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Mahin Ahamed
Research: Theme / Task: 3136.013: Ultra-Low Loss Vertical (3D) Tiers with Actives and Passives for (sub) THz Sensory I/O
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Mohammad Al-Juwhari
Research: mmWave Integration
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Ruposri Bhattacharjee
Research: Theme 3
Embedded Power Delivery & Cooling Strategies
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Ramin Rahimzadeh Khorasani
Research: Theme 3 Ultra-dense Heterogeneous Interconnects & Assembly
Task Title: Embedded Power Delivery
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Email: rbr5373@psu.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
NA/December 2026
Eriksson Long
Research: Design and simulate mmWave structures for liquid crystal design for use in high-speed 6g applications
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Md. Rayid Hasan Mojumder
Research: Theme III: Ultra-dense Heterogeneous Interconnects & Assembly
Task ID: 3136.026 - 3D Photonic Waveguides in Glass Substrates
Advisors: Ning Li
Asish Nayak
Research: Theme 3
Embedded Power Delivery & Cooling Strategies
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Shruti Shukla
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Aditya Bhattacharjee
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Electrical Test and Security for Integrated M3D and HI Systems
Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Email: abhat139@asu.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2029
Partho Bhoumik
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Electrical Test and Security for Integrated M3D and HI Systems
Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Email: pbhoumik@asu.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2027
Eduardo Ortega
Research: Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.005 Electrical Test & Security
Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Dhruv Thapar
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Electrical Test and Security for Integrated M3D and HI Systems
Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Email: dhruv.thapar@asu.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Nov 2026
Shun-Hung Lee
Research: Photonics
Advisor: S. J. Ben Yoo
Zhichao Chen
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: System-driven Benchmarking and Pathfinding for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Integration
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
Email: zhichaochen@g.ucla.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
June 2027 / June 2028
Alexander Graening
Research:
Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.001 System-driven Benchmarking and Pathfinding for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Integration.
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
George Karfakis
Research: Theme 1
Thermal and hardware co-design in the GPU and AI accelerator space to maximize performance for future generations of 2.5D and 3D stacked chiplets
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
Jiu-Han Liu
Research: Theme 3 Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly
Task Title: Lithographically Defined Fine Pitch Inter-Strata Interconnects for 3D Heterogenous Stacking using Hydrogen Exfoliation
Advisor: Subramanian S. Iyer
Email: jhliu10@g.ucla.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
NA / June 2027
Dedeepyo Ray
Research: Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration & Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.001 System-driven Benchmarking and Pathfinding for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Integration
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
Ernest Wang
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: System-driven Benchmarking and Pathfinding for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Integration
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
Email: ernew21@g.ucla.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
June 2027 / June 2030
Lime Yao
Research:
Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.001 System-driven Benchmarking and Pathfinding for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Integration
Advisor: Puneet Gupta
Ping-Che Lee
Research: Advanced thin film deposition techniques, including high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) and atomic layer deposition (ALD), with an emphasis on aluminum nitride (AIN) and boron nitride (BN) films for high-performance thermal management in semiconductor devices
Advisor: Andrew Kummel
Boya Li
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Wafer and Chiplet Bonding with Selective ALD, Heat Spreader Infill, and Magnetic Alignment
Advisor: Andrew Kummel
Email: bol008@ucsd.edu
Level: Postdoc
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
2027 (Full Time)
Diego A. Contreras Mora
Research: Theme 4
A Low-Pressure HiPIMS+ Kick AlN Deposition with 60 nm/min Deposition Rate
Advisor: Andrew Kummel
Amy Ross
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Wafer and Chiplet Bonding with Selective ALD, Heat Spreader Infill, and Magnetic Alignment
Advisor: Andrew Kummel
Email: aeross@ucsd.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
2029 (Full Time)
Xinyu (Isabelle) Wang
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Wafer and Chiplet Bonding with Selective ALD, Heat Spreader Infill, and Magnetic Alignment
Advisor: Andrew Kummel
Email: xiw066@ucsd.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 (Internship)
M. Hamza Ansar
Research:
Thermal etching of oxide-based channel materials for thin film transistors (TFTs)
Advisor: Steven M. George
Olusola Akinbami
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Ultrathin Diffusion Barriers and Bottom-Up Metal Interconnects Using Electron-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (EE-ALD) with Background Gas
Advisor: Steven M. George
Email: olusola.akinbami@colorado.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment: 2027
Zachary Sobell
