PhD Alumni
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Bingtao Gao
Title/Position
PhD, 2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Zhejiang University (Professor Hongsheng Chen's group)
![Portrait of Wenqi Duan](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2022-02/wenqi_duan_id_photo_0_1.jpg?h=d53bd2aa&itok=RYyjmeqY)
Wenqi Duan
Title/Position
PhD, 2020
Current Position: New Product Information (NPI) Scientific Writer at Thorlabs Inc.
![Portrait of Amir Asgharzadeh Shishavan](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2022-02/amir_asgharzadeh_electrical_engineering_6.jpg?h=14b57257&itok=cVlE9SxG)
Amir Asgharzadeh Shishavan
Title/Position
PhD, 2019
Current Position: Photovoltaic Systems Engineer at NEXTracker
MS Alumni
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Alexandar C. Walhof
Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2019
Current Position: Engineer, Firefly Photonics
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Abby N. Venable
Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2018
Current Position: Electrical Engineer at Missile Defense Agency (Navy)
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Lauren M. Davidson
Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2017
Current Position: Systems Engineer, John Deere
BS Alumni
2023
![Nicholas Natarajan](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-06/image001.jpg?h=8308ea5d&itok=9hpfGwBX)
![Portrait of Xavier Uhrmacher](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-01/Kaleb-Uhrmacher.jpg?h=3de8e444&itok=8wBYKUqJ)
2022
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Ryan Edwall
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021 - Fall 2022
Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award, 2022 College of Engineering Research Open House; Outstanding Student Researcher Award, 2022 College of Engineering Student Excellence Awards
![Jimmy Nguyen](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2022-08/jimmy%20photo.jpg?h=38467c0e&itok=5WSUJXE6)
Jimmy Nguyen
Title/Position
Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2022
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Summer Research Program Intern
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Alaeldin Saeed
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2022 - Fall 2022
UI Decarb Initiative Researcher
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Jacob Sindt
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
One of three student researchers from the College of Engineering featured in the 2022 Dare to Discover Campaign by UI OVPR; College of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholar
2021
![Portrait of Greyson Davis](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-12/Davis%2C%20Greyson%20%281%29.jpg?h=cce99484&itok=JCF-2Jmc)
![Portrait of Daniel Phetmanysay](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-12/Phetmanysay%2C%20Daniel.jpg?h=f186fe89&itok=6-QPybK2)
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Armando Revelez
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2021;
Graduate Researcher, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
2020
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Eric Larson
Title/Position
Winter 2018 - Spring 2020
ICRU Fellow, NREL Renewable Energy School Attendee
2018
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Joshua Deutsch
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2018
Honors Research Practicum, Best Undergraduate Poster Award, 2018 College of Engineering Research Open House
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Clarissa Dietz
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring - Summer 2018
Honors Research Practicum, ICRU Research Fellow
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Nate Dvorak
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2018
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
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![Suram Liyanage](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/a/4/a48d0d3f0502aefcd5a32ef4b321ed51.png?itok=1JGXi2F1)
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Aaron Silva
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2017 - Spring 2018
Outstanding Student Researcher, DAAD Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
2017
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Logan M. Nichols
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 - 2017
NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead, ICRU Fellow
![Portrait of Jason Ryan](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2022-02/image1_2.jpg?h=8b721d3a&itok=64Nhr9OT)
2016
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Leland J. Nordin
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2015 - Spring 2016
Noyce/Intel Fund Award (Grinnell College), Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) Award (Grinnell College)
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David Wu
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2016
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Grant
K-12 Alumni
2023
![Reyna Alam](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-07/reyna-alam.jpg?h=f94ada68&itok=OO6UQZOU)
![Sebastian Hazlett](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-07/Sebastian-Hazlett.jpg?h=cccf930e&itok=w9k0rXYX)
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![Dorothy Zhang](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-07/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-26%20at%2012.07.55%20PM.png?h=451e7860&itok=AArJM-RX)
2022
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![Luke Huang](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2022-08/LukePhoto.jpg?h=7219dd6d&itok=2kqerNnD)
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2021
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![Connor Houtman](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/a/4/a48d0d3f0502aefcd5a32ef4b321ed51.png?itok=1JGXi2F1)
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![Mara Maas](/sites/ftoor.lab.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/a/4/a48d0d3f0502aefcd5a32ef4b321ed51.png?itok=1JGXi2F1)
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2016
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