People
Principal Investigator
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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
Chris Duska
Infrared Detectors
iian Black
iian Black
Optical characterization of thin polymer coatings
Pawan Kanaujia
Nanophotonics | Laser-matter interactions | 2D materials
Current Students
Arpan Sinha
PhD Student
Silicon Passivation
Anustup Chakraborty
PhD Student
Laser micro-texturing of metals for enhancing adhesion strength of micro-powders, Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Joel Harrison
PhD Student
Infrared detectors
Pankaj Kumar
PhD Student
Research Interests - Nanophotonics | Laser induced crystallization
MS, IIT Gandhinagar
BS, University of Delhi
Jason Morefield
4th Year Undergraduate
Current Member - Hypersonics Research Group
Graham Guerette
4th Year Undergraduate
Current Member - Hypersonics Research Group
Andy Delgado
Graduate Student
Current Member - Hypersonics Research Group ; B.S. University of Virginia
Alumni and Friends
Raju Gottumukula
Md. Toriqul Islam
William Bagienski
Dr. Tyson Baldridge
Dr. Yiliang Bao
Dr. Sharad Bhagat
Dr. Paul Caffrey
Eric Compher
Alan Fletcher
Dr. Vikram Iyengar
Dr. Vaishali Koppolu
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
Dr. Yeong Yong