Dana Weinstein received her B.A. in Physics and Astrophysics from University of California - Berkeley in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2009 from Cornell, working on multi-GHz MEMS.
Prior to joining Purdue as an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015, Dr. Weinstein joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT as an Assistant Professor, and served as an Associate Professor there between 2013 and 2015. Dana is now a Purdue Faculty Scholar and serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Education in the College of Engineering. She is the recipient of the Transducers Early Career Award, NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Intel Early Career Award, and the IEEE IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Paper Award.
Brandon Harrison-Smith received his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Temple University in 2022. His dissertation focused on developing novel optical diagnostic techniques for the management of neonatal jaundice. He obtained experience by working in nanofabrication material characterization as an assistant engineer at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Center. Brandon currently works as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the development of a photoacoustic gas sensor. His interests include designing novel optical diagnostic devices and reducing racial bias in diagnostic techniques that directly benefit patient care in healthcare systems.
Samuel is a member of both Prof. Weinstein's group and Prof. Shalaev's group. He joined these groups in September 2015. His current research involves the integration of shape memory alloys with plasmonic components. His research interests encompass multiscale robotics and dynamic optical devices. He is a 2014 graduate from MIT with degrees in Physic and Mathematics. His undergraduate research was on fusion plasma research with Prof. Linda Sugiyama at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science.
Jackson Anderson recently joined HybridMEMS and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to starting at Purdue, Jackson obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Microelectronic Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. His research interests include ferroelectric materials and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). Over the course of his career, he has worked at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, IBM Microelectronics, and GlobalFoundries.
Udit Rawat is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received a M.S. degree in Microelectronics and VLSI design from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His primary areas of interest include RF MEMS resonators and filters, MEMS-CMOS integration, and acoustic metamaterials. Prior to joining Purdue, he worked at Intel Corporation and at the Center for NEMS and Nanophotonics at IIT Madras.
Imtiaz completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He started working in Weinstein Research Group as a Ph.D. student from fall 2017.
Mariam is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. She completed BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from San Diego State University Georgia. During undergraduate studies, her projects mainly concentrated on IoT and Embedded hardware. Her research interests includes RF MEMS, biosensors and semiconductor based quantum computing.
He graduated from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin with a B.S. in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, then moved to University of Pittsburgh, where he completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Yanbo defended his Ph.D in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue in March 2021. His work in the HybridMEMS Lab focused on ferroelectric transduction in CMOS-MEMS devices and on RF signal processing with acoustic metamaterials. He is now with Skyworks. 
Matthew Storey completed his Ph.D in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue. He received his B.S. in Engineering Science from The Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. His Ph.D. centered on acoustoelectric effect for RF signal processing. Matt is now with Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM.
Chengzi Huang's Ph.D. in Materials Engineering was co-advised by Prof. Weinstein and Prof. Ramanathan, focusing on Nickelate phase transition material for MEMS actuation. She received her B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology. Chengzi is now working with ASM International in Phoenix, AZ.
Umesh Kumar Bhaskar was a post-doctoral researcher in the HybridMEMS Lab Nov 2016 - Aug 2018, leading the group's DARPA MTO SPAR effort. His research focused on exploiting acoustoelectric interaction occurring at the interface between a piezoelectric and semiconductor for analog signal processing applications.Umesh had received his PhD degree in February 2013 from Ecole polytechnique de Louvain (Belgium) for his research work on the mechanical and electromechanical properties of silicon nanowires under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Pardoen and Prof. Jean-Pierre Raskin. After his PhD, he was a post-doctoral researcher at ICN2, Barcelona (2014-2016) with Prof. Gustau Catalan working on electromechanical couplings in nanoscale ferroelectrics (piezoelectricity) and dielectrics (flexoelectricity).
Current position: Post doc in University P-Sud.
Shreyas worked in Prof. Weinstein's lab as a post-doctoral research assistant June 2016 - May 2018. He worked on designing, fabricating and testing MEMS oscillators on GaN, for neuromorphic pattern recognition using networks of such oscillators.He received his Ph.D. in February 2016 from Cornell University, working with Prof. Michal Lipson. His graduate research work was on applications of optomechanical interactions for sensing, and synchronizing micromechanical oscillators. He received a B.Tech. and an M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2010, working on InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots under Prof. Subhananda Chakrabarti.
Current position: Research Associate, University of Washington.
Bichoy completed his PhD degree in the EECS department at MIT in May 2016 on "Monolithically integrated MEMS resonators and oscillators in standard IC technology." He received his B.Sc. in 2008 and M.Sc. degree in 2012, both from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He joined Texas Instruments Kilby Labs, Dallas, TX in June 2016.
Laura completed her Ph.D. in Physics at MIT in February 2015, working on designing, fabricating and testing piezoelectric Gallium Nitride RF MEMS resonators for filter applications in wireless communications. She completed her undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College, where she worked in experimental physics on ultra-cold atoms. She is currently a Senior Scientist at Exponent.
Radhika completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in May 2015, where she worked on "Active sensing in silicon-based resonators." She received her B.S. with Honors from California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She is now with Analog Devices in Woburn, MA.
Wentao completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in May 2015, working on "Unreleased MEMS Resonators – Towards the Goal of Direct MEMS-CMOS Integration." He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. He is currently working at Tesla.
Siping (Spin) joined the Hybrid MEMS group during Fall 2012 after graduating from Cornell University with a B.S degree in Engineering Physics and Electrical Engineering. He completed his S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in May 2015, working on phononic crystals in GaN. He is now CTO at TetraScience.
Steven joined the EECS graduate program at MIT in 2011 as a Draper Fellow. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2011 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. Steven completed his Masters in RF MEMS and reconfigurable antennas, and is now serving in the Navy.
Wen-Chien joined the HybridMEMS group in the summer of 2012 for 1 year. He was a visiting student from the Dept. of PME at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan. At NTHU, he worked with Prof. Weileun Fang and Prof. Sheng-Shian Li in developing High-Q and Low-Rx CMOS-MEMS resonators with passive temperature compensation. He is currently working at TSMC.
Bethany joined the HybridMEMS Lab at MIT as an undergraduate, and completed her MEng in EECS working on a No-Gap Accelerometer. She is currently with the Air Force Research Labs in Albuquerque, NM.
Subra completed his S.M. in the HybridMEMS Lab investigating thermally-actuated piezoresistively-sensed mechanical silicon oscillators. He received B.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2011. Prior to joining MIT, Subra worked on reliability of tunable MEMS gratings at EPFL, and on functionalized carbon nanotube devices at the Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research. He is currently a Ph.D. student in CSAIL at MIT.
Gunjan was a postdoctoral associate in the lab from 2013-2014, and worked on thermal management of GaN HEMTs in a heterogeneous GaN HEMT-MEMS/Si CMOS process through the DARPA DAHI program. She is currently a scientist at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.