Principal Investigator

Nathan Youngblood
(CV, ORCID, Google Scholar)
Assistant Professor
- William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow (Fall 2024-Present)
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2019-Present)
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

Vivswan Shah
PhD Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2020-Present)
Educational background:
- BSc in Physics and Computer Science, Illinois College (2017-2020)
Email: vivswanshah [at] pitt.edu
Website: vivswan.github.io

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

Nicholas Nobile
PhD Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2022-Present)
Educational background:
- BSc in ECE, University of Pittsburgh (2018-2021)
Email: nan65 [at] pitt.edu

Sadra Rahimi Kari
PhD Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2022-Present)
Educational background:
- Research Assistant, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (2020-2021)
- BSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Iran (2015-2019)
Email: sar247 [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
Undergraduate Students

Liam O'Sullivan
Undergraduate Student
- ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2022-Present)
Email: lao57 [at] pitt.edu

Allison Hastings
Undergraduate Student
- MEMS Department, University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2021-Present)
Email: alh294 [at] pitt.edu
Group Alumni
Graduate Students
John Erickson (2023)
Undergraduate Students
Jace Martin
Christopher Kefalos
Guhan Kumaran
Dominique Pantin
Renzhi Yougtian
Tianyi Zheng