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Sayantani Ghosh (sghosh@ucmerced.edu) 
Ph.D., 2003 — University of Chicago, B.A., 1998 — University of Cambridge
Graduate Students

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 Benaz Colabewala (bcolabewala@ucmerced.edu)
​Year started: 2014
Education: BS Physics, California State University, Long Beach
Research: Novel materials for designing high efficiency solar cells and luminescent concentrators 

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Mark Bartolo
(mbartolo@ucmerced.edu)
Year started: 2015
Education: BS Applied Physics, California State University, San Marcos
Research: Magneto-optical and Fluorescence microscopy studies of magnetically doped quantum dots; nano-assembled structures for applications in tissue engineering.

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 Md. Imran Khan (mkhan39@ucmerced.edu) 
Year started: 2016
Education: 
Research:  Energy transfer mechanism in ultra-small gold nano clusters; passive cloaking in  nano-assembled hollow structures.
Co-advised by Prof. Arnold Kim, Applied Math. 

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   William Delmas (wdelmas@ucmerced.edu) 
    Year started: 2017
    Education: BS Physics, UC Merced
    Research:  Room temperature Single Photon Emitters 

   Co-advised by Prof. Michael Scheibner, Physics.


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Albert Dibenedetto (adibenedetto@ucmerced.edu)
Year started: 2018
Education: BS Physics, Ball State University
Research: Engineering high efficiency hybrid perovkite thin films via strain engineering in flexible substrates

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Michael Leville (mleveille@ucmerced.edu ​)
Year started: 2018
Education: BS Physics, Loyola University of Chicago
Research: Smart adaptive polymer nanocomposites.
Co-advised by Prof. Jennifer Lu, Materials Science and Engineering.

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Samuel Erickson (​serickson3@ucmerced.edu)
Year started: 2019

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Arya Karapilly Rajan (akarappillyrajan@ucmerced.edu)
Year started: 2019


​Undergraduate researchers
Calista Lum (MACES undergraduate fellow, 2018-2019)

Alumni (Graduate)
Dr. Georgiy Shcherbatyuk (gshcherbatyuk@gmail.com) Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Kansas
Dr. Andrea Rodarte (pocketmouse@gmail.com) R&D Electrical Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Christopher Ferri (cferri39@hotmail.com) Process Engineer II at Varioscale, Inc, San Diego
Dr. Makiko T. Quint (coolingdownmakiko@gmail.com) Systems Engineer, KLA-Tencor, San Jose
Dr. Katerina Nikolaidou (
knikolaidou25@gmail.com) Researcher, INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Som Sarang (somsarang90@gmail.com)  Research scientist, Intel. 

Alumni (undergraduate)

Brenda Yu (Graduate student, Stanford)
Denzal Martin (domartin@stanford.edu, Graduate student, Stanford)
Maeve O Brien (maeveo1@uci.edu, Graduate student, UC Irvine)
Jacob Parker (Graduate student, Washington State)
Matt Wilson ( mwils015@ucr.edu, Graduate student, UC Riverside)
John Harvey Paredes (Master's program, Applied Physics, University of Oregon)
Jacky Wan (jwan006@ucr.edu, Graduate student, UC Riverside)
Corinne Gray (cmg83@pitt.edu, Graduate student, University of Pittsburgh)
Patrick Talbot (CSU Fresno)
Michael Tennenbaum (mtennenbaum3@gatech.edu, Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Dr. Jessica Clayton (jclayton@physics.ucsb.edu, PhD@UC Santa Barbara, Design Verification Test Engineer III, Karl Storz Imaging, Santa Barbara)
Dr. Richard Inman (rinman@ucsd.edu, PhD@UC San Diego, Lead Data Scientist, CleanSpark LLC, San Diego)


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