Jason is selected as the IEEE Region 3 recipient of the 2025 IEEE Electron Devices Society Undergraduate Student Scholarship. The Fellowship Program was established to promote, recognize, and support Undergraduate level study and hands-on experience within the Electron Devices Society’s field of interest. The fellowship consists of a plaque and a check for US $1,000.00 […]
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Vertical Semiconductor (co-founded by our alumnus Dr. Josh Perozek) raises $11M in seed funding round to deliver high-voltage and high-efficiency power electronics with a scalable, manufacturable solution
Prof. Bayram awarded a GaN Prototype Accelerator Multi-Project Wafer Opportunity
for project titled “A High-Performance Gallium Nitride MMIC Solution for Next-Generation Automotive Radar Systems”.
Jason receives Undergraduate Research Symposium Oral Presentation Honorable Mention
for his talk titled “Efficiency Droop Contributors in Indium Gallium Nitride Green Light-Emitting Diodes“.
Sarah selected to participate in The Grainger College of Engineering Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Program
Prof. Bayram promoted to Full Professor with tenure
I am delighted to announce my promotion to Full Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with exceptional colleagues, students, and staff. These partnerships, both on and off campus, are instrumental in driving the research, education, and service vision of the Innovative Compound […]
Prof. Bayram awarded an AIM Photonics Quantum Flex (QFlex) Service Grant
for project titled “Improving the Photonic Toolbox for Visible Quantum Photonics”.
Congratulations to Zhuoran on his successful Ph.D. Defense
, titled ‘Diamond Power Electronics for Next Generation Electric Grid,’ and for earning the privileges and responsibilities of a Doctor of Philosophy degree. We wish him the best at Apple (CA, USA) as a Display Technology Engineer.
Prof. Bayram awarded a Coherent / II-VI Foundation Grant Renewal
Thanks to the Coherent / II-VI Foundation Block-Gift Program, we will strengthen our shared mission: Create a stronger population of new engineering-, science- and mathematics-educated individuals who will ultimately increase and improve the tough and ever more complicated technical pool of engineers and scientists seeking to tackle problems facing our nation and the world.
Congratulations to Yu-Chieh on his successful Ph.D. Defense
, titled ‘Scaling to submicron for III-nitride optoelectronics devices: Applications in micro light emitting diodes and resonant tunneling diodes,’ and for earning the privileges and responsibilities of a Doctor of Philosophy degree. We wish him the best at Apple (CA, USA) as a Panel Process Integration Engineer.