Team

Project Scientist

Parthi Santhanam
Ph.D., MIT

Parthi is a project scientist in the Raman Lab. His interests include opto-electronic energy technologies, entropy and information in electronic and photonic systems, radiative cooling, and emerging semiconductor technologies. As a researcher, his focus is on developing electro-luminescent cooling devices and their applications to compact, portable cryogenics as well as the long-term societal need for more energy-efficient HVAC and waste heat recovery solutions.

Graduate Students

David Abraham
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

David is a third year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering department. He spent two years at Northrop Grumman as a microelectronics process engineer fabricating next-generation RF devices. He is now researching optoelectronic systems and how they can control thermal emission spectra.

John Brewer
B.S., Optical Sciences and Engineering, University of Arizona
NSF Graduate Research Fellow

John is a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering department. He is interested in topics including optical meta-materials, non-hermitian optics, and energy conservation. His current research investigates how optical meta-materials can be used to create sensing and imaging devices in the infrared wavelengths.

Xin Huang
B.S., Materials Chemistry, Zhengzhou University
M.S., Materials Science, University of Rochester

Xin is a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering department. He is examining new means of controlling thermal systems with photonics and its application for energy and water conservation.

Jae Seung Hwang
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

Jae is a third year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering department. His current work is focused on the simulation and experimental realization of novel photonic and optoelectronic systems. He is broadly interested in optics and solid-state physics.

Aryan Zaveri
B.S., Physics, UCSB

Aryan is a first year Ph.D student in the Materials Science and Engineering department. He completed his undergraduate students in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he conducted research on Na and Li-ion cathode materials.

Undergraduate Students

Kara Levy
Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA

Kara is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department. She is interested in biomaterials as well as the integration of computer science into materials science.

Benjamin Pham
Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA

Ben is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department. His interests are in the machine learning applications to material science. He is currently involved with research involving the optimization of metasurfaces using neural networks.

Robert Yang
Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA

Robert is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department. He has contributed to a range of projects at the intersection of materials development and characterization, radiative cooling and new approaches to energy and sustainability.