Team

Email: smay (at) drexel.edu
Office: 332C LeBow Engineering Building

• Professor (2019 – )
  Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
• Department Head (2020 – 2025)
  Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
• Associate Professor (2015 – 2019)
  Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
• Assistant Professor (2009 – 2015)
  Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
• Postdoctoral Researcher (2007 – 2009)
  Argonne National Laboratory
• Ph.D. (2002 – 2007)
  Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
• B.S. (1998 – 2002)
  Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University

BS & MS (2023); Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal

Bc. (2022); Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Brno University of Technology
MSc. (2024); Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Brno University of Technology

BS (2023); Physics, St. Stephen’s College
MS (2025); Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University

None at the moment

PhD students:

Cole Smith (01/2010 – 12/2014; IMEC)

Mark Scafetta (09/2010 – 06/2015; Air Force Technical Applications Center)

Amber Choquette (09/2012 – 06/2017; Micron Technology, Inc)

Alex Krick (09/2012 – 06/2017; Northrop Grumman)

Amanda Huon (09/2013 – 01/2019; Assistant Professor of Physics at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA)

Jiayi Wang (09/2015 – 06/2020; Assistant Professor at the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

Benjamin Lefler (01/2017 – 06/2022; Wolfspeed)

Yizhou Yang (04/2018 – 06/2022; Intel Corp)

Prajwal Laxmeesha (01/2021 – 06/2025; Western Digital)

Tessa Tucker (09/2021 – 06/2026)

 

Postdoctoral Researchers:

Rebecca Sichel-Tissot (06/2011 – 02/2014; Polar Semiconductor)

Eun Ju Moon (06/2012 – 08/2016; Instrumentation Scientist at SUNY Buffalo)

Paul Rogge (09/2016 – 02/2020; Engineer at the IRS)

David Ferron Bugallo (01/2022 – 10/2023; Research Chemist at Decotek Automotive, Ireland)

 

MS students:

Erwin Fernandez (MESC program, 2012; Vecor Labs)

Robert Devlin (2013; CEO and co-founder of Metalenz)

Yujun Xie (2014; Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ)

James Devine (2015; SRI International)

Andrew Cieri (2016; Evaporated Coatings, Inc.)

Wren Gordon (2017; Current Design, Inc.)

Yuchen Hou (2018; Lam Research)

Zizhao Chen (2018; pursuing PhD at Texas A&M)

Cosmin Popescu (2020; pursuing PhD at MIT)

Zongmin Yang (2023)

Jane Frostad (2024; Epic)

Andrew Mirea (2025; EnLiSense)

Tarush Tandon (2025; pursuing PhD at Drexel)

 

BS thesis students:

Jared Gdanski (2020; pursuing PhD at Ohio State)

 

Visiting Researchers:

Lucas Barreto (07/2019 – 4/2020; visiting assistant professor from Universidade Federal do ABC)

Yu Zhou (9/2017 – 08/2018; visiting PhD student from Shandong University; now postdoc at Tsinghua University)