MS&E Seminar Speaker Lineup

• 2023-2024

  Winter 2024

  January 10, 2024	Keren Shi	PhD Student, CEE Department, UC Riverside
  January 17, 2024	Dr. Stacy Copp	Assistant Professor, MSE Department, UC Irvine
  January 24, 2024	Erik Hagen & Hector Gomez	PhD Students, CEE & ME Departments, UC Riverside
  January 31, 2024	Dr. Delia Milliron	Professor and Department Chair, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  February 7, 2024	Dr. Richard Robinson	Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornel University
  February 14, 2024	Dr. Kai He	Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Irvine
  February 21, 2024	Dr. Ke Du	Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside
  February 28, 2024	Xiaoyang Zhao & Hae In Yang	PhD Students, CEE & CHEM Departments, UC Riverside
  March 6, 2024	Xiangxi Yin & Joseph Forman	PhD Students, ECE Department, UC Riverside
  March 13, 2024	Brandon Wagner & Naharin Jannath	PhD Students, ME & CEE Departments, UC Riverside

  Spring 2024

  April 3, 2024	Dr. Chenming Zhang	Professor, Biological Systems Engineering Department; VT-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (affiliated Faculty), Virginia Tech
  April 10, 2024	Dr. Richard Robinson	Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornel University
  April 17, 2024	Dr. Mathew Conley	Associate Professor, CHEM Department, UC Riverside
  May 2, 2024	Dr. Yimin Luo	Joint COL with ME
  May 8, 2024	Dr. Matthew Panthani	Associate Professor, Herbert L. Stiles Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering (Joint CEE COL)
  May 15, 2024	Dr. Eric Detsi	Associate Professor in Materials Science & Engineering
  May 22, 2024	Yaokun Su & Yiqing Chen	UCR PhD Students from ME and CHEM
  May 29, 2024	TBD
  June 6, 2024	TBD

• 2022-2023

  Fall 2022

  September 28, 2022	Dr. Shrirang (Shri) Ranade	Director, Pharma Technical Development, Genentech Inc., Roche Group
  November 9, 2022	Dr. Stephen M. Wu	Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy  University of Rochester

  Winter 2023

  January 11, 2023	Dr. Martin Head-Gordon	The Kenneth S. Pitzer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
  February 1, 2023	Dr. Tamar Mentzel	Assistant Professor of ME, UCR
  February 8, 2023	Dr. Ruoqian Lin	Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech
  March 1, 2023	Dr. Jing Shi	Distinguished Professor of Physics, UCR
  March 8, 2023	Dr. Timothy Su	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UCR
  March 15, 2023	Dr. Binghai Yan	Professor, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

  Spring 2023

  April 19, 2023	Dr. Matthew Conley	Associate Professor of Chemistry, UCR
  April 25, 2023	Dr. Jin Myung Kim	Postdoc Fellow, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI
  May 3, 2023	Dr. Mark Harrison	Assistant Professor, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University
  May 10, 2023	Dr. Mingda Li	Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
  May 24, 2023	Dr. Enrique Lavernia	Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCI
  May 31, 2023	Dr. Lara Estroff	Chair of MSE, Cornell University
  June 6, 2023	Dr. Eric Isaacs	HRL Laboratories, Malibu

   

• 2021-2022

  Winter 2022 

  January 5, 2022	Andrea Hodge	Arthur B. Freeman Professor Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department University of Southern California
  January 12, 2022	Farhat Beg	Director, Center for Matter Under Extreme Conditions Professor of Engineering Science Department of Mechanical &  Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego
  February 9, 2022	Sefaattin Tongay	Associate Professor and the Chair of Undergraduate Materials Science and Engineering Program Arizona State University
  February 23, 2022	Susan Sinnott	Head and Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor, Department of Chemistry Pennsylvania State University

• 2020-2021

  Fall 2020

  October 7, 2020	Shane Ardo:   Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine
  October 14, 2020	Tim Strobel: Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington
  October 21, 2020	Mitch Boretz: Technical Communication Specialist for the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside
  October 28, 2020	Renkun Chen:   Associate Professor, UC San Diego, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
  November 4, 2020	Dibyendu Mukherjee:  Research Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  November 18, 2020	Houlong L. Zhuang: Assistant Professor in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University
  December 2, 2020	Naresh Thadhani:   Professor & Chair, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Georgia Tech

