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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

Alumni

<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