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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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