Principal Investigator
Dana Weinstein
danaw@purdue.edu
Room 2266
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Intel Early Career Award, and the IEEE IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Paper Award.
Post Docs and Scientists
Shreyas Y. Shah
shah91@purdue.edu
Room 1287
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Shreyas joined Prof. Weinstein’s lab as a post-doctoral researcher in June 2016. He is working on designing, fabricating and testing MEMS oscillators on GaN, for neuromorphic pattern recognition using networks of such oscillators. His research interests are in the physics and applications of complex systems, involving light-matter interactions as well as micro/nano-mechanical structures. He is also interested in nanophotonics, nonlinear optics and optomechanics.
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.
Umesh Bhaskar
ubhaskar@purdue.edu
Room 1080
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Umesh Kumar Bhaskar joined Prof. Weinstein’s lab as a post-doctoral researcher in November 2016. His current research focuses 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).
Graduate Students
Matthew J. Storey
storeym@purdue.edu
Room 1287
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Matthew Storey is currently a Ph.D student 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.
Samuel Peana
speana@purdue.edu
Room 1287
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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.
Yanbo He
he355@purdue.edu
Room 1287
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Yanbo is now a Ph.D student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue. 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.
Chengzi Huang
huang975@purdue.edu
School of Materials Engineering
Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering
701 West Stadium Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Chengzi Huang is a member of both Prof. Weinstein’s group and Prof. Ramanathan’s group. She is currently a PhD student in the department of Materials Engineering at Purdue. She received her B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology.
Alumni
Bichoy Bahr
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 Popa
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 with Analog Devices Advanced and Emerging Sensors group, Woburn, MA.
Radhika Marathe
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 Wang
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 Wang
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 Yee
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.
Dr. Wen-Chien Chen
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 Kroese
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.
Subramanian Sundaram
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.
Dr. Gunjan Agarwal
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.