{"id":32,"date":"2023-08-03T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:30:20","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mona Ebrish<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Professor Mona\u00a0Ebrish<\/a> is a Fulbright Scholar, a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS), and a senior member of the\u00a0Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers<\/a>\u00a0(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.<\/p>\n

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PhD Students<\/h2>\n

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Owen Meilander<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Owen<\/a> received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with a minor in Material Science from Westminster College, Pennsylvania.\u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n

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Haley Dishman<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Haley<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Joseph Mayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Joseph received a BSChE (Chemical Engineering) from Purdue University.\u00a0 He is now pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering, working on thermal management and adhesion of GaN devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Master’s Students<\/h2>\n

Swarnim Neema<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Swarnim received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from BML Munjal University, India. He is currently pursuing a Master’s 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.<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Students<\/h2>\n

Samara Rashid<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Samara is an undergraduate student studying Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Vanderbilt. Her research focuses on fabricating graphene nanoribbons for thermal management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former students<\/h1>\n

Undergraduate Students<\/h2>\n

Alejandro Benitez Galeano<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Alejandro Benitez is a Vanderbilt undergraduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University. During the summer and fall of 2025, Alejandro worked on contact resistance characterization and machine learning for GaN devices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lisa Sebastian<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Lisa is a 2025 graduate from 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. Currently, she is a PhD student at North Carolina State University in the Electrical Engineering department.<\/p>\n

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Tianqi Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Tianqi is a 2025 graduate from Georgia Tech. During summer of 2024, Tianqi worked on the optimization and characterization of metal contacts to GaN through the VUSE summer program. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Material Science from Michigan State University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mona Ebrish Professor Mona\u00a0Ebrish is a Fulbright Scholar, a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS), and a senior member of the\u00a0Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\u00a0(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….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/eedg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}