People

Current members

 

Sukwon Choi (Director, 2015-present)SChoi1

  • Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering 2021-present.
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering 2015-2021.
  • Postdoctoral Appointee, RF/Optoelectronics, Sandia National Laboratories 2013-2015.
  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 2013.
  • Research staff, GS FuelCell Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea, 2007.
  • M.S. Automotive Engineering, Hanyang University 2007.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University 2005.
  • Email: sukwon.choi@psu.edu
  • Awards: President’s Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology (2008-2012), M. Hetényi Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics (2013), NNSA Defense Programs Awards of Excellence (2014), AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2017-2021), Kenneth K. and Olivia J. Kuo Early Career Professorship (2018-2021).
  • External service: Associate Editor (ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices), General Chair (ASME InterPACK 2023), Track Chair (IEEE ITherm)

 

Yiwen Song (PhD student, 2019-present)

  • Research project: Thermo-physical property measurement, phonon transport. in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors and piezoelectric materials.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
  • Email: yjs5071@psu.edu

 

 

 

Daniel Shoemaker (PhD student, 2020-present)

  • Research project: Electro-thermal co-design of wide bandgap semiconductor devices.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
  • Email: dcs286@psu.edu
  • Awards: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2021).

 

 

Anwarul Kareem (PhD student, 2021-present)

  • Research project: Thermal analysis of wide/ultra-wide bandgap electronics under RF operation.
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University Vancouver.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka.
  • Email: abk5963@psu.edu

 

Kyuhwe Kang (PhD student, 2022-present)

  • Research project: Thermal analysis of AlBN ferroelectric memory devices, thermal reliability study of MLCCs.
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.
  • Email: kzk5922@psu.edu

 

Seokjun Kim (PhD student, 2024-present)

  • Research project: Extreme thermal management of wide bandgap semiconductor devices.
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: sjk6815@psu.edu

 

Husam Walwill (Postdocoral scholar, 2024-present)

  • Research project: Thermo-physical property measurement of diamond/GaN/diamond heterostructures.
  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • Email: hfw5343@psu.edu

 

Alumni and Visiting Scholars

 

James Spencer Lundh (PhD, 2015-2021)

  • Research project: Micro-Raman spectroscopy, thermal characterization of ultra-wide bandgap electronics and thin film piezoelectric micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland 2015.
  • Email: jvl6065@psu.edu
  • Awards: Journal of Applied Physics Editor’s Pick (2020).
  • Currently with U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

 

 

Bikramjit Chatterjee (PhD, 2015-2020)Bikram1

  • Research project: Electro-thermal analysis of ultra-wide bandgap electronics, thermal management, radiation effects.
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 2010.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University 2008.
  • Email: bpc5244@psu.edu
  • Awards: Best Poster Award, ASME InterPACK Conference (2017), Journal of Applied Physics Featured Article (2020).
  • Currently with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

 

Jaehee Cho, PhD (Visiting scholar, 2018-2019)

  • Research interest: Theoretical and experimental background in optoelectronics, Photonics devices design and fabrication; light-emitting diodes (LED); laser diodes (LD); Solar cells.
  • Associate Professor, School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University (CBNU).

 

Robert Pearson (MS, 2017-2019)

  • Research project: Thermal modeling of a gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) based monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC).
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • Currently with Lockheed Martin.

 

James Dallas (UG researcher, 2015-2017)JD1

  • Research project: Thermal characterization of gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes.
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
  • Currently with the Toyota Research Institute.

 

 

 

Updated 4/4/2024