Old Group Pictures

Group Alumni

Visiting Professor

• Prof. Chuanbin Wang, Wuhan University of Technology, P.R. China

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Rajesh Chopdekar, now at Western Digital
• Vivek Malik, now Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee

Graduate Students

• Ishmam Nihal [Ph.D.], graduated September 2025, now at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Tanaya Sahoo [M.S.], graduated June 2024, now at Applied Materials
• Dayne Sasaki [Ph.D.], graduated March 2024, now at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Mingzhen Feng [Ph.D.], graduated December 2023, now at Applied Materials
• Ryan Fillhouer [M.S.], graduated December 2023, now at Mitra Chem
• I-Ting Chiu [Ph.D.], graduated December 2021, now at Applied Materials
• Yuchen (Jerry) Qu [M.Eng.], graduated December 2020
• Jinyun (Arthur) He [M.S.], graduated December 2020
• Nolan Ahlm [M.S.], graduated March 2020, Now at Intel
• Alex Kane [Ph.D.], graduated December 2019, Now at Intel
• Michael Lee [Ph.D.], graduated March 2018, Now at Niron Magnetics via Intel and Seagate
• Atharva Deshpande [M.S.], graduated in September 2017, Now at Apple via Intel
• Kyle Hoke [M.S.], graduated in August 2017
• Yue Jia [Ph.D.], graduated in March 2017, Now at Amazon
• Edmund Mills [Ph.D.], co-advised with Prof. Sangtae Kim, graduated in July 2016, Now at LifeWorks Learning Center
• Binzhi Li [Ph.D.], graduated in July 2015, Now at Apple
• Thomas Wynn [M.S.], graduated in July 2015, Now at QuantumScape, via Rivian, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
• Andrew Izumi [M.S.], graduated July 2015, Now at Micron
• Nihan Kemik [Ph.D.], graduated in May 2011, Now at ASML, Netherlands via KLA
• Meng Gu [Ph.D.], graduated in October 2011, Now at Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Fan Yang
• John Wall, Now at Aurora Algae, Inc.
• Christian Pfretzschner [M.S.]
• Alexander Lange [visiting scholar]
• J. Paige Byers
• Aleksey Ionin

Undergraduate Students

• Nathan Tsui
• Andrew Layton
• Daniel Jiang
• Peter Carlson
• Peifen Lyu
• Jialin Zhu
• Joseph Brown
• Jose Andrade
• Macklin Boulton
• Matthew Han
• Alan Wu
• Antonio Cruz
• Albert Frugoli
• Jessica Enos
• Chih-Yang (Andy) Chang
• Yiwei (David) Song
• Bridgette Smith
• Chi Hieu (Henry) Vo
• Jonathan Shu
• Karl Lukes
• Nathan Nguyen
• Jiawei (Gary) Wu
• Junichi Ishii
• Max Kam
• Brian Chan
• Travis Kupp
• Jiawei Wu
• Roger Lin
• Corey Wolin
• Jenny Hwang