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Leadership

Zhihong Chen

Reilly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director

zhchen@purdue.edu

Neil Dilley

Research Manager

ndilley@purdue.edu

Ron Reger

Engineering Manager

rreger@purdue.edu

Dan Hosler

Building Manager

dhosler@purdue.edu

Jenny Mattson

Managing Director

jmattson@purdue.edu

Jennifer Wonder

Director of Partnerships

jwonder@purdue.edu

Research Scientist

Neil Dilley

Research Manager

ndilley@purdue.edu

Angshuman Deka

Research Scientist, Electrical Probing

dekaa@purdue.edu

Alexei (Djadja Lesha) Lagoutchev

Senior Research Scientist - Optics

lagutch@purdue.edu

Hakan Salihoglu

Research Scientist, Optics

hsaliho@purdue.edu

Zhongxia Shang

Research Scientist, Electron Microscopy

shang19@purdue.edu

Dmitry Zemlyanov

Senior Research Scientist - Surface Science

dimazemlyanov@purdue.edu

Xiaohui Xu

Research Scientist, Quantum

xu969@purdue.edu

Staff

Christian Bokrand

Senior Research and Safety Engineer

cbokrand@purdue.edu

Guannan Chen

Microfab Research Engineer

chen6283@purdue.edu

Kyle Corwin

Building Operations Clerk

kcorwin@purdue.edu

Kelli Dawson

Operations Administrator

dawson91@purdue.edu

Nicholas Glassmaker

Research Scientist

nglassma@purdue.edu

Richard Harlan

Senior Research Engineer, Metrology and Process Gases

rharlan@purdue.edu

Thi Anh Ho

Senior Microfab Research Engineer

ho235@purdue.edu

Dan Hosler

Building Manager

dhosler@purdue.edu

Richard Hosler

Senior Research Engineer, Furnace and PECVD Systems

hosler0@purdue.edu

Greg Laorange

Nanotechnology Research Facility Engineer

galaorange@purdue.edu

Dave Lubelski

Senior Research Engineer, Sputtering and Electron Beam Deposition Systems, High Vacuum Systems

lubelski@purdue.edu

Francis Manfred

Senior Research Engineer, Plasma Etch Systems

fmanfred@purdue.edu

Jenny Mattson

Managing Director

jmattson@purdue.edu

Brenda Meador

Administrative Assistant

meador3@purdue.edu

Tim Miller

Research Engineer, UltraPure Water System, Dicing, Wire Bonding

miller@purdue.edu

Noah Opondo

Senior Microfab Research Engineer

nopondo@purdue.edu

Joon Park

Senior Research Engineer, Optical Lithography, AFM, and Processing Services

joonhpark@purdue.edu

Xavier Radtke

Store Keeper/ Inventory Control Clerk

xradtke@purdue.edu

Michelle Radtke

Building Logistics Coordinator

mlradtke@purdue.edu

Ron Reger

Engineering Manager

rreger@purdue.edu

Bill Rowe

Research Engineer, Electron Beam Lithography, Optical Microscopy

wrowe@purdue.edu

Guy Telesnicki

Research Engineer, Roll to Roll Processing, and Bio Processing

gtelesnicki@purdue.edu

Justin Wirth

Senior Research Engineer, Electron Beam Lithography, Processing Services, Wiki

jcwirth@purdue.edu

Jacob Wolff

Facility Engineer

wolff13@purdue.edu

Jennifer Wonder

Director of Partnerships

jwonder@purdue.edu

Ethan Zhang

Senior Research Engineer

zhan5443@purdue.edu

Resident Faculty

Hadiseh Alaeian

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy

halaeian@purdue.edu

Muhammad Alam

Jai N. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

alam@purdue.edu

Alina Alexeenko

Reilly Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Chemical Engineering

alexeenk@purdue.edu

Joerg Appenzeller

Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director of Nanoelectronics

appenzeller@purdue.edu

Arnab Banerjee

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

arnabb@purdue.edu

Thomas Beechem

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

tbeechem@purdue.edu

Peter Bermel

Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

pbermel@purdue.edu

Sunil Bhave

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

bhave@purdue.edu

Alexandra Boltasseva

Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

aeb@purdue.edu

Mukerrem Cakmak

Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

cakmak@purdue.edu

David Cappelleri

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

dcappell@purdue.edu

Gary Cheng

Professor of Industrial Engineering

gjcheng@purdue.edu

Rosa Diaz

Research Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

rdiazri@purdue.edu

Allen Garner

Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering

algarner@purdue.edu

Muhammad Hussain

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

mmhece@purdue.edu

Zubin Jacob

Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

zjacob@purdue.edu

David Janes

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Co-Director of Semiconductor Degrees Program, and Dean's Faculty Fellow for Semiconductors@Purdue

janes@ecn.purdue.edu

Alexander Kildishev

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

kildishev@purdue.edu

Haitong Li

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

haitongli@purdue.edu

Michael Manfra

Chief Quantum Officer, Purdue University, Bill and Dee O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Materials Engineering, Director of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Scientific Director, Microsoft Quantum Lab, West Lafayette

mmanfra@purdue.edu

Amy Marconnet

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

marconnet@purdue.edu

Saeed Mohammadi

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

saeedm@purdue.edu

Dallas Morisette

Research Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

morisett@purdue.edu

Evgenii Narimanov

Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

evgenii@purdue.edu

Liang Pan

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

liangpan@purdue.edu

Suranjan Panigrahi

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

spanigr@purdue.edu

Dimitrios Peroulis

Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Online and Reilly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

dperouli@purdue.edu

Rahim Rahimi

Associate Professor of Materials Engineering

rrahimi@purdue.edu

Xiulin Ruan

Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering

ruan@purdue.edu

Cagri Savran

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, by courtesy in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

savran@purdue.edu

Ali Shakouri

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation

shakouri@purdue.edu

Vladimir Shalaev

Robert and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

shalaev@purdue.edu

Daniel Suter

Professor and Associate Department Head for Faculty Affairs and Undergraduate Student Success of Biological Sciences

dsuter@purdue.edu

Ryan Wagner

Research Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

rbwagner@purdue.edu

David Warsinger

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

dwarsing@purdue.edu

Dana Weinstein

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

danaw@purdue.edu

Xianfan Xu

James J. and Carol L. Shuttleworth Professor of Mechanical Engineering, by courtesy in Electical and Computer Engineering

xxu@purdue.edu

Peide Ye

Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

yep@purdue.edu

Tiancong Zhu

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

zhu1242@purdue.edu

Can Wu

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Birck Scholar of Excellence

canwu@purdue.edu

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