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Daniel Rogers
Ph.D. candidate
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​Daniel received a B.S. in Physics from Seton Hall in 2020. Hs is now pursuing a Ph.D. at North Carolina State University and is conducting research in III-Nitride light emitters.



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Dakota Grey
Ph.D. candidate

Dakota completed her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at NC State University in 2022. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on III-nitride power devices.



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Antonio Gonzalez
Ph.D. candidate

Antonio completed his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at UNC Charlotte and North Carolina State University respectively. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University with a focus on III-Nitride growth for optoelectronic devices. 


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Swagata Goswami Utsha
Ph.D. candidate
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Swagata received a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2022. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. at North Carolina State University and is conducting research in III-Nitride laser diodes.


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Sothio Pan
Ph.D candidate

Sothio earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Dakota in 2023 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Notre Dame in 2025. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. at North Carolina State University, focusing on III-nitride power devices.




Alumni


Matt Peart 
​Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, August 2020
Development of III-Nitride Power Device Technology
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Matthew Peart received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and an M.S. from Lehigh. He has worked as a component design engineer at Intel in Hillsboro, OR, in silicon process development, and as an R&D engineer at Broadcom fiber optics group.  His research was on III-Nitride power electronics and numerical simulation during his PhD studies at Lehigh.  He is the founder of Magneton Inc.

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Syed Ahmed Al Muyeed
Ph. D. Electrical Engineering, May 2021
III-Nitride interlayer active region light emitters in the visible range
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Syed Ahmed Al Muyeed received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the department of Applied Physics, Electronics and Communication Engineering of University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2014 and 2016, respectively. His research interests at Lehigh focused on the physics and growth of semiconductor light emitters. He is working at Google/Raxium, Inc.

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Xiongliang  Wei
Ph. D. Electrical Engineering, August 2021
InGaN Quantum Dots for Efficient Light Emitters
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Xiongliang received his B.S degree in traditional optics design in Wuhan University, China in 2014. He then attended Lehigh University for his M.S. degree, and to perform research in photonics. After his M.S., he decided to stay at Lehigh to pursue a PhD degree. At Lehigh he researched simulation and fabrication of quantum dot active layers to produce the next generation of high-efficiency light-emitting diodes and laser diodes. He is now working for Hisense Photonics, Inc.



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Elia Palmese​
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, August 2024

Development of AlInN and its Native Thermal Oxide for Semiconductor Power Devices
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​Elia received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University in 2019. At NC State, he researched  III-nitride power electronic and semiconductor devices, specifically the oxidation of AlInN and oxide-based devices. He is now a Postdoc at the University of Delaware.



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Haotian Xue
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, March 2025
III-Nitride Semiconductors for Electronic and Photonic Devices: From InGaN-Based Red LEDs to AlInN Films and AlInN/GaN Superlattices
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Haotian received a B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Master's in Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University in 2020. He earned a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, researching the growth of III-Nitride power devices and light emitters. He is working at Google/Raxium, Inc.


Geethu Alluri, B. S. Electrical Engineering, Dec 2023
Jing Xue M. S. Electrical Engineering, Jan 2021

Siyuan Guo M. S. Electrical Engineering, Aug 2020
Chengxin Yu B. S. Electrical Engineering, May 2020
Mark Schafer B. S. Electrical Engineering, May 2020
Rebecca Lentz B. S. Electrical Engineering, May 2019
Miao-Chan Tsai Visiting Researcher 2016-2017

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