Members

Principal Investigator

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Venkatraman Gopalan

Graduate Students

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Albert Suceava

Graduate Student, MatSE, working on Wide Bandgap Ferroelectrics

Sankalpa Hazra

Graduate student, MatSE, working on Complex Oxide Thin Films

Nicole Drew

Graduate student, Physics, working on Euclidenization of Spacetime

Saugata Sarker

Graduate Student, MatSE, working on Nonlinear Optical Crystals

Akash Saha

Graduate student, MatSE, working on Strongly Correlated Materials

Yasuyuki Iwabuchi

Graduate student, MatSE, working on High Entropy Single Crystals

Himirkanti Sarkar

Graduate student, MatSE, working on Nonlinear Optical Crystals

Pochun Hsieh

Graduate student, MatSE, working on Ultrafast Optics

Pochun Hsieh

Ian Philippi

Undergraduate student, Physics, Honors, working on Electro-Optics

Zak Hazenstab

Undergraduate student, Physics, working on correlated electronic materials

Hussain Alshamali

Undergraduate student, Physics, Honors, working on nonlinear optical microscopy.

Connor Szczepkowicz

Undergraduate student, Physics, Honors, working on optical second harmonic generation.

Postdoctoral Scholars

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Xiaojiang Li

Working on Ultrafast Terahertz pump, optical probing of Ferroelectrics and Quantum materials

Jadupati Nag

Working on Nonlinear optical crystals, Altermagnets.

Jadupati Nag

Research Professors

Vladimir Stoica

Research Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Advising on ultrafast optics and Synchrotron/Free electron laser X-ray diffraction probing of Ferroelectrics.

Alumni

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Suguru Yoshida

Currently Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Research Assistant Professor at Penn State from 2022-2024

David Buckwalter

Summer REU student, 2024.

David Buckwalter

Lujin Min

Ph. D. 2023, Currently a postdoc at Cornell University.

Brynn Graybill

REU Student, summer 2023 at Penn State, currently Graduate Student, Penn State Physics

Leonardo Ramos

REU Student, summer 2023 at Penn State; from Joliet, Illinois, and currently a Junior at Lewis University.

Rui Zu

Ph.D. 2023. Winner of Alumni Dissertation Award. Joined 3M.

Jingyang He

Ph.D. 2023. Winner of Alumni Dissertation Award. Joined ASML.

Huaiyu (Hugo) Wang

PhD. 2023. Currently Postdoc at Stanford/ SLAC with Aaron Lindenberg and Mariano Trigo groups

Devin Goodling

Masters in 2023. Currently at Northrop Grumman.

Alexej Pogrebnyakov

Currently Research Assistant Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics with S. Rotkin group

Javier Cano Rodriguez, Jr.

Summer REU @ PSU (2022). Currently undergrad at U. C. Berkeley majoring in Applied Mathematics

Jennifer P. Rittenhouse

Summer REU @ PSU (2022). Currently undergrad at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Physics

Lincoln W. Weber

Summer REU @ PSU (2021). Graduate student at U. T. Austin in Physics.

Hari Padmanabhan

Graduated (2021), Joined as postdoc with Mitrano group, Harvard University.

Shukai (Sebastian) Yu

(2021); Onto Innovation, CA

Bhavesh Ramkorun

(2021); Currently, Auburn University, PhD candidate

Disha Talreja

(2020); Joining Intel, Oregon.

Alexander Hendrickson

(2020); Sandia National Laboratory

Carly Mathewson

(2020); Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry (Penn State).

Yakun Yuan

(2018); Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yoonsang Park

(2018); Now at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Shiming Lei

Ph. D. (2017); Assistant Professor, Hong-Kong University of Science and Engineering

Xiaoyu Ji

(2017); Manager, Technology Group, ASML-HMI

Shashank Pandey

(2017); Intel Corp, Oregon

Hirofumi Akamatsu

(2016); Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University, Japan

Ryan Haislmaier

(2016); Intel Corp, Oregon.

Arnab SenGupta

(2016); Intel Corp, Oregon.

Brian K. VanLeeuwen

(2015); Started his own financial consultancy for Hedge Funds

Greg Stone

(2015); Army Research Lab, Picatinny, NJ

Tom T. A. Lummen

(2013); Microscopist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Lu Guo

(2013); ASML, a semiconductor metrology company

Baigang Zhang

(2013); Research Scientist, KLA Tencor

Sava Denev

(2011); Banking, Canada

Jessica Leung

(2011); Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, MD

Eftihia Vlahos

(2011); Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ivan Temnykh

(2011); Founder, Pine Hollow Diagnostics

Mahesh Krishnamurthi

(2010); Co-founder of the startup, Vayu Robotics

Amit Kumar

(2009); Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

Vasudeva Rao Aravind

(2009); Professor, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Clarion University, PA

Neil Baril

(2009); Army Night Vision Lab

Mariola Ramirez

(2008); Ramon y Cajal researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Lili Tian

(2006); Thorlabs

Hui Fang

(2005); company unknown.

Hoonsoo Kang

(2006); GIST, Korea

Natalia Malkova

(2004); KLA

David A. Scrymgeour

(2004); Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM

Sungwon Kim

(2003); Intel Corp. Oregon

Cheng-Nan Lin

(2003); Director of Corporate Development Department in TSRC

Alok Sharan

(2003); Professor Physics, Pondicherry University, India

Yaniv Barad

(2001); Director of Engineering, New Ridge Technologies, MD