Bailey Williams is a Research Project Manager from the Research Project Management Office at Arizona State University. She recieved her B.S. degree in Management and B.A. in Marketing from the University of South Florida in 2015, an M.B.A. from Liberty University in 2018, and a P.M.P. Certification from the Project Management Institute in 2024.

Nishita (Nish) Sinha is a current PhD student in Professor Srabanti Chowdhury's lab at Stanford University. She is very interested in making devices that can help improve upon the efficiency of power conversion circuits to better support renewable energy and to drive down the carbon dioxide emissions associated with electricity. She is starting work on diamond based photoconductive semiconductor switches. In her free time, she enjoys climbing and dancing.

Dinusha is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his master’s degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 2021. His current research involves developing high-voltage electronic devices using the ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor aluminum nitride (AlN) and understanding their electronic properties.

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.