Leighton Group

Current Group Members

 

Leighton group 2019

Post-Docs

   Dr. Yu Tao

   Dr. Srimal Rathnayaka

Graduate Students

   Pahuni Jain

   Hyunsol Son

   Syed Saam Rasool

   Sandeep Sai Sundara Ganti

   Zheng Yu Wong

   Kyumin Park

   Aidiel Ikmal Abu Hassan

   Ethan Seutter

   Debamita Pal

Undergraduate Research Students

   Jenna Dykes

   Tyler Harper

   Truman Ingersoll

   Alexis Kraus

Group Alumni

 

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Students:

   Dr. Yeon Lee, Ph.D., 2026 (now at ASM)

   Mr. Colton Stonehouse, M.Sc., 2025 (now at Dupont)

   Dr. Moumita Maiti, M.Sc., 2025

   Dr. Rohan Chakraborty, Ph.D., 2025 (now at Aerospace Corporation)

   Dr. Ben Kaiser, Ph.D., 2025

   Dr. Justin Ramberger, Ph.D., 2024 (now at Draper Labs)

   Dr. John Dewey, Ph.D. 2024 (now at Lam Research)   

   Dr. Johnny Zhang, Ph.D. 2024 (now at Intel)

   Dr. Will Postiglione, Ph.D. 2023 (now at NVE)

   Dr. Jialiang Chen, Ph.D. 2023

   Kei Heltemes

   Dr. Vipul Chaturvedi, Ph.D. 2021 (now at Intel)

   Dr. Bryan Voigt, Ph.D. 2020 (now at Lam Research Corp)

   Dr. Helin Wang, Ph.D. 2020

   Prof. Jeffery Walter, Ph.D., 2018 (now faculty at Augsburg College, MN)

   Dr. Koustav Ganguly, Ph.D., 2018 (now at Intel)

   Dr. Justin Watts, Ph.D., 2018 (now at NVE)

   Prof. Eric McCalla  (now faculty at McGill University, Canada)

   Mr. Yanjun Yang, M.Sc., 2016 (now at Rice U.)

   Dr. Xin Zhang, Ph.D., 2015 (now at Lam Research Corp.)

   Dr. Palak Ambwani, Ph.D., 2015 (now at Intel)

   Aisha Khaleel

   Frazier Mork

   Colin Rice

   Dr. Shameek Bose, Ph.D., 2014 (now at Intel)

   Mr. Dima Spivak, M.Sc., 2014 (now at Cloudera)

   Dr. Mike Erickson, Ph.D., 2013 (now at Intel)

   Ms. Melissa Haugen

   Mr. Tobias Gulden, M.Sc., 2012 (now at UMN, Physics)

   Prof. Mike Manno, Ph.D., 2010 (now faculty at UMN, CEMS)

   Dr. Manish Sharma, Ph.D., 2010 (now at Dow Chemical)

   Mr. Abe Spinelli, M.Sc., 2009 (now at 3M)

   Dr. Chunyong He, Ph.D., 2009 (now at Intel)

   Prof. Michael Lund, Ph.D., 2006 (now faculty at Bemidji State University)

   Dr. Jing Wu, Ph.D., 2006 (now at Western Digital)

   Prof. Lan Wang, Ph.D., 2006 (now faculty at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia);

Post-docs:

   Dr. Nileena Nandakumaran, Ph.D.

   Prof. Jerry Liang, Ph.D. (Now at Northeast Normal University, China)

   Dr. Bhaskar Das, Ph.D., 2022 (now at Seagate)

   Dr. Joe Batley

   Dr. Vina Faramarzi

   Prof. Liam O'Brien (now faculty at University of Liverpool, UK)

   Dr. Sri Polisetty (now at Trans-Tech Inc.)

   Dr. Danny Phelan (now staff member at Argonne National Laboratory)

   Dr. Kanwal Bhatti (now at GE)

   Prof. Shun Wang (now faculty at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

   Prof. Mike Manno (now faculty at UMN)

   Prof. Andrew Baruth (now faculty at Creighton University, Nebraska)

   Prof. Sami El-Khatib (now faculty at American University of Sharjah)

   Dr. Ruifang Wang

   Dr. Maria Torija (now at NVE Inc., Eden Prairie, MN)

   Dr. Jeff Parker (now at Gillette)