Principal Investigator
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Debashis Chanda, Ph.D.
Professor
NanoScience Technology Center, Department of Physics, CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics
Debashis.Chanda@ucf.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellows
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Dr. Pablo Cencillo Abad
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Dr. Souptik Mukherjee
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Dr. Muhammad Waqas Shabbir
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Dr. Arindam Dasgupta
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Dr. Manobina Karmakar
Graduate Students
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Aritra Biswas
Ph.D. student
CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics
aritrabiswas@Knights.ucf.edu
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Tianyi Guo
Ph.D. student
Physics
tianyiguo@Knights.ucf.edu
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Mahdi Soudi
Ph.D. student
Physics
m.soudi@Knights.ucf.edu
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Swastik Ballav
Ph.D. student
Physics
swastikballav2022@Knights.ucf.edu
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Sang Lee
NanoScience MS student
seesangjune@knights.ucf.edu
Undergraduate Students
Many UG Students do research in the group
Alumni
Daniel Franklin
Physics PhD (2012-2018) – Graduated Spring 2018 (Present: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada )
Sayan Chandra
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2016-2020 (Present: Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, North Carolina)
Alireza Safaei
Physics Dept. PhD (2012-2019) – Graduated Spring 2019 (Present: Post-Doctoral Fellow, UIUC)
Abraham Vazquez-Guardado
CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics PhD (2012-2018) – Graduated Spring 2018 (Present: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh)
Javaneh Boroumand
Physics PhD (2014-2017) – Graduated Spring 2017 (Present: Intel Corp.)
Rinku Saran
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2018-2020 (Present: NTU, Singapore)
Zuriel Caribe
MS Student 2018-2021 (Present: PhD at MSE, UCF)
Jared Cozart
CREOL Bachelor in Photonics Science and Engineering – Graduated Fall 2019 (Present: Stuff Member, Northrop Grumman Corporation)
Beatriz Jimenez
Electrical Engineering BEngg – Graduated Fall 2018 (Present: PhD Student, University of Florida)
Wade Mitchell Wilson
Electrical Engineering BEngg – Graduated Spring 2015 (Present: PhD Student, Duke University)