Dr. Sudipta Seal

Research Group

Principal Investigator

Jayan Thomas, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Wearable Devices, Energy Storage Devices,
Batteries, Supercapacitors, Polymer Solar Cells, Perovskite Solar
Cells, Quantum Dots, Optical Limiting Materials, Plasmonic
Structures and Holographic Materials
E-mail: Jayan.Thomas@ucf.edu

Scientists/Post-Doctoral Fellows

Farzana Aktar Chowdhury, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Nanotechnology, Quantum Dots, Materials
Characterization
Farzana.Chowdhury@ucf.edu

Raju Nagaiah (Adjunct Research Associate), Ph.D.

Research Interests: Modelling and Simulation in optimization of
energy storage devices, Genetic Algorithms for design
optimization, Thermal-Fluids.
raju@ucf.edu

Graduate Students

Kowsik Sambath Kumar

Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: 2D Nanomaterials and Nano-Architectured
Materials for Supercapacitors and Batteries
kowsik@knights.ucf.edu

Deepak Pandey

Material Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Batteries, Solar Cells, Wearable Energy Devices
dpandey@knights.ucf.edu

Jinxin Li

Optics and Photonics
Research Interests: Optoelectronics including solar cells and phototransistors, Organic electrochemical transistors, Perovskite quantum dots, Plasmonics, Biosensing, Neuromorphic computing, Machine learning
jinxinli821@knights.ucf.edu

Leaford Nathan Henderson

Material Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Photovoltaics, nanomaterials, energy storage, and energy transmission
lnh@knights.ucf.edu

Jose Belisario

Material Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Photonics, Quantum dots, photovoltaics, and supercapacitors
Jose.Belisario@knights.ucf.edu

Undergraduate Students

Gustavo Suarez

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Wearable Energy Devices, Nanomaterials, Energy Storage, Supercapacitors, and Solar Cells
Gustavosuarez31@knights.ucf.edu

Alumni

Danielle Abbitt

Muhammad Zain Amin

Mechanical Engineering
ZainAmin@knights.ucf.edu

Christopher Beall

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Perovskite Solar Cell
chrisbeall@knights.ucf.edu

Binh Duong

Current Postdoc, UC Santa Barbara

Jitesh Kumar

Optics and Photonics
Jitesh.kumar@knights.ucf.edu

Chao Li

Materials Science and Engineering
leeson2005a@knights.ucf.edu

Yi Liu

Current Participant in NUE Project
yimoonrabbit@gmail.com

Jordan Lopez

Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Supercapacitors, Photocapacitors
jordanjlopez459@gmail.com

Josie Lorenzo

Josie@knights.ucf.edu

Jarrod Maloney

Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Material Characterization, Optical Limiting
jarrodmaloney1@knights.ucf.edu

Christie Miller

Optics and Photonics
Research Interests: Tunable Plasmonic Structures for Biological
Sensing
christie.miller@knights.ucf.edu

Julian Moore

Julianmoore44@knights.ucf.edu

Dr. Reji Philip

Associate Professor
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Basudev Pradhan, Ph.D.

(BASE Fellow, funded by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum)
Research Interests: Energy Harvesting Devices, Polymer Solar Cells,
Perovskite Solar Cells, Photodetectors, and Opto-Electronic Device
Developments
Basudev.Pradhan@ucf.edu