Principal Investigator
Qiuming Yu
Professor
Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Office: 356 Olin Hall
Email: qy10 [at] cornell [dot] edu
Phone: 607-255-7856
Postdoctoral Researchers & Visiting Scholars
Ibrahim Dursun
Research Interests:
I am interested in halide perovskites and hybrid semiconductors focused on their synthesis, light-matter interactions, and applications in optoelectronics as well as photonics.
Education:
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2019
MSc. Optics & Photonics, with specialization Photonic Materials & Devices (http://www.europhotonics.org/wordpress/)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013
Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, 2013
B.Sc., Physics, Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey, 2011
Email: id97 [at] cornell.edu
Donghoon Song
Research Interests:
I am highly motivated to tackling challenges, including scalability and sustainability, remaining for commercialization of perovskite solar cells by exploring new materials, devising smart processing methods and device designs, and deploying diverse analysis tools in a holistic view.
Education:
Ph.D. Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea, 2015
B.S. Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea, 2009
Email: ds946 [at] cornell.edu
Graduate Students
Yuanze Xu
Research Interests:
Perovskite Quantum Dots / Solar Cells /
Fast Spectroscopy
Education:
M.S. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, 2020
B.S. Chemistry, Nanjing Tech University, 2018
Email: yx496 [at] cornell.edu
Shripathi Ramakrishnan
Research Interests:
My interests include optoelectronic properties, structure-property relationships, and photovoltaic applications of hybrid perovskites and organic semiconductors.
Education:
M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 2020
B.E. Chemical Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2017
Email: sr698 [at] cornell.edu
Jesus M. Lopez Baltazar
Research Interests:
I am interested in applications of surface plasmon resonance based biosensors for cancer diagnosis.
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018
Email: jml575 [at] cornell.edu
Xiaoyu Zhang
Research Interests:
My research interest is on the fundamental studies of semiconductor materials, as well as the fundamental physics of charge generation, separation, and transport in optoelectronic devices.
Education:
M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 2018
B.S. Chemical Engineering, East China of Science and Technology, 2016
Email: xz352 [at] cornell.edu
Yujie Yin
Research Interests:
I am interested in the applications of biosensors for extracellular vesicles in drug delivery and medical diagnosis.
Education:
A.Sc. The University of British Columbia, 2019
Email: yy889 [at] cornell.edu
Bella Xin
Research Interests:
My research interest is on extracellular vesicles, which have great potential as biomarkers and therapeutic targets on cancer.
Education:
B.S. Nanjing University, 2021
Email: yx452 [at] cornell.edu
Vaibhav Upadhayay
Research Interests:
My research interests include Protein-mRNA interactions so as to develop mRNA therapeutics with protein as a carrier.
Education:
B.Tech Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2020
Email: vu28 [at] cornell.edu
Undergraduate Students
Leah Zhao
Education:
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Class of 2024)
Email: lzz3 [at] cornell.edu
Grace Gentner
Education:
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Class of 2024)
Email: grg72 [at] cornell.edu
Gavin Aksoy
Education:
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Class of 2025)
Email: gea35 [at] cornell.edu
Anna Alphenaar
Education:
Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Class of 2025)
Email: ana49 [at] cornell.edu
Alumni
Graduate Students
- Yvonne Yee – MS August 2022 (PhD Northeastern University)
- Henry Harwood – MEng May 2022 (Intel, OR)
