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• Dr. KC co-authored an article that is accepted in Physical Review  Materials, 2024. 
• CMRL receives  funding from  NASA MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification award 2024. Thanks for the funding support !
• Dr. KC will co-organize the International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD)  on September 25-27, 2024 in San Jose, California.
• Dr. KC was selected as one of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellows, 2024.
• Mohammed Nassar  and Samuel Vo joins CMRL for summer internships. Welcome !
• Noah, Brandon, Hung, and  Ben presented poster at Graduate Research and Senior Projects (GRaSP) event , May 10, 2024.
• Dr. KC participated at the QIST in the CSU workshops, San Marcos, CA.
• Nguyet Nguyen successfully defended MS Project on 2D heterostructure. Congrats!
• Dr. KC participated CSU GE workshop Transition Workshop - 6/26, SJSU, 2024.
• Dr. KC attended the 2024 NASA Fundamental Physics Workshop May 14, 2024 -May 16, 2024,San Diego, CA.
• Dr. KC attended the Advanced Materials Science Seminar,  Agilent, San Jose,  CA.
• Noah successfully completed BS Senior Project on Interface modeling for Solid State Battery . Congrats!
• Two abstracts are accepted for presentation at IMECE, 2024 conference.
• Dr. KC participated CHIPS R&D National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) Advanced Packaging Summit, NASA Ames, CA,  April 18-19, 2024.
• Yousef successfully defended MS Proposal on Solid Electrolytes. Congrats!
• Thao Vo successfully defended MS Proposal on MOF. Congrats!  (committee member, PI. Dr. Lew)
• Michael Chee successfully defended MS Project on 2D Magnetic Material. Congrats!
• Dr. KC delivered SDSU Mechanical Engineering  Seminar,  2024.
• CMRL started collaboration with IntelliScience Institute, San Jose, CA.
• Noah and Martin's abstract is accepted for presentation at 245th ECS Meeting, San Francisco, May 26-30, 2024

• Martin successfully defended MS Thesis on solid electrolytes. Congrats!
• Dr. KC delivered  a departmental seminar on Electronic Properties of 2D Materials and their Interfaces at  UC Merced, CA.
• Dr. KC delivered  a talk on Surface and Interface Properties of 2D Materials at T-1  seminar, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) (virtual).
• Dr. KC participated in DoD HBCU/MI Opportunities Workshop,  Arlington, VA.
• Dr. KC  serving as a visiting Fellow at U.S. Army DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center,  MD.

• Simran successfully defended MS Project on alloying transparent conducting oxides. Congrats!
• Amandeep successfully defended MS Project on Epoxy. Congrats!
• Dr. KC has attended MSI QISE Workshop 2023, Washington DC.
• Paridhi successfully defended her MS Thesis on 2D materials and their heterostructures. Congrats!
• Dr. KC delivered SDSU Physics Department Seminar,  May, 2023.
• Dr. KC delivered UCSC /Condensed Matter Physics Seminar,  April, 2023. 
• Dr. KC delivered a talk on Career Path of Physics Degree Holders,  2023.
• Dr. KC and the team receive 2023 SJSU RSCA Seed Grant. 
• Martin and Amandeep defended MS Proposal  2023.
• Dr. KC, Tung (talk),  and Noha (poster) presented at Spring MRS Conference, 2023. 
• Dr. KC has chaired sessions (Quantum Materials, 2D) and Energy Storage (Solid Electrolytes) at  Spring MRS Conference, 2023. 
• Noah and Martin presented posters on solid-state battery materials at the technical symposium of NCC AVS 2023.
• Martin's poster received a third-place award at NCC AVS 2023. Congrats!
• Dr. KC  participated in AVS Quantum Science Workshop, Los Angeles, CA,  2023. 

