Alumni
Past Ph.D. students
- Yitian Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (May 2026)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Thermal Transport and Lattice Dynamics in Solid Electrolytes
Recipient of Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award
- Shucheng Guo, PhD. in Electrical Engineering (March 2026)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Microstructure Engineering of Phonon and Spin-Mediated Heat Transport in Quantum Materials
Recipient of Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award
- Youming Xu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (September 2024)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Crystal Growth and Thermoelectric Properties of Materials with Layered and Complex Structures
- Tekwam Geremew, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (September 2024, co-chaired with Prof. Alexander Balandin)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Preparation and Characterization of Composites with Quasi-2D and Quasi-1D van der Waals Materials
- Erick Guzman, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2024, co-chaired with Prof. Alexander Balandin)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Acoustic Phonons in Ultra-Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors Investigated with Brillouin - Mandelstam Spectroscopy
Past Master students
- Yiu Chan, Master in Electrical Engineering (2025)
Master thesis: Thermal Performance of Phase Change Materials for Building Energy Efficiency: Simulation and Experimental Validation in Southern California
- Zahra Ebrahimnatajmalekshah (2024, co-chaired with Prof. Alexander Balandin)
Master thesis: Preparation and Characterization of Graphene Composites for Cryogenic Thermal Management
- Hanh Nguyen (Summer 2022)
- Christopher Nguyen (Summer 2022)
Past undergraduate students
- Zach Lyman (2025)
- Brittany Chan (Summer 2025)
- Lawrence Lor (2024)
- Isaac Lee (2024)
- Adam Miller (2020)
- Gilberto Martinez (2020)
Past high-school students
- Russel Cody Rawlings (2022)