blue
Favorite movie: Star war
Favorite food: Cookie
Favorite beverage: Coke
Lab duties: providing TEM service


Jaimin R. Shah

Hometown: Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Nickname: JRS!
Education: BS Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Gujarat University; MS Pharmaceutics (Industrial Pharmacy), Long Island University
Favorite beverage: Coffee (French Roast)
Favorite music: Indian Classical, Rock
Favorite movie: Rocky (film series), Creed (film series) Favorite TV show: Vikings, The Last Kingdom
Favorite food: Thai Curry (Plant-based), a variety of Indian food (Plant-based)
Can be heard saying: Can we please do this?
Lab duties:Finding a Cure for Cancer
Favorite quote:Quote: Think Big, Plan Hard, Play Smart, and then, You Achieve! – Jaimin R. Shah


Chenghsuan (Jimmy) Kuo

Hometown: Tainan, Taiwan
Nickname: Jimmy
Education: MS, Materials Science Engineering, NCKU
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite music: JJ Lin
Favorite movie: Gorgeous
Favorite food: Shrimp Burrito
Favorite beverage: Blueberry juice
Lab duties: Fixing the Auger
Favorite quote: A smile will gain you ten more years of life.


Tao Dong

Hometown: Hunan, China
Nickname: Tao
Education: BS, Chemistry, University of Washington
Favorite color: green
Favorite music: Starwood in Aspen
Favorite movie: Lost in Translation
Favorite food: Sukiyaki
Favorite beverage: Coke
Lab duties:providing medical support to our guests in vivarium


James Huang

Hometown: Hong Kong
Nickname:
Education: BS Materials Science, University of Toronto
Favorite color: yellow
Favorite music: G.E.M
Favorite movie: Crazy Rich Asians
Favorite food: sausage
Favorite beverage: Green tea
Lab duties: Transfer samples
Can be heard saying: yo, what’s up
Favorite quote: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened


Harshil Kashyap

Hometown: New Delhi, India
Nickname: Hershil
Education: BS, ECE, UCSD
Favorite color: Black
Favorite music: Yeezy
Favorite movie: Horror movies
Favorite food: Chicken Fajitas
Favorite beverage: Protein shakes
Lab duties: giving the safety officer a hard time
Can be heard saying: This is absurd!


Intern students


William

Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Nickname: William
Education: High School Student, Del Norte High School
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite movie: Wall-e
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite beverage: Sprite
Lab duties:Coding Arduino programs to operate lab equipment


Current Undergrads


Chanyoung Kim

Hometown:Seoul
Education: BS, Chemical Engineering
Favorite color: light blue
Favorite music: A Million Dreams
Favorite movie: My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday
Favorite food: kbbq
Favorite beverage:iced latte


Alumni


Former Post-docs & Staff Scientists


Dr. Woojae Lee, Ph.D.

Woojae at ucsd.edu

at KAIST


Dr. Evgeniy Chagarov, Ph.D.

echagarov at ucsd.edu

Vice President at Morgan Stanley


Dr. Sangyeob Lee, Ph.D.

s3.park

Associate Professor at Hanbat National University


Tao Song, Ph.D., 2006 - 2008

in China now


Clayton L. Workman, Ph.D.
Clayton.workman at qorvo.com

Clayton is a Manger in the yield and quality division at Qorvo.


Jean-Claude Gumy, Ph.D., 2000-2001
jean-claude.gumy at rdor.nestle.com

Jean-Claude heads a Food Material Science Group at Nestle's Product Technology Center in Orbe, Switzerland. His group works on the physical characterization of coffees, powdered beverages, and cereals. Jean-Claude also maintains a personal website.


Sang I. Yi, Ph.D.
Sangin.yi at sangyi@micron.com

Sang is a Principal Engineer at Micron


Temer Ahmadi, Ph.D., 1996-1997

Temer is at Villanova University in Villanova, PA.


James G. McLean, Ph.D., 1996-1999
mclean at geneseo.edu

James is a Professor of Physics at SUNY at Geneseo in Geneseo, NY. You can visit both his professional and personal websites.


Yong Liu, Ph.D
Director, Semiconductor Development & Engineering, Ostendo Technologies

Denis is Director, Semiconductor Development & Engineering, Ostendo Technologies.


Denis Masson, Ph.D.
denis.masson at azastra.com

Denis is R&D Hardware Engineer, Broadcom Limited.


Ernest Behringer, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics, Eastern Michigan State University.


Harris Flaum, Ph.D.
hflaum at sbcglobal.net

Harris is a Chicago-based pilot for AmericanAirlines.
He also is a design consultant for Kimball Physics, a manufacturer of electron guns.


Former Graduate Students


Victor Wang, Ph.D. (2023)

at ASM


Jacob Watson, MS. (2023)


Aaron McLeod,Ph.D. (2023)

at ASM


Mike Breeden, Ph.D. (2023)

at AMAT


Yunil Cho, Ph.D. (2023)

at AMAT


Scott Ueda, Ph.D. (2021)

Keysight Technologies, CA


Adrian Badaracco, M.S. (2021)

Founding Engineer @ Pydantic


Ching-Hsin (Laura) Huang, Ph.D. (2021)

Postdoc, Stanford University


Chris Ahles, Ph.D. (2019)

Intel, Hillsboro, OR.


Jong Choi, Ph.D. (2019)

Intel, Hillsboro, OR.


James Wang, Ph.D. (2019)

Postdoc Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA.


Steven Wolf, Ph.D. (2019)

Raytheon, Boston, MA.


