Parker Ralph Steenblik is a second year PhD student at Arizona State University. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in Physics and a Minor in Computer Science. His undergraduate research experience includes deriving thermophysical properties of molten salts from simulation and using Deep Learning to advance and more accurately predict these properties. Molten salts are used in nuclear reactors and now he does research on materials physics to make high power electronic devices that could be used in our power grid. He is specifically interested in the contacts and interfaces between cubic boron nitride and various metals and dielectrics.

    Shisong Luo (sl187@rice.edu) received his M.Eng and B.Eng degree in Microelectronics in 2022 and 2019 from Sun Yat-sen University. After that, he joined Rice University and started pursuing a Phd.D degree. He is working with Prof. Yuji Zhao on GaN and UWBG devices research. 

Mingfei Xu (mx9@rice.edu) received his B.S. degree in Physics in 2020 from Wuhan University. He joined the Rice WIDE Lab led by Prof. Yuji Zhao in 2021 and is currently seeking a Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice. He is primarily working on ultrawide bandgap semiconductor-based electronics, especially boron nitride and diamond.