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Welcome to Ryou Group. We study and develop semiconductor materials and devices for electronic, photonic, sensing, and energy applications.

Group Updates

• Crystal Ly joined Air Force Research Laboratory after completing M.S. in Fall 2024.
• Nipun Sutradhar joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2024.
• Rheno Paul joined Intel after completing M.S. in Summer 2024.
• Nam-In Kim received Cullen Fellowship Travel Grant for his presentations at Electronic Materials Conference 2024 held in College Park, Maryland.
• Nam-In Kim’s work on eye movement sensor for brain disorder studies was featured as a cover article in June 2024 issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials.
• Muhammad Aqib received M. A. Jinnah Endowment Scholarship in June 2024.
• Muhammad Aqib received Cora Hawley Endowed Scholarship in April 2024.
• Muhammad Aqib won the 1st place in 59th TcSUH Student Symposium in April 2024.
• Th PI received Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity from University of Houston in April 2024.
• Asad Ali passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Fall 2023.
• Mina Moradnia joined Zeta Energy after completing Ph.D. in Spring 2023.
• Muhammad Aqib received Association of Energy Engineers scholarship by the AEE Foundation in 2023.
• Muhammad Aqib passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2023.
• Nam-In Kim’s work on high-temperature piezoelectric sensor was featured as a cover article in March 2023 issue of Advanced Functional Materials.
• Mina Moradnia won the 2nd place in 58th TcSUH Student Symposium in April 2023.
• Rheno Paul joined the group as an M.S. student in Spring 2023.
• Crystal Ly joined the group as an M.S. student in Spring 2023.
• Miad Yarali joined Samsung Austin Semiconductor after completing Ph.D. in Fall 2022.
• Nam-In Kim won the Best Dissertation Award of Cullen College of Engineering in 2022.
• Nam-In Kim won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in 2022.
• Mina Moradnia received Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship from the AEE Foundation in 2022.
• Asad Ali joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2022.
• Th PI received W. T. Kittinger Teaching Excellence Award from University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in May 2022.
• Nam-In Kim won the 3rd place in 56th TcSUH Student Symposium in April 2019.
• Mina Moradnia’s work on hybrid epitaxy was featured as a supplementary cover article in April 2022 issue of Crystal Growth and Design.
• Muhammad Aqib joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Spring 2022.
• Mina Moradnia received Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship from the AEE Foundation in 2021.
• Sara Pouladi won Best Poster Award in 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, June 2021.
• Mina Moradnia and Shahab Shervins’s work on single-crystal III-N film on Cu substrate was featured as a front-cover article of February 2021 issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
• Onosetale Aigbe joined Alliant Group after completing M.S. in Spring 2021.
• Sara Pouladi won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in 2020.
• Miad Yarali joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Spring 2021.
• Onosetale Aigbe joined the group as an M.S. student in Fall 2020.
• Th PI received Rising Innovator Award from University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in June 2020.
• Weijie Wang joined Applied Optoelectronics Inc. after completing Ph.D. in Spring 2020.
• Nam-In Kim passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2020.
• Jie Chen joined Colorado School of Mines/National Renewable Energy Laboratory after completing Ph.D. in Summer 2019.
• Jie Chen won the Best Dissertation Award of Cullen College of Engineering in 2019.
• Weijie Wang won the Best Dissertation Award of Mechanical Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in 2019.
• Jie Chen won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in 2019.
• Weijie Wang’s work on flexible HEMT was featured as an editor’s pick article of September 2019 issue of Applied Physics Letters.
• Jie Chen’s work on skin-attachable pulse sensor was featured as a back-cover article of September 2019 issue of Advanced Functional Materials.
• Sara Pouladi received CWEEL Scholarship of Association of Energy Engineers from AEE Foundation in 2019.
• Shahab Shervin joined ASML after completing Ph.D. in 2019.
• Mina Moradnia passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Fall 2019.
• Jie Chen won the 2nd place in 56th TcSUH Student Symposium in May 2019.
• Th PI received Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award from University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in April 2019.
• Nam-In Kim joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Spring 2019.
• Sara Pouladi’s work was featured as a cover article of the January 2019 issue of Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications
• Shivkant Darsrath Singh joined the group as Post-Doctoral Researcher in November 2018.
• Yu-Li Chang joined Applied Optoelectronics Inc. after completing M.S.
• Mina Moradnia joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2018.
• Sara Pouladi received Albert Thumann Scholarship from the Association of Energy Engineers Foundation in 2018.
• Sara Pouladi received Cullen Fellowship Travel Grant for her presentations at Electronic Materials Conference 2018 held in Santa Barbara, California.
• Shahab Shervin received Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship from the AEE Foundation in 2017.
• Yu-Li Chang joined the group as an M.S. student in Fall 2017.
• Sara Pouladi won Best Poster Award in 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Washington DC in June 2017.
• Seung Kyu Oh joined WavePhotonics after Post-Doc.
• Sara Pouladi won the 3rd place in 53rd TcSUH Student Symposium in May 2017.
• Weijie Wang passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2017. 
• Shahab Shervin won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in April 2017.
• Mojtaba Asadirad joined Micron Technology after completing Ph.D. in 2017.
• Bharath Dixit joined KLA Tencor after completing M.S. in 2017.
• Shahab Shervin won the 2nd place in 52nd TcSUH Student Symposium in December 2016.
• Jie Chen passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Fall 2016.
• Shahab Shervin received Cullen Fellowship Travel Grant for his presentations at International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors 2016 held in Orlando, Florida.
• Sara Pouladi was selected to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2016 at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
• Sara Pouladi passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2016.
• Keon-Haw Lee joined Korea Photonics Technology Institute after Post-Doc in January 2016.
• Mojtaba Asadirad’s work on flexible TFT was featured as a frontispiece article of August 2016 issue of Advanced Electronic Materials.
• Shahab’s work on flexible LEDs was featured as a cover article of March 2016 issue of ACS Photonics.
• Jie Chen joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2015.
• Weijie Wang joined our group as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2015.
• Mojtaba Asadirad received Houston Electrical League Scholarship in 2015.
• Bharath Dixit joined the group as an M.S. student in Summer 2015.
• Sara Pouladi joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Spring 2015.
• Shahab Shervin passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Summer 2015.
• Weijie Wang joined group as an M.S. student in Summer 2014.
• Mojtaba Asadirad passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Summer 2014.
• Shahab Shervin joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2013.
• Mojitaba Asadirad joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Spring 2013.