• Ben defended his MS proposal on  Dielectric Interface Modeling successfully. Congrats! 
• Dr. KC was accepted in the 2023 Cohort of CMMI’s Game Changer Academies (CGCA) for Advancing Research Innovation. 
• Dr. KC authored articles published in Scientific Reports,   and nanomaterials 2022.
• Dr. KC presented an oral presentation at CAARI-SNEAP 2022  held in Denton, Texas.
• Ahmed defended his MS proposal on 2D Materials successfully. Congrats! 
• Dr. KC  delivered a Departmental Seminar on  Surface and Interface Properties of 2D Materials at  San Fransisco State University,  2022.  
• Seed grant on Fostering Collaborations to Expand Quantum Science and Engineering Programs to San Jose State University,  funded by Colorado School of Mines supported by NSF,  2022.
• Dr. KC   co-authored  articles published in ACS Omega, 2022.
• Martin participated in summer school at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 2022. 
• Dr. KC presented at MRS Spring Meeting, 2022.
• Anh received McNeil Reactor Design Award from the CME department, 2022. Congrats! 
• Tung received the outstanding graduate student award from the CME department, 2022. Congrats! 
• Noah Fourby received the outstanding junior student award from the CME department, 2022. Congrats! 
• Ahmed, Simran, Tung,  Anh presented their posters at Graduate Research, Alumni, and Senior Projects Day 2022.
• Dr. KC  co-authored three articles published in -The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ,  Applied Surface Science, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials  2022. 
• Michael defended his MS proposal on 2D Materials successfully. Congrats! 
• Tung defended his MS proposal on Battery Materials successfully. Congrats! 
• Dr. KC presented at ICME Conference 2022. 
• Dr. KC presented at APS March Meeting 2022  held in Chicago, IL.  (1 Oral, 1 Poster).
• Dr. KC served as a judge for the undergraduate research session ( for both oral and poster) at APS March Meeting  2022.
• Dr. KC got training on Mentoring & Implicit Bias Training  2022. 
• Anh received the 3rd place award at the student poster competition at the technical symposium of NCC AVS 2022. Congrats  Anh!
• Anh and Tung presented posters at the technical symposium of NCC AVS 2022.
• Dr. KC APS Career Mentoring Fellow 2022.
• 2022 DOE Mission Science Allocation Award. 
• Jia received  EMPOWER awards from the Shodor Education Foundation for  Spring 2022.
• Dr. KC is participating in SJSU Resilient Course Design Institute  Winter 2022.

•  Gustavo successfully defended his MS Project on tuning the properties of the superionic conductor. Congrats Gustavo!
• Dr. KC  co-authored an article based on international collaboration which is published in the Journal of Applied Physics, 2021.
• Dirar successfully defended his MS Project on the superionic conductor. Congrats Dirar!
• Ipshita successfully defended her MS Project on solid electrolyte material. Congrats Ipshita!
• Dr. KC and Ipshita presented at  Northern California CSU's Summer Seminar in Chemical Theory and Computation,  2021.
• Dr. KC  received additional CoE release time in AY 2021-22.
• Olga Blinova successfully completed her senior project on the electronic and optical properties of ZnWO4. Congrats Olga!
• Dr. KC  received  the University Faculty RSCA Assigned Time (RSCA AT) program award  
• Dr. KC visiting Department of Energy (DOE)/Ames Lab as visiting faculty, 2021.
•  Jia received  EMPOWER awards from the Shodor Education Foundation for Fall 2021 
• Joseph successfully defended his MS Project on 2D Magnetic layered material. Congrats Joseph!
• Paridhi successfully defended her MS  Proposal. Congrats!
• Simran defended the MS proposal successfully. Congrats! 
• Dr. KC presented at APS March Meeting 2021
• Olga presented her research at CME Alumni Event 2021.
• SJSU-CMRL/NASA Formal Collaboration Started.
• Dr. KC is one of the recipients of KITP Scholar, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara 
• DOE Science Mission Award 2021 ( Thanks to DOE/NERSC for the support).
• Dr. KC received University Grants Academy Award for 2021. 

• Dirar, Ipshita, Joseph, Gustavo defended the MS proposal successfully. Congrats!
• Dr. KC presented at APS Far West Meeting, 2020.
• Dr. KC  co-authored an article that is accepted for publication in  Chemistry of  Materials,  2020. 
• Sam Oliyai successfully defended his MS Project on Complex oxides. Congrats Sam !  (Sam Joined Applied Materials) 
• Dr. KC completed UTeach Online Teaching Certificate.
• Dr. KC  co-authored an article which is published in the Journal of Applied Physics, 2020.
• Sam defended Master's proposal successfully. Congrats Sam!
• XSEDE  Computational Allocation Grant  (Thanks for the support !)
• DOE/NERSC SJSU Contract signed.
• DOE Science Mission Award ( Thanks to DOE/NERSC for the support)

• Dr. KC attended and presented at APS Far West Meeting at Stanford University
• Dr. KC attended and presented at NASA Ames, CA.
• KC  Research Group started at SJSU.