  Winter 2021

  January 20, 2021	Krassimir Bozhilov:  Director of the Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis, UC Riverside
  February 3, 2021	Christy Haynes:  Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota
  February 10, 2021	Odile Madden:  Senior Scientist of the Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative, Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), Los Angeles
  February 17, 2021	Jiaxing Huang:   Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
  March 3, 2021	Dmitry Bedrov: Associate Professor in the Materials Science & Engineering Department, University of Utah
  March 10, 2021	Arun Bansil: Distinguished Professor of Physics, Northeastern University

  Spring 2021

  March 31, 2021	Yugang Sun: Associate Professor of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  April 7, 2021	Student Presentations
  April 14, 2021	Chen Wang: Researcher, Sandia National Lab
  April 21, 2021	Ram Seshadri: Professor of Materials Science in Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
  April 28, 2021	Anupama Kaul: Professor of Materials Science in Engineering, University of North Texas
  May 5, 2021	Neerak Rai: Associate Professor, Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University
  May 12, 2021	Ram Seshadri: Professor of Materials Science in Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
  May 19, 2021- June 2, 2021	Student Presentations

• 2019-2020

  FALL 2019

  October 2, 2019	Michael Zachariah: Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of California, Riverside
  October 9, 2019	Kathryn Uhrich: Dean College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside
  October 16, 2019	Clyde Blackwelder: Ergonomic Specialist, Workplace Health and Wellness/Human Resources, University of California, Riverside
  October 23, 2019	Ashley Beene: Contracts and Grants Analyst II, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside
  October 30, 2019	Ji-Cheng Zhao:  Professor & Chair MS&E Maryland
  November 6, 2019	Krassimir Bozhilov: Director of the Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis, and MSE Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside
  November 13, 2019	Erdem Arkun:  Senior Research Staff, Electronic Materials & Devices Dept at HRL Labs in Malibu
  November 20, 2019	Xiangfeng Duan:  Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
  November 27, 2019	Thanksgiving Holiday Break, No Seminar
  December 4, 2019	Student Presentations
  December 11, 2019	Jordan Moering: Protochips, Morrisville, USA

  Winter 2020 

  January 8, 2020	David Bahr:  Professor and Chair, Materials Science & Engineering Purdue
  January 15, 2020	Andre Schleife: Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois
  January 22, 2020	Jonah Erlebacher:  Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
  January 29, 2020	Ibrahim Karaman:  Chevron Professor I and Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
  February 5, 2020	Teri Odom:  Chair of Chemistry Department, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
  February 12, 2020	David Martin:  Associate Dean for Research and Entrepreneurship Karl W. and Renate Böer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Delaware
  February 19, 2020	Valentino Cooper:  Oak Ridge National Lab
  February 26, 2020	Jiao Lin: Software Scientist at  Oak Ridge National Lab
  March 4, 2020	Amit Misra:  Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  March 11, 2020	Gregory Lowry:  Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, CMU

  Spring 2020

  April 1, 2020	Student Presentations
  April 8, 2020	Ram Seshadri:  Professor, Materials Science, University of California Santa Barbara
  April 15, 2020	Student Presentations
  April 22, 2020	Michele Manuel:  Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Chair, University of Florida
  April 29, 2020	Maryam Ghazisaeidi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
  May 6, 2020	Odile Madde: Senior Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute
  May 13, 2020	Student Presentations
  May 20, 2020	Anupama B. Kaul:  Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas
  May 27, 2020	Naresh Thadhani:  Professor & Chair Materials Science & Engineering Georgia Tech
  June 3, 2020	Student Poster Session

