People

2023 Fall (First row: Alyssa, Quynh, Mehrdad, Yeryun, Judy, Saif, Natalie. Second row: Jamie, Gangtae, Han, Khoan, Steve, Sihun, Jason)

JUDY J. CHA Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering Cornell University Bard 227 judy.cha@cornell.edu

POSTDOCS

Mehrdad Kiani	Stephen Funni	Yu-Mi Wu

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Natalie Williams (Chemistry)	Quynh Sam (MSE)	Saif Siddique (MSE)
Khoan Duong (Physics)	Yeryun Cheon (Physics)	Han Wang (MSE)
Sihun Lee (MSE)	Jason Schibler (MSE)	Jack Coyle (MSE)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Lisa Zhou (MSE)

ALUMNI

POSTDOCS

Gangtae Jin (2021-2023 | assistant professor @ Gachon University, Korea)
James L Hart (2020-2023 | @ Naval Research Lab)
Mengjing Wang (2020-2022 | @ Applied Materials)
Hyeuk Jin Han (2019 – 2022 | assistant professor @ Sungshin Women’s University (faculty page), Korea)
Milad Yarali (2018 – 2020 | @ Apple)
Sajad Yazdani (2018 – 2020 | @ Applied Materials)
Yu Zhou (2015 – 2017 | professor @ Central South University, China)
Piranavan Kumaravadivel (2015 – 2017 | research associate @ U of Manchester)
Yeonwoong Eric Jung (2013 – 2015| associate professor @ U of Central Florida)
Jie Shen (2013 – 2015 | associate professor @ Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

PhD STUDENTS

Yale PhD Students
Shiyu (Alyssa) Xu (2019-2024 | @Intel)
“In situ characterization of electrochemical intercalated two-dimensional group VI transition metal dichalcogenides”
Serrae Reed-Lingenfelter (2018 – 2023 | @Apple)
“Electronic property tuning and external stimuli control of two-dimensional materials via surface functionalization”
David J. Hynek (2016 – 2023 | @Rocky Mountain Institute)
– “Large-area synthesis and characterization of 2D telluride thin films”
Joshua V. Pondick (2016 – 2022 | @ Ambri)
– “The electrochemistry of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures for energy applications”
Pengzi Liu (2015 – 2022 | @ ZS Associates)
– “Synthesis and transport properties of topological crystalline insulator”
John M. Woods (2014 – 2020 | postdoc @ CUNY)
– “Magnetic and low-dissipation applications of WTe₂ at limited dimensions”
Yujun Terry Xie (2014 – 2019 | assistant professor @ Shanghai Jiao Tong U, China in 2023)
– “In situ TEM study of crystallization dynamics in glassy nanomaterials”

UNDERGRAD STUDENTS

Maria Bambrick-Santoyo (Yale AP, 2021-2022)
Elifnaz Onder (Yale ME, 2021 Summer)
J.R. Stauff (Yale ME, 2021 Summer)
Matthew Kegley (Yale Physics, 2018 Fall – 2019 Spring)
Evan Haas (Yale ME, 2018 Fall)
Julia Wei (Yale Physics, 2017-2018)
Yerin Kim (Yale Physics, 2016-2017)
Grace Pan (Yale Physics, 2015-2017)
Iwona Chalus (Yale ME, 2015 Fall)

Visiting students

Richard Remias (University of Rhode Island, REU, 2024 Summer)
Astrid Dzotcha Kengne (Morgan State University, REU, 2023 Summer)
Grace Matthews (NCSU, REU, 2018 Summer)
Savvannah Downing (Iowa State University, REU, 2017 Summer)
Jie Xing (Sichuan University, visiting PhD, 2016-2017)
Tianyu Li (Nankai University, visiting undergrad, 2016-2017)
Daniel Vajner (Freie Universitat Berlin, DAAD German academic exchange program, 2016 Summer)
Emile Motta de Castro (Columbia U, REU, 2016 Summer)