Principal Investigator
Jayan Thomas, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Wearable Devices, Energy Storage Devices, Batteries, Supercapacitors, Nanomaterials for optoelectronic Devices, Plasmonic Structures, Neuromorphic Synapse Devices
Scientists/Post-Doctoral Fellows
Graduate Students
Nure Alam Chowdhury
Material Science and Engineering
nu871576@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Energy storage, Batteries, Supercapacitors
Ravinder Sharma
Physics
ravinder.sharma@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Nanomaterial, Nanophotonic, and Neuromorphic Devices
Olusola Oyeku
Material Science and Engineering
leaford.henderson@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Batteries and Energy Storage
Maydenee Maydur Tresa
Material Science and Engineering
maydeneemaydur.tresa@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Energy storage, Batteries, Supercapacitors
Leaford Nathan Henderson
Material Science and Engineering
leaford.henderson@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Photovoltaics, Batteries and Energy Storage, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics
Jose Belisario
Material Science and Engineering
Jose.Belisario@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Photonics, Quantum dots, photovoltaics, and supercapacitors
Undergraduate Students
Harsh Shah
Aerospace Engineering
ha244265@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Modelling and Simulation in optimization of
energy storage devices
Albert Jojo
College of Science
al016646@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Modelling and Simulation in optimization of
energy storage devices
Jacob Munjanattu
College of Engineering and Computer Science
ja103725@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Data-Driven Materials Science
Tariqullah Wardak
Aerospace Engineering
tariqullah.wardak@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Structural energy storage
Haryson Pierre Louis
Industrial Engineering
Haryson.PierreLouis@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Constructing and optimizing composite fiber batteries for structural energy storage
High School Students
Angelin Abraham
High School Student
angelin.abraham2025@gmail.com
Research Interests
Nanomaterial synthesis and characterization
Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars
Farzana Aktar Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Nanotechnology, Quantum Dots, Materials
Characterization
Basudev Pradhan, Ph.D.
(BASE Fellow, funded by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum)
Basudev.Pradhan@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Energy Harvesting Devices, Polymer Solar Cells, Perovskite Solar Cells, Photodetectors, and Opto-Electronic Device Developments
Dr. Reji Philip
Associate Professor
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Sreekanth J. Varma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sanatana Dharma College
Alappuzha, Kerala, India
dr.sreekanthvarma@gmail.com
Raju Nagaiah, Ph.D.
Adjunct Research Associate
raju@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Modelling and Simulation in optimization of
energy storage devices, Genetic Algorithms for design
optimization, Thermal-Fluids
Graduate Students
Kowsik Sambath Kumar
Materials Science and Engineering
kowsik@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
2D Nanomaterials and Nano-Architectured
Materials for Supercapacitors and Batteries
Deepak Panday
Materials Science and Engineering
dpandey@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Batteries, Solar Cells, Wearable Energy Devices
Jinxin Li
Optics and Photonics
jinxinli821@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Optoelectronics including solar cells and phototransistors, Organic electrochemical transistors, Perovskite quantum dots, Plasmonics, Biosensing, Neuromorphic computing, Machine learning
Danielle Abbitt
Muhammad Zain Amin
Mechanical Engineering
ZainAmin@knights.ucf.edu
Christopher Beall
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
chrisbeall@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Perovskite Solar Cell
Brandon Carpenter
Panit Chantharasupawong
Optics and Photonics
panitchamp@knights.ucf.edu
Nitesh Dhasmana
Optics and Photonics
n.dhasmana@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
Undergraduate Students
Gustavo Suarez
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Gustavosuarez31@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Wearable Energy Devices, Nanomaterials, Energy Storage, Supercapacitors, and Solar Cells
Jordan Lopez
Aerospace Engineering
jordanjlopez459@gmail.com
Research Interests
Supercapacitors, Photocapacitors
Josie Lorenzo
Jarrod Maloney
Aerospace Engineering
jarrodmaloney1@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Material Characterization, Optical Limiting
Christie Miller
Optics and Photonics
christie.miller@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Tunable Plasmonic Structures for Biological
Sensing
Julian Moore
Navid Saint-Hilaire
Rosheyla Saint-Hilaire
Hilda Reyes Salvador
Biomedical Sciences
Hreyessalvador@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Li-ion batteries, Capacitors, Quantum Dot
Production, Plasmonics
Anukrit Saxena
Optical Engineering
anukritsaxena@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Optical Limiting, Holography, Four-wave Mixing
and Optical Characterization
Navraj Singh
Research Interests
Nanotechnology, Solar Cells, Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting Devices
Joseph Sleppy
Zenan Yu
Materials Science and Engineering
zenan.yu@knights.ucf.edu