Doctoral Students
Nafiul Islam
(Current Employment: Postdoc at Stony Brook University) Nafiul completed his B.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in February 2020 and then joined as a Lecturer in the EEE Department, BUET. He started his PhD studies in the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Penn State from Fall’ 20 and graduated in Summer 2025. Nafiul is pursuing research from a multidisciplinary standpoint of device physics, system architecture and material science.
Sen Lu
(Current Employment: Postdoc at U Michigan) Sen Lu completed his PhD degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Penn State in 2025. Sen graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Computer Science BS degree in 2019 and was also a Schreyers’ scholar during his undergraduate days. Sen’s main areas of focus are Computer Vision, Neuromorphic Computing, and Machine Learning. He addresses research problems primarily from an algorithmic perspective.
Kezhou Yang
(Current Employment: Faculty 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.
Post-Doctoral Scholars
Bibhas Manna
(Current Employment: Faculty at NIT Shillong) 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.
Amit Shukla
(Current 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.
Undergraduate Students
Ethan Bloom (SRC Undergraduate Research Program Scholar, Fall 2024 – Spring 2025)
Andre Mitrik (Honors Scholar, Internship – Philips Respironics, Spring 2022 – Spring 2023)
Naqiyah Peatiwala (WISER Scholar, Spring 2022 – Fall 2022)
Josiah Eugene (Lachlan) Sneff (Internship – SpaceX, Fall 2021 – Spring 2023)
Anna Leon (WISER Scholar, Spring 2020 – Summer 2020)
Alex Cini (Equity REU Scholar, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
Vennila Pugazhenthi (Equity REU Scholar, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
Visiting Students
Mehul Rastogi (Spring 2020)
Umang Garg (Spring 2020)
Dhuruva Priyan (Spring 2020)
Akul Malhotra (Fall 2019)