Mahmut Kavrik, Ph.D. (2019)

Intel, Hillsboro, OR


Emily Thomson, M.S (2018)

Raytheon, Lompoc, CA.


Iljo Kwak, Ph.D. (2019)

Applied Materials, Santa Clata, CA.


Natalie Mendez, Ph.D., 2017

Intel in Hillsboro, OR.


Jun Hong Park, Ph.D., 2017

park.junhong at qns.science

Assistant Professor at Gyeongsang National University


Kasra Sardashti, Ph.D., 2016

ksardash at eng.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor of Physics, Clemson University


Mary Edmonds, Ph.D., 2016

mary.edmonds at intel.com

Intel, Hillsboro, OR.


Sang Wook Park, Ph.D., 2016

bluesky0628 at gmail.com

Engineer at Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA.


Max Clemons, M.S., 2016

Applied Materials


Katty Kaiting Hu, M.S., 2015

Process Engineer at Intel


Casey Ta, Ph.D., 2016

casey.ta at gmail.com

Loneshine Tech


Tyler Kent, Ph.D., 2015

tyler.kent.1288 at gmail.com

Senior Staff Process Development Engineer at Illumina, San Diego, CA


Alex Liberman, Ph.D., 2015

aeliberman at gmail.com

Associate Director for Clinical Science, High Tide Therapeutics, San Diego, CA


Tobin Kaufman-Osborn, Ph.D., 2014

Tobin_KaufmanOsborn at amat.com

Staff Member Applied Materials


Sergio Sandoval, Ph.D, 2012

sandovas98 at gmail.com

Ph.D, 2012 is at Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA


Amanda Kerr, M.S., 2012

Staff Engineering Raytheon


Dr. Jim Royer, Ph.D., 2012

james.royer at airliquide.com

Staff Scientist at South 8 Technologies, San Diego CA


Dr. Wilhelm Melitz, Ph.D., 2012

wilhelm.melitz at intel.com

Process Engineer at Intel in Hillsboro, OR.


David Martin, Ph.D., 2011

davediego at gmail.com

Data Scientist at Facebook


Manuel E. Ruidiaz, Ph.D., 2011

mx at greenvita.org

Head of Machine LearningHead of Machine Learning TLR Venture, Redwood City, CA.


Dr. Joon Sung Lee, Ph.D., 2011

joonsung.lee at gmail.com

TD Yield Engineer at Intel in Hillsboro, OR.


Capt. Erik Kappe, MS 2011

erik.kappe at usafa.edu

Eglin Air Force Base in FL.


Dr. Jian Shen, Ph.D., 2010

jian75 at gmail.com

Process Engineer at Intel in Chandler, AZ.


Dr. Sarah R. Bishop, Ph.D., 2010

sarah.r.bishop at intel.com

Process Engineer at Intel in Hillsboro, OR.


Dr. Jonathon B. Clemens , Ph.D., 2010

jobocl at gmail.com

Senior Staff Medical Engineer at Dexcom, San Diego CA


Maggie Sung

Application Engineer at Pfeiffer Vacuum


Ngoc L. Tran, Ph.D., 2008

Chemistry Adjunct Faculty Contra Costa College


Jeongwon Park, Ph.D., 2008

jpark2 at uottawa.ca

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ottawa


Darby L. Winn, Ph.D., 2007

feldwinn at chem.ucsb.edu

Lecturer in Chemistry Department at UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA.


Tyler J. Grassman, Ph.D., 2007

grassman.5 at osu.edu

Assistant Research Professor at OSU in Columbus, Ohio.


Richard D. Yang, Ph.D., 2007

rdyang at gmail.com

Richard is a Senior Engineering Manager at LAM


Nancy Santagata, M.S., 2006

Postdoctoral Associate Ohio State


Gary C. Poon, Ph.D., 2004

Gary is a Director at Galliard Capital Management.


Jonathan Z. Sexton, Ph.D., 2004
jsexton at nccu.edu

Associate Professor

North Carolina Central University, BRITE Institute

1801 Concord Dr.
Mary M. Townes Science Complex, Rm 3129
Durham, NC 27707
Phone 919-530-6251


Michael J. Hale, Ph.D., 2004

Mike is an Associate Director at the Quidel Group.


Andrew J. Komrowski, Ph.D., 2001
akomrows at gmail.com

"Little" Andy is now at Maxim Integrated Products


Peter Kruse, Ph.D., 2000
pkruse at mcmaster.ca

Peter is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Check out Prof. Kruse's website!


Kharissia A. Pettus, Ph.D., 2000

Kharissia is an Editorial Editor for the Journal of Medical Insight.


Eric Lanzendorf, Ph.D., 1996
eric.j.lanzendorf at intel.com

Eric runs a group that develops phase shift masks at Intel's Mask Operations.


John A. Jensen, Ph.D., 1995
john.jensen at lamrc.com

John is an Engineering Manager in the Software and Controls Engineering Department at Lam Research Corporation in Fremont, CA.


Chun Yan, Ph.D., 1994
chun_yan at amat.com

Chun is a Senior Member of Techical Staff at Applied Materials.


Thomas F. Hanisco, Ph.D., 1993
thomas.hanisco at nasa.gov

Tom is a Research Scientist at NASA.


Dan Sullivan, Ph.D., 1993
dsullivan at eag.com

Dan is a FA Lab Manager at EAG.


Former Undergraduate Students

Robert Viveros

John Flores


Vanessa Herrera



Maxwell M. Thiemens

Max is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree in astrophysics at UCSDcb antenna


Last updated: 06/18/2015