Researcher

Kadircan Godeneli

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026 (Anticipated)
Kadircan received his B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Quantum Devices Group at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Alp Sipahigil.

David Hahn

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Rayne Zheng (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026 (Anticipated)

David Hahn is currently pursuing a PhD program in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he was a Mechanical Design Engineer at OFS (Optical Fiber Solutions) FITEL in Atlanta, GA. He received BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

BSAC Spring 2025 Research Review Presenter

Andris Huang

Graduate Student Researcher
Physics
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Professor Hartmut Haeffner (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)

Nikhil Jain

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2030 (Anticipated)

Amanda Jung

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)

Hyong Min Kim

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Hyong is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at University of California, Berkeley. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania in 2023. In his undergraduate research, Hyong studied quantum emission from strained 2D materials, ferroelectric field-emission transistors based on AlScN/2D material heterostructures, and scanning probe characterization of 1D-2D material interfaces. Hyong's current research at Berkeley is on fabricating next-generation Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) optoelectronic devices...

Inha Kim

Graduate Student Researcher
Applied Science and Technology
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Seung-Rok Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)

Seung-Rok Kim is a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), and a research affiliate in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a joint appointment. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in 2021, and was a postdoctoral research associate and research professor at Yonsei University in 2021 and 2023. Seung-Rok Kim then joined Javey...

Taehoon Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)
PostDoc 2024 to present

Lukasz Komza

Graduate Student Researcher
Physics
Professor Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026 (Anticipated)

Lukasz Komza is a Physics PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working with Alp Sipahigil in the Quantum Devices Group in 2021 on the characterization and integration of silicon qubits in photonics. Prior to starting his PhD, Lukasz interned at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, working with Michael Eggleston on optical coherence tomography. He studied quantum light sources in 2D materials with Stefan Strauf during his undergraduate education, where he received the Alfred M. Mayer prize.