AJ Perry (PhD '26) AJP pursues (studies of) complex systems. Now at Provenance Laboratories

Jared Salary (BS ME '25) Worked on 3D free-form self-assembly and coating, helped with MMO designs and builds. 

Arial Tolentino (BS Data Science '25) undergraduate with an interest in Robotics. During her free time she likes to summit mountains, go backpacking, and dreams to complete the PCT one day.

William Henriquez. (BS ME '25)  Initiated a Solidworks seismic analysis for shelving, which we sincerely appreciate. 

David Tuft (BS ME '25). Studied capillary effects for solar desal project, helped with MMO designs and builds. And yes, this is a real x-ray of his arm.

Adreyan Distor (BS CS '26) Built GUI for bidirectional scattering experiment.

Erandi Wijerathna (Postdoc '23-'24). Her main interests are in optical propagation through atmospheric turbulence, image processing and lidar. When Erandi is not working, you can find her trying a new recipe or exploring nearby attractions with her toddler. Now at JPL.

Amey Rakheja (BS ME '23, volunteer '23-'24) Characterized nanomaterials and helped build experiments, contributed to the group’s outreach AudioViaOptics efforts, working with UCR MESA.

Xiaojing Weng (PhD ECE '24). Before coming to UCR, she worked at Medtronic as an blanket engineer and completed her Master's at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. 

Nikolas Deo (MS ME '25) Aligned laser in PMMA fiber for combustion research with Prof Zachariah.

Stephen He (Undergrad ME). Studied capillary effects for the solar desal project.

Ashish Ranjan (MS ME '24) Studied capillary effects for solar desal project.

Alma Karen Gonzalez Alcalde (Postdoc '22-2'3) studied light-induced magnetism in plasmonic nanodisks while in our group. She is now a researcher at CICESE in Ensenada, Mexico (her Alma Mater).

Ji Feng (Postdoc '20-'23) graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a PhD degree in chemistry. She is interested in both top-down and bottom-up techniques to prepare new functional materials, including mesoporous materials, plasmonic nanoparticles and photonic crystals. She also wants to extend her ability in understanding optics and applying nanomaterials in computer vision. She is a big fan of Japanese manga, and has followed Detective Conan for more than 20 years. 

James Leung (MS ME '20-'22) Pioneerred experiments with our solar desal project. In his free time, he enjoys hanging out with friends and/or playing sports and video games. He prefers team sports such as football and basketball because he likes working together with people.

Miguel Mandujano (Postdoc, '20-'21) was funded by an UC MEXUS Fellowship and studied nanophotonic scattering interactions while in MMO.

Baurzhan Muminov (PhD ME '19-'22) spent half of his life in Tashkent, Uzbekistan where he was actually recruited for the Uzbekistan junior football team. He spent the next half of his life in Astana, Kazakhstan, where he received his undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics and Applied Math at the Eurasian National University. He completed his Master's in Optical Engineering at Tomsk Polytechnic University in Tomsk, Russia. He is in the PhD program in ME at UCR. Besides football, Baurzhan has former pre-professional training as a "guard against bears". In his free time, he enjoys swimming and working with PC hardware.  Now working at Innolume!

Grayson Andronicos (BS ME, '21) was our in-house designer while in our group. He now works with window technology.

Frank Rodriguez (BS+MS '20, '22) joined as an undergrad and returned for the MS. He's involved with the Robotics Club at UCR, which he and a group of friends co-founded. Frank enjoys Disneyland with his wife Gabby, shows with his friends, and reinstalling everything but the kitchen sink.

Edward Zhu (PhD, ECE) funded by NSF and learned about graphics, travel, and light-matter interactions for computing while in our group.

Sophie Weiss (PhD MSE) was funded by NSF and learned about coding, nanophotonics and plasmonics (attended the 2021 Gordon Research Conference), mentored others, fabricated Langmuir Blodgett films, and invented a method for 3D coating while in our group.

Matthew Shin (BS, MSE) was funded by NSF as an intern in 2022 and gained skills in 3D printing and experiments while in our group.

Paul Lou (Postdoc, '19) was funded under NSF as a postdoc, assisted with measurements, and learned about machine learning while in our group. 

Gaurav Ahuja (PhD, MSE) funded by NSF and DARPA and learned about machine learning while in the group.  In his free time, he enjoys not only cooking but eating well, although he is somewhat of a Ketchup addict and enjoys his food in a pond of sauces. 

Daniel Martinez( BS MSE '19) designed cell for thermal control of nanofluids, interested in biomaterials, more specifically drug delivery, as well as state-of-the-art microscopy and imaging. Outside of class, Daniel is a part of the Legacy Roundtable program for the Council of African American Parents (CAAP) and tutors young scholars in Math every weekend. He spends any free time playing sports with his friends.  He is now an R&D Engineer at Marvell NanoLab.

Shaya Nirenberg was a visiting inventor while in our group. He lived in many countries as a child and didn't learn to write English until highschool. He started his own company at the age of 20, printing artwork and repairing lasers, among many other things.  Shaya drove across the country from NYC with his dog and visited us for a month at UCR before getting hired as an Automation Engineer, where he helps to minimize total boredom in the world.  

Reid Watanabe (BS MS, ME, ' 20, '21) tackled the demo of signal multiplexing on conducting polymers. Reid has worked at CE-CERT on a vehicle-to-grid (V2G)  research project for 2 years in addition to participating in MMO. He appreciates the joys of television in his rare free time with his dog (awake or asleep) and practices kendo as a hobby. 

Dhamar Morales Uriostegui (BS ME '20) coded a genetic algorithm to study bubbles, helped build a database on insects vision, participated in the MSRIP summer program, helped start the solar desalination project while in MMO. She also completed her Honors capstone project around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy and its social and health impacts on students. Dhamar spends her personal free time with family.

Kyle Rowland (BS MSE '20) studied biomaterials and polymers. Kyle wants to advance orthopedic prosthetics and to integrate cutting-edge medical technology to improve people's lives. He believes that Occam's razor should be applied to the arts and humanities, too.  

Segolene Combettes (visiting scientist '18) from the Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales (CEMES) in Toulouse, France. She was a PhD student and is now trained in data science as the director of R&D at Alia Sante.