Our People
Meet the members of the Materials and Interface Nanotechnology Laboratory, current and past.
Faculty
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Prof. Oded Rabin
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor (business card)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
email: o d e d at u m d . e d u
OFFICE | LAB |
CHE 1110B | ERF 0145 |
5-3382 | 5-4979 |
Graduate Students

Kenny McAfee
Ph.D. Student
ERF 1202U |
5-1590 |
Research: Heat Flux Sensors for High Temperatures; Inverse Heat Transfer Frameworks.

Zhihao Song
Ph.D. Student
ERF 1202U |
5-1590 |
Research: Heat Flux Sensors for High temperatures; 2D Materials.
Additional contact information can be found on the IREAP and UMD personnel directories: ireap-directory , UMD-directory
Information on Open Positions at MINT
___________________Alumni
Our alumni have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and government labs worldwide.
- Keith Gregorczyk (Ph.D. candidate) — Ionic Devices; Prof. Gary Rubloff, UMD; CIC-nanogune, Spain
- Li Ma (high-school student) — UIUC
- Cory Mekelburg (undergraduate student) — Xelay Acumen; EnerG2 Technologies
- Christopher Wolfram (undergraduate student) — BioMarin Pharmaceutical; UMD graduate school
- Rian Yu (Ph.D. candidate) — Prof. Zachariah, UMD
- Hasina Ali (research scientist) — Catholic University; Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, Patent Law
- Nicholas Faenza (undergraduate student) — Rutgers University, graduate school
- Joseph (Josh) White (undergraduate student) — Genpact / Middle River Aircraft Systems
- Seung Yong Lee (Ph.D. 2012) — Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Owen McGovern (undergraduate student) — Lion Brothers Company
- DoRonne Shyu (undergraduate student) — DuPont; Deloitte
- Robert Schmidt (undergraduate student)
- Jane E. Cornett (Ph.D. 2013) — Analog Devices
- Nicholas Wang (undergraduate student) — United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Andrew P. Lawson (M.S. 2016) — Leica Biosystems
- Romaine Isaacs (postdoctoral research technician) — Thermo Fisher; Tescan / FEI
- Haoxian Zhang (M.S. 2019)
- Nathaniel Soo-Hwan Jang (M.S. 2018) — InventWood
- Kunyi Zhang (Ph.D. 2020) — LAM Research; Prof. Tom Murphy, UMD
- Pampa Mandal (research scientist) — University of Maryland Laser Safety Program; Prof. J.P. Paglione, UMD
- Julian Stewart (undergraduate student) — University of Washington