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Líney Árnadóttir | Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Líney Árnadóttir received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Iceland 2001 and M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington 2007. Her thesis work included experimental electrochemistry for elevated temperature methanol oxidation in a micro-reactor combined with Density Functional Theory calculations of the same system. Before joining the faculty at OSU she worked as a Post. Doc. at NESAC/Bio using various surface analysis tools to determine protein orientation on self-assembly monolayers for biomaterials. Her research interests include combing experimental techniques, theoretical calculations and modeling to understand surface interactions and catalysis for renewable energy, nanotechnology and sustainability. As well as surface characterization of complex materials (thin films, biomaterials, corrosion surface) via array of surface analysis techniques such as Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. |
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Johnson Hall 316C
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Joe Baio | Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Joe Baio is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests center around two threads: the characterization of biological interfaces, and the development of biomimetic materials. Dr. Baio’s work to date has impacted disciplines as diverse as cell biology, bio-sensor research, and material science. He earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and prior to his appointment at Oregon State, Dr. Baio was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. |
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303D Dearborn Hall |
David P. Cann | Mechanical Engineering David P. Cann received a B.S. degree in Materials Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg, VA in 1991. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1997, he joined the Materials Science and Engineering faculty at Iowa State University, in Ames, IA. In 2005, he joined Oregon State University, where he is now an Professor of Materials Science. His research is focused on the area of ferroelectric, dielectric, and semiconducting ceramic materials with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the Department of Energy, and industrial sources. He has made notable research contributions in (i) the development of piezoelectric and dielectric materials based on perovskite and pyrochlore structures, (ii) the crystal chemistry of transparent conducting oxides for optoelectronic applications, (iii) the study of interactions between ferroelectric materials and their electrodes, and (iv) metal oxide-based chemical sensors. Dr. Cann is a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (2001). Dr. Cann is the author or co-author of over 80 publications in peer reviewed journals and holds one patent. He is also an Editor for the Journal of Materials Science, overseeing the electronic ceramics technical area. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as the VP for Ferroelectrics within the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. |
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Kelley Engineering Center |
Sieun Chae | Electrical & Computer Engineering Sieun Chae is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at OSU. She received her B.S. (2015) in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in South Korea and worked as a research fellow at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (2015-2017). She then received Ph.D. (2022) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan and moved to Cornell University to complete her postdoctoral research. Her vision is to parallelize the rational design of materials atom by atom: from atomistic theory to atomic layer by layer synthesis. She is best known for her works in the discovery of new ultra-wide-band-gap semiconductors, p-type oxide semiconductors, and memristive materials for AI applications. |
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3099 Kelley Engineering Center
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Larry Cheng | Electrical & Computer Engineering Li-Jing (Larry) Cheng is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan. His research aims to explore the unique physical and chemical properties associated with nanoscale materials and structures to develop devices for applications, such as point-of-care diagnostics, wearable sensors, and printed electronics. Recent projects include: Hybrid bioelectronic nanocomposites and wearable biosensors for real-time, continuous biosensing Development of point-of-care diagnostic tools and new bioassays Advanced photonic devices and sensors based on light-matter interactions on the nanoscales. |
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216C Johnson Hall
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Chih-hung Chang | Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Chih-Hung Chang’s current research focuses on the following areas: process and chemical reaction engineering, scalable nanomanufacturing, multifunctional materials and devices, and integrated chemical systems. Chang’s group was the first to report inkjet printing of amorphous oxide TFTs and CIGS solar cells and has received recognition for jointly developing microreactor-assisted nanomaterial deposition techniques. Other noteworthy work includes bio-inspired antireflective coatings on solar photovoltaic panels and inks for printing electronics on textiles.
