Faculty - Materials Science & Engineering

Leon Shaw - Research Group

Current Members:

• Kyle Crosby - MS Student, kyle.crosby@uconn.edu
• Tippawan Markmaitree - PhD student, tippawan.markmaitree@huskymail.uconn.edu
• William Osborn - PhD student, william.osborn@uconn.edu
• Ibibia Altraide - PhD student, ibibia.altraide@uconn.edu
• Yang Zhong - PhD student, yang.zhong@uconn.edu
• Xuefei Wan - PhD student, xuefei.wan@uconn.edu
• Venkaiah Tipirneni, MS student, venkaiah.tipirneni@uconn.edu

Recent Graduates:

• Dr. Zhenguo (Gary) Yang - PhD 1999, now at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
• Dr. Lianchao (Richard) Sun - PhD 2000, now at SUN International, Acton, MA.
• Dr. Zhigang Ban - MS 2001, now at Kennametal, Inc., Latrobe, PA
• Dr. Daniel Goberman - PhD 2002, now the Director of the Surface Science Lab, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
• Dr. Xiaoxuan (Shawn) Li - PhD 2004, now at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), Center for Laser Applications (CLA).
• Dr. Kun Dai - PhD 2005, now the Technical Leader of Quality Engineering & Software Technology (QuEST), East Hartford, CT.
• Dr. Juan C. Villegas - PhD 2005, now at Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona.
• Ms. Man Wu - MS 2005, now at the University of Central Florida.
• Dr. Hong Luo - PhD 2005, now at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon.
• Dr. Jiwen Wang - PhD 2006, now at the University of Connecticut.
• Dr. Meidong Wang - PhD 2007, now at Inframat Corporation.

Former Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Scientists:

• Dr. Mahmoud F. Zawrah, now at National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
• Dr. Ruiming (Ray) Ren, now at Dalian Railway Institute, Dalian, China
• Dr. Anping Xu, now at Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
• Mr. Tomoyuki Shimamura, now at Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan