Prof. Ioannis (John) Kymissis
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Ioannis Kymissis is an electrical engineer, teaching at Columbia University. He joined the faculty in 2006. 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 and recrystallized silicon devices. johnkym@ee.columbia.edu |
Postdoctoral Scholars
Marco Roberto Cavallari received a double Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering for his participation to the T.I.M.E. program (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) from Ecole Centrale de Lille, France, and University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2007. He finished a Double Master's degree in Microelectronics at USP and Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy, on the development of methodology to manufacture organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) in 2010. He presented his PhD thesis in OTFTs as sensors for clinical diagnosis in 2014. He is currently a researcher on the processing and characterization of biosensors from an array of OTFTs. He is experienced in electrical engineering, especially in Microelectronics and Molecular Electronics, acting in the following fields: characterization of electrical charge transport in disordered solids, organic photovoltaics, organic thin-film transistors (OTFT), chemical sensors for gas sensing, processing in microelectronics (CMOS), nanotechnology, conjugated polymers and small organic molecules.
Graduate Students
Aida Raquel Colón Berríos,
PhD Candidate, PE, EE BS, ECE, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Aida Raquel received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and Bayamón campus in 2013. She joined Columbia University as a M.S./PhD student and obtained her M.S. degree in 2015. She is currently a NSF fellow through the GRFP program.
Previously, she did internships at NIST, UC Berkeley and IBM Tokyo, working on metrology and calibration for devices at the fempto- to nano-ampere domain, printed organic solar cells and optical characterisation for chip-on-chip interconnects, respectively.
Since joining Columbia she has been working in the Kymissis group on the fabrication of piezo electric MEMS (resonators) on CMOS for mass and IR sensing and RF applications. The project involves chip design and process development for the monolithic integration of the MEMS with the circuitry.
Previously, she did internships at NIST, UC Berkeley and IBM Tokyo, working on metrology and calibration for devices at the fempto- to nano-ampere domain, printed organic solar cells and optical characterisation for chip-on-chip interconnects, respectively.
Since joining Columbia she has been working in the Kymissis group on the fabrication of piezo electric MEMS (resonators) on CMOS for mass and IR sensing and RF applications. The project involves chip design and process development for the monolithic integration of the MEMS with the circuitry.
Caroline 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.
Keith Behrman
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.
Christine McGinn
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.
Peter Bullen, PhD Candidate
Applied Physics
BS, Applied Physics, Stanford University
Peter is currently working on characterization of LiNbO3.
Jose 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.
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.
Visitors
Undergraduate researchers
Sarah Thompson
CLUE Alumni
Postdoctoral Alumni:
Sung-Jin Kim - Currently at Chungbuk National University (Korea)
Brian Tull - Currently at Lumiode
Htay Hliang - Currently at Dupont
Sung-Jin Kim - Currently at Chungbuk National University (Korea)
Brian Tull - Currently at Lumiode
Htay Hliang - Currently at Dupont
Nadia Pervez
BS, The Cooper Union
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Post-doc, Columbia University EE
Currently at Chromation, Inc.
BS, The Cooper Union
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Post-doc, Columbia University EE
Currently at Chromation, Inc.
Steve Park received his Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Science and Engineering and Physics with magna cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Knox College in 2005. He then worked as a technical staff for NanoInk Inc., developing Dip-Pen Nanolithography technology until 2008. Thereafter, he received his Master of Science and Ph D from Stanford University in Materials Science and Engineering under the Professor Zhenan Bao in 2014, where he researched on carbon nanotube and organic-based electronics and optoelectronics. He is currently researching on piezoelectric polymer-based cochlear implants with Prof. Kymissis and with Prof. Elizabeth Olson in the Biomedical Engineering at Columbia. His research interests are in nanoelectronics, printed organic flexible electronics, and stretchable electronics for electronic skin and bioelectronic applications.
Kostas Alexandrou
Electrical Engineering BS
Piraeus University of Applied Sciences MS
Nanotechnology, EPFL/Torino/Grenoble
Currently at Intel
Electrical Engineering BS
Piraeus University of Applied Sciences MS
Nanotechnology, EPFL/Torino/Grenoble
Currently at Intel
Hassan received the B.Eng in electrical engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in May 2010. From July 2009 to July 2010 he was an undergraduate researcher at the Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE) working on a fluid dielectric spectrometer. As a graduate student in CLUE, he has primarily focused on the monolithic integration for high-quality piezoelectric resonators on foundry sub-micron CMOS technologies for applications in physical sensing and reconfigurable RF receiver circuitry.
Christopher Choi, PhD Candidate
Applied Physics BS, Cornell University
Christopher received his B.A. degree in physics from Cornell University in 2012. His undergraduate studies included research in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and experience as a teaching assistant in the physics department. In addition, he interned as a Summer Undergraduate Fellow at NIST in 2011, studying layer-by-layer self assembled polymer composites for applications in fire safety.
In 2014, Christopher received his M.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University. He is currently a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department. His current research is focused on organic and inorganic optoelectronic devices.
In 2014, Christopher received his M.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University. He is currently a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department. His current research is focused on organic and inorganic optoelectronic devices.
En-chen (Patrick) Chen -Currently at KLA-Tencor, Inc.
PhD alumni (directly supervised):
Shyuan Yang - Currently at Apple
Fabio Carta - Currently at IBM Research
Vincent Lee - Currently at Lumiode
John Sarik - Currently at Xenex
Marshall Cox - Currently at Radiator Labs
Zhang (Jerry) Jia - Currently at Apple
Yu-Jen (Eddy) Hsu - Currently at Qualcomm
PhD alumni (co-supervised):
Kshitij Yadav (joint with Peter Kinget) - Currently at Qualcomm
Haig Norian (joint with Ken Shepard) - Currently at Kulite
Masters Alumni:
Zeynep Basaran - Currently at Basaran Grinder Corp
Visiting Alumni:
Johannes Bintinger - PhD Candidate, Technical Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Shyuan Yang - Currently at Apple
Fabio Carta - Currently at IBM Research
Vincent Lee - Currently at Lumiode
John Sarik - Currently at Xenex
Marshall Cox - Currently at Radiator Labs
Zhang (Jerry) Jia - Currently at Apple
Yu-Jen (Eddy) Hsu - Currently at Qualcomm
PhD alumni (co-supervised):
Kshitij Yadav (joint with Peter Kinget) - Currently at Qualcomm
Haig Norian (joint with Ken Shepard) - Currently at Kulite
Masters Alumni:
Zeynep Basaran - Currently at Basaran Grinder Corp
Visiting Alumni:
Johannes Bintinger - PhD Candidate, Technical Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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