Post-Doctoral Scholars
Amit Shukla
(First Employment: GlobalFoundries) Amit Shukla completed his PhD from Osaka University, Japan in 2018 where he worked on voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy. During his M.Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in microelectronics, he worked on spin caloritronics. After his PhD, he joined the National University of Singapore as a postdoc researcher. Amit’s main areas of research are magnetic tunnel junctions, voltage controlled magnetic properties, spin wave study, spin transfer torque and skyrmion study. During his postdoc at Penn State, Amit worked on fabrication and characterization of spintronic based neuromorphic computing devices.
Bibhas Manna
(First Employment: Assistant Professor at PDEU) Bibhas Manna completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2021, where his research primarily focused on the simulation and experimental studies of 2D material-based sensor devices. Then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher for one year (Feb 2022-Jan 2023) in a 2D transistor reliability modeling group at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien. He joined the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Penn State as a postdoc in February 2023 and worked on Bayesian learning approaches for reliable ferroelectric In-Memory computing design. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at PDEU, India.
Doctoral Students
Kezhou Yang
(First Employment: Assistant Professor at HKUST (Guangzhou)) Kezhou Yang completed his PhD degree in Material Science from Penn State in 2023. He got his B.S degree in Physics from Tongji University in China and MS degree in Material Science from Penn State in 2019. During his undergraduate study, he joined the Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group in Harvard University as a student intern (Oct 2016-Aug 2017). He also worked as an intern at Seagate in 2022. Kezhou’s research interests relates to materials and devices useful for neuromorphic computing.
Undergraduate Students
Vennila Pugazhenthi (Equity REU Scholar, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
Alex Cini (Equity REU Scholar, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
Anna Leon (WISER Scholar, Spring 2020 – Summer 2020)
Josiah Eugene (Lachlan) Sneff (Internship – SpaceX, Fall 2021 – Spring 2023)
Naqiyah Peatiwala (WISER Scholar, Spring 2022 – Fall 2022)
Andre Mitrik (Honors Scholar, Internship – Philips Respironics, Spring 2022 – Spring 2023)
Visiting Students
Akul Malhotra (Fall 2019)
Mehul Rastogi (Spring 2020)
Umang Garg (Spring 2020)
Dhuruva Priyan (Spring 2020)