Principal Investigator
Nathan Youngblood
(CV, ORCID, Google Scholar)
Associate Professor
- William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow (Fall 2024-Present)
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2025-Present)
- Physics and Astronomy Department (Secondary), University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2025-Present)
Assistant Professor
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2019-Spring 2025)
Educational background:
- Postdoc in Department of Materials, University of Oxford (2017-2019)
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota (2012-2016)
- BSc in Physics, Bethel University (2008-2011)
Email: nathan [dot] youngblood [at] pitt.edu
Graduate Students
Xingyu Zhang
PhD Student (co-advised by Prof. Feng Xiong)
- MEMS Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2020-Present)
Educational background:
- MSc in MSE, University of Pennsylvania (2019-2020)
- BSc in MSE, Ohio State University (2015-2017)
Email: xiz219 [at] pitt.edu
Daniel Vaz
PhD Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2022-Present)
Educational background:
- MSc in MSE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2020-2021)
- BSc in MSE and Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-2020)
Email: dav56 [at] pitt.edu
Shenghan Gao
PhD Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2020-Present)
Educational background:
- MSc in Optics, University of Rochester (2017-2019)
- BSc in Optical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Rochester (2014-2017)
Email: shg108 [at] pitt.edu
Max Hinkle
PhD Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2024-Present)
Educational background:
- MSc in MSE, Tulane University (2021-2022)
- BSc in Engineering Physics, Tulane University (2017-2021)
Email: mrh241 [at] pitt.edu
Chunchun Wu
PhD Student
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2021-Present)
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship 2024
Educational background:
- Research Assistant, School of Physics, Peking University (2016-2021)
- MS in Materials Science and Engineering, UESTC (2017-2021)
- BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. (2013-2017)
Email: chw218 [at] pitt.edu
Undergraduate Students
Nathan Rooney
Undergraduate Student
Email: NCR39 [at] pitt.edu
Shriya Krishnamurthy
Undergraduate Student
Email: shriya.k [at] pitt.edu
Group Alumni
Graduate Students
Nicholas Nobile (2026)
- Current Position: Postdoc at Sandia National Labs
Sadra Rahimi Kari (2025)
- Current Position: Postdoc at UC Berkeley
Vivswan Shah (2025)
- Current Position: AI/ML Research Engineer at Microsoft AI
John Erickson (2023)
- Current Position: Scientist at BPMI
Undergraduate Students
Liam O'Sullivan
Allison Hastings
Jace Martin
Christopher Kefalos
Guhan Kumaran
Dominique Pantin
Renzhi Yougtian
Tianyi Zheng