People

Mohammad Taghi Sharbati (mos44 at pitt dot edu)

Mohammad received his B.S. degree (2006) in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Mazandaran University (MU) and his M.S. degree (2009) in EE from Shiraz University of Technology (SUTECH) in Iran. His research at SUTECH mainly focused on Flexible Electronics in particular OLED/OFET. After spending four years as a researcher in industry, he moved to United States (US) to pursue his graduate study. He received his second M.S. degree (2016) in ECE from University of Pittsburgh to develop silicon-based, quantum dot OLEDs. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in ECE at the University of Pittsburgh (2016-present). His research focuses on different fields including fabrication and characterization of 2D material/oxide based synaptic devices, resistive memories with various switching materials including silk and metal oxides, and nanopaper flexible memristors. He has published more than 20 journal and conference papers.

Yanhao Du (yad24 at pitt dot edu)

Yanhao received his B.S. in Physics from Hebei University (2007) and M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics from Peking University (2011). Then he worked as an engineer in Sanan Optoelectronics, where he focused on LED epitaxy by MOCVD. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in ECE at Pitt where he is investigating growth and material characterization of 2D semiconductors and tunable 2D nanoelectronics.

John Erickson (jre31 at pitt dot edu)

John received his M.S in Electrical Engineering (2017) as well as a B.S. in Engineering Science - Nanotechnology (Physics, Material Science) (2015) with a minor in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh. He is now a Ph.D. student focusing on electrical characterization and modeling of novel 2D nanomaterials.

Qingzhou Wan (qiw45 at pitt dot edu)

Qingzhou received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2015) from Wuhan University of Technology and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2017) from University of Florida. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in ECE at University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), non-volatile memory devices, and flexible electronics.

Nolan Ardolino (nda8 at pitt dot edu)

Nolan is working towards completing his B.S. in Engineering Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His current research focuses on the fabrication and characterization of two-dimensional WSe₂ and MoS₂ semiconductor field-effect transistors, as well as developing data reinforced models to predict the behavior of charge carriers in these devices.

Ruxin Zheng (ruz at pitt dot edu)

Ruxin is current an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering major and Math minor at University of Pittsburgh. He is expected to receive his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in April 2018. He is now working with Dr. Feng Xiong to study electrical transport in nanoelectronics based on two-dimensional materials. His main tasks are to assist with the device fabrication, perform temperature-dependent electrical characterizations, and analyze the data to extract device parameters such as mobility and contact resistance.

Keting Zhao (kez19 at pitt dot edu)

Keting will received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh in 2020. She is also pursuing her minor in CS. As an undergraduate sophomore student, Keting is still in the stage of exploring different research areas. Currently, Keting is involved in the research of the energy consumption of flexible memory devices.

Alex Mangus (atm52 at pitt dot edu)

Alexander Mangus, a.k.a. “Mango”, grew up in South Bend, Indiana but currently resides in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a Junior Electrical Engineer with a power concentration. Additionally, Alex has computer science and history minors. He has previously done two-dimensional material research at the University of Texas at Austin. In his free time, Alex is the President of the University of Pittsburgh Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and an avid football fan.