Principle Investigator
Hieu P. T. Nguyen
Hieu. P. Nguyen is currently an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Previously, he was with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where he was an assistant professor, then associate professor of Electrical Engineering and the director of the molecular beam epitaxy facility. He got his Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 2012. Dr. Nguyen is a recipient of the 2020 NSF CAREER Award, the 2019 Saul K Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Ward, the SPIE scholarship in Optics and Photonics 2012 (for his potential long-range contributions to the field of optics, photonics, or related field).
Graduate Students
Mano Bala Sankar Muthu
Mano is currently a PhD student at TTU Nano Tech Center. He obtained his Master’s degree (MS by Research) in Interdisciplinary Department (EE & Physics) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras India in 2022, where he worked on devices for photonic and quantum technologies by femtosecond laser micro structuring.
He joined our research group at Fall 2022. His current research work focusses on molecular beam epitaxial growth of III-nitride wide bandgap semiconductors for photonics, flexible electronics and memory device applications.
Rikesh Shrestha
Rikesh Shrestha is currently a MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. His research interest is in Micro LEDs and memory devices.
Former Group Members
+ Graduate Students
Moulik Patel (Former Master student), is now with Kulite Semiconductor Products Inc., US.
Kanan Deep (Former Master student), is now with Cummins Inc., US.
Velpula Ravi Teja (Former Ph.D. student), is now with Intel, US.
Thang Ha Quoc Bui (Post doctoral researcher/Former Ph.D. student), is now at KLA Corpoation, US
Barsha Jain (Former Ph.D. student), is now with Intel.
Moab Rajan Philip (Former Ph.D. student): Currently is with Texas Instruments, US
Dipayan Datta Choudhary (Former Master student): Currently at KYOCERA SLD Laser Inc., US
Ranjitha Ravindran (Former Master student): Currently at Fractal Analytics as Data Scientist, US.
+ Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Md. Nasiruddin Bhuyian (Postdoctoral research associate): Currently at Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Dr. Mehrdad Djavid (Postdoctoral research associate): Currently at Global Foundries, Vermont as Principle Customer Design App Engineer
+ Visiting Scholar:
Dr. Trupti Ranjann Lenka: Currently is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India.
+Undergraduate Students:
Andressa Marangon, received the Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, 2021, NJIT Summer Research Fellowship 2022, 2023
Oladimeji Sobanjo: received the Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, 2020
Kevin Pemberthy: received the New Jersey Governor’s STEM Scholarship, 2019
Jeffrey Jude and Moses Tumuna: received the Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, 2019
Maria Ramirez: received the 2018 NSF REU program in: "Optics and photonics: Technologies, Systems, and Devices" Maria is current a senior undergraduate student in the Physics Department of University of Southern California.
Anumeena Sorna: received the 2017 NSF REU program in: "Optics and photonics: Technologies, Systems, and Devices". Anumeena is currently an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Trichy, India.
Ali Yuksel: Received the 2017 Provost Summer Undergraduate Research Program at NJIT. Currently at BOSCH as Optical Engineer.
Ashish John (Undergraduate student: Received: NJIT Provost Summer Research Fellowship Award 2015, 2016)
Nevin Varghese (Undergraduate student: Received: NJIT Provost Summer Research Fellowship Award 2015, 2016)
Ryan S. Y. Kimura (Undergraduate student from Brazil: Received the IIE Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program 2015 to conduct summer research in my group in 2016)
Yaset Evo (Undergraduate student: Received: the 2015 National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Research Experience for Undergraduates (NNIN REU) Program at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Richard Rocha (Undergraduate student: Received: the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program)
Mauricio Kyoiti Yamaoka (Undergraduate student from Brazil: Received the IIE Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program 2015 to conduct summer research in my group in 2015)