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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Graduate Researcher
B.S., Seoul National University
Dr. Jaegyu Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., KAIST
Dr. Ji-Yeob Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Dr. Tae Yeon Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., GIST
Graduate Researcher
B.A., Colorado College
Graduate Researcher,
B.S., University of St. Thomas
Graduate Researcher,
B.S, Taiwan Tech, M.S. NTU
Graduate Researcher & NSF Fellow
B.S., Boise State University
Dr. Akash Surampalli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., UGC-DAE Consort. Sci. Res.
Dr. Zishen Tian
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
The Martin Research Group - Jan. 2025
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.)
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.) – 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.) – 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) – Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
Liv Dedon (M.S.) – Pursuing Ph.D. in Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
Ran Gao (Ph.D) - Quantum Scientist, Alibaba Quantum Lab, DAMO (Hangzhou, China)
Karthik Jambunathan (Ph.D.) – 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) – Principal Hardware Engineer, formerly Senior Hardware Engineer, formerly Hardware Engineer, Apple (Cupertino, CA)
Josh Maher (M.S.) - Algorithm Developer, formerly Process Engineer, Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA), formerly Insight Data Science Fellow (Palo Alto, CA)
Shishir Pandya (Ph.D.) - Technology Development Module Engineer, Pathfinding Epitaxy Group, Intel Corp. (Beaverton, 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 Process Partnership Engineer, Kepler Computing (Berkeley, CA)
Ruijuan Xu (Ph.D.) - 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.) - Postdoctoral Researcher (Madison, WI)
Eduardo Lupi (Ph.D.) - Process Engineer, Lam Research (Fremont, CA)
Abel Fernandez (Ph.D) - Process Development Scientist, Kepler Computing (Berkeley, CA)
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)