Leighton Group

Current Group Members

 

Leighton group 2019

Post-Docs

Dr. Jerry Liang

Dr. Nileena Nandakumaran

Dr. Yu Tao

Graduate Students

Pahuni Jain

Yeon Lee

Moumita Maiti

Laura Parmeter

Syed Saam Rasool

Hyunsol Son

Colton Stonehouse

Undergraduate Research Students

Jenna Dykes

Tyler Harper

Ben Jeong

Maggie van Someren

 

Group Alumni

 

alumni-leighton

Students:

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. 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)