Alex Austin, an undergraduate senior in Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, has three years of research experience in the field of nanotechnology. In the first year, he worked as a student in the Center for Nanostructures in close collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center on various projects involving Carbon Nanotubes. Since March 2005, he has been working as a student intern at NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology. Alex is currently the president of the student-run SCU Chapter of IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi.
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Edward de Asis is a second generation Filipino American. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University in 2004, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in 2006. His research interests include nanotechnology and integrated circuit design.
Samuel Kai-Man Chan received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in Hong Kong University of Science and MSEE in Santa Clara University. Currently he is working in Nonvolatile memory Technology group in Winbond Electronics Corporation America as a Technology Development Engineer. His research interests include surface potential based compact modeling, process and device simulation, Electrostatics Discharge, high voltage device, flash memory and deep sub-micron CMOS device.
Haritha received her Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from JNTU, Hyderabad, India in 2001. She is currently pursuing the master's degree in Electrical engineering with specialization in Analog Circuit Design at Santa Clara University.Her research work includes analyzing crosstalk in on-chip interconnects in deep sub-micron technologies and its effects on the performance of the circuits with frequencies in the GHz range. She has been recently appointed by Sequence Design as an intern working on modeling of inductance, capacitance, and real net test structures and on library validation.
Charlie Chao received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in 2001. He is currently a MS student in Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, working on high speed interconnect characterization and modeling.
Dan is studying at UC Irvine as a computer science and engineering major. He enjoys spending his free time watching movies and TV shows in his spare time. Dan enjoys watching “House” cause Hugh Laurie rocks his socks all day.
Kris Gleason earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1995. Over the past ten years, Kris has worked for several local semiconductor companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Transmeta Corporation, Vivace Networks, and NuCore Technology. His industry work focused on digital logic simulation and hardware architecture. His research interests include nanotechnology and quantum computers.
David was born and raised in Palo Alto, California, and is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major at UC Berkeley. He loves to draw, sing, and dance whenever possible. David has recently come back from a mission trip to Thailand where he worked in a children's program, did outreach in the villages, and spent time with university students. He is currently focusing his studies on both circuit and software design, but he is open to new opportunities and experiences.
Dr. Hirohiko Kitsuki has joined the Center for Nanostructures as a Visiting Researcher since January 2007. He works for Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation as an Engineer for semiconductor device inspection tool, utilizing electron microscopy. He earned his doctoral degree in high energy physics and engineering from Kyushu University in Japan in 2001.
Judy hails from Fremont, California and is an Accounting Major at Santa Clara University with a minor in International Business. She is looking forward to a relaxing senior year. After graduation in 2008, Judy will work at Deloitte and Touche Tohmatsu. She looks forward to staying in the Bay Area after graduation because family is nearby and nothing beats mom's cooking.
California born and raised, Caleb received his Bachelor's Degree in Computational Engineering Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. Go Bears! He is currently pursuing his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Semiconductor Devices and Nanostructures.
Quoc Ngo earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University in 2001 and his M.S. from Santa Clara University in Electrical Engineering in 2003. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. His primary research interest includes synthesis and modeling of carbon nanotube on-chip interconnects. He is also involved in developing a compact model for MOSFET gate-current. His summer internships at Intel Corporation from 1997-2002 have included Yield Analysis, Defect Metrology, Back-end Integration, and Interconnect Research and Development for developmental 300mm processes. Currently he is actively collaborating with the Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center in an initiative to incorporate carbon nanotubes into silicon-based technology.
Prior to joining the Center for Nanostructures as a Graduate Research Assistant, Dinh was an RF Systems Engineer at Space Systems Loral. He received his B. Sc. in EE from SCU in 2004 and is currently in the EE Master program with emphasis in RF/Microwave Circuit Design. Before returning to school in 2000, Dinh was a QA Development Engineer at S3 Inc. from 1995 – 1998 and Evans & Sutherland Computer Graphics Corp. from 1998 – 2000. His current research interest is in the area of carbon nano-tubes and nano-fibers growth as well as carbon nanostructure via.
