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IGERT Faculty | Trainees
Xi-Cheng Zhang, Physics and Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Dr. Zhang is J. Eric Jonsson Distinguished Professor of Science. Dr. Zhang’s interests include nanoscale THz emitters, high resolution THz microscope, and biosensors.
Michael Shur, Physics and Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Dr. Shur is Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Professor of Solid State Electronics, Professor of ECSE. Dr. Shur’s current research interests include plasma wave electronics, and flexible array of sensors with data processing capabilities (or called sensitive skin).
Gwo-Ching Wang, Physics
Dr. Wang is the director of the IGERT Program and Head Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy. Dr. Wang’s research areas are nanometer scale characterization of physical, chemical, and magnetic properties of surfaces, interfaces, ultrathin films, and nano structures.
Toh-Ming Lu, Physics
Dr. Lu is R.P. Baker Distinguished Professor of Physics. Dr. Lu’s research interests include the fabrication and characterization of integrated nanoscale 3D structures.
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Dr. Kalyanaraman's research interests are in the area of computer networking, concentrated around the theme of traffic management and high performance wireless networking.
Peter Persans, Physics
Dr. Persans leads a research program to study growth, stability, and optical characterization of nanocrystalline (II-VI and IV) semiconductors, and the fabrication of semiconductor nanoparticles with nanometer-thick metal shells.
Morris Washington, Physics
Dr. Washington is Clinical Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Center for Integrated Electronics. His interests include the optical communication devices and integrated optics.
Ingrid Wilke, Physics
Dr. Wilke's research interests are time-domain Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy, biological applications of ultrashort laser pulses, applications of time-domain THz-methods in accelerator physics, and time-domain THz-transmission/ reflection spectroscopy of dielectrics and thin films.
Roland Kersting, Physics
Dr. Kersting is a visiting scientist in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy. His areas of research are ultrafast dynamics of semiconductors, phase coherence of quantum dots, and high resolution THz microscope.
Saroj Nayak, Physics
Dr. Nayak is Associate Professor of Physics. His research interests are ab initio electronic structure calculation, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation of low dimensional systems including spintronics and nano-catalytic reactions.
Badrinath Roysam, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Roysam’s core research discipline is the study of algorithms and high-speed computer architectures for image processing, and specifically, image analysis. The image analysis applications are mostly focused on the broad area of biotechnology and biomedicine.
Partha Dutta, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Dr. Dutta's research interests are semiconductor materials growth, processing and devices, photonics, optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and free space optical communication.
Robert Palazzo, Biology
Dr. Polazzo is the acting Provost of Rensselaer. His research interests are centrosomes and cellular organization, mitosis and early development.
Carmen Mannella, Wadsworth Center, NY State Department of Health
Dr. Mannella is the Director of Division of Molecular Medicine at Wadsworth. He and several other Wadsworth scientists are engaged in studies of cells, organelles, and pathogens using sophisticated light and electron microscopic imaging techniques and the NIH-supported Resource for the Visualization of Biological Complexity.
Willie Rockward, Physics, Morehouse College
Dr. Rockward is Assistant Professor of Physics at the Morehouse College. His research interests are diffractive optics which includes crossed phase elements, micro-optics, intracavity laser systems, and polarization phenomena.
Sabine Dippel, Electrical Engineering, U. of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany,
Dr. Dippel is an Associate Professor of Physics and Mathematics. Her research interests are digital imaging processing and image reconstructions.
Trainees
Ricardo Ascázubi, Multidisciplinary Science
David Brigada, Computer and Systems Engineering
Yuting Chen, Electrical Engineering
Bow-Nan Cheng, Computer and Systems Engineering
Nick Karpowicz, Physics
Youngok Ko, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Patric Lockhart, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Mitch Mailman, Physics
Matthew Pelliccione, Physics
Robinson Pino, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Brian Schulkin, Physics
Patrick Snow, Physics
William Stillman, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Matthew Sundling, Chemistry
Gregory Ten Eyck, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Timothy Walsh, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Dmitry Veksler, Physics
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