- Robert F Hartmann Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering;
- Distinguished McKnight University Professor;
- Director of the Center for Spintronic Materials for Advanced Information Technologies (SMART);
- Director or the Center of Spintronic Materials, Novel Interfaces and Architectures (C-SPIN);
- Graduate faculty member of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Departments of Physics, Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, University of Minnesota.
Email: [email protected], Tel: 612-625-9509
Office: Keller Hall 1-165 & 6-153, 200 Union St. SE
Honors/Awards:
Honors/Awards:
2021 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
2019 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award
2019 Innovator Award of Entrepreneurial Researcher
2016 Robert F. Hartmann Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2015 IEEE Fellow for contributions to magnetic materials and spintronic devices for magnetic recording, information processing and biomedical applications
2014-2016 Centennial Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2014 Titans of Technology – Inventor (Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal)
2012 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship, University of Minnesota
2010 Outstanding Professor for Undergraduate Teaching, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
2006 Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Technical Achievement Award
2019 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award
2019 Innovator Award of Entrepreneurial Researcher
2016 Robert F. Hartmann Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2015 IEEE Fellow for contributions to magnetic materials and spintronic devices for magnetic recording, information processing and biomedical applications
2014-2016 Centennial Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2014 Titans of Technology – Inventor (Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal)
2012 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship, University of Minnesota
2010 Outstanding Professor for Undergraduate Teaching, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
2006 Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Technical Achievement Award
Research Associate Professor (Part-time)
Postdoctoral Fellows
PhD Students
MS Students
Undergraduate Research Students
Part-time PhD Students from Industry
Part-time Visiting Postdoctoral Fellows
Members of Internship and Training
Senior Honor Student: Vasa Zhdankin
NSF summer undergraduate students: Jakub Szefer , David Coats
Summer undergraduate student: Valin Dimitrov
Honor high school student for research: Justin Hou (2008), Intermediate District 287 Honors Mentor Connection, joined Stanford University
Lab Inactive Members
Hongshi Li
Alumni
Airforce Academy: Samuel Campbell
Amazon: Zhengyang Zhao
Apple: Arturo di Girolamo
Applied Materials: Harsh Agarwal, Yi Wang
ASM America: Protyush Sahu
Carpenter Technology Corporation: Md Mehedi
Citrix Systems: Xudong Hang
Global Foundries: Hao Meng
HFC Semiconductor Corp.: Junyang Chen
Honeywell: Todd Klein
Institute of Semiconductor, CAS: Meiyin Yang
Intel: Ang Klemm Smith, Tofizur Rahman
JAS Alloy: Guannan Guo
Mayo Clinic: Tim Kline
Micron: Andrew Lyle, Jon Harms, Mahdi Jamali, Thomas Peterson
National Instruments (NI): Brian Glass, Daniel Dorroh.
Niron Magnetics, Inc.: Blake Wolf, Xiaowei Zhang, Yiming Wu, Fan Zhang
NIST: Karl (Boo) Schhlip, Patrick Quarterman
Seagate Technology: Jiaoming Qiu, Weikang Shen,Xiaoqi Liu,Ying Jing, Yisong Zhang, Yunhao Xu, Serkay Olmez, Jason Vicker
Sinomags: Jianguo Wang, Jianming Bai
Stanford University: Mahendra D.C.
University of California, Los Angeles: Farbod Ebrahimi
University of Minnesota: Kai Wu, Yang Lv
University of Gothenburg: Lakhan Bainsla
Western Digital: Hao Wang, Haibao Zhao, Hui Zhao, Liang Tu, Nian Ji, Shihai He, Xiaofeng Yao, Xuan Li, Yinglong Feng, Yuanpeng Li, Yunfei Ding, Jinming Liu, Yizhao Zhuang, Xiaohui Chao
Yale University: Anthony Hurben
Zepto Life Technology: Wei Wang