Huiqin Zhang
Email: huiqin@seas.upenn.edu
Huiqin is a PhD candidate in Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She grew up in Shanghai, China and received her Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University, China. After graduation, she joined UPenn in August 2018.
Her research interest is investigating strong light-matter interactions in excitonic dielectrics and plasmonic structures.
Xiwen Liu
Email: xiwenliu@seas.upenn.edu
Xiwen is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the group in 2019 summer, and his research interest includes: In Memory Computing, Neuromorphic Computing, Non-Volatile Memory technology, Nanoelectronics, Hardware-Algorithm Co-design for ML.
Kiyoung Jo
Email: kiyoungj@seas.upenn.edu
Kiyoung is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and works with Prof. Deep Jariwala. His research is in the field of surface engineering of next-generation optoelectronic materials using scanning probe technique. He received his B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in 2013 and a M.S. in Physics from UNIST in 2015. From 2015-2018 he worked as a Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
Adam Alfieri
Email: alfieri@seas.upenn.edu
Adam is a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical and Systems Engineering. He received a bachelors degree in Materials Sci and Engineering from UW-Madison in 2020 (Go Badgers), and his research interests focus on polaritonic TMD metasurfaces for solar energy harvesting.
Kwan-Ho Kim
Email: kwkim20@seas.upenn.edu
Kwan-Ho is a PhD Candidate in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) at the University of Pennsylvania. He did his undergraduate in Electronic Engineering at Pusan National University in South Korea, and joined the Jariwala group in the fall of 2020. His research interests are emerging memory/storage devices applicable to next-generation computing architecture such as in-memory computing and neuromorphic computing. In particular, he is focusing on research on ferroelectric-FET (Fe-FET), Fe-RAM and ferroelectric tunneling junction (FTJ).
Chloe Leblanc
Email: chloeleb@seas.upenn.edu
Chloe did her undergrad at Stanford and joined the lab as a PhD Candidate in Fall 2020. Her research interests include 2D ferroelectric materials and devices with a focus on their applications in energy.
Jason Lynch
Email: jasonlyn@seas.upenn.edu
Jason started his PhD with the Jariwala group in 2021 after obtaining a BS in Physics at the University of Chicago and a MS in Nanotechnology at Penn. His research focuses on tunability of 2D and 1D for high performance optoelectronic devices.
Bongjun Choi
Email: bjchoi@seas.upenn.edu
Bongjun is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and System Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Prof. Deep Jariwala group in the Fall of 2022. He obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Seoul with Summa Cum Laude honors in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Electrical Engineering. His research is focused on novel excitonic materials and next-generation optoelectronic devices.
Zekun Hu
Email: zekunhu@seas.upenn.edu
Zekun got his bachelors degree from the University of Nottingham. In 2023, he completed a Master’s degree in Electrical and System engineering at Penn while working in the Jariwala Group, and he continued on in the pursuit of a PhD. His interest is in properties of TMDC in solar cell, and his current research is focused on simulating ultrathin photovoltaics made using TMDCs.