Liping Yu Associate Professor Email: liping.yu@ucf.eduOffice: ENG I, Room 418 Biography Liping Yu is an associate professor who joined the UCF Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department under the Semiconductor Initiative in fall 2023. Before that, he was an assistant professor of physics at the University of Maine. After obtaining his Ph.D. in physics from…
Leland Nordin Assistant Professor Email: leland.nordin@ucf.edu Office: ENG I, Suite 207 Biography Nordin is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, holding a joint appointment between the Department of Materials Science and Engineering department and the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL). His research lab specializes in semiconductor materials/device design, growth, fabrication and characterization.…
Ehsan Shirzaei Sani Assistant Professor Email: ehsan.shirzaeisani@ucf.edu Office: ENG I, Suite 207 Biography Education: Postdoc: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2023 Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2020 M.S.: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2012 B.S.: University of Sistan & Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran, 2010 Biography: Ehsan Sani joined the UCF Department…
Shruti Vyas Assistant Professor Email: shruti@ucf.edu Office: ENG I, Room 408 Biography Vyas completed her doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2016 and her undergraduate degree from IIT Varanasi in 2009. She has three years of post-undergraduate industrial experience, working in process design and development at Engineers India Limited. She…
Paria Gharavi Assistant Professor Email: paria.gharavi@ucf.edu Office: ENG I, Room 208 Biography Paria Gharavi is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida, which she joined in August 2023. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,…
Peiman Sadrabadi Senior Lecturer Email: peiman.sadrabadi@ucf.eduPhone: 407-222-3837Office: Biography: Peiman Sadrabadi is a senior Engineer at Siemens Energy in Orlando since 2009. His work focuses on manufacturing of gas turbine components (blades and vanes). He supports investment casting, machining, and joining of superalloys. Peiman has been ASM Central Florida Chapter Chair from 2017 to 2021. Education: Ph.D. in…
Laurene Tetard Associate ProfessorAffiliated Faculty, Nanoscience Technology CenterPhysics Department Phone: 407-882-0128 Email: Laurene.Tetard@ucf.edu Biography Dr. Tetard received her PhD in Physics from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, in 2010. She spent two years (2011-2013) as Eugene P. Wigner Fellow and Research Staff in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, before joining UCF in 2013 where…
Julie Brisset Associate ProfessorMechanical & Aerospace EngineeringJoint Appointment, Creol (The College of Optics & Photonics),Joint Appointment, Materials Science & Engineering,Affiliated Faculty, Center for Advanced Turbines and Energy Research,Affiliated Faculty, Nanoscience Technology CenterUniversity of Central Florida Phone: 407-823-1713 Email: seetha.raghavan@ucf.edu Biography Dr. Raghavan joined UCF in Fall 2008 after completing her doctoral studies at Purdue University, Indiana, School of Aeronautics & Astronautics in the area…
Julie Brisset Florida Space Institute Phone: 407-823-6168 Email: julie.brisset@ucf.edu Biography Dr. Julie Brisset earned her Ph.D. in 2014 at the University of Braunschweig in Germany. She is currently a research associate at the Florida Space Institute and at the Center for Microgravity Research at UCF. Her research interests are focused around the behavior of dust grains in…
Yongho Sohn Pegasus Professor, Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering Email: yongho.sohn@ucf.eduPhone: 407-882-1181Office: ENG I, Room 211Website: Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Additive Manufacturing Biography Yongho Sohn is a Pegasus Professor, a Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering, and the associate director for the Materials Characterization Facility at UCF. MCF is a statewide user facility for academics and industry partmers…
Sudipta Seal Chair Email: sudipta.seal@ucf.eduPhone: 407-823-5277Office: ENG I, Room 207Website: Nano Biomaterials Manufacturing Group Biography Sudipta Seal joined the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center and UCF in 1997. He has been consistently productive in research, instruction and service to UCF since 1998. He has served as the Nano Initiative coordinator for the vice president of research and…
Yeonwoong “Eric” Jung Assistant Professor Email: yeonwoong.jung@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-1033 Office: Research Pavilion, Room 487 Website: Jung Research Group Education Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University Research Yeonwoong Jung’s research program explores the extraordinary properties…
Tengfei Jiang Associate Professor Email: tengfei.jiang@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-2284 Office: ENG I, Room 452 Website: Jiang Research Group Education Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University B.E. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University Research Emerging interconnect and packaging systems Micro/nano-fabrication Microstructure and…
Yajie Dong Associate Professor Email: yajie.dong@ucf.edu Website: Dong Research Group Education Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Harvard University Research Luminescent quantum dot and metal halide perovskite materials and devices
