People

Dr. Sonkusale is the Principal Investigator of Nanolab. The group consists of postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors, graduate and undergraduate students. See below for current members of NanoLab. We are constantly looking for new members to be part of the team. If you are interested in joining us or working with us, send us an email. Research assistantship positions for students interested in PhD degrees are available.

2011 NanoLab group picture (click on the image for full view)


PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Sameer Sonkusale, PhD University of Pennsylvania


POSTODOCTORAL ASSOCIATE

Pramod Kumar Singh, PhD National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Project: Active Terahertz Devices and Circuits, MMIC Design

Yael Zilberman, PhD Technion Israel

Project: Chemical and Biological Sensors


DOCTORAL STUDENTS

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  • Guoqing Fu, Ph.D Candidate (MS Univ. of Florida)

Project: CMOS Imagers, Metamaterials

  • Shideh Kabiri, Ph.D Candidate (BS and MS, Islamic Azad University)

Project: Biosensors on CMOS

Project: RF IC design

Project: Nano-CMOS Integration, CMOS-Nano-electronic Chemical Nose

  • Pooria Mostafalu, PhD Candidate (BS, K.N.Toosi Univ, Iran; MS, Iran Univ. of Science and Technology)

Project: Nanoelectronics, Nanoelectrochemical Systems on Silicon

Project: Integrated CMOS Microsystem for Biological Sensing, CMOS For Nanoassembly

  • Saroj Rout, Ph.D. Candidate (BE, ME, Birla Institute of Tech and Science (BITS), Pilani, India)

Project: Active Terahertz Devices and Circuits

  • Wangren Xu, Ph.D. Candidate (BS, Donghua U; MS, Royal Inst. of Tech (KTH), Sweden)

Project: Metamaterials, RF Transceivers

  • Ting Guo, Visiting Ph.D. Candidate (Southeast University China)

Project: Time to Digital Converters


MS STUDENTS

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Project: TBA

Project: Magnetic Particle Imaging, Magnetic Biosensing

  • Scott Smith, MS/PhD Candidtate (BS, Wentworth Inst. of Technology)

Project: TBA

  • Wes Uy, MS Candidtate, Draper Fellow (BS, Boston University)

Project: TBA


BS STUDENTS

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  • Thomas Cahill, BS Candidate, Electrical Engineering, NSF REU Scholar 2012

Project: Low cost fabrication, RF/microwave metamaterials, Sensors

  • Nicholas Ferrentino, BS Candidate, Electrical Engineering,  NSF REU Scholar 2012

Project: Colloidal Lithography for IR metamaterials

  • Hassan Oukacha, BS Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Summer Researcher, 2012

Project: Minitaurized imaging platforms

  • Saavan Patel, Winchester High School Student,

Project: Flexible coils for sensing applications


ALUMNI

Group Pic

2009 Nanolab Group Picture
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Luis Henrique (Visiting Professor, 2011-2012), Federal University of Itajuba, Brazil

Nick Marcoux (MS, 2012), Teradyne

Brian Nugent (MS, 2012), Draper Laboratories

Jian Guo (PhD, Tufts, 2011), OmniVision

Michael Trakimas (PhD, Tufts, 2011), MIT Lincoln Labs

Sungkil Hwang (PhD, Tufts, 2010), Avago

Ritika Agarwal (MS, Tufts, 2010), Allegro Microsystems

Vinay Agarwal (MS, Tufts, 2008), Texas Instruments

Ashwin Duggal (MS, Tufts, 2009), Qualcomm

Krenar Komoni (MS, Tufts, 2008), President, ecoSolidstate Drive Corp

Anuj Agarwal (MS, Texas A&M, 2005), PDF Solutions

Jon Chow (MS, Tufts, 2006), GE Sensing

Milan Dapthary (MS, Tufts, 2007), Global Prior Art

Eric Evans (MS, Tufts, 2006), OpenWave Systems

Youngbok Kim (MS, Texas A&M, 2005), Maxim IC

Zhenying Luo (MS, Tufts, 2007), RFMD

Wing Siu (MS, Tufts, 2007), Tyco Electronics

Nikos Stefanou (MS, Texas A&M, 2005), Avaya


Collaborators (Past and Present)

Prof. David Walt (Chemistry, Tufts), Prof. Eddie Goldberg (Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts), Late Prof. Robert Guertin (Physics, Tufts), Prof. Mehmet Dokmeci (Biomedical, Harvard Medical School), Prof. Willie Padilla (Physics, Boston College), Prof. Tom Vandervelde (ECE, Tufts), Prof. Sanjeev Manohar (Chemical Engineering, UMass Lowell),  Prof. Barry Trimmer (Biology, Tufts), Prof. Mohammed Afsar (ECE, Tufts), Prof. Eric Miller (ECE, Tufts), Prof. Jeff Hopwood (ECE, Tufts), Prof. Babak Ziaie (ECE, Purdue), Prof. Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard Medical School)