2018 - 2019 Graduates

We Congratulate Our Recent Graduates!

2020 Graduates will be included in the next edition of Interactions!

Mumtaz Murat Arik
Advisor: John Cerne
Thesis Title: “Infrared and visible magneto-optical studies of large area monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides”
Chun Pui Kwan
Advisor: Jonathan Bird
Thesis Title: “Conduction mechanisms in bulk and thin-film crystalline chromia”
Rahul Munshi
Advisor: Arnd Pralle
Thesis Title: “Magnetothermal neuromodulation”
Imtiaz Tanveer
Advisor: Bruce McCombe
Thesis Title: “THz magneto-optical study of high mobility CdMnTe Quantum wells: spin-orbit and many-body effects”
Peiyao Zhang
Advisor: Athos Petrou
Thesis Title: “Magneto-optical studies of Mn doped II-VI group semiconductor nanostructures”

Guo Deng
Advisor: Gino Biondini
Thesis: “Small dispersion limits for integrable nonlinear wave equations with periodic initial conditions”
Abhishek Goswami
Advisor: Jonathan Dimock
Thesis: “Mass gap in weakly coupled abelian Higgs on a unit lattice”
Sushree Tripathy
Advisor: Wenjun Zheng
Thesis: “A study of structure versus function at the neurotransmitter binding site in nicotinic receptors”
Han Wen
Advisor: Wenjun Zheng
Thesis: “Decrypting the heat activation mechanism of TRPV1 channel by molecular dynamics simulation”
Chuan Zhao
Advisor: Hao Zeng
Thesis: “Magnetic control in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides”

Ahmed Ali Ali
Advisor: Sambandamurthy Ganapathy
Thesis Title: “Noise spectroscopy study in low dimensional materials”
Yanting Deng
Advisor: Andrea Markelz
Thesis Title: “Uncovering the internal structural dynamics of proteins by stationary sample anisotropic Terahertz microscopy”
Ruifeng Dong
Advisor: Dejan Stojkovic
Thesis Title: “Strong Gravity: signatures of new possibilities”
Hsuan Hao Fan
Advisor: Eckhard Krotscheck
Thesis Title: “Pairing phenomena from low-density Fermi gases to neutron star matter”
Charles Harrington
Advisor: Ia Iashvili
Thesis Title: “Search for ttbar resonances in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV”
Syed Hasan
Advisor: Doreen Wackeroth
Thesis Title: “Calculation of mixed QCD-Electroweak corrections to Drell-Yan processes”
Rahul Kashyap
Advisor: Surajit Sen
Thesis Title: “Strongly nonlinear processes in many-body systems”
Bahareh Kilcoyne
Advisor: Ia Iashvili
Thesis Title: “Search for ttbar resonances in the dilepton channel at CMS using the polarization information”
Tenzin Norden
Advisor: Athos Petrou
Thesis Title: "Magneto-optical studies of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides"
Anshul Saini
Advisor: Dejan Stojkovic
Thesis Title: “Quantum effects in weak and strong gravity regimes”
Gaofeng Xu
Advisor: Igor Zutic
Thesis Title: “Spin-dependent phenomena: from lasers to transition metal dichalcogenides”