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Ultrathin Diffusion Barriers and Bottom-Up Metal Interconnects Using Electron-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (EE-ALD) with Background Gas
Advisor: Steven M. George
Email: olusola.akinbami@colorado.edu
Level: Postdoc
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
2027
Shriddha Chaitanya
Research: Theme 3
Optical Modulators in Heterogeneously Integrated Photonic Platforms
Advisor: Michal Lipson
Vivian Zhou
Research: Theme 3
Optical Modulators in Heterogeneously Integrated Photonic Platforms
Advisor: Michal Lipson
Russell Schwartz
Research: Theme 3
Silicon photonic circuit design & packaging
Advisor: Volker Sorger
Thomas Spelmans
Research: Theme 3
Photonics
Advisor: Volker Sorger
Myriam Bouzidi
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Flexible, Multi-Functional Thermal Management and Electro-Thermal Modeling for Ultra-Compact High Power Density Systems
Advisor: Suresh Sitaramen
Email: mbouzidi3@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Dec 2027
Pin-Jun Chen
Research: Theme 2 Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task Title: BEOL High-Mobility FeFET for Reconfigurable Interconnect
Advisor: Shimeng Yu
Email: pinjun.chen@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 (Internship) / Jan 2029 (FT)
Lixue Cheng
Research: Theme 3 Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly
Task Title: IC Parallelism and Volume Scaling
Advisor: Muhannad S. Bakir
Email: lcheng97@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 (Internship)
Mingeun Choi
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Machine Learning Enabled Predictive Behavior and Materials Design
Advisor: Satish Kumar
Email: mchoi327@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / Dec 2027
Hung-Chun Chou
Research: Theme 2 Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task Title: BEOL High-Mobility FeFET for Reconfigurable Interconnect
Advisor: Shimeng Yu
Email: albert.chou@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 /Aug 2028
Sunbin Deng
Research: Theme 2: Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task ID: 3136.007 Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor for Integrated Power Delivery & Conversion
Advisor: Suman Datta
Level: Postdoc
Nolan Gronowski
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Flexible, Multi-Functional Thermal Management and Electro-Thermal Modeling for Ultra-Compact High Power Density Systems
Advisor: Suresh Sitaramen
Email: ngronowski3@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Jun 2028/ Dec 2028
Hao-Hsiang Hsiao
Research: Theme II: System Architecture, Pathfinding, EDA & Test
Task ID: 3136.002 Design Automation
Advisor: Sung-Kyu Lim
Jiawei Hu
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Design Automation for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Interposer Integration
Advisor: Sungkyu Lim
Email: jiaweihu@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2028
Yen-Hsiang Huang
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Design Automation for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Interposer Integration
Advisor: Sungkyu Lim
Email: yhhuang@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / Dec 2027
Kad Dokwan Kook
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Machine Learning Enabled Predictive Behavior and Materials Design
Advisor: Satish Kumar
Email: dkook3@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / Dec 2027
Songhyeon Kuk
Research: Theme 2 Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task Title: 3D Self-Aligned Super High-Density SRAM
Advisor: Suman Datta
Email:
Level: Postdoc
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
NA / Jan 2027
Jungyoun Kwak
Research:
Advisor: Shimeng Yu
Xingchen Li
Research: mmWave Integration
Advisor: Madhavan Swaminathan
Madison Manley
Research: Theme 3: Ultra-dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly, Task: 3136.011 IC Parallelism and Volume Scaling
Advisor: Muhannad Bakir
Omkar Phadke
Research: Device Characterization of Ferroelectric Memories and BEOL Compatible Transistors
Advisor: Shimeng Yu
Amaan Rahman
Research Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Design Automation for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Interposer Integration
Advisor: Sungkyu Lim
Email: amaan.rahman@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2028
Partha Pratim Roy
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Machine Learning Enabled Predictive Behavior and Materials Design
Advisor: Satish Kumar
Email: proy62@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Jun 2028/ Dec 2028
Ashita Victor
Research: Theme 3 Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly
Task Title: IC Parallelism and Volume Scaling
Advisor: Muhannad S. Bakir
Email: avictor8@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Aug 2027 (Full Time)
Seungmin Woo
Research: Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration & Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.002 Design Automation for Monolithic 3D and Heterogeneous Interposer Integration
Advisor: Muhannad Bakir
Hang Yang
Research: Theme 1
Modeling and Design Methodology for Backside Integration of Voltage Converters
Advisor: Sung-Kyu Lim
Zheng Yang
Research: Theme 2: System Architecture, Pathfinding, EDA & Test
Task ID: 3136.002 Design Automation
Advisor: Sung-Kyu Lim
Wanshu Zeng
Research: Theme 3 Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly
Task Title: IC Parallelism and Volume Scaling
Advisor: Muhannad S. Bakir
Email: wanshu_zeng@gatech.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Aug 2027 (Full Time)
Salma Abdelzaher
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Low Loss Vertical System-Level Power Delivery with Backside M3D and Integrated Voltage Regulators
Advisor: Inna Partin-Vaisband
Email: sabdel29@uic.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/Jan 2028
Rami Alsaeed
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Low Loss Vertical System-Level Power Delivery with Backside M3D and Integrated Voltage Regulators
Advisor: Inna Partin-Vaisband
Email: ralsae3@uic.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/May 2028
