Contact Numbers
Research Lab - JBE299: 831-459-4997
Research Lab - JBE262: 831-459-1286
    QEG office - JBE230: 831-459-1292

Professor Ali Shakouri	Prof. Ali Shakouri received his undergraduate degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris, France and Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1990 and 1995, respectively. His current research is on nanoscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, submicron thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and novel optoelectronic integrated circuits. He is the director of the Thermionic Energy Conversion Center , a multi university research initiative aiming to improve direct thermal to electric energy conversion technologies. He received the Packard Fellowship in 1999 and the NSF Career award in 2000. Email: ali@soe.ucsc.edu
James Christofferson	James Christofferson Received his B.S. in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1995.  After a few years working in industry for Applied Materials and Cadence, James returned to UCSC to receive a M.S. in Computer Engineering 2001, and PhD Electrical Engineering in 2004.  Under Ali Shakouri, James thesis work primarily focused on the development of high resolution thermal imaging of micro-devices, including the design and build of a thermoreflectance camera system.  Returning to the Quantum Electronics team in 2005 as a post-doc researcher, James is now working with the femtosecond laser to obtain imaging results in picosecond acoustics, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and high resolution interferometry.  Primarily an experimentalist, James enjoys working with analog/digital circuits, adaptive optics, and lasers. Email: jchrist@soe.ucsc.edu
Gehong Zeng	Gehong Zeng received his B.S. degree from South China Institute of Technology, Guangzhou , China , in 1982 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Shaanxi Microelectronics Research Institute, Xian, China , in 1987, and 1992, respectively. His research interests include design, fabrication and testing of semiconductor devices for thermal management and energy conversion. He is a joint researcher with Prof. John Bower at UCSB. Email: gehong@ece.ucsb.edu
Younes Ezzahri	Younes Ezzahri received his BS degree in fundamental physics from University Chouaib Doukkali at El Jadida , Morocco in 2001, then his Master degree in Condensate Matter and Laser in 2002, and his PhD in Physics in 2005, from University of Bordeaux , France . He is currently a post doc at UCSC, and his research interest includes energy conversion, thermal, electrical and optical transport in low dimensional structures. His current research is on characterization and optimization of micro refrigerators on a chip and on Picosecond Ultrasonics. Email: younes@soe.ucsc.edu
Kerry Maize	Kerry Maize received his BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley in 2002. He came to UCSC in 2005 to pursue graduate study in the areas of quantum electronics and nanoscience. Current work is focused on optical coherence tomography and thermal device characterization. Prior to engineering, Kerry worked in journalism. Email: maize@ucsc.edu
Mona Zebarjadi	Mona Zebarjadi received her B.S. and M.S in physics from the Sharif University of Technology, IRAN in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Her M.S thesis title was “Analyzing heterostructure thermionic coolers by the Monte Carlo simulation method” where she developed a Monte Carlo code including electron-phonon as well as electron-electron interactions in a non-parabolic multivalley formalism. She joined Dr. Shakouri’s group in Fall 2005 and is going to continue her work on this topic as well as low temperature measurements of the thermoelectric properties of multilayer heterostructures. Email: mona@soe.ucsc.edu
Rajeev Singh	Rajeev Singh is a graduate student working on deposition and experimental characterization of thin-film thermoelectric materials for applications in power generation and active cooling of optoelectronic devices.  Deposition is accomplished using the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique with a mature Riber 2300 solid-source III-V system.  Characterization is performed mainly using custom built experimental setups.  Rajeev especially enjoys designing and building experiment setting by hand. Email: rsingh@soe.ucsc.edu
Takehiro Onishi	Takehiro Onishi received BS and MS in Physics from Ritsumeikan University in 1992 and 1994 respectively. He has been working for RENESAS Technology Co. in Japan for 10 years. He was sent to UCSC in September 2003 for MS in Electrical Engineering. His research topic is Heating/thermal Management in 3D package. He intends to apply simulation results; configuration of cooling device and its material to LSI package. He is a joint student with Dr. Steve Kang.
Xi Wang	Xi Wang received her BS in Opto-Electronic Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2004, where  she gained a bi-background in electronics and optics. After finished her work in integrated photonic communication system, she joined Quantum Electronic Group and started to work with Prof. Shakouri towards her PhD degree. Her current research topic is the design, thermal investigation and management of nano-wire based nanoelectronics integrated devices and circuits. Her other interests include light-material interaction and high-resolution thermal imaging. Email: wangxi@soe.ucsc.edu
Howard Young	Howard Young is an undergraduate student in the Electrical Engineering department at UCSC. His current project is on biological energy conversion.

