People
group members
Prof. Eric Pop
(epop at illinois dot edu)Eric joined the ECE faculty at the University of Illinois (UIUC) in 2007. His interests are in nanoscale energy transport, power dissipation in nanotube and graphene devices, and novel non-volatile memory. Prior to Illinois, he spent sixteen months with Intel working on phase-change memory and high-k dielectrics for Flash. He also did post-doctoral work at Stanford on the electrical and thermal properties of carbon nanotubes (2005). He received his Ph.D. in EE from Stanford (2005), and holds M.Eng./B.S. degrees in EE and a B.S. in Physics from MIT (1999). He has been the recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, the SRC Fellowship, SRC Best Paper and Best Poster awards. He is a member of IEEE, MRS, HKN, and the faculty advisor for the HKN Alpha chapter at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Myung-Ho Bae
(mhbae at illinois dot edu)Myung-Ho received his Ph.D. in Physics from Pohang Univ in Korea (2006), where he won several research and teaching awards. He brings with him a background in experimental low-temperature physics, including work on templated superconducting nanowires. His current focus is on the electrical and thermal properties of graphene.
Vincent Dorgan
(vdorgan2 at illinois dot edu)Vincent received his B.S. in EE from UIUC (2009), where he was a Bronze Tablet recipient. He is now pursing an M.S./Ph.D., in ECE while studying transport properties in graphene devices. Vince is a recipient of the ECE Distinguished Fellowship and John Bardeen Graduate Fellowship.
David Estrada
(destrad3 at illinois dot edu)David received his B.S. in EE from Boise State (2007) and M.S. in ECE from UIUC (2009). He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in ECE, working on thermal characterization of CNT arrays. He is also interested in developing sub-nanosecond electrical thermometry techniques. David is the recipient of the SURGE Fellowship, Micron Fellowship, NDSEG and NSF Fellowships.
Albert Liao
(aliao at illinois dot edu)Albert received his B.S. in Physics (2007) and M.S. in ECE (2008) from UIUC. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in ECE, studying the behavior of carbon nanotubes under high-field stress, avalanche, and Joule breakdown. He is the recipient of the IBM and NRI Coufal Fellowships.
Zhun-Yong Ong
(zong2 at illinois dot edu)Zhun-Yong received his B.S. in Physics from the National University of Singapore (2004). He is now enrolled in the Physics Ph.D. program at UIUC. His interests are in surface and computational physics. He is currently developing models to understand transient and non-equilbrium heat propagation in nanoscale CMOS and carbon nanotubes.
Balaji Ramasubramanian
(balaji at illinois dot edu)Balaji received his B.S. in Electronics from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology in Delhi (2004). He has also worked at AMD and Freescale in India and Israel, on ESD simulation and CMOS circuit noise and timing analysis. His current work is on power and energy dissipation in low-dimensional devices and circuits.
Thierry Tsafack
(thierry at illinois dot edu)Thierry is a visiting student from the University of Bologna, pursuing his Ph.D. in EE with Prof. Massimo Rudan. Previously, he completed his high school in Cameroon. He is now involved in a cross-Atlantic collaboration, studying the electronic and optical properties of phase-change materials (GeSbTe) for data storage applications.
Feng Xiong
(xiong8 at illinois dot edu)Feng received his B.Eng. with First Class Honors in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2008). He is now pursuing his M.S./Ph.D. in ECE at UIUC. His current work is on utilizing carbon nanotubes to induce phase change in chalcogenide materials like GeSbTe.
Undergraduates:
 Sumit Dutta |
 Ryan Pecora |
 Shreya Prakash |
 Aidee San Miguel
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Gautam Shine
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Former Group Members:
I-Ru (Tim) Chen, ECE (2008).Jerry Lee, ECE (2008).
Jaime Valle, Physics (2007).
William Wahby, ECE (2007).
Yang Zhao, ECE (2009).
Visitors:
Prof. Junichiro Shiomi, University of Tokyo (2009).updated Oct 2009