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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.
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 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
Current Trainees
Hari Acharya, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Adam Beece, Electrical Engineering
Juan Borja, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Eduardo Castillo, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Ryan Clarke, Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering
Benjamin Clough, Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering
Albert Dearden, Physics
Brian Frey, Physics
Matthew Grabala, Physics
Alexey Gutin, Electrical Engineering
Gurpreet Kaur, Physics
Alexandra Krawicz, Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Nick Lanzillo, Physics
Mitchell LeRoy, Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering
Michael Lucking, Physics
Joe Novak, Electrical Engineering
Peter O’Brien, Materials Science and Engineering
Peter Palomaki, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Jonathan Picard, Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering
Wayne Powers, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Brian Riggs, Material Science and Engineering
Michael Riley, Chemical Engineering
Justin Siefker, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Adam Simbeck, Physics
Brian Wandrei, Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering
Eugene Wu, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alumni
Ricardo Ascázubi, Multidisciplinary Science
David Brigada, Computer and Systems Engineering
Yuting Chen, Electrical Engineering
Bow-Nan Cheng, Computer and Systems Engineering
Tom Cruson, Physics
Christopher Donais, Electrical Engineering
Adam Gennett, Materials Science and Engineering
Nick Karpowicz, Physics
Youngok Ko, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Nicholas LiCausi, Electrical Engineering
Scott LeFevre, Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Patric Lockhart, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Xiaofei Lu, Physics
Mitch Mailman, Physics
Matt Martin, Physics
Joe Palazzo, Physics
Tom Parker, Engineering Science
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
Eric Whittle, Physics
Dmitry Veksler, Physics
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