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 PROFESSOR MOONSUB SHIM (Faculty Profile)

Moonsub Shim - professor of materials science and engineering Education
  • Ph.D. (2001)    Chemistry, University of Chicago.
  • M.S. (1998)     Chemistry, University of Chicago.
  • B.S. (1997)      Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley.

Selected Honors

  • Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, 2014
  • Willett Faculty Scholar, 2010 – 2014
  • Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, 2009
  • Xerox Award for Faculty Research, 2007
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2004
  • Ivan Racheff Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, 2002 – 2004

VISITING SCHOLARS

Seunguk Noh
  • Principal Engineer at Samsung Display (2011-Present)
  • Ph.D. (2011) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
  • M.S. (2007) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
  • B.S. (2005) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

      Research Interests: Quantum dots and nanorods for LEDs

CURRENT MEMBERS

Conan Huang PhD

B.S. (2019) Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research Interests: Temperature dependent heterostructure nanocrystal LED characterization, Carrier and exciton dynamics in thin film quantum dot devices, Synthesis of novel II-VI and I-III-VI heterostructures

Emilio Ferral PhD

B.S. (2022) Architecture and Physics, University of Illinois Chicago.

Research Interests: Quantum dots in nanorods, persistent luminescent materials

Yunpei Duan MS

B.S. (2023) Material Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology

Research Interests: Cd-free Colloidal Quantum Dots and Nanorod Heterostructures

Ke Tang MS

B.E. (2024) Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Ritvik Annadi MS

B.S. (2024) Physics, College of William and Mary.

Research Interests: Quantum dots for optoelectronic devices

Yuche Tian

B.S. (2025) Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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FORMER MEMBERS

gd Gryphon Drake

B.S. (2014) Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

Research Interests: Nanocrystal heterostructures for optoelectronics.
Logan Keating

B.S. (2016) Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington.

Research Interests: Cd-Free Nanorods, Transient Electroluminescence, Synthetic Reproducibility, Analytical Methods.
Veronica Gerios

B.S. (2020) Chemistry, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
B.S. (2020) Biochemistry, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Mason Bushell

B.S. (2020) Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Hannah Pichman

B.S. (2021) Materials Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
 

Shantiv Sundarasan

B.S. (2023) Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis.