Prof. Daniel Gall joined RPI in 2002. He leads the Thin Films and Nanostructures group. For more details see his professional or personal homepages.

Office: MRC 204, Email: galld@rpi.edu

Anshuman joined our group in Fall 2021. He works on thin films with metastable phases.
Email: thakra@rpi.edu

Nishat joined our group in Fall 2021. He works on novel electronic materials.
Email: nishas@rpi.edu

Sanzida joined our group in Fall 2022. She works on thin film deposition of electronic materials.
Email: rahmas4@rpi.edu

Oishy joined our group in Fall 2023. She explores novel materials for their potential in future integrated circuits.
Email: royo@rpi.edu

Zahra joined our group in Fall 2023. She studies electron scattering at surfaces and interfaces.
Email: ahmadz2@rpi.edu

Ethan joined our group in Summer 2024. He studies thin film growth and transport properties at the nanoscale.
Email: hendre2@rpi.edu

Arif joined our group in Fall 2024. He explores thin film deposition and properties of new electronic materials.
Email: islama8@rpi.edu

Prince joined our group in Fall 2024. He studies electron transport in anisotropic materials.
Email: princm3@rpi.edu

Emma joined our group in Summer 2022 as undergraduate student and continued as a M.S. student in Fall 2024. She studies growth and properties of topological materials.
Email: sponge@rpi.edu

Ethan joined our group in Spring 2024. He works on thin film deposition equipment.
Email: hane2@rpi.edu

Jynene joined our group in Fall 2024. She designs and builds a heating stage for a thin film deposition system.
Email: alfayj@rpi.edu

Poyen joined our group in Fall 2020. He works on new materials for interconnects in microelectronics. After graduation, he joined Globalfoundries.

Elie joined our group in Fall 2020. He works on new nitrides and carbides. After graduation, he joined Globalfoundries.

Minghua joined our group in Fall 2019. He employed epitaxial thin film deposition to study new materials for electron transport at the nanoscale. After graduation, he joined imec.

Atharv joined our group in Fall 2018. He worked on the resistivity size effect in nanoscale metals. After graduation, he joined IBM.

Peijiao joined our group in Fall 2017. She worked on the epitaxial growth of WC, MoC, and TiC hard coating materials. After graduation, she joined Applied Materials.

Prachi joined our group in Fall 2017. She worked on in situ observation of electrochemical processes. After graduation, she joined Global Foundries, and then moved on to SUNY Binghamton.

Mary joined our group in Fall 2016. She worked on 2-dimensional nanoscale materials. After graduation, she was awarded an NSF Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship and later joined IBM.

Baiwei joined our group in Fall 2016. He worked on deposition and characterization of new nitride semiconductors. After graduation, he joined Applied Materials Inc.

Erik joined our group in Fall 2015. He used epitaxial thin film deposition to create new electronic materials and studies their properties. After graduation, he joined Globalfoundries.

Tianji joined our group in Fall 2013. He studied electron transport using first principles simulations. After graduation, he joined IBM and later moved on to Bloomberg.

Karthik joined our group in Fall 2013. He studied fundamental properties of nitrides by first-principles simulations. After graduation, he joined Global Foundries and then moved on to Argonne National Lab.

Brian joined our group in Fall 2012. He worked novel transition metal nitrides. After graduation, he joined Intel.

Pengyuan joined our group in Fall 2012. He worked on electron transport for future electronics. After graduation, he joined Micron Technology.

Ruopeng joined our group in Fall 2009. His work is on AlN and ScN optoelectronic and piezoelectric materials for novel device applications. He has joined LAM research.

Jasmeet joined our group in Fall 2007. His work focused on electron transport in nanoscale structures. He has joined the Intel Component Research Division.

Xunyuan joined our group in Fall 2007. He studied the electronic structure of CrN by optical and electronic transport measurements. He joined Global Foundries and later moved on to Cisco Systems, Inc.

Srijit Mukherjee joined our group in Spring 2007. He developed scaling relationship models for nanorod growth under extreme shadowing and at elevated temperature. He has joined Intel to work on interconnect deposition.

Mike joined our group in Fall 2007. He has designed various new nanostructured electrodes for PEM fuel cells (patent pending). After his graduation, he has joined Bloom Energy to work on solid oxide Fuel Cells.

Chris Mulligan joined our group in 2003, and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees while simultaneously holding a research staff position at Benet Laboratories. His thesis research focused on CrN-Ag self-lubricating nanoporous hard-coatings. Chris continues to work at Benet Labs and also continues his collaboration with our group as a Visiting Scientist.

Jaya Purswani joined our group in Fall 2004. She developed a method to grow atomically smooth single-crystal Cu layers, studied their surface morphology by in-site STM, and demonstrated specular electron scattering at their surfaces.

Chunming Zhou joined our group in Fall 2004. He developed novel self-assembled patterns by nanosphere lithography and used them to create nanorod arrays by glancing angle deposition. After his graduation, he joined Novellus Inc. and then moved on to Applied Materials.

Sai joined our group in Spring 2003. He developed various nanostructures by glancing angle deposition. After his Ph.D., he joined Novellus Inc. and then moved on to Applied Materials Inc.

Sit joined our group in Spring 2016. He used epitaxial thin film deposition to create various new materials.