Shruti received her Bachelors of Science and Ph. D. at the University of Houston. Her doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Jakoah Brgoch focused on the discovery and characterization of novel phosphor materials through experiment and computation. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University with Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee on the synthesis of substituted vanadium oxide-based materials for neuromorphic computing applications.
Fatima Jardali
Dr. Fatima Jardali is a senior research engineer at Texas A&M University in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, as part of the group of Dr. Patrick Shamberger. Dr. Jardali’s resarch focuses on understanding instabilities and the dynamical electrical and thermal responses of semiconductors under electrical bias. Her research interests include thin films growth and characterization sputter deposition, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, device fabrication and electro-thermal characterization, and ion insertion/extraction into/from host materials.
Dakota Jones
Dakota obtained his B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) in 2021, where he worked on optimizing microwave-promoted iminyl radical cascade reactions to be used as steps in the synthesis of natural products. In the fall of 2021 he joined Professor Kim R. Dunbar’s research group at Texas A&M University. His main research objective for his PhD work has been to design multimetallic coordination complexes with long-range magnetic coupling between transition metal centers using thiolate or organic nitrile bridging ligands.
Aiden Kang
Aiden received his BS in Mechanical Engineering in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019. His research focuses on fabrication and characterization of materials for neuromorphic computing and corresponding mechanical phenomena in these systems. His research interests include inspection of stress/damage during operation and how mechanical loading influences phase transitions in these systems.
Jialu Li
Jialu Li is a researcher at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), specializing in synchrotron-based soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (sXAS) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) techniques. Her work focuses on energy materials, such as catalysts, batteries, and hydrogen storage, as well as neuromorphic materials, aiming to advance sustainable energy solutions and next-generation computing
Sangheon Oh
Sangheon Oh is a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering at University of California San Diego in 2023. His current research interests are in novel material and novel devices for neuromorphic computing.
John Ponis
John got his B.S. in Chemistry from Kutztown University in 2011 and worked in industry, formulating metalworking fluids for International Chemical Company in Philadelphia until joining the Banerjee Research Group at Texas A&M University in 2020. John uses topochemical ion-exchange reactions to synthesize metastable transition metal oxide neuromorphic materials, and studies the atomic and electronic structural origins of their transport instabilities via X-ray scattering and spectroscopy. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, biking, studying post-industrial ideological history, and getting out of doors with his wife Caitlin and infant son Ansel.
Benjamin Rogers
Benjamin Rogers is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow in Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee’s group at Texas A&M University. Ben hails from Austin, Texas and received his bachelor degrees from University of Texas at Austin. Ben currently uses scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to study vanadium oxide interfaces. Additionally, Ben is receiving training to use Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy (STXM) to understand the fragmentation mechanisms of vanadium oxides.
Arunabha Mohan Roy
Arunabha’s research interests are computational material science, computational mechanics, phase field method, crystal plasticity modelling, materials design, data-driven model discovery, machine/deep learning, and physics informed neural networks.
Srikrishna Sagar
Srikrishna Sagar’s primary role at NREL is to design, fabricate, and characterize the memory devices using transition-metal coordination complexes. Sagar is focused on achieving low-power switching, followed by probing the charge transport mechanism behind the conductance and/or capacitance switching properties. He’s utilizing the spectrochemical technique to understand the distinct oxidation states and variations in absorbance observed within the complexes to correlate with the obtained current-voltage characteristics obtained from the fabricated two-terminal crossbar molecular devices. His research interests include molecular switching devices, oscillators, and photodetectors.