Mason Nanoelectronics Lab

Prof. Ethan Ahn joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE) at George Mason University in 2023. He holds the VMEC (Virginia Microelectronics Consortium) 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 two book chapters of Phase Change Memory (Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices, Wiley 2015) and Spintronic Nanodevices (Comprehensive Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Elsevier 2026). Prof. Ahn has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the NSF ExLENT grant (2025), the Naval Research Laboratory Summer Fellowship (2022), the AFOSR Quantum Electronic Solids/Condensed Matter Physics grant (2019-2022), the NSF EAGER grant (2019-2020), 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. For VMEC, Dr. Ahn serves as a chair for Summer Scholar program. At Mason, Dr. Ahn serves as Associate Director of QSEC (Quantum Science and Engineering Center) and TIG (technology interest group) chair of Electrical Engineering for Electronics and Circuits.

He loves music, wine, British ale, and baseball, being an amateur guitarist (acoustic) and pianist (k-pop), a collector of California Napa Cab wines and British pub ales, and a Kia Tigers fan (KBO). He lives with his wife, chito, and luka.