Yusuke Ominami received his B.S. degree in engineering from Hokkaido University in 2000, and pursuing his M.S. degree in engineering in 2002, in Catalysis Research Center (CRC) in Hokkaido University. His graduate project focuses on Catalysts pattened by electron beam lithography. After graduation, he joined in Hitachi High-Technologies corporation. He was in charge of developments of SEM or FIB from 2002 to 2004. After that, he joined in Santa Clara university as visiting researcher. He is focusing on the development of CNT interconnect. His speciality is SEM, FIB, STEM, catalyst.
Behrouz Sadrabadi received his Bachelor degree from Science and Technology University, Iran in 2001 and M.S. degree from San Jose State University in 2005, both in mechanical engineering. His areas of research are design, finite element method, stress analysis, and studying thermal behavior. He worked at Sun Microsystems Corporation, Menlo Park, CA for two years until June 2006 as a component engineer to study performance and reliability of the parts used by the company, including designing the test boards, stress analysis, and failure analysis. He joined Santa Clara University in September 2006 to pursue his PhD in mechanical engineering and is currently studying the thermal behavior of Carbon Nanotubes (CNT).
Sang-Pil Sim received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1988 and M.S. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1990. In 1990, he joined SAMSUNG Electronics where he has been involved in 256M-bit DRAM development until he came back to academe in 1999 for Ph. D degree from KAIST. He is currently visiting Santa Clara University (SCU). His research interests include DSM device physics, RF CMOS modeling, and high speed interconnect characterization and modeling.
Makoto Suzuki has received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Kyoto University in Japan in 2000 and 2002, respectively. His study there includes the experimental works on the low temperature electron and phonon transport in superconductors. He joined Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. in 2002 and engaged in the development of electron beam optics for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for semiconductor device inspection. He is currently taking part in the Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University as a Visiting Researcher since 2006, studying SEM imaging techniques and image formation mechanisms for carbon nanofiber devices.
Christopher D. Tichenor is a senior majoring in Finance and double minoring in Management Information Systems and Ethnic Studies with an emphasis in Asian American Studies and graduating in June of 2007. He's the middle child of three and grew up in East San Jose until the age of 12 and in Gilroy since then. He has been commuting to and from school via CalTrain for almost 8 years already, since he spent his high school days at Bellarmine College Preparatory, a mile down the Alameda from SCU. His extracurricular activities include SCU's Filipino ethnic club, Barkada, their Pilipino Cultural Night, intramural football, intramural basketball, working out at the gym, and he's also the Vice President of his multicultural service and social fraternity, Chi Upsilon Zeta, where he is apart of the Beta Chapter's Alpha Class. He hopes to find a job in the field of Finance upon graduating and to move out on his own either in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, or New York.
Carlos-Gil Tuzon is a senior Marketing major and Studio Art minor with an emphasis in Graphic Design. Raised in San Jose, he graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory before continuing his Jesuit education at Santa Clara University. Aside from academics, Carlos is the Director of Pilipino Cultural Night, a full-length production by on-campus Filipino club Barkada and is the Historian for Chi Upsilon Zeta, a multicultural service fraternity. In addition, he does freelance graphic design for a diverse clientele.
Alan Nga-Ching Wong received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from University of California at Davis and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Currently, he is working as SPICE modeling engineer at Linear Technology Corporation.
Hans T.W. Yoong received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University in 1997, and pursuing his M.S. degree in electrical engineering since September 1997, also in Santa Clara University. His graduate project focuses on SiGeC MOS capacitors physics and technology with another graduate student Fan. The fabrication of the devices are routinely done in partnership with other universities. Additional processing tasks are undertaken in Stanford Nanofabrication Facility under the National Science Foundation research grants. He now works as a design engineer at Alliance Semiconductor.
Sunil Yu received the B.S. degree in Physics from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1989 and M.S. degree from Pohang Institute of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 1991. From 1991 to 2002 he was with the Semiconductor Division, Samsung Electronics, where he was engaged in the development of logic manufacturing process. Since 2002, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently conducting his doctoral research in the Nanoelectronics Laboratory as a visiting researcher. His research interests include on-chip interconnect crosstalk noise and related issues in VLSI circuits.
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