Weikun Jimmy He	Weikun Jimmy He received his BS degrees in both electrical and computer engineering departments in University of California , Santa Cruz in 2006.  He received the Chancellor’s Award in 2006 award for his research entitled "Demonstration of a Wavelength-tunable Passive Ring Resonator Coupled Laser.” He has also received and Dean’s award in the same year for his outstanding research performance as an undergraduate student. His current work is focused on characterization of semiconductor microcooler. His other research interests include semiconductor properties, circuit design, and power conversion. Email: jimhe00@gmail.com
Virginia Heriz	Virginia Heriz is a visiting student from Spain . She will receive her MS in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid ( Spain ) and her Diplome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris ( France ) in February, 2007. As a member of the Quantum Electronics Group, Virginia worked on a fast algorithm for calculating temperature distributions on ASICs and characterized integrated photonics components. Her interests go from optoelectronics to general relativity and she particuarly enjoys to fiddle with electronics and computers, specially if that involves travelling around the world.
Zhixi Bian	Zhixi Bian received his B.S. degree in Electronics from Nankai University in 1993 and M.S. degree in Electronics from Beijing University in 1996 respectively. He was with Physics department of Beijing University for three years. After he spent two semesters in Gatech, he came to UCSC for his PhD degree in 2000. In 2004, he received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering at UCSC. His Ph.D. thesis is “InP-based Microring Resonator Coupled Lasers”. Since July 2004, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Electronics Group and Thermionic Energy Conversion Center at UCSC. His research interests include tunable semiconductor lasers, electroabsorption modulators, optoelectronic and photonic integrated circuits, carrier transport in micro and nano devices, energy conversion and renewable energy, and thermoelectric electronics cooling. Email: zxbian@soe.ucsc.edu
Alberto Fitting	Alberto Fitting is an undergraduate pursuing his B.S.E.E. with an emphasis on electronics, which he will receive in June 2001. Alberto is currently working on characterizing the transient response of superlattice HIT coolers using an optical measurement technique based on the thermoreflectance coefficient. Alberto's interests include analog electronics and particularly audio applications.
Angik Sarkar	International Intern (IIT Kharagpur) PhD student at Purdue Universiy Email: angik.sarkar@gmail.com
Arthur Carpenter	Arthur Carpenter graduated with his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Electronics and Optics.  His research focused on characterizing the Seebeck coefficient of thin film superlattice devices using optical methods.  Arthur’s interests include optical electronics, device electronics, and thermoelectric energy generation. He is now pursuing his Masters in ECE at UC Davis. Email: acarpent@ucsc.edu
Daryoosh Vashaee	Daryoosh Vashaee received his BS in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran , Iran in 1993 and his MS in Electrical Engineering (Communications) from Amirkabir University of Technology in 1995. After three years of experience working on RF Engineering, Daryoosh joined Arizona State University and worked on electronic transport in semiconductors. He went to UCSB in 1999 and worked on the fabrication/processing of InGaAs/InGaAsP based micro-coolers. He returned to UCSC in 2000, and his current work is focused on quantum transport theory, experimental characterization of Heterostructure Thermionic/ Thermoelecric Coolers, theoretical study/modeling of superlattice micro-coolers, and Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Email: Daryoosh@soe.ucsc.edu
Dawn Hettelsater	Dawn Hettelsater was an undergraduate student majoring in Physics at UCSC. She graduated in June 2002. She developed a new laboratory on solar cells for the class: Properties of Materials (EE145). She prepared a detailed overview of recent advances in photovoltaic energy conversion. She also studied various factors affecting solar cell efficiencies at high temperatures.
Eugene Meydbray	Eugene Meydbray received his BS with high honors from UC Santa Cruz in spring 2004 and his MS from Boston University in winter 2005. His undergraduate research was on thermoelectric power generation and his graduate thesis is entitled "Novel Approach to Subsurface Imaging and Microlens Manipulation". He started as an intern at SunPower Corp. in Jan 2006.
Javad Shabani	Javad Shabani received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics simultaneously from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran , IRAN in 2004. He has a multidisciplinary background in Electrical Engineering and Physics. He has been involved in image processing, optical communication, quantum computation and solid state projects. Javad joined Quantum Electronics Group at UCSC to continue his education toward his PhD in 2004. His current work is the study of surface plasmons, coupling and light interaction at the metal/semiconductor surface and active control of the phenomena.
Jessica Masters	Jessica Masters received a double undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2000 from Colgate University in Hamilton , New York . Jessica then came to the University of Santa Cruz . She received her MS in Computer Science in March, 2002, and her PhD in Computer Science in September, 2005.  Her research involved creating and evaluating software to support the learning process.  Jessica is currently a Research Associate at Boston College in Massachusetts .
