News

3 September, 2024

Congratulations to Andrew, whose first paper is now published as an Editor’s Pick in the Journal of Applied Physics!

29 August, 2024

Congratulations to Po-Sen for his coauthorship on this paper!

26 August, 2024

An official welcome to Raphael Stone, the newest PhD student in the group!

1 July, 2024

Welcome to Evan Spotte-Smith, a CBI Fellow and the group’s first postdoc!

12 April, 2024

🥉 Congratulations to Andrew, who won third place in the MSE graduate symposium poster competition!

16 February, 2024

🚨 New paper alert! Rachel wrote an invited Comment piece in Nature Reviews Physics about Bayesian parameter estimation.

16 January, 2024

Congratulations to Rochan, who has now officially transitioned to being a PhD student in the group!

3 January, 2024

Congratulations to Andrew, who was awarded the Bradford and Diane Smith Graduate Fellowship in Engineering!

23 October, 2023

Congratulations to J. Drew for passing his RPE!

18 October, 2023

Congratulations to Andrew for passing his RPE!

3 October, 2023

Welcome to PhD student Po-Sen! He is co-advised by Prof. Porter.

1 September, 2023

J. Drew and Rachel visited our Yan group collaborators at the University of Toledo and also got to take a tour of the First Solar manufacturing facility in nearby Perrysburg!

3 August, 2023

Rachel was featured in a Behind the Researcher video produced by the CMU College of Engineering!

19 May, 2023

We wish MS student Sandy and PhD student Lory well on their internships this summer (at Seagate Technology and NXP Semiconductors, respectively) – we’ll miss you here in Pittsburgh!

30 April, 2023

Happy end-of-semester! The group went out for lunch and ice cream to celebrate. And we have a shiny new photo for the website, too!

14 December, 2022

Welcome PhD student Lory Wang, a third-year in the ChemE department!

11 December, 2022

We had a great pre-holiday group outing to an escape room (we escaped!) and dinner.

1 December, 2022

Welcome PhD student J. Drew!

28 November, 2022

Welcome to Master’s student Yuelin Huang (coadvised with Prof. O’Connor)!

20 October, 2022

Welcome to our first PhD student, Andrew Timmins!

27 September, 2022

Welcome Master’s student Sandy Chen!

26 September, 2022

The MSE department published a new faculty member feature about Rachel!

13 September, 2022

Welcome to our first group member, Master’s student Rochan Bajpai!

1 September, 2022

Rachel’s official first day as research faculty!