Principal Investigator
Professor Donald J. Sirbuly
Associate Professor
Department of NanoEngineering (UCSD)
Office: SME 245F
Phone: 858-822-4143
Fax: 858-534-9553
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Labs: SME 205 and SME 210
Bio: Professor Donald J. Sirbuly received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Steven Buratto. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Peidong Yang at the University of California, Berkeley from 2003-2006. He was the recipient of the Harold C. Graboske Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from 2006-2008 and held a staff research scientist position at LLNL from 2008-2009. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from Westmont College, Santa Barbara. In July 2009 he joined the Department of NanoEngineering as an Associate Professor.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Conor Riley
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego
M.S. Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego
B.S. Chemical Physics, UC San Diego
Project: Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Electro-optical Nanofiber Sensing Platform
Graduate Students
James Middlebrook
Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. (UCSD)
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B.S. Chemistry, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Project: Piezoelectric Composite Materials and Devices
Spencer Ward
Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. (UCSD)
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B.S. Electrical Engineering, UC Berkekley
Project: Electro-optical Nanofiber Neural Probes
Yuesong Shi
Material Science and Engineering, Ph.D. (UCSD)
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B.S. Material Science and Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology
Project: Optical Nanofiber Force Transducers
Beril Polat
Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. (UCSD)
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B.S. Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Project: Optical Nanofiber Force Transducers
Undergraduate Students
Jeffrey Brodie
B.S. NanoEngineering,
Concentrating in Materials Science
Jeffrey Chen
B.S. NanoEngineering,
Concentrating in Materials Science
Matthew Levesque
B.S. NanoEngineering,
Concentrating in Electrical Engineering
Andre Hong
B.S. NanoEngineering,
Concentrating in Chemical Engineering
Past Group Members
Josh Villanueva
NanoEngineering, Ph.D.
Qian Huang
NanoEngineering, Ph.D.
Kanguk Kim
Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D.
Gina La Pierre
NanoEngineering, M.S.
Cory Heath
Electrical Engineering, M.S.
Nam Hguyen
NanoEngineering, B.S.
Rohit Subramaniam
NanoEngineering, B.S.
Jade Dohleman
NanoEngineering, B.S.
Dr. Yaoguang Ma
Postdoctoral Fellow
Billy McCall
NanoEngineering, M.S.
Dr. Ilsun Yoon
Postdoctoral Fellow – Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chungnam National University
Andy Zelinski
M.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Chase Aaronson
M.S. NanoEngineering - R&D Coordinator, Winds Group
Tien Kieu
B.S. Chemical Engineering