- Erjin Zheng – PhD June 2020 (Maxim Integrated, San Jose, CA)
- Gabriella Tosado – PhD June 2020
- Zizhao Xu – MS June 2020 (Beijing, China)
- Yaqoub Albrikan – MS June 2020 (Kuwait)
- Zonglun Li – MS June 2020 (PhD University of Rochester)
- Monica R. Esopi – PhD August 2019 (GlobalFoundries, Malta, NY)
- Emerson (Shin-Ya) Chen – MS 2019 (PhD University of Washington)
- Hao Dong – MS June 2019 (PhD Lehigh University)
- Zhiyin Niu – MS June 2019 (PhD University of Houston)
- Suyash Bhagwat – MS March 2019 (Intel, Chandler, AZ)
- Daniel D. Galvan – PhD August 2018 (Greater Rocky Mountain Stone, Belgrade, MT)
- Yi-Yu Lin – MS June 2018 (Maxim Integrated, Beaverton, OR)
- Xiaoyu Zhang – MS June 2018 (NanoPhotonica Inc., Gainesville, FL)
- Vidit Parekh -MS December 2017 (Intel, Portland, OR)
- Mohammed M Aldighaithir – MS December 2016
- Julie E Blanchfield – MS June 2016 (US Coast Guard)
- Fang Sun – PhD November 2016 (Dental School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
- Leize Zhu – PhD October 2015 (Cambrios Advanced Materials Corp. Sunnyvale, CA)
- Beau Richardson – PhD August 2015 (Intel, Portland, OR)
- Yu-han Hou -MS August 2015 (Shanghai, China)
- Kevin Fu – MS August 2015
- Yao Xu – MS June 2015 (ChemE Design Institute in Wuhan, China)
- Xinpei Li – MS June 2015 (Kroger, Seattle, WA)
- Yina An – MS June 2013 (ChemE Design Institute in Chengdu, China)
- Xuezhen Wang – MS June 2013 (PhD, University of Waterloo)
- John Bae – MS March 2012 (Los Alamos National Lab)
Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars
- Hao Li – Postdoc 2020-2022 (Samsung, TX)
- Markéta Bocková – Postdoc 2021-2022 (Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Kaiqiang Wang – Visiting PhD student (South China University of Technology) 2019-2020
- Ping Wu – Visiting scholar (Nanjing Normal University) 2016-2017
- Beau Richardson – Postdoc 2015-2016
- Beiying Zhou – Visiting PhD student (Donghua University) 2015-2016
- Chao Hou – Visiting PhD student (University of Science and Technology of China) 2015-2016
- Yongheng Zhu – Visiting PhD student (Shanghai University) 2012-2013
- Yan Deng – Visiting scholar (Tsinghua University) 2012-2013
- Daqian Wang – Visiting PhD student (Tsinghua University) 2011-2012
- Jiajie Xu – Visiting PhD student (East China University of Science and Technology) 2009-2011
Undergraduate Students
- Yoon Shin 5/21 – 5/22 (PhD Northeastern University)
- Tony Lou Xu 5/21 – 12/21
- Carmen Atkins 6/19-8/19 Summer REU from Pierce College, Lakewood, WA
- Yue Zhao 9/19-3/20 (PhD University of Minnesota)
- Zijun Liu 9/19-12/19
- Abdulaziz Almulaifi 9/19-12/19
- Shukun Zhong 6/18- 6/20 (PhD Notre Dame University)
- Wenxin Cao 6/18-6/20 (PhD Tokyo University)
- Aayush Mitra 1/18-6/18 (Micron Technology, Boise, ID)
- Aidan Jackson 9/17-12/18 (MS UC Berkeley)
- Chen Cai 9/17-6/18 (PhD Virginia Tech)
- E-Lin Liu 3/17-6/18 (Intel, Chandler, AZ)
- Henry Armas-Amaya 1/18-9/18 from North Seattle Community College
- Dat Nguyen 9/16-12/17
- Kevin Garcia 6/19-8/19 Summer CEI-ALVA program
- Brian Yuh 6/14-9/16 (PhD University of Minnesota)
- Max Calcagno 9/15-9/16
- Haoyang Li 6/15-12/15
- Graham Henry 6/15-9/15
- Hannah Morgan 9/14-4/15
- Jason Smith 9/14-4/15
- Erika Green 9/14-4/15
- Yajie Zhu 6/14-4/15
- Yongmin Jo 4/14-12/14
- Mohammed Aldighaithir 1/15-6/15
- Nan Zhou 6/14-6/15
- Abdulrahman Mohammed Almutairi 4/14-6/15
- Ahmed Alamer 4/14-6/15
- Stephan Schoen 6/14-9/14 from Lake Side High School (Cornell University)
- Viet Vu 6/13-9/13
- Cameron Gilman 6/13-9/13
- Tianxing Wang 6/13-9/13
- Van Quch 4/12-9/12
- Steve Bonilla 6/10-6/12 (PhD Stanford University)
- Matthew Idso 6/10-6/12 (PhD UC Santa Barbara)
- Margaret Elizabeth Liu 9/11-6/12
- Darby McShain 9/11-6/12
- Laurel Rognstad 6/11-8/11 NSF NNIN REU from Tennessee Tech U
- Sarah Bonebright 6/11-8/11 UW CoE SRC REU
- Stephanie Hare 6/11-8/11 UW CoE SRC REU
- Roger Jordan 6/11-8/11 NSF NNIN REU from Texas A&M
- Tinnock Lam 9/09-6/10
- Jessica Tanumihardja 9/09-6/10