Faisal Alamgir

Faisal Alamgir

Faisal Alamgir

Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Initiative Lead, Advanced Real-time Materials Characterization

faisal.alamgir@mse.gatech.edu

404.385.3263

Office Location:
Love 373

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Research Focus Areas:
  • Delivery & Storage
  • Fuels & Chemical Processing
  • Hydrogen Production
  • Hydrogen Utilization
  • Materials for Energy
Additional Research:
Energy Conversion, energy storage, nanomaterials, optical materials, photovoltaics, catalysis, electrical grid, energy storage

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Jason Azoulay

Jason Azoulay

Jason Azoulay

Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Vasser-Woolley GRA Distinguished Investigator in Sensors and Instrumentation

Jason Azoulay is an organic, organometallic and polymer chemist and internationally recognized leader in developing emerging semiconductor materials and devices. He has made significant contributions to the fields of polymer chemistry and materials science,bridging fundamental chemistry with real-world applications. His work focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of advanced functional materials across numerous technology platforms, with an emphasis on organic semiconductors and conjugated polymers.

Azoulay co-directs the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, and his lab adds great strength to Georgia Tech’s leadership in soft-matter and hybrid optoelectronics. His work also complements numerous efforts at Georgia Tech that develop and apply advanced functional materials. 

 


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Suman Datta

Suman Datta

Suman Datta

Joseph M. Pettit Chair of Advanced Computing
Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar

Suman Datta is the Joseph M Pettit Chair of Advanced Computing and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. His research group focuses on semiconductor devices that enable new compute models such as in-memory compute, brain-inspired compute, cryogenic compute, resilient compute etc.

From 2015 to 2022, Datta was the Stinson Endowed Chair Professor of Nanotechnology in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the Director of a multi-university microelectronics research center, ASCENT, funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Datta also served as the Director of a six-university research center for Extremely Energy Efficient Collective Electronics (EXCEL), funded by the SRC and National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore an alternate computing hardware that leverages continuous-time dynamics of emerging devices to execute optimization, learning, and inference tasks.

From 2007 to 2015, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, where his group pioneered advances in compound semiconductor-based quantum-well field effect transistors and tunneling field effect transistors.

From 1999 to 2007, he was in the Advanced Transistor Group at Intel Corporation, where he led device R&D effort for several generations of high-performance logic transistors such as high-k/metal gate, Tri-gate and strained channel CMOS transistors. He has published over 425 journal and refereed conference papers and holds more than 187 issued patents related to semiconductor devices. In 2013, Datta was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to high-performance advanced silicon and compound semiconductor transistor technologies. In 2016, he was named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of his inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.

sdatta68@gatech.edu

Office Location:
Klaus 2360

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Semiconductors
    Additional Research:
    High-performance heterogenous compute with advanced CMOSBrain-inspired collective state computing with advanced CMOS and beyond-CMOS semiconductorsEmerging semiconductors like ferroelectric field effect transistors, insulator-to-metal phase transition oxides, high mobility semiconducting oxides for near and in-memory compute and storageSemiconductors for cryogenic computing and harsh environment computing

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    Naresh Thadhani

    Naresh Thadhani

    Naresh Thadhani

    Professor and Chair, School of Materials Science and Engineering

    Thadhani joined the faculty in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech in September, 1992. His research focuses on studies of shock-induced physical, chemical, and mechanical changes for processing of novel materials and for probing the deformation and fracture response of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites, subjected to high-rate impact loading conditions. He has developed state-of-the-art high-strain-rate laboratory which includes 80-mm and 7.62-mm diameter single-stage gas-guns, and a laser-accelerated thin-foil set-up, to perform impact experiments at velocities of 70 to 1200 m/s. The experiments employ time-resolved diagnostics to monitor shock-initiated events with nanosecond resolution employing piezoelectric and piezoresistive stress gauges, VISAR interferometry, Photonic-doppler-velocimetry, and high-speed digital imaging, combined with the ability to recover impacted materials for post-mortem microstructural characterization and determination of other properties. He has built computational capabilities employing continuum simulations for design of experiments and development and validation of constitutive equations, as well as for meso-scale discrete particle numerical analysis (using CTH and ALE3D codes) to determine the effects observed during shock compression of heterogeneous materials, using real microstructures.

    naresh.thadhani@mse.gatech.edu

    404.894.2651

    Office Location:
    Love 286

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    deformation and degradation; fracture and fatigue; Ceramics; Materials Failure and Reliability; Materials In Extreme Environments; Materials Testing

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    Robert F. Speyer

    Robert F. Speyer

    Robert F. Speyer

    Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering

    Speyer joined the MSE faculty in August, 1992 after serving on the faculty at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University for six years.  He has written one book (Thermal Analysis of Materials), with another one on the way, published over 125 refereed papers and has given over 150 technical presentations.

    His present research group consists of seven graduate students and one Ph.D-level scientist. Dr. Speyer’s research has been funded by Navy, ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, Gas Research Institute, and private industry.  He was previously the president of Innovative Thermal Systems, a thermoanalytical scientific instrument company, and is presently the President of Verco Materials, a start-up company which will manufacture boron carbide armor .

