2023 Group Photo (First row: Saif, Han, Judy, Alyssa, Natalie, Quynh. Second row: Jamie, Mehrdad, Gangtae, Yeryun, Khoan)
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
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ALUMNI
POSTDOCS
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
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
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)