<aside> <img src="/icons/groups_gray.svg" alt="/icons/groups_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Here are the current members of the UCF Data-Enabled Photovoltaics Team.
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| No. | Name | Position | Mentorship Role | Start Date | Accomplishments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PD11 | Daniel Ramirez | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Spring 2026 | |
| PD10 | Cecile Molto | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Spring 2024 | |
| G15 | William Thew | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Spring 2025 | |
| G14 | Janice Yeung | Graduate Student | Advisor | Spring 2025 | |
| G13 | Kevin Roughgarden | Graduate Student | Advisor | Fall 2023 | • Currently in the second year of Ph.D. program |
| G11 | Max Liggett | Graduate Student | Advisor | Fall 2021 | • Currently in fourth year of Ph.D. program and passed the qualifying exam |
| • Office of Research Doctoral Fellowship awardee, 2021–2022 | |||||
| • Accepted into the very selective Hands-On Photovoltaic Experience (HOPE) workshop held every summer by NREL, 2025 | |||||
| UG | Austin Stoetzer | Undergraduate Student | Supervisor | Spring 2022 | |
| UG | Collin West | Undergraduate Student | Supervisor | Spring 2024 | |
| UG | Emily Longmire | Undergraduate Student | Supervisor | Summer 2025 |
<aside> <img src="/icons/groups_gray.svg" alt="/icons/groups_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Here are the past group members of the UCF Data-Enabled Photovoltaics Team.
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| No. | Name | Position | Mentorship Role | Start Date | End Date | Placement | Accomplishments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PD9 | Sameera Nalin Venkat | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Fall 2024 | Summer 2025 | Hired as a William R. Wiley Postdoctoral Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | • Won Best Poster at the NREL Photovoltaic Reliability Workshop, 2025 |
| PD8 | Prasanth Kumar Enaganti | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Spring 2024 | Summer 2025 | Hired as an Assistant Professor at Manipal Institute of Technology | |
| PD7 | Sina Lotfian | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Fall 2023 | Summer 2024 | Hired as a Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte | |
| PD6 | Dylan J. Colvin | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Fall 2022 | Summer 2024 | Hired as Research Assistant Professor at the UCF Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) | |
| PD5 | Mengjie Li | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Fall 2018 | Fall 2023 | Hired as an Assistant Professor in the UCF School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training (SMST) | |
| PD4 | Haider Ali | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Summer 2017 | Summer 2020 | Hired as an engineer at Maxeon Solar | |
| PD3 | Eric J. Schneller | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Spring 2018 | Spring 2020 | Hired as an engineer at Silfab | |
| PD2 | Sonali Das | Postdoctoral Researcher | Joint supervisor (with Prof. Tania Roy) | Fall 2018 | Spring 2019 | Hired as a lecturer in the UCF Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| PD1 | Siyu Guo | Postdoctoral Researcher | Supervisor | Spring 2016 | Fall 2018 | Hired as an engineer at Illumio | |
| G12 | Elizabeth Trader | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Spring 2023 | Spring 2026 | • Currently in third year of Ph.D. program | |
| • Won Best Student Presentation at the IEEE PVSC, 2024 | |||||||
| G10 | Chien-Hsuan Chen | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Summer 2021 | Fall 2025 | Hired as an engineer at ASM America, Inc., an equipment supplier to Micron | |
| G9 | Jarod Kaltenbaugh | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Fall 2023 | Spring 2025 | Hired by Sandia National Laboratories as an engineer | |
| G8 | Jannatul Ferdous Mousumi | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Fall 2018 | Fall 2022 | Hired by Intel as an engineer | • Accepted into the very selective Hands-On Photovoltaic Experience (HOPE) workshop held every summer by NREL, 2021 |
| • Awarded the 2022 Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation Scholarship, 2022 | |||||||
| • Awarded as one of the five best speakers in the silicon photovoltaics session of the MRS Meeting 2020, 2020 | |||||||
| • Office of Research Doctoral Fellowship awardee, 2018–2019 | |||||||
| G7 | Dylan J. Colvin | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Fall 2019 | Summer 2022 | Hired as a postdoctoral researcher at UCF | • Received a best poster nomination at the 46th IEEE PVSC, 2019 |
| G6 | Nafis Iqbal | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Summer 2018 | Spring 2022 | Hired by Intel as an engineer | • Student award finalist at the 48th IEEE PVSC, 2021 |
| G5 | Mohammad Jobayer Hossain | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Fall 2017 | Fall 2021 | Hired by RF SUNY Poly as an engineer and now an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota | • Received a very competitive educational scholarship from SPIE, 2019 |
| • Received a travel grant from the Optical Society of America for the IONS-KOALA 2018 conference in Sydney, Australia, 2018 | |||||||
| • Accepted into the very selective Hands-On Photovoltaic Experience (HOPE) workshop held every summer by NREL, 2018 | |||||||
| • Received a best poster nomination at the 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2018 | |||||||
| G4 | Geoffrey Gregory | Graduate Student | Supervisor | Fall 2017 | Spring 2021 | Hired by Maxeon Solar as an engineer | |
| G3 | Kortan Öğütman | Graduate Student | Mentor (not supervisor) | Spring 2014 | Spring 2018 | Hired by ASML as an engineer | |
| G2 | Haider Ali | Graduate Student | Mentor (not supervisor) | Spring 2015 | Spring 2017 | Hired as a postdoctoral researcher at UCF | |
| G1 | Eric J. Schneller | Graduate Student | Mentor (not supervisor) | Spring 2013 | Fall 2016 | Hired as a postdoctoral researcher at UCF |