    He teaches courses in Chemical Thermodynamics of Materials, Thermal and Transport Properties of Materials, and Ceramic Technology.

    robert.speyer@mse.gatech.edu

    404.894.6075

    Office Location:
    Love 260

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Thermal management; Ceramics; Modeling; Fabrication

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    Mary Lynn Realff

    Mary Lynn Realff

    Mary Lynn Realff

    Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
    Associate Chair for Undergrad Programs, School of Materials Science and Engineering

    Mary Lynn Realff is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She received her BS Textile Engineering from Georgia Tech and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Polymer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

    Her current research is focused on Effective Team Dynamics for both undergraduate and graduate students. The Effective Team Dynamics Initiative develops curriculum and workshops that enable students to gain the competencies to work effectively in teams and for faculty to gain the competencies to guide students through challenging team dynamics is making a positive impacts at Georgia Tech.

    marylynn.realff@mse.gatech.edu

    404.894.2496

    Office Location:
    MRDC 1 4510

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Polymers; Fibers; Modeling

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    Mo Li

    Mo Li

    Mo Li

    Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
    Director, Computational Materials Science Group

    Professor Mo Li received his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1994 from California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor William L. Johnson and Professor William A. Goddard.

    After a brief staying as a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and the Argonne National Laboratory, he joined Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York. He came back to academia in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he was an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Currently he is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

    mo.li@mse.gatech.edu

    404.385.2472

    Office Location:
    Love 365

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computational Materials Science
    Additional Research:
    computational mechanics; micro and nanomechanics; Nanomaterials; Materials In Extreme Environments

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    Arun Gokhale

    Arun Gokhale

    Arun Gokhale

    Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering

    Arun M. Gokhale is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 1989, Gokhale’s work history encompassed fifteen years of teaching, and industrial research and development experience. Gokhale holds a B.Tech (1970) and M.Tech (1972) in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (1977) from the University of Florida. 

    Gokhale’s research interests include quantitative fractography, damage evolution in composites, microstructural evolution during deformation and fracture, with primary focus on quantitative description of microstructure and its evolution during materials processes.

    Gokhale has written 200 papers in reputed scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has given more than 100 invited lectures in the national and international conferences and seminars. He is a Fellow of ASM International. He served as Vice President of International Society for Stereology (1992-96). He has served on the editorial boards of several international journals.

    arun.gokhale@mse.gatech.edu

    404.894.2887

    Office Location:
    Love 265

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computational Materials Science
    Additional Research:
    Composites; computational mechanics; deformation and degradation; micro and nanomechanics

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    Josh Kacher

    Josh Kacher

    Josh Kacher

    Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering

    Josh Kacher joined Georgia Tech’s Materials Science and Engineering department as an assistant professor in Fall of 2015. Prior to his appointment, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he worked in collaboration with General Motors to understand the Portevin-le Chatelier effect in Al-Mg and with the navy to develop novel rhenium-replacement alloys. His research approach centered on applying in situ TEM deformation to understand the influence of local chemistry on the behavior of defects such as dislocations and twins. This was coupled with mesoscale characterization of the defect state using EBSD for multiscale characterization of the deformation processes.

    His Ph.D. and Masters work similarly focused on applying multiscale electron microscopy techniques to understanding defect behavior in a variety of systems such as ion-irradiated stainless steels, materials at elevated temperatures, and Mg alloys for light-weight alloy development.

    josh.kacher@mse.gatech.edu

    404.894.2781

    Office Location:
    Love 282

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Materials In Extreme Environments; corrosion; deformation and degradation; Advanced Characterization; micro and nanomechanics; fracture and fatigue

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    Angus Wilkinson

    Angus Wilkinson

    Angus Wilkinson

    Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Materials Science and Engineering
    Associate Chair for Operations and Undergraduate Programs

    Angus Wilkinson is a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and holds a joint appointment with the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Wilkinson obtained his bachelors degree in chemistry from Oxford University in 1988. He was a graduate student with A. K. Cheetham in the Department of Chemical Crystallography /Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford from 1988 until December 1991. His graduate work focused on the application of synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction to problems in solid-state chemistry. 

    For the last two years of his graduate studies he held a senior Scholarship from Christ Church, Oxford. From October 1991 until June 1993, Wilkinson was a Junior Research Fellow with Christ Church, Oxford. However, most of this period was spent on leave at the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara. His work in Santa Barbara focused on the processing and structure of oxide ferroelectric materials. In October 1993 he joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He received tenure in 1999 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He is currently Associate Chair for operations in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. 

    His work at Georgia Tech has been wide ranging. Current projects include the synthesis and characterization of negative thermal expansion ceramics, in-situ studies of cement hydration under oil well conditions (high pressure and temperature) using x-ray and ultrasonic techniques, and the development of reversible carbon dioxide adsorbents. Previous work at Georgia Tech has included an exploration of chiral templates for the synthesis of chiral microporous materials, the low temperature synthesis of ferroelectrics, an exploration of low oxidation state gallium and indium oxide chemistry with a view to finding new ferroelectric and nonlinear optical materials, the development of resonant x-ray scattering methods for use on thermoelectric energy conversion materials, and an examination of cement durability under sulfate attack conditions using high energy x-ray scattering combined with microtomography.

    angus.wilkinson@chemistry.gatech.edu

    404.894.4036

    Office Location:
    MoSE 1100J

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Thermoelectric Materials; Metal-Organic Frameworks; Modeling

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