People
Dr. Mool C. Gupta, Center Director
Phone: (757)-325-6850
Fax: (757)-325-6988
Email: mgupta@virginia.edu
Professor Gupta is currently Langley Distinguished Professor and Director of NSF I/UCRC Center for Lasers and Plasmas at the University of Virginia. Previously, he was Director of the Applied Research Center, Program Director for Materials Science and Engineering and a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University. He has worked at the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company for 17 years as a Senior Scientist and Group Leader. Before joining Kodak he was Senior Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. His educational experience includes: Senior Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (78-79), Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, (76-78) and Ph.D. in Physics from Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. (1973). Other professional activities includes: Materials Research Society Short Course Instructor for Optoelectronic Materials, Processes and devices course for over six years, Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University for over eight years, Conference Chair for 1996 SPIE Conference on Nonlinear Frequency Conversion. He is Editor-in-Chief for CRC Handbook of Photonics first edition. He has over 85 research publications and 25 patents and was inducted in Kodak’s Inventors Gallery. He has taught courses at Cornell University, University of Rochester, MRS and SPIE meetings. His research interest includes Photon Processing of Materials, Thin Films, nanomaterials and devices and Sensors.
Dr. Kan Ni, Research Scientist
Phone: (757)-325-6852
Email: kn3d@Virginia.EDU
Research Interests: Probabilistic and Computational Fracture Mechanics, Probabilistic Fatigue, Probabilistic Durability and Damage Tolerance Design, Structural Reliability, Finite Element Simulation of Heat Transfer and Diffusion, Stochastic Meshless Method.
Dr. Teh-Hwa Wong, Research Scientist
Phone: (757)-325-6856
Email: thwong@nianet.org
Research Interests: Laser spectroscopy, time-of-fright mass spectroscopy; laser cooling, laser application and electron emission.
Dr. Yonglai Yang, Research Associate
Phone: (757)-325-6853
Email: yy2n@virginia.edu
Research Interests: Nanostructured materials, Carbon nanotube-polymer nanocomposites, Nano-catalysis.
Dr. Yaomin Lin, Research Associate
Phone: (757)-325-6855
Email: yl3w@Virginia.EDU
Research Interests: Laser-matter interaction, laser micromachining, sintering, welding and cutting; renewable energy systems; materials and thermo-mechanical phenomena in micro- and nano-systems; finite element analysis; electronic and optoelectronic packaging.
Dr. Barada 'BK' Nayak, Research Associate
Phone: (434) 924-6587
Email: bknayak@virginia.edu
Research Interests: Solar Cells, Laser based micro/nano fabrications, Optoelectronics.
Vaishali Koppolu, Graduate Student
Phone: (434)-924-6587
Email: vrk6f@Virginia.EDU
Research Interests: Organic Photovoltaics, Carbon Nanotube - Polymer nanocomposites, Quantum Dot- Polymer nanocomposites, Micro/Nano fabrication
Mr. Chen-Nan Sun, Graduate Student
Phone: (757)-325-6866
Email: cs9en@Virginia.EDU
Research
Interests: Laser processing of materials,Semiconductor fabrication,
BioMEMS, IC Design
Mr. Tyson Baldridge, Graduate Student
Phone:
Email: tcb9y@Virginia.EDU
Research Interests: Multi-energy processing, renewable energy, power management
Mr. Dexter Lin, Graduate Student
Phone: (757)-325-6858
Email: dl8p@Virginia.EDU
Research Interests:
Mr. Johnnie Chan, Graduate Student
Phone: (757)-325-6867
Email: jwc5d@Virginia.EDU
Research
Interests: Non-destructive Testing, Sensors, Laser Processing, Signal Processing