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Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Intercollege Materials Science Program Director, Materials Synthesis and Characterization (MaSC) Center Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Oregon State University 3089 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis, OR 97331-5501 (541)737-9874 |
John F. Conley, Jr. | Electrical & Computer Engineering John Conley earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering science and mechanics from The Pennsylvania State University where he won a Xerox Prize for his Ph.D. dissertation. He has been at Dynamics Research Corporation, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (where he received a JPL achievement award), and Sharp Laboratories of America (SLA), where he was Leader of the Novel Materials and Devices Group. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Washington State University - Vancouver. Since 2007, he has been a full Professor and an ONAMI Signature Faculty Fellow at Oregon State University in both the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Intercollege Materials Science Program. Dr. Conley has also served a consultant for RedWave Energy, Inc. and an expert witness for Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, LLP. Dr. Conley is currently Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, has previously served as a guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Device and Material Reliability, and has served on the technical and management committees of the American Vacuum Society, the MRS Electronic Materials Conference, IEEE Nano, IEEE IRPS, the IEEE SOI Conference, and the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). He was also technical program chair of the IEEE Microelectronics Reliability and Qualification Workshop, general program chair of the IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW), General and Technical Program Chair of the 2017 AVS International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition, and is General Chair of the 2023 AVS Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems (WINDS). He has authored or co-authored over 130 technical papers and over 130 additional conference presentations (including more than 20 invited). He also holds twenty U.S. patents and has presented tutorial short courses on high-k dielectrics and atomic layer deposition. Dr. Conley's current research interests include atomic layer deposition, metal/insulator/metal devices (MIM & MIIM tunnel diodes, RRAM / memristors, and MIM high-κ capacitors), internal photoemission (IPE), thin film transistors, electron spin resonance (ESR) identification of point defects that play a role in reliability and radiation induced instabilities in novel electronic materials, and directed integration of nanomaterials and devices. Dr. Conley is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS), and a Fellow of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI). |
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1148 Kelley Engineering Center |
Pallavi Dhagat | Electrical & Computer Engineering Pallavi Dhagat holds a doctoral degree from Washington University, St. Louis, where her research focused on the characterization of thermal reversal of magnetic grains. She has an extensive background in magnetic recording technology as a recording physicist. Prior to joining OSU as an assistant professor, she was a research engineer in the Advanced Concepts Group at Seagate Technology, Minneapolis. Here she made significant contribution to the development of perpendicular recording technology. Her research interests include information storage, magnetization dynamics, magnetic nano-metrology, bio-magnetic sensors and distributed sensor systems. |
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216D Johnson Hall |
Zhenxing Feng | Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Zhenxing Feng investigates energy storage and conversion systems, including lithium-ion batteries, aqueous metal-ion batteries, fuel cells and electrolyzers; catalysts for electrochemical and chemical reactions such as water-splitting, carbon dioxide reactions and nitrogen reactions; and development and application of advanced synchrotron X-ray techniques for in situ, time-resolved studies. |
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Brady Gibbons | Mechanical Engineering Prof. Gibbons specializes in structure-process-property relationships in multifunctional thin film materials. His group focuses on thin film processing, novel instrumentation development, and integration science; new dielectric, superconducting, semiconducting, and pyroelectric materials for energy conversion and energy storage; ferroelectric and piezoelectric thin films for microelectromechanical systems; scanning probe and x-ray diffraction characterization methods; and spectroscopic ellipsometry. Specifically he is interested in developing novel integration science strategies to combine material functionalities that result in significantly enhanced, or even new, properties. Prior to arriving at OSU in 2006 he spent eight years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher and member of the technical staff. There, his research on 2nd generation superconducting wire led to an R&D 100 Award in 2004. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient, and is active in both the IEEE UFFC and the American Ceramic Society. He received his M.S. in Ceramic Science in 1995 and his Ph. D. in Materials in 1998, both from the Pennsylvania State University. |
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3001 Kelley Engineering Center |
Albrecht Jander | Electrical & Computer Engineering
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4097 Kelley Engineering Center |
Matt Johnston | Electrical & Computer Engineering Matthew Johnston received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2006 and 2012. He was a Co-Founder and Manager of Research with Helixis, Carlsbad, CA, a Caltech-based spinout developing instrumentation for real-time PCR, from 2007 to its acquisition by Illumina in 2010. From 2012 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral scholar with the Bioelectronic Systems Lab at Columbia University. He also worked as an Associate at a life sciences venture capital firm, Ascent Biomedical Ventures, in New York City. He joined Oregon State University in 2014, where he is currently an associate professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His current research interests include the integration of sensors and transducers with silicon CMOS integrated circuits, stretchable circuits and sensor systems, lab-on-CMOS platforms, bio-energy harvesting, and low-power distributed sensing. Johnston was the recipient of the 2020 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award, the 2021 Oregon State University College of Engineering Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2021 Oregon State University Provost Fellowship. He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and the IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems. He also serves on the Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems Technical Committee and the Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. |
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3023 Kelley Engineering Center |
Nirmala Kandadai | Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Harish Subbaraman | Electrical & Computer Engineering Harish Subbaraman earned the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Until 2016, he worked as a senior research scientist at Omega Optics, Inc (Austin, TX), where he led and managed SBIR/STTR projects in the areas of printed and flexible hybrid electronics and silicon/polymer photonics. In 2016, he joined The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University (Boise, ID). At Boise State, he served as the associate site director for NSF I/UCRC (ATOMIC) and the Advanced Manufacturing BSU lead for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies. He joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University in Fall 2022, where he is currently an associate professor. Subbaraman’s research interests are in printed and flexible hybrid electronics (print modalities; novel ink synthesis/characterization; devices); silicon photonics (modeling, interconnects, devices, hybrid integration with novel materials, packaging); fiber optics (modeling, sensors development and characterization); and 2D optoelectronics. He has co-authored more than 200 articles in refereed journals and conferences. Subbaraman’s research has been supported by NSF, NASA, DOE, AFRL, AFOSR, ONR, and NextFlex, He is a senior member of IEEE. |
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351 Gilbert |
Paul Cheong | Chemistry Paul is the Bert and Emelyn Christensen Associate Professor of Chemistry. When Paul was born in a small town in South Korea, it was his parent’s life-long dream for their child to be able to settle in the United States. A great many things have happened since then to bring Paul to Oregon. Paul spent most of his youth in Indonesia and Thailand, before coming to the US for his post-secondary education. He was originally an English major in his undergraduate institution of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME), before he switched to Chemistry to receive his AB in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from UCLA in 2007 under the tutelage of Professor K. N. Houk. After a brief stint as postdoc in the same lab, he started his independent career at Oregon State in 2009. In every part of his life, Paul always had great advisors around him who were accomplished professionally and were great mentors (Just to name a few: Professors Ellen E. Burns, Elizabeth Stemmler, and Faraj Hasanayn at Bowdoin College; Professor K. N. Houk at UCLA). In becoming a professor of chemistry, he found the perfect match between his love of research and his commitments to pay it forward to future generations. Paul’s scientific passion is in solving scientific mysteries by discovering and explaining fundamental and practical principles that underlie chemistry and nature. Towards this goal, his group applies state-of-the-art computational chemistry techniques and tools to a wide array of chemical mysteries. Paul is known for his walking meetings with people and his wide-ranging interests in science, history, and literature. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his family and friends. |
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249 Gilbert |