Kazuhiko Fukutani	International Visitor (Canon, Japan) Engineer at Canon Research Labs Email: fukutani.kazuhiko@canon.co.jp
Mai Rabbad (MS)	Mai Rabbad
Million Negassi	Million Negassi is a senior transfer student from Santa Rosa Junior College . His major is Electrical Engineering and he is anticipating his B.S by the end of next year. He will be working on his M.S, following his graduation. Million's first year research includes,Cryogenic semiconductor experiments, taking measurements, data analysis for various devices, and data plotting in order to analyze how semiconductors behave at low Temperatures. Million is a UC LEADS and the National Science Foundation(NSF) scholar. He is an active member of the MEP MESA program at UCSC. His area of interest includes, circuit analysis, fiber optics, semiconductors, Energy Storage, and micro-coolers. Million's long term career plan is to work as a research engineer in industries.
Mehrdad M. Zarandi	Mehrdad M. Zarandi was born in 1963 in Kerman , Iran . From an early age, he had a keen interest in science and mathematics, which resulted in his taking a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology. He earned Master of Science and Doctroal degrees in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, where he continued to work as a research scientist in aeronautics. In addition to his technical research and publications, he has enjoyed a wide range of teaching experiences with undergraduates in mathematics, chemistry, physics and the history and philosophy of science. His interest in the correspondences between metaphysical principles and their expression within cosmology and science led to his collecting the essays for this anthology, Science and the Myth of Progress. At the University of California at Santa Cruz he started a new research in the field of renewable or sustainable energy resources using salt concentration gradients via an electrochemical path. With the supervision of Professor Shakouri this research aims at following the nature’s path in sensing organs of animals and electric organs of electric fish in order to make practical sustainable energy resources. Email: zarandi@yahoo.com
Phuong Nguyen	Phuong Nguyen is a senior undergraduate at University of California Santa Cruz . He is pursuing his BS degree in Computer Engineering specialized in networking. He participated in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program as a Web developer. He worked working as an undergraduate research assistant under Professor Shakouri and Madhyastha developing educational applets demonstrating electron transport properties. He is also worked on thermal imaging of micro cooler. His other interests are wireless networking, embedded software and robotic.
Shobhit Gupta	International Intern (IIT Kharagpur) MS student at IIT Kharagpur Email: iitkgp.shobhit@gmail.com
Suquan Li (MS)	Suquan Li
Tammy Humphrey	Tammy Humphrey  was a visiting scholar in Quantum Electronics Group since 2005. Her current research interests are thermodynamics of thermionic, thermoelectric and thermophotovoltaic heat engines, Brownian heat engines and quantum ratchets, quantum heat engines. Email: tammy.humphrey@physics.unige.ch
Tam Nguyen	Tam Nguyen is a recent graduate student working on his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. Before graduating in 2002, he was a UC LEADS scholar and received the Dean's Award for his undergraduate research in '3D Photonic Simulations: Multi-to-Single Mode Optical Fiber Tapering.' He has also conducted research in fiber optic systems at UC Santa Barbara with Professor D. Blumenthal. Additionally, Tam was involved in setting up an Optics undergraduate teaching laboratory. Continuing on two years, he supports the Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP) at UCSC by tutoring students on their undergraduate Electrical Engineering courses. Tam is currently pursuing research on TE power generation and Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) and intends to receive his Masters Degree by 2004. Email: tnguyen@cats.ucsc.edu
Timothée Lecomte	Timothée Lecomte was a visiting student in Quantum Electronics Group. He received its Bachelor of Science in fundamental physics in 2006 at the "Ecole Normale Supérieure", in Paris, France, with a focus on condensed matter physics. He also studied some other domains of physics, from soft matter to general relatavity and quantum computing, and has done some experimental work on quantum optics in semiconductors microcavities. Timothée worked on transient heat transport in nanostructures as a visiting student. E-mail: timothee.lecomte@ens.fr
Travis Kemper	Travis Kemper earned his BS in Applied Physics from UC Santa Cruz in 2004.  He did his senior thesis with the quantum electronics group on a faster method of calculating temperature maps from power maps, for IC's.  Upon graduation he worked for Daimler Chrysler for two months.  Then he returned for a year to continue his thesis work, while developing a UV thermal imaging set-up.  After which, he will be attending a Material Science graduate program.
Yan Zhang	Yan Zhang received her Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering Department at University of California Santa Cruz in 2005. Prior to UCSC, she received her undergraduate degree from Shanghai University, China and M.Sc from National University of Singapore in 1997 and 2000, respectively.  Her research was on nano-scale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, microrefrigerators for microprocessor/optoelectronics on-chip thermal management cooling solutions, chip temperature fast calculation algorithm, temperature-aware design and thermionic energy conversion for waste heat recovery. Email: yan.zhang@flomerics.com

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