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