Principal Investigator
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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
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Scientists/Post-Doctoral Fellows
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Farzana Aktar Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Nanotechnology, Quantum Dots, Materials
Characterization
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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
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Kowsik Sambath Kumar
Materials Science and Engineering
kowsik@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
2D Nanomaterials and Nano-Architectured
Materials for Supercapacitors and Batteries
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Deepak Pandey
Material Science and Engineering
dpandey@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Batteries, Solar Cells, Wearable Energy Devices
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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
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Leaford Nathan Henderson
Material Science and Engineering
leaford.henderson@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Photovoltaics, Batteries and Energy Storage, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics
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Jose Belisario
Material Science and Engineering
Jose.Belisario@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Photonics, Quantum dots, photovoltaics, and supercapacitors
Undergraduate Students
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Gustavo Suarez
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Gustavosuarez31@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Wearable Energy Devices, Nanomaterials, Energy Storage, Supercapacitors, and Solar Cells
Alumni
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Danielle Abbitt
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Muhammad Zain Amin
Mechanical Engineering
ZainAmin@knights.ucf.edu
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Christopher Beall
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
chrisbeall@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Perovskite Solar Cell
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Brandon Carpenter
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Panit Chantharasupawong
Optics and Photonics
panitchamp@knights.ucf.edu
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Nitesh Dhasmana
Optics and Photonics
n.dhasmana@knights.ucf.edu
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Binh Duong
Current Postdoc, UC Santa Barbara
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Jitesh Kumar
Optics and Photonics
Jitesh.kumar@knights.ucf.edu
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Chao Li
Materials Science and Engineering
leeson2005a@knights.ucf.edu
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Yi Liu
Current Participant in NUE Project
yimoonrabbit@gmail.com
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Jordan Lopez
Aerospace Engineering
jordanjlopez459@gmail.com
Research Interests
Supercapacitors, Photocapacitors
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Josie Lorenzo
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Jarrod Maloney
Aerospace Engineering
jarrodmaloney1@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Material Characterization, Optical Limiting
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Christie Miller
Optics and Photonics
christie.miller@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Tunable Plasmonic Structures for Biological
Sensing
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Julian Moore
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Dr. Reji Philip
Associate Professor
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
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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
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Navid Saint-Hilaire
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Rosheyla Saint-Hilaire
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Hilda Reyes Salvador
Biomedical Sciences
Hreyessalvador@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Li-ion batteries, Capacitors, Quantum Dot
Production, Plasmonics
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Anukrit Saxena
Optical Engineering
anukritsaxena@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Optical Limiting, Holography, Four-wave Mixing
and Optical Characterization
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Navraj Singh
Research Interests
Nanotechnology, Solar Cells, Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting Devices
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Joseph Sleppy
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Sreekanth J. Varma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sanatana Dharma College
Alappuzha, Kerala, India
dr.sreekanthvarma@gmail.com
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Zenan Yu
Materials Science and Engineering
zenan.yu@knights.ucf.edu