People

Group members

Current:

• Prof. Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
• Dr. Jie Jiang, NSF-SOLAR (Nanosolar team) Postdoctoral Associate
• Dr. Andrei Malashevich, NSF-MRSEC (CRISP) Postdoctoral Associate
• Mehmet Dogan, Physics graduate student
• Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu, Physics graduate student
• Arvin Kakekhani, Physics graduate student
• Xin Liang, Applied Physics graduate student

Former:

• Postdoctoral fellow:
  • Dr. Alexie Kolpak, CRISP postdoctoral Associate 2007-2010 --- continued to MIT in the Grossman group and then advanced to Assistant Professor at MIT's Mechanical Engineering department (summer 2012)
• Graduate students:
  • Dr. Kevin Garrity, Physics graduate student 2006-2011, continued to a postdoc at Rutgers with Profs. Rabe and Vanderbilt
  • Dr. Hui Tang: Applied Physics graduate student 2006-2011, continued to Goldman Sachs in the Corporate Treasury Modelling team.
  • Dr. Hanghui Chen, Physics graduate student 2007-2012, continued to a postdoc at Columbia with Profs. Marianetti and Millis
• Undergraduate students:
  • Ismail El Baggari: (summer 2011-summer 2012) Applied Physics undergraduate researcher --- continued to graduate school in Physics at Cornell University
  • Sheide Chammas: (summer 2010-spring 2011) Applied Physics undergraduate researcher --- continued to graduate school in Yale's Computer Science Department
  • Diana Qiu: (fall 2010) Physics undergraduate senior project --- continued to graduate school in Physics at Berkeley
  • Torrey Levin-Russell: (fall 2009-spring 2010) undergraduate researcher (SCSU) --- continued to graduate school at Boston College Physics
  • Stephen Fedele: (fall 2006-spring 2007) undergraduate Applied Physics senior project --- continued to Google
  • Madeleine Udell: (summer 2006) undergraduate researcher (Perspectives in science) --- continued to graduate school in Computational Mathematical Engineering at Stanford
  • Yejin Huh: (summer 2005-spring 2006) Physics undergraduate senior project --- continued to graduate school in Physics at Harvard
  • Eli Luberoff: (summer 2005) undergraduate researcher (Perspectives in science) --- went to found and be president of Tutor Trove, LLC
  • Caitlin Lonegan: (fall 2004-spring 2005) undergraduate Applied Physics senior project --- proceeded to a career in painting, a M.F.A. from UCLA in 2010, and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Nevada 2012.
• High school teachers and collaborators:
  • Kenneth Spinka, New Haven High School Teacher of physics, math, and AP computer science

Some photos of the group members

• Photos from group dinner on December 18 2012 at Thai Taste: first photo going clockwise starting lower left are Mehmet, Sohrab, Arvin, Andrei, Julie, Jon, Jie, Ayinka, Alexandru; second photo has additional people not visible in first photo who are Maryna and Vera in high chair.
• Photo from Hanghui's PhD and departure dinner in June 2012 at Miso's: counter-clockwise from left are Ceyda Dogan, Alexandru, Arvin, Jie, Hanghui, Sohrab, Ismail and Mehmet.
• Group members attending the Electronic Structure 2012 meeting in Wake Forest: left to right are Arvin, Mehmet, Sohrab, Alexandru, Jie.
• Group photo from Hanghui's thesis defense party on Feb. 14, 2012. Left to right: Arvin, Hanghui, Sohrab, Ismail, Jie.
• Hui, Kevin, and Sohrab hooded on commencement day May 25, 2011. Left to right: Kevin, Sohrab, Hui.
• Group photo from Hui and Kevin's joint thesis defense party on March 4, 2011. Left to right: Hanghui, Hui, Sohrab, Kevin, Jie.