People – Neuroelectronics Lab

Team

Leadership

Duygu Kuzum

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor
Joan and Irwin Jacobs-Kavli Foundation Chancellor’s Endowed Faculty Fellow
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bioengineering
Materials Science and Engineering

Education/Employment
2016-2019, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego
2011-2015, Postdoctoral Researcher in Bionegineering, University of Pennsylvania
2011-2013, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
2010, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
2006, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
2004, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University

Awards
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2020)
NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Award (2018)
NSF Career Award (2018)
IEEE Nanotechnology Council Young Investigator Award (2017)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2016)
Innovators under 35 (TR35) by MIT Technology Review (2014)
Alavi-Dabiri Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2014)
Penn Neuroscience Pilot Innovative Research Award (2014)
PopTech Science and Public Leaders Fellowship (2013)
Intel Foundation Fellowship (2008)
Texas Instruments Fellowship (2006)
Intel ISEF Third Place-Grand Award (2000)

Service
Associate Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters (since 2019)
IEEE IEDM Technical Program Commmitee (2017-2020)

Postdocs

Ashwani Kumar
Neuromorphic Devices
PhD, IIT Delhi

TBD

Yue Zhou
Neuromorphic Devices
PhD, Hong Kong Poly

PhD Students

Yoojeong Kim
MS, KAIST

Mehrdad Ramezani
BS, Sharif University of Tech.

Carter Rowell
BS, University of Washington

Shaan Shah
BS, IIT Bombay

Madison Wilson
BS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Yuyi Zhang
MS, University of Cambridge

Yucheng Zhou
MS, UC San Diego

Masters Students

Fengyi Sun
BS, Lehigh University

Undergraduate Students

Ramiro F. Acosta

Ever Dominguez

Visiting Faculty

Professor Hyunjoo Jenny Lee, KAIST, Korea

Professor Saeroonter Oh, Hanyang University, Korea

Professor Junwoo Son, POSTECH, Korea

Visiting Scientists

Seonghyun Kim, SK Hynix

Alumni

Akshay Ananthakrishnan, Postdoc, currently works at Iota Biosciences

Sadullah Canakci, Undergrad researcher, PhD at Boston University, currently at AMD

David Ding, Undergrad researcher, currently grad student at Columbia University

Zhisheng Huang, Masters Student, currently works at Qualcomm

Ahmet Inci, Undergrad researcher, PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, currently at Nvidia

Ege Iseri, Masters Student, currently grad student at University of Southern California

Nathan O. Kaslan, Undergrad researcher, currently at Qualcomm

Deok-kee Kim, Visiting Faculty, Associate Professor at Sejong University, Korea

Yichen Liu, Graduate Student, currently at Tower Semiconductor

Yixiu Liu, Masters Student, currently works at Oracle

Xin Liu, Graduate Student, currently at Illumina

Leon Nguyen, Masters Student, currently works at HRL

Sangheon Oh, Graduate Student, currently at Sandia National Laboratory

Yuhan Shi, Graduate Student, currently at Quallcomm

Jungwoo Song, Visiting Scientist, Principle Engineer at Samsung Electronics

Seung Chul Yew, Visiting Scientist, Principle Engineer at Samsung Electronics