Parag Banerjee Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director Email: parag.banerjee@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-0190 Office: Research I, Room 208 Website: Banerjee Lab Biography Professional Experience: Process Engineer, Micron Technology Inc., 2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, 2011-2018 Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2011 M.S., Washington State University, 2000 B.E., Indian Institute of Technology, 1998 Research Materials: Morphology:…
Lorraine Leon Assistant Professor Email: lorraine.leon@ucf.eduPhone: 407-823-5378Office: ENG I, Room 210Website: Biomolecular Engineering Lab Education Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, City University of New York, 2011 B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, 2004 Research Molecular engineering and self assembly Biomaterials Polyelectrolyte complexation Soft materials characterization Nanomedicine Publications A.B. Marciel, E.J. Chung, B.K. Brettmann, L. Leon, “Bulk and Nanoscale…
James Fenton Professor, Director of Florida Solar Energy Center Email: fenton@fsec.ucf.eduPhone: 321-638-1002Office: FS 1, Room 208A Biography James M. Fenton is the Director of the UCF Florida Solar Energy Center, where he leads a staff of 90 in the research and development of energy technologies that enhance Florida’s and the nation’s economy and environment and educate the…
Yang Yang Associate Professor Email: yang.yang@ucf.eduPhone: 407-882-1180Office: Research Pavilion, Room 423Website: Yang Research Group Education Peter M. and Ruth L. Nicholas Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rice University Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China Research The Yang Research Group’s interests include advanced materials and their applications in renewable energy devices, environmental science and…
Swaminathan Rajaraman Associate Professor Office: Research I, 237 Email: swaminathan.rajaraman@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-4339Website: nanoscience.ucf.edu Education Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) in Electrical EngineeringM.S., University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) in Electrical EngineeringB.S., Bharathidasan University (India) in Electronics Engineering Research Micro and nanofabrication technologies Neuroengineering Micro and nanofabrication on plastics, paper, biomaterials and other novel materials;…
Kris Davis Assistant Professor Email: kristopher.davis@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-2415 Office: Research I, Room 150H Website: Davis Research Group Education Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 2015 M.S. in Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 2011 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2007 Research Photovoltaics Optical and electronic materials Metal oxides Thin…
Raj Vaidyanathan Professor Email: raj@ucf.eduPhone: 407-882-1180Office: ENG I, Room 111 Biography Education: Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1999 M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 1995 B.S. in Chemical Engineering with honors, summa cum laude, Lafayette College, 1994 Dr. Raj Vaidyanathan joined UCF in 2001 in the Mechanical, Materials…
Jayan Thomas Professor Email: jayan.thomas@ucf.eduPhone: 407-882-0196Office: Research Pavilion, Room 480Website: Nano Energy-Photonics Group Education Postdoctoral fellowship, International School of Photonics, India Ph.D., Cochin University of Science and Technology, India M.S./B.S, Mahatma Gandhi University, India Research Research in Thomas’ lab is focused on developing nanoarchitectured energy conversion and storage devices. Recently, he has developed a nanoarchitecturing technique using…
Kevin Coffey Professor Email: kevin.coffey@ucf.eduPhone: 407-823-2175Office: ENG I, Room 115 Education Ph.D. in Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989 M.S. in Physics, Northeastern University, 1985 B.S. in Mechanical Eng. Tech., Florida International University, 1979 B.A. in Physics, New College of Florida, 1975 Research Kevin Coffey’s research interests include electronic transport and magnetism in nanoscale metals,…
Kaitlyn Crawford Assistant Professor Email: kcrawford@ucf.edu Phone: 407-266-7090 Office: ENG I, Room 446 Website: Functional Emergent Materials Lab Education Postdoc in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2015-2017 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Maryland, 2015 M.S. in Chemistry, North Carolina State University, 2011 B.S. in Chemistry and Psychology, University of North Carolina, 2009 Research…
Jiyu Fang Professor, AMPAC Director, Graduate Program Coordinator Email: jiyu.fang@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-1517 Office: ENG I, Room 207B Education Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, 1992 M.S., Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 1989 B.S., Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, 1983 Research Jiyu Fang’s research focuses on the interdisciplinary area of physics, chemistry,…
Dan Zhou Instructor Email: dan.zhou@ucf.eduPhone: 407-823-2175 Links ResearchGate
Akihiro Kushima Associate Professor Email: kushima@ucf.edu Phone: 40-823-0317 Office: Research I, Room 277 Education Ph.D. in Engineering Physics and Mechanics, Kyoto University, 2007 M.E. in Engineering Physics and Mechanics, Kyoto University, 2004 B.E. inEngineering Science, Kyoto University, 2002 Research In-situ transmission electron microscopy Atomistic simulation Nano-characterization Nano-mechanics Energy-storage materials Publications Kushima, K. P. So, C. Su, P.…