Current Members
Born and raised on Maui, Amber Dela Cruz made her way to Corvallis, Oregon with the support of her parents and younger sister. There, she studied Business (Marketing) at Oregon State University, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a minor in Health Care Administration. Toward the end of her college career, she traveled abroad to study the Spanish culture, enjoying exotic foods and experiencing the life as a local in Oviedo, Spain. After 5 years in Oregon, she moved to San Jose where she began in retail and eventually worked for San Jose Medical Group. Amber enjoys traveling and the great outdoors. She is currently the Administrative Assistant for the Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University.
 | Dr. Drazen Fabris
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
dfabris@scu.edu |
John is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Santa Clara and a Consulting Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Prior to joining the Center For Nanostructures, he received a B.A. in Mathematics (1996) from the College of Wooster, a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (1997) from Purdue, and M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford. His doctoral work was carried out under Jim Plummer (Electrical Eng.) and Walter Harrison (Applied Physics), and focused primarily on the theory and measurement of dielectric instabilities in glasses, particularly high-k gate dielectrics. After his doctoral work, he became a Postdoctoral Researcher with Yoshio Nishi in the Electrical Engineering Dept. at Stanford, where he studied nonvolatile memory based on reversible field-induced changes in the resistance of metal-sulfide and metal-oxide capacitors. John’s current research activities include fundamental studies of instabilities in glasses and how they affect nanoelectronic devices, the development of new materials for advanced nonvolatile memory, and use of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers as vias and interconnects in integrated circuits.
Dr. Kobayashi joined the Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University as a research consultant in 2004. Currently he is also affiliated with Quantum Science Research at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California) as a visiting scholar and Electronics Research Laboratory at University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, California) as a research associate. At Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, he is developing core structures and materials for a new class of nano-meter scale electrical switches / memories for future computing systems while, at UC Berkeley, he is involved in research on optoelectronics and biosensing applications based on nanostructures of group III-V compound semiconductors. Prior to his current appointments, Dr. Kobayashi worked at the Center for Micro and Nano Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, California) from 2002 to 2004 as a scientist, developing semiconductor materials used in both ultra-high speed diagnosis systems for the National Ignition Facility and optoelectronic components for the Optical Code Division Multiple Access (DARPA funded project). From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Kobayashi was at Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California), involved in developing III-V compound semiconductor materials for superior optoelectronic and electronic components, such as LEDs, VCSELs, and hetero-bipolar transistors, for both high-speed fiber-optics and wireless communications. Before coming to the U.S. in 1992, Dr. Kobayashi worked for HONDA R&D Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan) and Toshiba Co. (Yokohama, Japan), developing III-V compound semiconductors and amorphous semiconductors for solar cells, photodetectors, and MOS transistors. He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Material Science from University of Southern California in 1998.
 | Dr. Shoba Krishnan
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
(408) 544-4666
skrishnan@scu.edu
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Shoba Krishnan received her B. Tech. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India in 1987 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1990 and 1993 respectively. From 1995 to 1999 she was with the Mixed-Signal Design Group at LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA where she worked on high-speed data communication IC design and testing. She is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. Her current research interests include Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design and Testing, and study of signal integrity and modeling issues in mixed-mode ICs.
Originally from Nicaragua, Francisco Madriz earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University in 1994 and 2000, respectively. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. His research interests include microwave circuit design, On-Chip interconnects and Nanotechnology.
Zefram Marks is currently a junior Electrical Engineering major at Santa Clara University. His involvement in school can be witnessed through his participation in Tau Beta Pi and as an officer of the SCU IEEE. Zefram has also tutored at Santa Clara University's Drahmann Center and last summer worked with Professor Figueira on an overlay network robotics project.
Born and raised in San Jose, California, Nam Nguyen is a student at Santa Clara University studying as an Accounting major with a minor in English. Nam is very involved in the campus community’s Multicultural Center (MCC) where he is currently the president of the Vietnamese Student Association. After graduation in 2011, Nam looks forward to spending a summer traveling throughout Asia and will be hoping to attend law school.