• 2018-2019

  Fall 2018	Winter 2019	Spring 2019
  Oct 03: Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz (Gillard), Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UCR	Jan 09: Jim Eckstein, Professor in the Physics Department, University of Illinois	Apr 03: Mahesh Neupane, Researcher at US Army Research Laboratory
  Oct 10: Peng Wei, Assistant Professor of Physics And Astronomy, UCR	Jan 16: David Lederman, Professor/Director, Materials Science Initiative, Physics Department, UCSC	Apr 10: Jian Qin, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
  Oct 17: Bruce Dunn, Professor and Chair, Department of Material Science and Engineering, UCLA	Jan 23: Yong Han, Group Leader, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Apr 17: Jeff Neaton, Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science, UC Berkeley
  Oct 24: Jeffery C. Gibeling, Professor and Chair, Department of Material Science and Engineering, UC Davis	Jan 30: Mitch Bortez, Technical Communications Specialist- UCR Engineering - Dean's Office	May 01: Younan Xia, Professor/Brock Family Chair GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine, Georgia Tech
  Oct 31: Feng Liu, Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah	Feb 06: Gabriel M Veith, Research Staff and Team Lead, Thin Films and Coatings Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	May 08: Student Presentations
  Nov 7: Daryl C. Chrzan, Professor and Chair, Department of Material Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley	Feb 13: Christopher Spadaccini, Director, Center for Engineered Materials, Manufacturing and Optimization at LLNL	May 15: Student Presentations
  Nov 14: Michael Chabinyc, Professor and Chair, Department of Materials, UC Santa Barbara	Feb 20: Student Presentations	May 22: Jonathan Whitmer, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
  Nov 21: No Colloquium, Thanksgiving Holiday	Feb 27: Stephen Niezgoda, Assistant Professor, Materials Science Engineering, The Ohio State University	May 29: Fie Ren, Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia
  Nov 28: MRS Week	March 06: Yi Hong, Associate Professor of Bioengineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington	June 05: Student Presentations
  Dec 5: David Pile, Senior Editor of Nature Photonics	March 13: Pierre Deymier, Chair and Professor of Material Science and Engineering, University of Arizona

   

• 2017-2018

  Fall 2017	Winter 2018	Spring 2018
  Sept 8: Federico Rosei, UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications	Jan 10: Ravi A Vilupanur, Professor and Chair, Chemical and Materials Engineering Department Director of Research and Partnerships, College of Engineering California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	April 11: Ashutosh Tiwari,
  Oct 04: Alex Najera, ELR Representative	Jan 17: Student Presentations	April 18: Michael Kaufman,
  Oct 11: Barry Zink, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Denver	Jan 24: Julie Schoenung, Professor in The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UC Irvine	April 25: Ricardo Komai,
  Oct 18: Hongyou Fan, National Laboratory Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering	Jan 31: Jaeho Lee, Assistant professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Irvine	May 02: Student Presentations
  Oct 25: Suneel Kodambaka, Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA	Feb 07: Anthony Muscat, Professor and and Chair for the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering	May 09: Jaafar El-Awady
  Nov 01: Student Presentations	Feb 14: Student Presentations	May 16: Jane P. Chang
  Nov 08: Vuk Uskokovic, Advanced Materials and Nanobiotechnology Laboratory Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois	Feb 21: Sayeef Salahuddin, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at The University of California, Berkeley	May 23: Khalid Hatter
  Nov 15: Jun Lu, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory, IL	Feb 28: Stephen Wu, University of Rochester Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	June 06: Suresh Baskaran
  Dec 06: Pan Xiaoging, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine	Mar 07: Student Presentations
  	Mar 14: Student Presentations

   

• 2016-2017

  Fall 2016	Winter 2017	Spring 2017
  Sept 27: Perry Cheung, Lab Safety Officer, UCR	Jan 11: David Cahill, Professor Department of MSE and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana	April 05: Cun-Zheng Ning, Professor, School of Electrical, Energy and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University
  Oct 05: Shane Cybart, Oxide Nano Electronics Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCR	Jan 18: Chris Dames, Associate Professor Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley	April 12: Ning Yan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore
  Oct 12: Greg P. Carman, Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UCLA	Jan 25: Richard Wilson, Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering UCR	April 26: Stephan Link, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
  Oct 19: Yongtao Cui, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, UCR	Feb 01: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Professor, Physics/Materials Science Associate Laboratory Director, Energy Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory UC Berkeley	May 03: Student Presentations
  Oct 26: Jennifer Cha, Norviel Associate Professor and Associate Chair, University of Colorado, Boulder	Feb 08: Peng Wei, Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy UCR	May 10: Sinisa Coh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UCR
  Nov 02: Elijah Thimsen, Assistant Professor, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University	Feb 15: Chris Palmstrom, Professor Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara	May 17: Brent Fultz, Rawn Professor of Material Science and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
  Nov 09: Daniel Neuhauser, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry UCLA	Feb 22: Student Presentations	May 24: Ping Liu, Associate Professor of Nanoengineering, UC San Diego
  Nov 16: Daniel Gianola, Associate Professor, Materials Department UC Santa Barbara	March 01: Student Presentations	May 31: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Professor, Physics/Materials Science Associate Laboratory Director, Energy Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory UC Berkeley
  	March 08: Tresa Pollock, Materials Department UC Santa Barbara	June 01: William Carter, Director, Sensors and Materials Laboratory HRL Laboratories LLC, Malibu, CA
  	March 15: Student Presentations	June 07: Student Presentations