Former Groups
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Former Students
Ryan Murphy
Masters Student
Ryan Murphy received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2018 and is currently pursuing a M.S degree in Electrical Engineering. Ryan joined the RF-MEMS transducer group in August 2019 and his main research interests include RF/microwave devices, packaging technology, and thermal management of active devices with additive manufacturing.
Abdulrahman Alsolami
Ph.D.
Abdulrahman Alsolami received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia in 2010 and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of South Florida in 2015. Abdulrahman joined RF-MEMS transducer groups at USF since 2015 and is currently pursuing his PhD in developing micro metamaterials for MEMS devices.His research area involves modeling, designing and fabricating micromachine devices
Adnan Zaman
Ph.D.
Adnan Zaman received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010 from King AbdulAziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and his M.S in Electrical Engineering in 2015 from USF. Since fall 2015, he has joined RF MEMS Transducers group and he is currently pursing his Ph.D at USF. His project focuses on development high-Q micromechanical resonators design and fabrication for RF applications.
Julie Lutti, Ph.D.
Alumni
Dr. Julie Lutti has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow since October 2011. She received her MS-equivalent degree from “Ecole Nationale Superieure de Marseille”, France, in 2001 and her PhD from Cardiff University, UK, in 2005. Her dissertation thesis was in the area of quantum dot laser diodes. She then pursued research in the area of optical biosensing by using microresonators to improve their detection limit down to single molecules or viruses. She joined the group in October 2011 to work on the development of a Terahertz radiation detector, while pursuing her interests in optical biosensing and studying of novel types of materials for laser diodes.
Paula C. Algarin-Amaris, MSEE
Alumni
Paula Algarin received her B.S degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 at Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia) and her M.S in Electrical Engineering in 2008 at USF. The continuous need to reduce the dimensions of the elements in integrated circuits has prompted intense research for the incorporation of nanometer scale devices into current semiconductor technologies. Current work explores the fabrication of nanostructured devices, known as Supercapacitors and Ultracapacitors, for energy storage applications using atomic layer deposited (ALD) high-k materials
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Ivan F. Rivera, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Intel, Hillsboro, OR
Ivan F. Rivera received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2010 and a M.S. in Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in May 2012. He is currently pursuing a PhD. degree in Biomedical and Chemical Engineering where he is currently working on developing Microfluidic/Nanofluidic devices for biological science applications.
Vinicio Carias, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM
Vinicio Carias received a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering along with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from Northeastern University. While at Northeastern University, he completed two 6-month internships at Instrumentation Laboratory, Lexington MA and had undergraduate research experience at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, where he developed an interest in nanotechnology with medical applications. Vinicio is the recipient of the NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship and the USF Graduate Student Success (GSS) Fellowship. He earned his master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2011. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering at USF jointly supervised by Dr. Jing Wang (Electrical Engineering) and Dr. Ryan Toomey (Chemical & Biomedical Engineering). The goal of his dissertation research project is to develop stimuli responsive polymer nanocomposite materials that can be utilized for remotely-controlled drug delivery microchips.
Tianpeng Wu, MSEE
Alumni
Affiliation: Smartsheet, Boston, MA
Tianpeng Wu receive his B.S in Applied Physics in University of Electronics Science and Technology of China in 2007 and M.S in Electrical Engineering in Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009. He is now pursuing his Ph.D in E.E with specialties in Microelectricmechanical System (MEMS). His Ph.D project focuses on development miniaturized mass spectrometer for harsh environmental monitoring application.
Adrian E. Avila, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Intel, Chandler, AZ
Di Lan, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: II-VI , Warren, NJ
Di Lan received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Since June 2008, he has been working in SF Bioelectronics Lab and involved in projects related to LC based MEMS passive sensor design and low frequency wireless power transfer with AC/DC conversion for biomedical applications. Since fall 2012, he has joined RF MEMS Transducers group in USF and his main research interests include RF integrated circuit design and MEMS oscillator design.
Juan Castro, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: ANSYS, Irvine, CA
Juan Castro received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) and M.B.A from the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico, in 2005, and 2011 respectively, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida, in 2014. In August 2012, Juan joined to the RF-MEMS Transducers Group (a division of the Center for Wireless and Microwave Information Systems). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Juan is recipient of the 2012 prestigious fellowship by the CONACYT (The Mexican National Council for Science and Technology) as a doctoral student at USF College of Engineering, Tampa. His current research work involve the development and characterization of functional low-loss, high-k and high permeability nano-materials technologies, based in: (MgCaTiO3, NdTiO3, BaTiO3, BaSrTiO3, ZnNiFe, NiCuZn and Fe3O4), for tunable RF-Microsystems and for RF 3D Printing technology).
Juan has around 6 years of work experience in industry in quality and reliability engineering for medical devices and consumer electronics in American and Japanese companies such as: (Panasonic, COVIDIEN now Medtronic and NYPRO Healthcare a Jabil Company).
