Members

Associate Professor,

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Materials Science Eng.

University of Virginia,

office: Thornton E-218

Lab: Wilsdorf A011

351 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Va

Phone: (434) 924-7532

Email: m.zebarjadi at virginia.edu

PhD Student

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Virginia

Thornton C313

Email: sl2mb@virginia.edu

Shuai obtained his Bachelor degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tongji University and Master of Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

PhD Student

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

University of Virginia,

Thornton C313

Email: ft6aa at virginia dot edu

Farjana obtained her Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016. Farjana joined the University of Virginia in August 2019 as a graduate student to pursue Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. She studies the transient electron gas energy conversion thermodynamic cycle using Monte Carlo simulation. Additionally, she is also focused on experimentally investigating electron and phonon transport in thin films and 2D materials for thermoelectric applications.

PhD Student

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Virginia,

Thornton C313

Email: xky3tv at virginia dot edu

Sourav obtained his bachelor's degree in electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2018 from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Bangladesh) and master's degree in electrical engineering in spring 2021 from Texas State University, Texas. He joined the Ph.D. program in EE at the University of Virginia and started working in the Energy Science Nanotechnology & Imagination Lab from fall 2021.

PhD Student

Department of Electrical Engineering

Maliha Maliat is pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Virginia (UVA). She joined the E-Snail team in the Fall of 2023, focusing her research on experimentally investigating 2D semiconductor materials for thermoelectric applications. Previously, Maliha was a lecturer in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Northern University Bangladesh (NUB), Fareast International University (FIU) and North Pacific International University Bangladesh (NPIUB). She holds a Master's degree in Renewable Energy Technology (RET) from the University of Dhaka (DU) and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering (EECE) from the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST). Outside of her academic pursuits, she enjoys cooking, photography, traveling, and watching movies and TV series

PhD Student

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Virginia,

Thornton C313

Email: vgg6fu@virginia.edu 

Md. Nasim Afroj Taj is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of ECE at the University of Virginia (UVA). He joined the Energy Science Nanotechnology & Imagination Lab (E-Snail) under the supervision of Dr. Mona Zebarjadi in the Fall of 2023. His current research focuses on the thermomagnetic properties of semimetals and semiconductors. Before joining UVA, Nasim was a lecturer in the TMDM department at the Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX). He earned his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) with a specialization in Electronics from the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET).

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Virginia,

2016-2018

Maksim obtained his master degree in statistical physics from St. Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2012 and his PhD degree in condensed matter physics from Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2016. He is currently a postdoc at Belgium

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Virginia,

2017

Han-Chun earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Georgia State University in 2016. His research interest is experimental condensed matter physics which includes device fabrication and electron and phonon transport in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). He then moved to working at Advanced Research Systems and Oxford instruments

Postdoctoral Associate

2014-2016

Junxi Duan received his B. S. degree (2009) in physics and Ph. D. degree (2014) in condensed matter physics from School of Physics, Peking University.  He is an experimental condensed matter physics researcher who also likes theory and coding. Currently, he is an Assistant Prof., Beijing Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Associate

2014-2016

Xiaoming Wang obtained his B. E. degree (2009) in Chemical Engineering and Ph. D. degree (2014) in Physical Chemistry from School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. His research interest is on first-principles calculation of quantum transport in nanoscale systems. Currently he is a senior research scientist at Univ. Toledo

Ph.D. 2018-2024

Department of Electrical Engineering University of Virginia 

Sabbir joined the Ph.D. program in EE at the University of Virginia and started working with E-Snail lab in the fall of 2018. Prior to UVA, he completed his Bachelor's and Master’s degrees from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.  

Sabbir joined Micron Technology after graduating from UVA

PhD Student 2018-2023, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia

Tianhui obtained her Master of Science degree in physics from the University of Manchester (UK) and Rutgers University. After her PhD at UVA, she moved to UCSC for her postdoctoral research

PhD 2019-2023, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia,

B.Sc.: Sharif University of Technology

M.Sc.: Wright State University

Research Interest: Computational Materials Science

Emad joined Northeaster University as a postdoctoral associate and is now at Onsemi

PhD, 2017-2022,  Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia

Rosul obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Rosul defended his PhD in 2022 and Joined the faculties of Sweet Briar College.

Ph.D. , Department of Materials Science Engineering, UVA

Research Interests: nanoelectronics, thermoelectric materials, and devices. Naiming was jointly advised with Prof. Floro. He defended his PhD in 2019 and joined Micron Technology

Master of Science, MAE, Rutgers, 2013-2016

Xiaobing Zhang obtained his B.S. degree in the School of Energy and Power Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013. He defended his master's in 2016.

Master of Engineering, MAE, Rutgers, 2015-2016

Chen Zhang obtained his bachelor's degree and engineering master's degree from the Energy and Power School of Harbin Engineering University, China. His research mainly focuses on the factors which improve the efficiency of thermoelectric generators.

Master of Science, MAE, Rutgers, 2013-2015

Bachelor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2013

Wenqing finished his MS. at Rutgers, E-SNAIL group, and joined Georgia Tech for his PhD studies.

ECE, UVA, NSF-REU and ERI-Fellow, 2022, Active Cooling Devices

Chemical engineering, UVA, 2021-2023, thermionic devices

Omid is an Undergraduate student and part of the USOAR program at the University of Virginia. He plans on getting his degree in Chemical Engineering with a concentration in Data Analytics. Omid enjoys playing the piano and tennis in his free time.

Undergraduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, supported by NSF REU funding

Jamison Stevens was a fourth-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Virginia. After graduation from UVA, Jamison started his PhD studies at Caltech University.

MAE (Mechanical Engineering), University of Virginia, Class of 2019, Spring 2016-Fall 2017

Undergraduate, ECE, Case Western, Summer 2014, Spring 2016, Rohan Sinha was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University studying electrical engineering.

Undergraduate, MAE, Aresty supported scholar 2015-2016

Akash Desai was a sophomore, pursuing a career in Mechanical Engineering. His research surrounded the aspects of active and passive cooling in electronics circuits and ways to increase its cooling efficiency by incorporating Thermoelectric coolers.  

Undergraduate, Industrial Engineering, RiSE Scholar, summer 2015

Undergraduate, MAE, Aresty supported fellow, Academic Year 2014-2015

Undergraduate, MAE,

Aresty-supported summer intern, Summer 2014