Sriharini Krishnakumar
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Low Loss Vertical System-Level Power Delivery with Backside M3D and Integrated Voltage Regulators
Advisor: Inna Partin-Vaisband
Email: skrish47@uic.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/May 2027
Ayoub Sadeghi
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Low Loss Vertical System-Level Power Delivery with Backside M3D and Integrated Voltage Regulators
Advisor: Inna Partin-Vaisband
Email: asadeg3@uic.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/May 2028
Jiahao Dong
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Machine Learning-enhanced Coordinated Materials Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Advisor: Carl V. Thompson
Email: jiahao_d@mit.edu
Level: Postdoc
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
Jan 2027 (Full Time)
Yixuan Jiao
Research:
System-driven functional integration and aggregation as well as 2D TMD material heterogeneous integration
Advisor: Tomás Palacios
Misong Ju
Research:
Understanding the evolution of metastable metal thin films heated above the dewetting temperature and leveraging knowledge on solid-state dewetting to develop new processes for fabricating micro- and nanostructures
Advisor: Carl V. Thomspon
Parth Khandelwal
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Machine Learning-enhanced Coordinated Materials Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Advisor: Carl V. Thompson
Email: parth108@mit.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
8/1/2027 (full time)
Pradyot Yadav
Research: mmWave Integration
Developments Towards W-Band GaN/Si CMOS 3DICs
Advisor: Tomás Palacios
Peiyi Yue
Research: Theme 3 Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly
Task Title: Reliability Optimized 3D-Integrated Packages for Efficient Power Delivery and Thermal Management
Advisor: Sachin S. Sapatnekar
Email: yue00100@umn.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027
Tejas Ravindra Kulkarni
Research: Theme 3 Ultra Dense Heterogeneous Interconnect and Assembly
Task Title: Reliability Optimized 3D-Integrated Packages for Efficient Power Delivery and Thermal Management
Advisor: Ganesh Subbarayan
Email: kulkar72@purdue.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
NA / Dec 2026 (Full Time)
Cheng Chang
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Sub-300°C Diamond and Boron Nitride Heterostructure for Thermal Management
Advisor: Yuji Zhao
Email: cc206@rice.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
June 2027/Dec 2027
Lucas Lau
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Sub-300°C Diamond and Boron Nitride Heterostructure for Thermal Management
Advisor: Yuji Zhao
Email: ll166@rice.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/ May 2029
Shisong Luo
Research: Theme 2: Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task ID: 3136.006 Backside of Silicon with GaN Integration for Active Power Delivery Network
Advisor: Yuji Zhao
Zonghao Seven Zhang
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Sub-300°C Diamond and Boron Nitride Heterostructure for Thermal Management
Advisor: Yuji Zhao
Email: zz152@rice.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/ Dec 2027
Mingfei Xu
Research: Theme 2: Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task ID: 3136.006 Backside of Silicon with GaN Integration for Active Power Delivery Network
Advisor: Yuji Zhao
Pin-Han Chen
Research Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: AI-Driven Design Space Exploration and Optimization for Wafer-scale Systems
Email: pinhanch@usc.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2029
Youngjin Kim
Research Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: AI-Driven Design Space Exploration and Optimization for Wafer-scale Systems
Advisor: Sungkyu Lim
Email: ykim9554@usc.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2029
Mingyu Park
Research Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: AI-Driven Design Space Exploration and Optimization for Wafer-scale Systems
Advisor: Sungkyu Lim
Email: parkming@usc.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027 / May 2028
Fabia Athena (Post-Doctoral Researcher)
Research: Back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible memory
Advisor: H.-S. Philip Wong
Wei-Chen Chen
Research: In-memory computing hardware design with resistive random access memory (RRAM) on emerging workloads
Advisor: H. S. Philip Wong
Chi-Hsin Huang
Research: Theme 2 Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task Title: BEOL eNVM/eDRAM Integration with Oxide Channel Access Transistor
Advisor: H.-S. Philip Wong
Email: chihsinh@stanford.edu
Level: Postdoc
Date Available for Internship/Employment: 2027
Shuhan Liu
Research:
Advisor: H. S. Philip Wong
Colin Shan
Research: Theme 4 Materials Behavior, Synthesis, Metrology, and Reliability
Task Title: Thermal Scaffolding
Advisor: Srabanti Chowdhury
Email: kyshan@stanford.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
May 2027/ June 2029
Xinxin Wang
Research: Theme 2 Monolithic 3D (M3D) Densification and Diversification on Silicon Platform
Task Title: BEOL eNVM/eDRAM Integration with Oxide Channel Access Transistor
Advisor: H.-S. Philip Wong
Email: xxwang1@stanford.edu
Level: Postdoc
Date Available for Internship/Employment: 2027
Scott Davidson
Research: Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.024 Architectures for M3D Neighborhoods (System-in-Package) and M3D Chip Metropoli (System-of-Packages)
Advisor: Michael Taylor
Rico Li
Research: Theme 1 System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task Title: Architectures for M3D Neighborhoods (System-in-Package) and M3D Chip Metropoli (System-of-Packages)
Advisor: Michael Taylor
Email: kangll@uw.edu
Level: Grad Student
Date Available for Internship/Employment:
June 2027 / June 2029
Huwan Peng
Research: Theme 1: System Driven Functional Integration and Aggregation
Task ID: 3136.024 Architectures for M3D Neighborhoods (System-in-Package) and M3D Chip Metropoli (System-of-Packages)
Advisor: Michael Taylor
Daniel Hur
Cornell University
Research: Theme 4 Metrology
Gangchen Ren
Cornell University