Prof. Ioannis (John) Kymissis

Ioannis Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.  He joined the faculty in 2006 as an assistant professor.  He obtained his S.B., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, and also participated in a cooperative program through which he completed his M.Eng. thesis at IBM Research. He also held a postdoctoral appointment at MIT and worked as a consulting engineer at QDVision before joining Columbia.

Professor Kymissis' research focuses on the fabrication, characterization, and applications of thin film electronics, with a particular focus in the applications of organic semiconductors, hybrid systems, microLED, and recrystallized devices. 

johnkym@ee.columbia.edu 
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Postdoctoral Scholars

PictureZachary A. Lamport, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ph.D. Physics, Wake Forest University, B.S. Physics, The Pennsylvania State University
Zachary A. Lamport received a B.S. in Physics from The Pennsylvania State University, then obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Wake Forest University under the instruction of Prof. Oana D. Jurchescu in 2018. His graduate research into organic electronics focused on semiconductor material discovery and processing, and enhancing charge injection processes in organic field-effect transistors. In addition, his work in molecular electronics focused on chemical modifications of self-assembled monolayer films to tailor the tunneling current in molecular-scale diodes. He joined CLUE in 2019 as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist where he currently pursues sensing (and other) applications of mechanically flexible organic electronics.
PictureStylianos Siontas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Brown University
Stylianos is a postdoctoral research scientist currently working on the development and commercialization of piezoelectric resonator based vapor sensing technologies. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Brown University where he performed research on optoelectronic semiconductor devices for photodetection and energy generation.

Graduate Students

PictureCaroline Yu, PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering BS, Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union
​Caroline received her B.Eng. in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in May 2015. She joined CLUE in Fall 2015 and is currently an IGERT Optics and Quantum Electronics fellow. Her current work focuses on thin film electronics for mechanical sensing. Previously, she was involved in research on carbon-doped gallium nitride grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy at the University of California at Santa Barbara, MEMS pressure sensors for high temperature and corrosive environments at NASA Goddard, and candidate axon guidance factors in the facial motor neuron system at Columbia University Medical Center.
PictureKeith Behrman, PhD Candidate, B.S. Physics, Chemistry University of Minnesota Twin Cities M.S. Electrical Engineering Columbia University
Keith Behrman received dual B.S. degrees in Physics and Chemistry from The University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His undergraduate research focused on the Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. After graduating, he worked for 3M as a Physics Engineer in the Optical Systems Division developing nanostructured films for AMOLED displays. Keith joined CLUE in 2016 as an M.S./PhD student and is currently working on optical sensing techniques for applications in robotics. 
PictureChristine McGinn, PhD Candidate, B.S. Engineering B.A. Physics Swarthmore University M.S. Electrical Engineering Columbia University
Chrissy obtained a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College in 2016. Her previous research experience was primarily at the University of Pennsylvania in the Engheta and Bassett groups studying quantum engineering, photonics, and nanoparticle scattering. Other research experiences included studying chromonic liquid crystals at Swarthmore College and semiconductor microcavities at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany as a part of the DAAD RISE program. She obtained a Presidential Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Since joining CLUE in 2016, Chrissy has been studying the fabrication and integration of MEMs on CMOS for RF, IR, and sensing applications. 
PictureJose Antonio Bahamonde, PhD Candidate, BS UMASS Amherst, MS Columbia University
Jose Antonio Bahamonde recieved his B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He then joined Raytheon as part of the RF components group where he worked as a device modeling engineer for their Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Nitride HEMTs processes.    While increasing his experience in devices, he also designed multi-watt level power amplifier mircrowave monolithic integrated cirucits (MMICs) and became well versed in metrology.  Jose also worked in metrology and mmW cirucit design in Bell Labs in 2014.  

He received his M.S. from Columbia University in 2015 from the department of Electrical Engineering.  He is currently a PhD candidate researching topics in traveling-wave devices and is co-advised with Professor Harish Krishnaswamy.  A topic of interest is the growth on piezoelectric thin films on III-V semiconductors for low noise, high performance acoustic amplifiers.  Jose is also researching Graphene assisted surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices on Lithium Niobate.  
PictureKevin Kam, PhD Candidate, BS Electrical Engineering University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, MS Electrical Engineering Columbia University
Kevin Kam received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2017 and his MS degree from Columbia University in 2020. He joined CLUE in 2018 and is an NSF Fellow through the GRFP program. His current research is in the effects of aging in organic light emitting diode (OLED) large area displays and in designing implantable CMOS systems for biomedical telemetry.
PictureVikrant Kumar, PhD Candidate, B.Tech-M.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Vikrant received his B.Tech-M.Tech (Dual) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 2017. For his masters' thesis, his research explored novel integration techniques of Organic Photodiodes and Organic Thin-Film Transistors. He then joined Intel as an SoC Design Engineer with the Scalable Server Development Group (SDG). At Intel, he primarily worked on ESD circuit design and Reliability Verification (RV) for the server SoCs. He joined CLUE in 2019 as a Ph.D. candidate and his research work is focused on novel sensors and electrode array design with applications in neural recordings.
In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, playing squash, watching tennis and reading.

PictureZicong Huang PhD Candidate, B.S. Astronomy, Peking University, M.S. Electrical Engineering Columbia University
Zicong Huang received his BS degree in Astronomy from the Peking University in Beijing, China in 2018, and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. During his undergraduate years, he has participated in various different projects from Plasma Physics to Exoplanet searching. After coming to Columbia University, he worked in Richard Osgood group studying integrated photonics circuits and semiconductor devices, using advanced microscopic techniques and simulation tools. He joined CLUE in 2019 as a MS student and now is a PhD student. His current research is in modeling and simulation of optoelectronic devices.

Visitors

Undergraduate researchers (current)

Zoe Elison

CLUE Alumni

Postdoctoral Alumni:
Marco Roberto Cavallari - Currently at the Federal University for Latin American Integration, Brazil
Sung-Jin Kim - Currently at Chungbuk National University (Korea)
Brian Tull - Currently at Lumiode
Htay Hliang - Currently at Dupont
Nadia Pervez - Currently at Chromation
Steve Park - Currently at KAIST (Korea)
En-chen (Patrick) Chen -Currently at KLA-Tencor (Taiwan)
PhD alumni (directly supervised):
Jose Bahamonde - currently at Lelantos
​Caroline Yu - Currently at Apple
Aida Raquel Colón Berríos - Currently at Apple
​Peter Bullen - Currently at Lumentum
Christopher Choi - Currently at Fenwick and West LLP
​​Hassan Edrees - Currently at Apple
Kostas Alexandrou - Currently at Intel
Amrita Masurkar - Currently at BAE Systems
Jon Beck - Currently at Apple
Shyuan Yang - Currently at Apple
Fabio Carta - Currently at IBM Research
Vincent Lee - Currently at Lumiode
John Sarik - Currently at Nanohmics
Marshall Cox - Currently at Radiator Labs
Zhang (Jerry) Jia - Currently at Facebook/Oculus
Yu-Jen (Eddy) Hsu - Currently at Lumiode

PhD alumni (co-supervised):
Kshitij Yadav (joint with Peter Kinget) - Currently at Qualcomm
Haig Norian (joint with Ken Shepard) - Currently at ASML

Masters Alumni:
Zeynep Basaran - Currently at Basaran Grinder Corp
​Tiantong Yu - Currently at Huawei

Undergraduate researchers:
Narumi Wong - Currently at Imperial College, London 
Sarah Thompson - Currently at the University of Pennsylvania

Visitors:
​Johannes Bintinger - Austrian Institute of Technology, Tulln
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