Robert A. Welch Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Director
Rice Advanced Materials Institute
118 Ralph S. O'Connor Building for Engineering & Science
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Dr. Seongmun Eom
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., KAIST
Dr. Zouhair Hanani
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Cadi Ayyad University
& University of Bordeaux
Gumin Kang
Visiting Graduate Researcher
KAIST
Dr. Jaegyu Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., KAIST
Dr. Tae Yeon Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., GIST
Graduate Researcher & NSF Fellow
B.A., Colorado College
Dr. Thomas (TJ) Lee
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley
Jiaan Li
Graduate Researcher,
B.S, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley
Dr. Soukaina Merselmiz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Cadi Ayyad University
Dr. Richa Mudgal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., IIT Delhi
Dr. Adityanarayan Pandey
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Homi Bhabha National Institute
Dr. Pooja Punetha
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Indian Inst. of Science
Mya Shekitka
Graduate Researcher,
B.S., Virginia Tech
Dr. Akash Surampalli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., UGC-DAE Consort. Sci. Res.
Zi Cheng Wang
Graduate Researcher,
B.S., UT Austin
Tsung-Chi Wu
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Ph.D., Rutgers University
The Martin Research Group - Sept. 2026
The Martin Research Group - Nov. 2025
Swathi Sreekuttan (M.S.) - Process Development Scientist, Kepler Computing (Berkeley, CA)
Deokyoung Kang (M.S./Ph.D.) - Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Zishen Tian (M.S./Ph.D./Postdoc) – Senior Process Engineer, ASM (Phoenix, AZ)
Jesse Schimpf (M.S./Ph.D.) – Process Engineer, Lam Research (Fremont, CA)
Yizhe Jiang (M.S./Ph.D.) – Process Engineer, Applied Materials (Sunnyvale, CA)
Megha Acharya (Ph.D.) – Process Engineer, Office of the CTO, Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA)
Djamila Lou (Ph.D.) - TBD
Pravin Kavle (M.S./Ph.D.) – Hardware Technologies, Apple (Cupertino, CA)
Joshua C. Agar (Ph.D./Postdoc) – Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Brent A. Apgar (M.S.) - Secondary Science Teacher, Explore Academy (Albuquerque, NM)
Christoph Baeumer (M.S.) – Associate/Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Twente University (the Netherlands); formerly Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), formerly Ph.D. at the Peter Grunberg Institute, Julich Forschungszentrum (Julich, Germany)
Eric Breckenfeld (Ph.D.) – Senior Director of Technology Policy, NVIDIA; formerly Director of Technology Policy, Semiconductor Industry Association; formerly Lead Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), formerly AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office and NRC Post Doctoral Fellow
Anoop R. Damodaran (Ph.D./Postdoc) – Researcher, Department of Chemistry, formerly Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
Liv Dedon (M.S.) – NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UConn Health; formerly Ph.D. in Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
Ran Gao (Ph.D) - Member of Technical Staff, Quantum Computing, Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Shenzhen, China); formerly Quantum Scientist, Alibaba Quantum Lab, DAMO (Hangzhou, China)
Karthik Jambunathan (Ph.D.) – Research Staff Member, IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY); formerly Sr. Process Integration Engineer at Microsoft Quantum (Redmond, WA); formerly Microsoft Research, Station Q, Microsoft Quantum (Copenhagen, Denmark); formerly Pathfinding Epitaxy Group, Intel Corp. (Beaverton, OR)
Sungki Lee (Ph.D) – Senior Engineering Manager/Principal Engineer, formerly Tech Lead/Staff Hardware Engineer, Principal Hardware Engineer, Senior Hardware Engineer, formerly Hardware Engineer, Apple (Cupertino, CA)
Josh Maher (M.S.) - ML/Data Engineering Project Lead, formerly Data Processing Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM); formerly Algorithm Developer, formerly Process Engineer, Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA); formerly Insight Data Science Fellow (Palo Alto, CA)
Shishir Pandya (Ph.D.) - Senior Staff Engineer, Staff Engineer, and Senior Engineer, Technology Development: Epitaxy, and Technology Development Module Engineer, Pathfinding Epitaxy Group, Intel Corp. (Hillsboro, OR)
Sahar Saremi (Ph.D.) - Manufacturing Process Engineer, Apple (Cupertino, CA); formerly Process Engineer, Etch Group, Lam Research (Fremont, CA)
Gabriel Velarde (Ph.D.) - Senior Metrology Development Engineer, Rigaku; formerly Microelectronic Principle Investigator, Purdue Applied Research Institute, LLC.; formerly Senior Process Partnership Engineer and Senior Process Engineer, Kepler Computing (Berkeley, CA)
Ruijuan Xu (Ph.D.) - Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University; formerly GLAM Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Anton Zahradnik (M.S.) - Process Engineer, Kepler Computing (Berkeley, CA)
Jieun Kim (Ph.D.) - Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; formerly Postdoctoral Researcher (Madison, WI)
Eduardo Lupi (Ph.D.) - Senior/Process Engineer (Leuven, Belgium), formerly Process Engineer (Fremont, CA), Lam Research
Abel Fernandez (Ph.D) - Process Development Scientist, Kepler Computing (Berkeley, CA)
Ji-Yeob Kim - TBD
Hao Pan - Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School (Shenzhen, China)
Han Gyeol Lee - Process Engineer, Samsung Electronics (Korea)
Zuhuang Chen – Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School (Shenzhen, China)
Anirban Ghosh – Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (Jodhpur, India)
Chen-Wei Liang – Process Engineer, Lam Research (Fremont, CA)
Vengadesh Mangalam – Professor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (Chennai, India)
Derek Meyers – Assistant Professor, Physics, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)
Jarrett Moyer – Instructor, Physics and Astronomy, Amherst College (Amherst, MA), formerly The Williston Northampton School (Easthampton, MA)
David Pesquera – Research Staff, Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2, Barcelona, Spain)
Jialan Zhang – Patent Agent, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP (Boston, MA), fomerly Science Editor for Engineering and Physics at JoVE (Boston, MA), formerly Postdoc at the Department of Physics, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
Lei Zhang – Process Engineer, KLA Tencor (Milpitas, CA)
Wenbo Zhao – System-on-Chip Engineer, Huawei Hisilicon (Shanghai, China)