People

Dr. Mona Ebrish

Professor Mona Ebrish is a Fulbright Scholar, a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS), and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tripoli, Libya, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. Previously, she was an Advisory Research Scientist at IBM, where she worked on semiconductor technologies and non-volatile memory. Her dissertation is one of the earliest studies on utilizing the quantum capacitance effect in Graphene for sensing applications. Later she spent 4 years at IBM as an Advisory Research Scientist working on Si-CMOS scaling challenges. Prior to becoming a faculty at Vanderbilt, she was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Lab investigating wide-bandgap semiconductors for high-voltage applications. Her research resulted in more than a dozen patents and over 40 papers and abstracts in major journals and conferences.

 

PhD Students

Swarnim Neema

Swarnim received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from BML Munjal University, India. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Vanderbilt University. His research is focused on the simulation-assisted design and fabrication of gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) for high-performance power electronic applications.

 

 

Owen Meilander

Owen received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with a minor in Material Science from Westminster College, Pennsylvania. He is now seeking a Ph.D. with the Interdisciplinary Material Science (IMS) program at Vanderbilt University. His research is focused on the spectroscopic analysis of gallium nitride (GaN) and the fabrication of high electron mobility transistors for high-power applications.

 

 

 

Haley Dishman

Haley received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration VLSI (microelectronics) from Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Vanderbilt University. Her research concentrates on selective doping methodologies utilizing diverse techniques and materials.

 

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Lisa Sebastian

Lisa is a rising senior at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. During summer of 2024, Lisa worked on developing the etch, release and transfer of GaN devices through the NSF REU summer program.

 

 

 

 

Tianqi Sun

Tianqi is a rising senior at Georgia Tech. During summer of 2024, Tianqi worked on the optimization and characterization of of metal contacts to GaN through the VUSE summer program.