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Prof. Ethan C. Ahn

Prof. Ethan Ahn joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE) at George Mason University in 2023. He holds the VMEC endowed professorship. He was an Assistant (2016-2022) and Associate (2022-2023) Professor at UTSA (the University of Texas at San Antonio). Previously, he served as a Senior Panel Process Engineer at Apple, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) and as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in EE at Stanford University in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong (https://nano.stanford.edu). Before joining Stanford, he was a research scientist with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul, Korea (2007-2010). He is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed research journal and conference papers and wrote one book chapter of Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices. Prof. Ahn has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Naval Research Laboratory Summer Fellowship (2022), the prestigious AFOSR and NSF grants (2019-2022), and the Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Fellowship (2019-2021). He currently serves as an editorial board member for Scientific Reports, has served as a technical committee member for IEEE EDS (2017-2020) Optoelectronic Devices, and currently serves as Vice Chair for IEEE EDS Northern Virginia/Washington DC Chapter. He loves music and wine, being an amateur guitarist and a collector of California Napa Cab wines.

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Research Associates and Consultants

Dr. Sezin Sayin

Process Engineer at Mason NanoFab Facility (NFF)

Previous Degree: PhD in Electrical Engineering, George Washington University

Dissertation Topic: Development of Liquid-Phase Plasmonic Sensor Platforms for Biomedical Diagnostic Applications

Research Interest: Plasmonics, Nanofabrication & Nanocharacterization

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Graduate Students

PhD Candidate
Fitunerediate G. Gebeyehu

Graduate Research Assistant (GRA)

QSEC (Quantum Science & Engineering Center) Summer GRA (Mason Office of the Provost, Graduate Division, 2025)

Program at Mason: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Previous Degree: BS in Electrical Engineering, Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia) 

Research Interest: 2D Materials for Atomristor

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MS Candidate
Khang B. Diep

STEM Student Employment Program (SSEP) at US Naval Research Lab

Program at Mason: BAM (Bachelor's to Accelerated Master's) in Electrical Engineering

Research Interest: Large-scale Exfoliation of 2D Materials, Light-Matter Interaction in 2D Materials

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John A. Baban

Program at Mason: MS in Electrical Engineering

Previous Degree: BS in Physics, George Mason University

Research Interest: Hardware Security of Emerging Nonvolatile Memory

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Nigama V. Vajjula

Program at Mason: MS in Electrical Engineering

ECE Department GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Fall 2025

Previous Degree: BT in Biomedical Engineering, Lovely Professional University (India)

Research Interest: Finite Element Simulation (COMSOL) of PCM

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Isa I. Saleheen

Program at Mason: MS in Electrical Engineering

ECE Department GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Fall 2025

Previous Degree: BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BRAC University (Bangladesh)

Research Interest: TCAD Simulation of Artificial Leaf

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Hwijung Kang

Program at Mason: MS in Electrical Engineering

Previous Degree: BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University (South Korea)

Research Interest: Transport in 2D Materials

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Tayga Alaca

Program at Mason: MS in Electrical Engineering

Previous Degree: BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Research Interest: Reducing Variability of RRAM

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Undergraduate Students

Pranav U. Choori

Process Engineer at Mason NFF

ECS Travel Grant Awardee (2025, Electronics/Photonics Division)

Program at Mason: BS in Electrical Engineering, Class of 2025

Research Interest: Nanofab, PCM (Phase Change Memory)

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Emily Keung
Mason URSP (Undergraduate Research Scholars Program) 2025 Awardee
Undergraduate Lab Assistant

Program at Mason: BS in Chemistry, Class of 2026

Research Interest: VOC Adsorption by 2D Materials, Nanochemistry​

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Evan Greene
Undergraduate Lab Assistant

Program at Mason: BS in Electrical Engineering, Class of 2028

Research Interest: Exfoliation and Transfer of 2D Materials

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Undergraduate Lab Assistant 

Program at Mason: BS in Electrical Engineering, Class of 2027

Research Interest: Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanomaterials​​​​

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Research Interns

VMEC (Virginia Microelectronics Consortium)
2025: Noreen Hossain (University of Virginia, Gold Award 2nd Place Winner), Julia Rodrigues (William & Mary, Gold Award 1st Place Winner) 
2024: Julia Rodrigues (William & Mary, Gold Award Winner), Michael Liang (Virginia Tech)

ASSIP (Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program)  
2025 (Photo Contest 1st Place Winner): Aarna Gupta (Oakton High), Aditi Karnik (Chantilly High), Emma Graf (Walt Whitman High), Sean Kim (Centreville High), Suan Cho (Sunset High) 
2024: Anusha Agarwal (TJ High), Risha Krishnan (Chantilly High) 
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Alumni (UTSA Roadrunners)

Ashkan Aminian (MS in Electrical Engineering, 2023)

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Md.Khirul Anam (PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2022) @ Intel

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Pratheek Gopalakrishnan (PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2022) @ Intel

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Ann Rose Sebastian (PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2022) @ Tokyo Electron

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Hebin Roy Cherian (PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2022) @ Micron

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Joshua Procell (BS in Electrical Engineering, 2022)

 

Chris Carley (MS in Advanced Materials Engineering, 2021)

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Nhu Huynh (MS in Advanced Materials Engineering, 2021)

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Danny Espinoza (MS in Advanced Materials Engineering, 2021)

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Spencer Palmer (BS in Electrical Engineering, 2021)

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Susana Ortega Contreras (MS in Electrical Engineering, 2019)

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Hebin R. Cherian (MS in Electrical Engineering, 2018)

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Melissa Escobar (BS in Mechanical Engineering, 2017)

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Azeez Layeni (BS in Electrical Engineering, 2017)

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Visitors and Interns (@UTSA)

Prof. Heonchang Yoo (Korea University, 2020)

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Arushi Shrivastava (International Institute of Information Technology, India, 2020) 

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Guillermo Olivarria Arnold (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, 2019) 

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Kyle Slattery (Northwest Vista College, 2019)

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Dr. Laura Verdugo (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico, 2018-2019) 

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Robert Mendoza (Northwest Vista College, 2018)

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H.-J. Seong (Kyung-gi Science High School, Korea, 2018)

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C. Kim (Kyung-gi Science High School, Korea, 2018) 

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John Cruz (School of Science and Technology, San Antonio, 2018)

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