Principal Investigator

Qiaoqiang Gan

Full Professor

Research Interests: Sustainability, Energy, Nanophotonics, Thermal management, Biosensing

Research Scientist

Arunkumar Thirugnanasambantham

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Solar desalination, materials, solar evaporation

Murali Gedda

Research Scientist

Research Interests: perovskites, organic semiconductors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, resistive memory devices, photosensors, ultrathin films and transistors

Kaijie Yang

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Solar evaporation, Atmospheric water harvesting, Adsorption

Post-doctoral fellow

Han Gao

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Thermal imaging, Multimode fiber.

Kai Xu

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: thermal management, radiative cooling, heat conduction enhancement, functional material

Shakeel Ahmad

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Radiative Cooling, Thermal management, Heat transfer, Machine learning, Phase-change

Gokulnath Thavamani

Post-doctoral Researcher

Research Interests: device physics, organic hybrid solar cells, modules, perovskites, photodetectors, light emitting diodes, semitransparent and flexible electronics

Tingting Pan

Post-doctoral Researcher

Research Interests: Adsorption; Mass transfer; Energy efficiency

Duraibabu Dhanapal

Post-doctoral Researcher

Research Interests: Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposites and Coatings, Tetrafunctional epoxy, Organic polymers, Fuel Cell, Thin film, Nanomaterials, Natural fibers

Ahmed Mortuza Saleque

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Solar Energy, 2D Materials, Photothermal Energy, photovoltaics, Desalination, Optics, Photonics

Yunyun Mu

Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanoparticles trap, FTIR imaging and biosensin, Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, EC-SERSsensing, Plasmonic hollow fibers,

Sunmiao Fang

Post-doctoral Researcher

Research Interests: Clean Enegry, Ion Transport, Solid-Liquid Interface, Nanomaterials

Xueke Wu

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Research Interests: Sustainability, Energy, Thermal management, Radiative Cooling, Functional materials

Wenyue Liang

Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nano Optics, Optoelectronic Device, Intelligent Design and Optimization, Machine learning

Jiake Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Interests: Hydrogel, Natural Material, Sustainability

Jin Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow; National Scholarship Winner

Research Interests: Optical Sensing, Microcavity, Nanoparticles

Saichao Dang

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Far-field thermal radiation regulation, Radiative Cooling, Sustainability, Photonic device

Abdul Rahim Siddiqui

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Sustainable materials and methods, Surface engineering, self-cleaning, Solar evaporation, Water and energy harvesting, Biomaterials

Venkata Karthik Yadav Penna

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Gas Sensors, photovoltaics, Ferroelectric Capacitors, Energy Material, Thin film

Student

Ramya Barathy Thamilselvan

Ph.D.

Research Interests: Lead capture, Gas sensors, Photodetectors, Optoelectronic devices, Nanomaterials for Sustainability

Yaoyao Zhou

Research Interests: Sustainability, Water harvesting, Hydro gel, bio-inspired materials

Yuxuan Huang

Research Interests: sustainable power, sea water desalination

Afrah Harafan

PhD student

Research Interests: Sustainability, Nanomaterials, Solar evaporation, Water and Energy harvesting

Haneena Neermunda Jaleel

Master's Student

Research Interests: Radiative Cooling, Evaporative Cooling, Sustainability, Polymer Engineering

Qizhe Chen

MS/PhD Student

Yingkun Zhu

PhD student

Research Interests: Nanofabrication, SERS, PCR

Alumni

Jake Rada

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Structural Color, Radiative Cooling, Thin-film Deposition

Haomin Song

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Nanophotonics, Biosensing

Renad Abualjamal

Master’s student

Research Interests: Radiative and evaporative cooling, Atmospheric water harvesting, CO2 capture, Sustainable structural materials, Passive cooling systems

Sicheng Zeng

Master Student

Research Interests: Sustainability, Nanofabrication, Energy Material, Nanomaterial, Photonics

Yue Lei

Visiting Student ; National Scholarship Winner

Research Interests: Radiative Cooling, Building Insulation

Yanpei Tian

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Photonic manipulation, Photothermal conversion, Near-field radiative heat transfer, Solar steam generation

Uma Pratheebha Umaiya Kunjaram

Research Project Assistant

Wenhong Yang

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Measurface, Color display, Sensor, Nanofabrication

Hasan Almahfoudh

Associate Consultant

Research Interests: Radiative Cooling, Photonic structures, Phase-change materials

Ayesha Afzal Shakeel Ahmad

Research Technician

Research Interests: pathology; intervention; histology; clearing methods; histological staining; tissue processing