David Ji | Chemistry Prof. Xiulei “David” Ji is the Bert and Emelyn Christensen Professor of Chemistry at Oregon State University. His research interests pertain to the design principles of battery chemistry for energy storage. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher of the Web of Science Group since 2019, with total citations of over 37,000 and an H-index of 85 (Google Scholar). He received the NSF CAREER Award (2016). He was a Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation for Science Advancement. He is currently an Associate Editor of Carbon Energy, a Wiley journal. He obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Jilin University in 2003 and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Waterloo in 2009. During 2010-2012, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Yun-Shik Lee | Physics Yun-Shik Lee received his B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Physics at Seoul National University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics at University of Texas at Austin in 1997. From 1997 to 2010 he was at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science in University of Michigan severing as a research scientist, where he worked on quantum carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures and developed novel techniques of terahertz (THz) pulse generation. He joined OSU in 2001 and is current an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2005. He is a leading expert on THz spectroscopy of nanoscale material systems, and the author of a book entitled “Principles of Terahertz Science and Technology” published by Springer in 2009. His research group have involved in the development of THz manipulation techniques, THz quantum carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures, and THz imaging and spectroscopy of carbon nanostructures. His current research interests include quantum control of wave packets in semiconductors, nonlinear interactions of THz radiation with graphene and carbon nanotubes, THz spectroscopy of tunneling devices, and subwavelength THz imaging with plasmonic devices |
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417 Weniger Hall |
Ethan D. Minot | Physics Ethan Minot is a Professor of Physics at Oregon State University. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2004 and completed postdoctoral work at Delft University of Technology (2005 and 2006). Dr. Minot’s research group builds experiments that investigate applied physics questions in the fields of two-dimensional semiconductors, graphene and carbon nanotubes. The broader impact of this work ranges from developing new sensors to understanding new quantum phenomena. |
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103 Gilbert |
May Nyman | Chemistry
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413 Weniger Hall |
Oksana Ostroverkhova | Physics
Oksana Ostroverkhova received her Diploma with Honors in Physics and Optical Engineering from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University (Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1996. During her graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA) in the group of Prof. K. D. Singer, she specialized in the photoconductive and nonlinear optical properties of polymers and liquid crystals and obtained her PhD in Physics in 2001. Her postdoctoral work at Stanford University (Stanford, USA) in 2001-2003 in the group of Prof. W.E. Moerner (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014) involved physics and applications of photorefractive organic materials; there she also began her quest into single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of organic optoelectronic materials. The Killam Memorial Fellowship award enabled Dr. Ostroverkhova’s work on ultrafast THz spectroscopy of organic semiconductors in the group of Prof. F.A. Hegmann at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in 2003-2004. In 2005, Dr. Ostroverkhova joined |
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Vince Remcho | Chemistry Vince Remcho is Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Oregon State University (OSU), and the W.W. Clyde Visiting Professor of Engineering at the University of Utah for 2023 and 2024. He also holds adjunct appointments in Biochemistry & Biophysics and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering. His research group focuses on the design, fabrication and optimization of microfluidic analytical instruments and microreactors, and the application of these systems in biochemical, environmental, and nanomanufacturing problem solving. |
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Wenigar Hall 339 |
Mas Subramanian | Chemistry
Professor Mas Subramanian received his Ph.D. degree (Materials Chemistry) in 1982 from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. After spending 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University, he joined Central Research and Development Department of DuPont Company (USA) as a research chemist and was promoted to Research Fellow in 2003. In 2006, he joined the Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, USA as a Milton-Harris Endowed Professor of Materials Science.
Professor Subramanian is an internationally recognized scientist for his pioneering work in the area of Materials Chemistry. He is credited with discovery of several novel functional materials in the area of electronics (superconductors, dielectrics), energy conversion (thermoelectrics, solid state batteries), green chemistry (zero waste catalysts), and recently in the area of color pigments. He has authored 300+ publications and listed as inventor in 54 issued US patents. His publications have been cited 13,000+ times with an h-index of 52. He is the editor of two international journals (Solid State Sciences and Progress in Solid State Chemistry) and a member of the editorial board in several other journals in Materials area. He has received several awards and honors including 2004 DuPont Charles Pedersen Medal (named after DuPont Nobel Laureate) for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Achievement and 2012 Chemical Research Society of India Medal of Excellence. He currently holds the Milton Harris endowed chair of materials science. |
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Wenigar Hall 415A |
Bo Sun | Physics Using advanced imaging, microfabrication and analytic tools, Bo Sun's group focuses on the physics of various collective cellular behaviors. Research interests include statistical physics of neurons, cell mechanics and physical oncology. |
