Ramji Singh is a Post Doctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University being supervised by Dr. Marco Saraniti. Ramji Singh obtained his PhD from University of Illinois at Chicago, USA in 2022. His PhD work focused on Electron – Phonon interactions in emerging semiconductors and their heterostructures for power electronics (charge and heat transport) and quantum applications. For ULTRA, he is working on Cellular Monte Carlo framework for electro – thermal simulations of semiconductor devices and developing software for phonon effects for computational heat modeling.

Ali Ebadi Yekta received his Master’s degree in Solid-state physics from Kharazmi University in Iran. He is a PhD candidate in physics at Arizona State University where his research focuses on PECVD growth of cubic/hexagonal boron nitride and their interfaces with diamond. 

Mihai Negoita is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National

Laboratories. His work focuses on the physical modeling and TCAD simulation

of wide and ultrawide bandgap power devices. Prior to joining Sandia, he worked

for 10 years at Synopsys as a Sentaurus Device developer. He received his Ph.D.

in Material Science/Electronic Materials from Duke University in 2003.

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.

Gabriel Munro-Ludders is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University, where he works in the Nano Science Laboratory. He received a dual B.S. degree in Physics and Math from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a M.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His past research includes correlating thin film morphology to growth conditions in magnetron sputtering from Monte Carlo simulations. His current research focuses on measuring interface properties of n-type diamond and nanoCarbon with photoemission. His focus in ULTRA is characterizing the properties of nanoCarbon related to its use as an ohmic contact strategy for phosphorus-doped diamond. 

    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. 

Mackenzie Siford received her B.S. in Physics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is now working towards a Physics M.S. degree. Her current research involves defect identification in AlN through photo-induced electron paramagnetic resonance.