Brief Bio: Professor Kapadia joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in July 2014. He received his bachelors in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. During his time at Berkeley, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and winner of the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding research. Since joining USC he has received an Air Force Young Investigator Program award and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award. He has also been awarded an American Vacuum Society Peter Mark Memorial Award for young scientists. His interests lie at the intersection of material science and electrical engineering focusing on non-equilibrium electron devices, and materials growth technologies for next-generation electronic and photonic devices. Recent research highlights include (i) the experimental demonstration of hot-electron emission processes in graphene, (ii) demonstration of high quantum efficiency hot-electron driven hydrogen reduction, and (iii) growth of low-temperature growth of high-mobility III-Vs on non-epitaxial substrates. Additionally, he is the co-director of a recently created Center for Integrated Electronics and Biological Organisms (CIEBOrg) at USC.
Ph.D Researchers
Jun Tao is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Rehan Kapadia in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his B.S degree in Electronic Science and Technology and M.S degree in Microelectronics and Solid Electronics from Shanghai University, China in 2013 and 2016 respectively. He is interested in advanced materials and fabrication techniques for nanostructured photonic and electronic devices.
Ragib Ahsan is a PhD student working in Professor Kapadia’s group. He graduated with his BS degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017. His research interest lies in understanding the physics of semiconductor devices and implementing them experimentally, with a focus on hot electron devices.
Hyun Uk Chae is currently a Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Rehan Kapadia in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his B.S degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dongguk University, South Korea in 2017. He is interested in fabrication and material growth techniques for electronic, photonic, and electrochemical devices.
Subrata Das is currently a Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Rehan Kapadia in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California. She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2018. Her research interest lies in semiconductor device physics and fabrication techniques for next-generation electronic and photonic devices.
Zezhi Wu is currently a Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Rehan Kapadia in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his B.Sc. degree in Microelectronic science and engineering from Wuhan University in 2020. His research interest lies in semiconductor devices development and artificial intelligence.
Juan Sanchez Vazquez is currently a Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Rehan Kapadia in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2021. His research interests lie in the fabrication of semiconductor materials and devices, and their application to emerging hardware for the acceleration of AI algorithms.
Anika Tabassum Priyoti is currently a Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Rehan Kapadia in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California. She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2019. Her research interests focus on the physics behind electronic and photonic devices and their fabrication techniques.
Alumni
Adithya Raja Keshava – Physical Design Engineer at Intersil Xing He – PhD Student at Duke University in Materials Science Jubin Hazra – Engineer at ASML Christian Wagner – Engineer at Northrop Grumman Matthew Yeung – PhD Student at MIT Louis Blankemeier – PhD Student at Stanford Chenhao Ren – PhD Student at UC Davis Wei Wang – PhD Student at USC Fatemeh Rezaeifar – Senior Photonics Design Engineer Debarghya Sarkar – Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School Qingfeng Lin – Software Development Engineer Amazon