Mahesh Babu Narra, MSEE
Alumni
Affiliation: Qualcomm, Orlando, FL
Mahesh babu Narra received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering in April 2013, from Acharya Nagarjuna University, India. He is currently pursuing his M.S degree in Electrical Engineering. His current research work involves the development of test fixtures for the characterization of high-permeability nanomaterials for RF & Microwave device applications.
Cesar Morales, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Intel, Chandler, AZ
Dr. Cesar Morales received his M.S. and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at University of South Florida in 2007 and 2011, respectively. His dissertation research was entitled "Magneto-Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposite Engineered Substrate for RF and Microwave Antennas". He joined RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD) to work as a senior RF design engineer since beginning of 2012.
I-Tsang Wu, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: LivaNova, Houston, TX
I-Tsang Wu was a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida (USF) and a member of the RF MEMS Transducers Group since summer 2008. He received his BSEE and MSEE in Electrical Engineering from USF in 2008 and 2011, respectively and his Ph.D in 2014. Throughout his MS career, he has been funded by several fellowship awards. In addition, I-Tsang has taken an internship position at Modelithics, a local spin-off company that specializes in high-precision measurements and models for microwave/RF design simulation. His dissertation work involves design, fabrication and characterization of mass-producible high-Q micromechanical resonators for RF/MW applications with minimum IC-compatible processing steps.
Julio Mario Dewdney, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Qorvo, North Carolina
Over the past decade, a great deal of research effort has been devoted to development of low-power and high-Q micromechanical resonators that are well-suited for a variety of frequency reference and signal processing functionalities, such as oscillators, mixers and frond-end filters at higher frequency bands (e.g., UHF and beyond), on to a single chip. Currently, devices based on mechanical vibration such as quartz crystals and surface acoustic wave (SAW) are widely used to implement high-Q oscillators and band-pass filters in communications transceivers .
Mikhail Landanov, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Nikon, Portland, OR.
Mikhail Ladanov earned his PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering in December 2012, where he was working on ZnO nanostructures for multifunctional application: growth, characterization and device fabrication.
Mian Wei, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Intel, Hillsboro, OR
Mian Wei received her B.S. degree in Electronic Information & Automation from Tianjin University of Science & Technology, China, in 2007. She earned her PhD degree in 2014, She was part of the RF MEMS Transducers lab in Electrical Engineering at University of South Florida with focus on post-transistor integration of MEMS resonators by using low temperature materials such as electroplated-nickel.
Ashish Chaudhary, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: SRI International, St. Petersburg, FL
Ashish Chaudhary received MS in Electrical Engineering from USF in Dec 2004, after which he worked as research engineer at Center for Ocean Technology (COT) with focus on development of miniature Cylindrical Ion Trap (CIT) Mass Spectrometer using MEMS technology. In April 2007, he switched to SRI International with focus on development ofminiaturization of various mass spectrometer components and integration using the MEMS approach. Ashish earned his Ph.D degree in 2014, while working at SRI. His main research interests include radical miniaturization of mass spectrometer system using novel materials, sensor development and MEMS packaging.
Olawale Ajayi, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Intel, Hillboros, OR
Olawale Ajayi received B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnics of Ibadan, Nigeria and Clark Atlanta University, Georgia in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University in 2008. He earned his Ph.D degree in 2014 at University of South Florida in Tampa. His dissertation research focuses on small antenna design and Terahertz (THz) imaging systems. These include silicon processing techniques, thin film deposition, photo lithography and e-beam lithography, and related micro/nano-fabrication techniques.
Kosol Son, MSEE
Alumni
Affiliation: Space Micro Inc.
Kosol Son graduated with his MS degree in Electrical Engineering in April 2011 by working on a project related to development of infrared detector with slot antenna-coupled microbolometer. He joined Space Micro Inc. since 2011.
Mingke XiongMingke Xiong ,MSEE
Alumni
Affiliation: AEM Inc.
Mingke Xiong received her B.E. degree in Material Science and Technology from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2007. Mingke Xiong graduated with her MS degree in June 2010. Her research was focused on development of UHF micromechanical resonators and arrays based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. She joined AEM, Inc. as a process engineer since June 2010.
Ophir Ortiz, Ph.D.
Alumni
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Dr. Ophir (Gigi) Ortiz has graduated with her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at University of South Florida in May 2010 and has been working as a postdoctoral fellow at New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University. Her PhD work on active surface topographies in constrained hydrogel films for biomedical applications was jointly advised by Dr. Ryan Toomey and Dr. Jing Wang.
Jagan Rajagopalan, MSEE
Alumni
Affiliation: Qorvo, North Carolina
Jagan Rajagopalan received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering in August 2010 by working on a project related to system analysis and design of RF hardware for a passive wireless sensor network using passive nodes. He joined TriQuint Semiconductor since August 2010.
Michael Depaz, MSEE.
Alumni
Affiliation: USAF
Michael Depaz graduated with his MS degree in Electrical Engineering in October 2007 by working on a project related to processing and characterization of Zinc oxide thin films.