Chase Brown Assistant Professor EMAIL Office: Research I, Room 215 Email: chase.brown@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Google Scholar LinkedIn Biography Research Publications News BIOGRAPHY Chase Brown is a materials engineer and neuroscientist who develops tools across the fields of nanomaterials, photonics, bioinformatics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to facilitate the automation of scientific discovery. He has a…
Yuxun Ren Assistant Professor Office: Research I, Room 150 Email: yuxun.ren@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Lab Website Biography Research Publications Awards Links News BIOGRAPHY Yuxun Ren obtained his doctoral degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2019. From 2019 to 2023, he received postdoc training at Vanderbilt University,…
David Mitchell Associate Professor Office: ENG 2, Room 417 Email: david.j.mitchell@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Xtremes Lab Biography Research Publications Awards Links News BIOGRAPHY David Mitchell is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace departments. He is a faculty member of the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery…
Rachna Rachna Lecturer Office: ENG I Email: rachna.rachna@ucf.edu Biography BIOGRAPHY Rachna completed her Ph.D. in 2021 from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Her research was centered on the innovative green synthesis of nanomaterials and exploring their applications in the degradation of organic contaminants. Following the completion of her doctorate, Rachna embarked on…
Aleksandra Petelski Assistant Professor Office: ENG I, Room 115 Email: aleksandra.petelski@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Biography Research Publications Links News BIOGRAPHY Aleksandra A. Petelski-Kulik earned her Ph.D. in bioengineering from Northeastern University, and her bachelor’s in biomedical engineering and master’s in materials engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. During her doctoral training in the Slavov Laboratory, Aleksandra…
Needa Brown Assistant Professor Office: Biomedical Sciences, Room 438 Email: needa.brown@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Website: NanoBio Lab Biography Research Publications Awards News BIOGRAPHY Education: Post-doctoral Fellow (2017 – 2020): Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ph.D. (2013 – 2017): Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma M.S. (2010 – 2013):…
Liping Yu Associate Professor Office: ENG I, Room 418 Email: liping.yu@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Biography Research Publications Awards News Link 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…
Leland Nordin Assistant Professor Office: CREOL, Room A235 Email: leland.nordin@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Website: Advanced Photonic Devices Lab Biography Research Publications Awards News Links BIOGRAPHY Leland Nordin is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, holding a joint appointment between the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the College of Optics and Photonics…
Ehsan Shirzaei Sani Assistant Professor Office: ENG I, Suite 207 Email: ehsan.shirzaeisani@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Biography Research Publications Awards News Link 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,…
Shruti Vyas Assistant Professor Office: ENG I, Room 408 Email: shruti@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Biography Research Publications News Link 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…
Paria Gharavi Assistant Professor Office: ENG I, Room 208 Email: paria.gharavi@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Website: Gharavi Lab Biography Research Publications Awards News Links 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…
Laurene Tetard Associate Professor Affiliated Faculty, Nanoscience Technology Center Physics Department Email: Laurene.Tetard@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-0128 Biography Research News Links 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,…
Julie Brisset Florida Space Institue Email: julie.brisset@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-6168 Biography News Links 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…
Yongho Sohn Pegasus Professor, Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering Office: ENG I, Room 211 Email: yongho.sohn@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-1181 Website: Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Additive Manufacturing Biography Research News Links BIOGRAPHY Yongho Sohn is a Pegasus Professor and a Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering. Dr. Sohn joined UCF in January 2001 as an assistant professor. He is an…
Sudipta Seal Professor and Department Chair EMAIL Office: ENG I, Room 207 Email: sudipta.seal@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-5277 Nano Biomaterials Manufacturing Group Google Scholar Biography Research News 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…
Yeonwoong “Eric” Jung Associate Professor Office: Research Pavilion, Room 487 Email: yeonwoong.jung@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-1033 Website: Jung Research Group Biography Research Publications News Links 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 Yeonwoong Jung’s research program…
Tengfei Jiang Associate Professor Office: ENG I, Room 452 Email: tengfei.jiang@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-2284 Website: Jiang Research Group Biography Research Publications News BIOGRAPHY 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…
Yajie Dong Associate Professor Email: yajie.dong@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-3806 Website: Dong Research Group Biography Research News BIOGRAPHY 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 LATEST NEWS BIOGRAPHY Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Materials Science and…
Parag Banerjee Professor Lead, Catalysis Faculty Cluster Office: Research 1, Room 208 Email: parag.banerjee@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-0190 Website: Banerjee Lab Biography Research Publications News Links BIOGRAPHY Professional Experience: Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCF (2018 – 2024) Undergraduate Program Director Materials Science and Engineering, UCF (2022 – 2023) Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,…
Lorraine Leon Associate Professor Office: ENG I, Room 210 Email: lorraine.leon@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-5378 Website: Biomolecular Engineering Lab Biography Research Publications News Links BIOGRAPHY 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 A.B. Marciel, E.J. Chung,…
James Fenton Professor Director of Florida Solar Energy Center Office: FS 1, Room 208A Email: fenton@fsec.ucf.edu Phone: 321-638-1002 Biography News 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…
Yang Yang Associate Professor Office: Research Pavilion, Room 423 Email: yang.yang@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-1180 Website: Yang Research Group Biography Research Publications News Links BIOGRAPHY 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…
Swaminathan Rajaraman Associate Professor Office: Research I, 237 Email: swaminathan.rajaraman@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-4339 Website: nanoscience.ucf.edu Biography Research Publications News BIOGRAPHY 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,…
Kris Davis Associate Professor Office: Research I, Room 150H Email: kristopher.davis@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-2415 Website: Data-Enabled Photovoltaics Research Group Biography Research News Links BIOGRAPHY 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…
Raj Vaidyanathan Professor Office: ENG I, Room 111 Email: raj@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-1180 Biography Research Publications News 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…
Jayan Thomas Professor Office: Research Pavilion, Room 480 Email: jayan.thomas@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-0196 Website: Nano Energy-Photonics Group Biography Research News BIOGRAPHY 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…
Kaitlyn Crawford Associate Professor Office: ENG I, Room 446 Email: kcrawford@ucf.edu Phone: 407-266-7090 Website: Functional Emergent Materials Lab Biography Research News Links BIOGRAPHY 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…
Jiyu Fang Professor AMPAC Director, Graduate Program Coordinator Office: ENG I, Room 207B Email: jiyu.fang@ucf.edu Phone: 407-882-1517 Biography Research Publications News BIOGRAPHY 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…
Dan Zhou Instructor Email: dan.zhou@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-2175 Links News ResearchGate LATEST NEWS ResearchGate LATEST NEWS
Akihiro Kushima Associate Professor Office: Research I, Room 277 Email: kushima@ucf.edu Phone: 407-823-0317 Biography Research Publications News Links 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 Kushima, K. P.…