People
Principal Investigator
Mool C. Gupta
Langley Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor Gupta is currently a Langley Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Lasers and Plasmas at the University of Virginia. Previously, he was Director of the Applied Research Center, Program Director for Materials Science and…
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Pawan Kanaujia
Ph.D. Degree in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
Research Interests: Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Nanophotonics, Perovskites, Advanced materials, Thin film fabrications, 2D materials, Spectroscopy, Additive manufacturing, Optical materials, PV modules recycling, Laser material processing, Nanocomposite materials, Functionally graded material synthesis, Surface and Interfaces Engineering, Li-ion battery, Electrochemistry
Dr. Atchuta Surampudi
D.Phil. Optical Engineering, University of Oxford, U.K., Trinity 2023
Adaptive Optics | Direct Laser Writing | Fiber/Free-Space Optical Communications | Raman/LIBS Spectroscopy | High-Power Lasers | Opto-Mechanics | Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals | Dye-Doped Polymer Stabilized Materials | Thin-Film Fabrication
Current Students
Jason Morefield
4th Year Undergraduate
Current Member - Hypersonics Research Group
Graham Guerette
4th Year Undergraduate
Current Member - Hypersonics Research Group
Alvaro (Andy) Delgado
Masters of Engineering in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1st Year
Current Member - Hypersonics Research Group; B.S. University of Virginia;
Research areas: General Aviation, Aircraft Design, Rocket Design, Hypersonic Materials, Laser Micromachining, Laser Brazing of Dissimilar High Temperature Ceramics, Fiber Optics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulent Flow
Mahantesh Khetri
Masters in Physics (IIT Ropar), 3rd year PhD candidate in ECE Department
Current Member: Laser Recycling;
Methodological Domains: Photovoltaic, laser processing, thin film fabrication, nanoparticle synthesis, single-crystal growth and characterization, machine learning, deep learning, image processing.
Application Domains: Renewable energy; photovoltaic & recycling of silver from solar cells; energy storage; batteries; transparent conducting oxides; laser process automation.
Past Members
Chris Duska
Infrared Detectors
iian Black
Optical characterization of thin polymer coatings
Pankaj Kumar
PhD Student
Research Interests - Nanophotonics | Laser induced crystallization
MS, IIT Gandhinagar
BS, University of Delhi
Joel Harrison
PhD Student
Infrared detectors
Anustup Chakraborty
PhD Student
Laser micro-texturing of metals for enhancing adhesion strength of micro-powders, Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Arpan Sinha
PhD Student
Silicon Passivation
Alumni and Friends
Raju Gottumukula
Md. Toriqul Islam
William Bagienski
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Eric Compher
Alan Fletcher
Dr. Vikram Iyengar
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Anirudha Kumar
Dr. Jiguang Li
Dr. Duncan McGillivry
Dr. Barada Nayak
Winston Okraku
Dr. Christian Rothenbach
Dr. Chen-Nan San
Dr. Yang Shen
Alex Stramel
Dr. Keye Sun
Dr. Devin Pugh Thomas
Dr. Craig Ungaro
Dr. Dennis L. Waldron, III
Dr. Teh-Hwa Wong
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