Yi-Chia’s dissertation, “Theoretical Exploration of Efficiency Droop Mechanisms in III-Nitride Visible Light-Emitting Diodes,” is selected as the campus nominee for the 2022 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Select Highlights by – HMNTL
Category: Alumni News
Alkesh joins MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Alkesh joins MIT Lincoln Laboratory as an Integrated Photonics Development Engineer. He will be working with the Quantum Info & Integrated Nanosystems Group, and be part of the Photonics Nanofabrication team. His team is based at Lexington, MA.
Alumnus Jarod (BS in MatSE, 2020) selected as a 2022 NSF Honorable Mention Awardee
Announcement by – NSF
Yi-Chia joins ASML Corporation
Yi-Chia defended his doctoral thesis on April 4th, 10:00 am. Yi-Chia will be responsible for designing and developing algorithms to improve performance and accuracy of the world-leading lithography models for microchip manufacturing. His team is based at San Jose, CA. Congrats to Dr. Yi-Chia Tsai and thanks to all our sponsors for supporting his research.
Alumnus Josephine joins Applied Materials as Application Engineer
She will be responsible of implementing and characterizing new optical metrology products to improve performance and accuracy of next generation AR/VR lenses fabrication. Her team is based at Santa Clara, CA. Congrats to Josephine and Best of Luck.
Ali joins Structured Materials Industries
Ali will be responsible of designing and developing AlGaN/GaN transistors for power electronics applications to improve performance and accuracy of next generation RF/power devices. His team is based at Piscataway, NJ. Congrats to Dr. Ali Johar and thanks to all our sponsors for supporting his research.
Dicky joins Aerospace Corporation
Dicky defended his doctoral thesis on March 30th, 11:00 am. Dicky will be responsible of exploring reliability of GaN electronics and III-V infrared sensors (as an alternative to MCT) for space applications. His team is based at the Los Angeles site. Congrats to Dr. Richard (Dicky) Liu and thanks to all our sponsors for supporting […]
Alumnus Dennis (BS in EE & Engineering Physics, 2019) selected as a 2021 NSF Fellow
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27 Companies Founded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign People
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has produced some of the biggest entrepreneurs that have changed the world. Written by Leonardo Hadi, 08/22/2020. Tesla, PayPal, YouTube, Oracle, Yelp, AMD, Delta, Grainger, LSV Asset Management, GoFundMe, Baskin Robins, Playboy, NFL, Siebel, Hooters, The Weather Channel, Match.com, Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla, Harlem Globetrotters, Pampered Chef, KiwiCo, Yammer, BET […]
Kihoon joins Intel
Kihoon defended his doctoral thesis on Jan. 17th, 9:30 am in HMNTL 3005. Kihoon joins Intel as a TCAD SW / Modeling Engineer. He will be responsible of building new models involving device physics, implementing them in TCAD, benchmarking results against experimental results, and using them to support other groups. The job will also give […]