Recent PhD/MS Graduates
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				AY 2024 - 2025 Graduates
	
		Brandon Vreeland, PhD May 2024 
 Dynamic Pancharatnam Optical Phase Devices.Nilanthi Haputhanthrige, PhD May 2024 
 Surface anchoring effect on topological defects in a nematic liquid crystal.Daniel Gavazzi, PhD December 2024 
 Modeling Protein Dynamics of Domains with Similar Native State Topologies.Ajaharul Islam, PhD August 2024 
 Heavy Quarkonium Suppression in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) using real-time Quantum Field Theory (QFT) for an Open Quantum System.Suman Halder, PhD August 2024 
 Liquid Crystal-Polymer Composites-Application in Optical Film, Displays, and Smart Windows.Wetthasinhage Perera, PhD August 2024 
 Curved Liquid Crystal Microlenses Confined in Submillimeter Size Grids.
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				AY 2023 - 2024 Graduates
	
		Krishna Aryal, PhD May 2024 
 Three Dimensional QCD Phase Diagrams.Arwa Alyami, PhD May 2024 
 Ionic Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Solid Electrolytes for Organic Electrochemical Transistors.Hend Baza, PhD May 2024 
 Dynamics of Liquid Crystal-Based Active Matter.Ubaid Tantary, PhD May 2024 
 Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory using Direct Resummation and Effective Field Theory Methods.Huda Alalawi, PhD December 2023 
 Theory and Application of Far-from-Equilibrium Hydrodynamics and Kinetic Theory.Khadiza Begam, PhD December 2023 
 Polarization Consistent Electronic Structure Theory of Photo-Physical Properties.Suman Raj Panday, PhD December 2023 
 Collective Physical Phenomena in Materials with Strong Electronic Correlations.Sajad Shiekh, PhD December 2023 
 Single Molecule Investigation of Long Telomeres and Their Interactions with Shelterin Proteins.Angelo Visco, PhD December 2023 
 Robust, Accurate, and Precise Surface Light Scattering Spectroscopy for Fluid Interfaces.Thomas Swope, MS December 2023 
 Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA Minicircles.Bdoor Almatani, MS August 2023 
 Dielectric and Electro-Optical Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals.Alex Konic, PhD August 2023 
 Ground States and Behaviors in Correlated Electron Materials.Yue Liang, PhD August 2023 
 D0-meson elliptic and triangular flow, and event shape engineering in Au+Au collisions at vsNN = 200GeV.
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				AY 2022 - 2023 Graduates
	
		Mark Liu, MS May 2023 
 Electron Beam Curing of Polymer Dispersed Liquid CrystalsCheng Long, PhD May 2023 
 Elasticity Theory and Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid CrystalsMojtaba Rajabi, PhD May 2023 
 Dynamics of Active Colloids in Liquid Crystal EnvironmentRaj Krishnan, PhD December 2022 
 Study of Low Doping Organic DevicesOlena Iadlovska, PhD December 2022 
 Electro-optics of Oblique Helicoidal CholestericsIan Lofgren, PhD December 2022 
 Self-consistent treatment of homogeneous and inhomogeneous dipolar condensates without the influence of external potentialsHuda Alwusaydi, PhD December 2022 
 A smectic liquid crystal Langmuir film at the air/water interface: Boundaries, thermodynamics, and dynamicsJeff Peterson, PhD December 2022 
 Compact star equation of state with temperature and magnetic field effectsShiva Bhattarai, PhD December 2022 
 Neutron Scattering Study of Ni-V and CE(NI,CU)SN close to the onset of magnetic orderAli Alqarni, MS August 2022 
 Liquid Crystals Nuclei Coexisting with an Isotropic PhaseMitch Powers, Phd August 2022 
 Tail-free Discotic Liquid CrystalsPushpa Paudel, PhD August 2022 
 Understanding Organic Electrochemical TransistorsDom Lal Kunwar, PhD August 2022 
 Superconductivity, Magnetism, Quantum Criticality, and Hidden Order in Quantum MaterialsDrona Dahal, PhD August 2022 
 Vertical Organic Field Effect Transistors
 
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				AY 2021 - 2022 Graduates
	
		Hind Adawi , PhD May 2022 
 Study of Atomic and Magnetic Correlations in Ferromagnetic Ni-AlloysC. P. Hermantha Rajapaksha, PhD May 2022 
 Ionic Electroactive Polymers and Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Applications in Soft Robotics, Energy Harvesting, Sensing and Organic Electrochemical TransistorsRony Saha, PhD May 2022 
 Ionic Electroactive Polymers and Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Applications in Soft Robotics, Energy Harvesting, Sensing and Organic Electrochemical TransistorsGolam Mustafa, PhD May 2022 
 Single Molecule Fluorescence and Force Measurements on Non-canonical DNA StructuresPrabesh Gyawali, PhD May 2022 
 DNA-Based Materials: From Single Molecules to Liquid CrystalsMichael Skarowns, MS December 2021 
 Characterizing Ion Gels as Solid Electrolyte for Organic Electrochemical TransistorsHaoran Sun, PhD December 2021 
 Partial-wave Analysis of Kaon-Nucleon Scattering between 1489 and 2080 MeVFareha Atetalla, PhD, December 2021 
 The First Harmonic Anisotropy of Charmed Mesons in 200 GeV AU+AU CollisionsDekrayat Almaalol, PhD August 2021 
 Non-equilibrium dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma from theory to phenomenologyBabak Salehi Kashmaei, PhD August 2021 
 Nonequilibrium Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
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				AY 2020-2021 Graduates
	
		Ram Adhikari, PhD, May 2021 
 Superconductivity and Magnetism in Selected Filled Skutterudites and Heavy Fermion SystemsWalaa Alahmade, PhD, May 2021 
 Experimental Investigation and Monte Carlo Simulation of Quasielastic Electron Scattering from Helium-3 Clusters in Helium-4Emmanuel Yakubu, MS, December 2020 
 Modeling and Fabrication of an Active-Matrix DisplayXingzhou Tang, PhD, December 2020 
 Defect structure and dynamics in liquid crystals
