My research group and I are part of the
Nanoelectronics Theory and Simulation Laboratory.
Researh group members (with short bio and personal motto), alumni and visitors are listed below.
Prof.
Eric Polizzi joined the Electrical & Computer
Engineering (ECE) faculty
at UMass, Amherst in
2005. Prof. Polizzi has an interdisciplinary background with an undergraduate and graduate education in Theoretical and Computational Physics,
and a PhD in Applied Mathematics (2001) from the University of Toulouse, France.
Prior joining UMass, he has served as a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical Engineering (2002-2003)
and as a senior research scientist in Computer Sciences (2003-2005), both at Purdue University.
Prof. Polizzi's research combines different fundamental physical, mathematical, numerical and algorithmic modeling strategies, and aims at providing
a sound basis to face the challenges in large-scale simulations for applications ranging from material sciences and chemistry to electronics and
nanotechnology. His awards include the NSF-CAREER Award (2009), and the Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2011). His research
is funded by NSF, Intel and SRC. [bio+].
Researh group members (with short bio and personal motto), alumni and visitors are listed below.
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Current Students (Fall 2011)
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| Zuojing (Andy) Chen is from Wuhan, China. He received his Bachelor's degree in Optical Information Sicence and Technology from Department of Physics of University of Science and Technology of China. Zuojing received his MS degree at UMass working on "Efficient Numerical Solutions for the Time-Dependent Quantum System" under the supervision of Prof. Polizzi. He is currently pursuing his PhD thesis on the fundamental modeling aspects of TDDFT with numerical applications including Thz responses for CNTs. |
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| Alan Levin is from Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Alan completed his Honors Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Polizzi on "Derivation and Study of New Electron Transport Method for Arbitrary Nanoscale Devices". He is currently pursuing his MS thesis on fundamental modeling framework for DFT all-electron calculations. |
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| Brendan Gavin is from Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Brendan is currently pursuing his MS thesis working on different fundamental modeling and numerical aspects for solving the quantum many-body problem. |
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| Braegan Spring is from Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Braegan is currently pursuing his MS thesis, working on the SPIKE and FEAST algorithms and software packages. |
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| Tejas Addagarla is from India. She has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Tejas is currently pursuing her MS thesis working on the time dependent density functional theory and its application in phonon-electron interactions. |
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| Matthew Ferrante is from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research involves calculating all-electron band structure and density-of-states for various carbon nanostructures using the FEAST framework. |
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| James Kestyn is from Massachusetts. He is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research involves calculating all-electron band structure and density-of-states for various carbon nanostructures using the FEAST framework. |
Alumni
Karan Mendiratta (Graduate Student 2009-2011)
Position after graduation: Software engineer at CISCO
Karthik Prakhya (Undegraduate Student 2009-2011)
Position after graduation: Software system engineer at MITRE
Deyin Zhang (Graduate Student 2006-2011)
MS thesis, Aug. 2007: Efficient modeling techniques for atomistic-based electronic density calculations