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Samuel Ginn
College of Engineering

Principle Investigator

Siyuan Dai

Siyuan Dai

McWane Associate Professor

Siyuan Dai is an Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. His research expertise and interests are nano-optics and light-matter interactions in quantum materials and nanostructures. He is the recipient of the 2023 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award and the 2023 NSF CAREER Award.

Current Members

Byung-Il Noh

Byung-Il Noh

Alabama Graduate Research Scholars Fellow

Research focus: Van der Waals materials fabrication, Nanophotonics.

Md Asadul Islam

Md Asadul Islam

Research focus: van der Waals materials and heterostructures fabrication.

Ugur Karadeniz

Ugur Karadeniz

Research focus: Nano-Optics and Emerging materials fabrication.

Md Ashikul Ashik

Md Ashikul Alam Ashik

Research focus: Nano-Optics simulation and Emerging materials fabrication.

Sean Whitley

Sean Whitley

Research focus: Scanning probe fabrication and manipulation of emerging materials.

Logan Peloquin

Logan Peloquin

Research focus: Scanning probe study of soft materials.

Alumni

Mingyuan Chen
Ph.D. student
Assistant Professor at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
Jialiang Shen
Ph.D. student
Senior Engineer at Lumentum.
Kailin Feng
Undergraduate student
Ph.D. student at University of California, San Diego.
Jeb Buchner
Undergraduate student
Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University.
Nick Alexander
Undergraduate student
Materials Engineer at ES3.
Xiaojie Jiang
Visiting PhD student
Postdoc Fellow at Huazhong University of Science & Technology.
Chun-Fu Liu
Master student