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A listing of graduate and undergraduate students working in the Gangopadhyay Research Group

Jan Rudeen

Administrative Associate I

rudeenj@missouri.edu

Dr. Venumadhav Korampally

Assistant Professor( Research)

korampallyv@missouri.edu

Dr. Korampally is a Research Assistant Professor at Dr. Gangopadhyay research group. He has a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from MU and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Kakatiya University (India). His research interests include integration of MEMS techniques with Nanotechnology. His doctoral work involved development of ultra low refractive index nanoporous dielectric films and their applications in the development of novel biosensor platforms. He is currently working on the development of nanoparticles for bioimaging and targeted drug delivery.

Dr. Rajagopalan Thiruvengadathan

Assistant Research Professor

thiruvengadathanr@missouri.edu

Dr. Rajagopalan Thiruvengadathan, currently a Research Assistant Professor, received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Texas Tech University, Lubbock and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva Israel. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the preparation and characterization of ordered mesoporous silica and templating nanostructured materials using porous materials. His research interests include ordered nanostructured materials, self assembly, alternative energy sources and low k dielectrics.

Dr. Snigdhamayee Praharaj

praharajs@missouri.edu

Dr Praharaj is a post doctoral fellow working at Dr. Gangopadhyay research group. She has a doctoral degree from Indian Institute of technology Kharagpur and also worked as a post doctoral fellow at University of South Carolina, Columbia. She has expertise in the synthesis and characterization of metal nanoparticles. Her current research involves the development of polymer nanoparticles for the hydrophobic and wears resistance antifog coating films.

Steve Apperson

sja895@mizzou.edu

Steve Apperson is a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently an NSF GK-12 Fellow researching testing and applications of nanoenergetic materials. His research interests include MEMS device fabrication and analysis, and development of novel methods for characterization and testing of energetic materials. He is currently designing a shock-wave generator using metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) materials as well as custom testing configurations for MEMS-based electro-explosive devices.

Syed Barizuddin

sbdzb@mizzou.edu

Syed Barizuddin is a Ph.D candidate in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri. He will be graduating in December 2009. He has been working on an interdisciplinary project with Biological engineering / Dalton cardiovascular research center with emphasis to fabricate extremely high throughput bio-mems (micro electro-mechanical systems). His expertise involve microfabrication, biomaterials and modify their properties to meet different requirements and studying cell adhesion of primary cells and cell lines on various materials.

Minseong Yun

mynn3@mizzou.edu

Minseong Yun is a doctorate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He completed his bachelor's degree from Yonsei University in South Korea in 2004 where he had researched high-k gate dielectric materials for his honors thesis. His current research interests are fabrication and characterization of organic light emitting FETs using conjugated polyfluorene as semiconductor and potential inorganic high-k materials as gate dielectrics.

Craig Weilbaecher

crwe0e@mizzou.edu

Craig Weilbaecher is a graduate student in the Department of Biological Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) pursing his PhD. He received his undergraduate degree in biological engineering from UMC. His research interest involves nanomaterial-based protease biosensors utilizing nanotechnology and MEMs to fabricate novel substrates.

R. Cody Stringer

rcsm84@mizzou.edu

R. Cody Stringer is currently a graduate student in Biological Engineering at the University Missouri-Columbia. He is a graduate research assistant and a National Science Foundation GK-12 InSITE Fellow whose research interests include development of biosensor techniques and platforms utilizing optical waveguides. His current research involves application of novel low refractive index materials for enhanced optical sensing platforms.

Sangho Bok

sbync@mizzou.edu

Sangho Bok is a doctorate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. His current research interests are fabrication and electrochemical characterization of CNT and carbon based nanoparticles with sol-gel chemistry.

Dan Tappmeyer

dwtn78@mizzou.edu

Dan Tappmeyer is an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is currently a research assistant in the development of chemical methods of preparing porous materials. His research interests include the production of porous materials for use in environmentally friendly energetic materials, targeted drug delivery, and hydrogen storage.

Balavinayagam Ramalingam

brrn3@mail.missouri.edu

Balavinayagam Ramalingam is a doctorate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He completed his bachelor's degree from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2007 where he had researched on QPSK modulators. He also got his masters from the Electrical Engineering department of Mizzou under Professor.Legarsky in 2009. He joined the group on June 2009 and worked on organic semiconductors. His current research interests are fabrication and characterization of non volatile memory using organic polymers as semiconductors, and hybrid organic-inorganic photovoltaic cells. These organic semiconductors will be the future for flexible and transparent electronics.

Clay Stephen Staley

Research Assistant

cssdh8@mail.mizzou.edu

Clay Staley is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is currently a research assistant researching MOS capacitor memory devices with focus on metal work function engineering by molecular nanolayers.

Gianetta Maria Belarde

gmbxb6@mail.mizzou.edu

Gianetta Belarde is a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her area of concentration for her Master's was in Physical Electronics. She began her Ph.D. in Nanotechnology in 2009, with emphasis in silicon nanostructure synthesis and energetics.

David Wayne Mueller

dwm83a@mizzou.edu

David W. Mueller is a native of Columbia, Missouri where he attended the University of Missouri - Columbia. He received two Bachelors of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in 2006 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008. Currently he is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri's Center for Micro/Nanotechnology.

Steven Christopher Hamm

schyr4@mizzou.edu

Steven Hamm is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests include high dielectric strength thin films, high energy density capacitors, and direct-charge nuclear capacitors. He is currently performing research on a high dielectric strength nanocomposite thin film previously developed here at the University of Missouri and its various applications.

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