Dusan Petranovic received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade in 1976, and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts in 1979, where he spent one year on a Fulbright Grant. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Montenegro in 1986, where he was employed as an Assistant and an Associate Professor until 1992. At the University of Montenegro, he had been involved in developing and teaching courses in electrical and computer engineering, as well as in research in the areas of microprocessor system design, digital signal processing and control system design. Before moving to the USA, he also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Belgrade and served as an EE department Dean and Chair at the University of Montenegro. Dusan Petranovic spent six years teaching at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California and has also taught graduate courses at Santa Clara University. He joined LSI Logic Advanced Development Laboratory as a member of its technical staff in 1997, and until 2003 was with the LSI's Process R&D, working on the interconnect modeling for high speed digital circuit design. He is now with Design to Silicon group at Mentor Graphics Corporation and with the Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University. Dr. Petranovic worked as a consultant for NASA on aircraft control law design, and for NOVA Management Inc. on a design of Tera FLOPS digital signal processor. He has published numerous international journal and conference papers and holds ten U.S. patents. He has served at SRC task force for creating the Needs Document for Logic, Physical, and Electrical Design and Analysis Tools. Dr. Petranovic is a member of DAC and ICCAD Technical Program Committees. He has given numerous seminars and lectures including invited presentations at California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Imperial College of Science and Technology and National Taiwan University.
Tsutomu Saito works at Hitachi High Technologies Corporation as a mechanical and application engineer, especially focused on nano-probing systems using Scanning Electrical Microscopy. He has received a B.S. and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Saitama University in Japan in 2000 and 2002.
Xuhui (Jeff) Sun received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. Degrees from the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He received his Ph. D. Degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 2002 under the directions of Professors N. B. Wong and S. T. Lee at City University of Hong Kong, Professor T. K. Sham at University of Western Ontario, and Professor Boon K. Teo at University of Illinois at Chicago. His Ph. D. thesis focuses on the synthesis, characterization and surface chemistry of the semiconductor nanomaterials. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. T. K. Sham at University of Western Ontario where he did synthesis and electronic structure studies of low dimensional metal and semiconductor nanomaterials, he joined the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center in 2005 as a postdoctoral scholar with Drs. B. Yu and Meyya Meyyappan, doing research on nanowire based nanoelectronics for computing and information storage technologies. He also has a broad research interests with regard to nanoscience and nanotechnology, including the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanoscale materials (one-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials and carbon nanotubes in particular) and the development of synchrotron radiation techniques, etc.
Thanh Tu is currently a Ph.D student in the EE department at Santa Clara University. His research interests cover the area of nanoelectronics & MEMS with an emphasis on fabrication & characterization. Thanh received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University in 2004 and 2007, respectively.
Patrick Wilhite graduated from Santa Clara University with a B.S. in Physics in 2003. He worked for NASA Ames Research Center where he conducted research in the fields of nanotechnology and astrobiology. His work in nanotechnology focused on the functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes via cold plasma discharge processes. In astrobiology, he has contributed to the study of optical properties of organic hazes produced in simulated atmospheres of Titan, Mars and the early-Earth. He also worked for New York University as a Laboratory Preparator, developing and supporting laboratory exercises for undergraduate science courses.
Wen Wu received her B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Fudan University, China in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2007. Her research at HKUST covered a broad area in silicon device design and modeling, ranging from design optimization of traditional RF devices to compact model development of emerging nanoscale devices. Since 2005, her work on multi-gate MOSFET modeling has also contributed to the development of next-generation modeling framework by a group of international researchers from Japan, China, and Korea under the Japanese NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) program. In September 2007, she joined the Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University as a research associate working on RF properties of carbon-based nanostructures. Her research interests include design and development of nanostructures, compact modeling of carbon-based interconnects, and nanodevice technologies. Dr. Wu is one of the four winners of 2006 IEEE Electron Device Society PhD Student Fellowship. She serves as a reviewer for IEEE Electron Device Letters and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
Toshishige Yamada is a Research Professor of Engineering at Santa Clara University. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, under the supervision of Professor D. K. Ferry. He worked for NEC Microelectronics Research Laboratories, Japan and NASA Ames Research Center. He has conducted physical modeling/analysis of nano/micro-materials and devices such as Josephson latch device, quantum wire, lateral surface superlattice, strained Si channel on SiGe substrate, atomic chain on substrate, nanotube FET, nanotube-STM system, gated nanotube semiconductor-metal diode, nanotube gas sensor and Schottky barrier (oxygen, ammonia), nanofiber device, nanowire FET (indium oxide, zinc oxide), nanowire device (indium antimonide), and metallic nanoisland (lead on silicon), emphasizing comparison with experiments. He is currently extending his activities to materials characterization as well as thermoelectric devices. He serves on the Editorial Board of J. Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience and is a member of the Committee of IEEE Santa Clara Valley Electron Device Society. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi. He teaches Semiconductor Physics and Nanoelectronics at Santa Clara University, and Electromagnetic Fields and Waves at UC Santa Cruz.
 | Dr. Cary Y. Yang
Director and Professor/Chair of Electrical Engineering
(408) 544-6814
cyang@scu.edu |
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