Team

Principal Investigator

Prof. Ruijuan Xu (CV) (Hear my name)

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
M.S.  Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S.   Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Office: 3076B Engineering Building I | Google Scholar | Email: rxu22@ncsu.edu

 


Graduate Researchers

Reza Ghanbari Shokrali Kandi

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University (2023-present)
B.S. Materials and Metallurgy Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2018-2022)
Email: rghanba@ncsu.edu

 

 

Konnor Koons

Co-advised with Prof. Yin Liu
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University (2023-present)
B.S. Physics, The Pennsylvania State University (2019 – 2023)
Email: kkoons@ncsu.edu

 

 

 

Jongyun Lee

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University (Starting from Fall 2024)
Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (2022-2023)
B.S. Semiconductor Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University (2020-2022)

 

 

 

Tyler Rihm

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University (Starting from Fall 2024)
Research Engineer, The Tearney Lab at Wellman Center for Photomedicine (2021-2024)
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at New Paltz (2015-2019)

 

 

 


Undergraduate Researchers

Eli Rodrigues

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University (2022-present)
Email: ejrodri2@ncsu.edu

 

 

 

Kaden Figuerres

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University (2022-present)
Email: kafiguer@ncsu.edu

 

 

 


Alumni

Ian Mercer 
Undergraduate researcher (Aug. 2023 – May 2024), currently a PhD Student at Penn State University
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Sharon Yang
Undergraduate researcher (Aug. 2022 – May 2024), currently a PhD student at Penn State University