University of North Texas 
Members
Group Leader
Prof. Anupama B. Kaul
PACCAR Professor of Engineering
Director, DOE SEEP-IT Consortium
Director, Nanoscale Materials and Devices Laboratory (NMDL)
Anupama.Kaul@unt.edu
Dr. Anupama Kaul is the PACCAR Professor of Engineering at the University of North
Texas (UNT) and joined UNT in September 2017. Since Spring 2023, she serves as Principal
Investigator and Director of the SEEP-IT consortium (total of $7.45 M including DOE Labs funding, with $5 M awarded to academic partners)
funded by the US Department of Energy involving multiple experts from around the country.
From Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2022, Kaul served as Director of the PACCAR Technology Institute.
From September 2014 - August 2017 she was with the University of Texas at El Paso
(UTEP) where she served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in
the College of Engineering, and held the AT&T Distinguished Professorship in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From May 2002 - August 2014, Dr. Kaul was
with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
NASA.
In her prior roles, Dr. Kaul has also served as a Program Director at the National
Science Foundation in the Electrical Communications and Cyber Systems Division in
the Engineering Directorate where she was on rotation as an IPA from the JPL-Caltech.
Dr. Kaul's research revolves around exploring the electrical, optical and mechanical
properties of novel nanoscale materials and harnessing these properties for device
platforms that have applications in electronics, energy-harnessing, sensors, and flexible
electronics. She has also held industrial research positions at Motorola Labs (2000-2002)
where she conducted research on a DARPA-sponsored RF-MEMS program. In the R&D Division
of the Hewlett-Packard Company (1993-1995), she was engaged in research on surface
micro-machined ink-jet MEMS devices and components.
Dr. Kaul obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley
in Materials Science and Engineering with minors in Electrical Engineering and Physics,
while her B.S. degrees (with Honors) were in Physics and Engineering Physics from
Oregon State University.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Misook Min
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Nirmal Adhikari
Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Students
Avra S Bandyopadhyay
Ph.D. Student
Ravindra Mehta
Ph.D. Student
Ridwan Fayaz Hossain
Ph.D. Student
Gustavo Saenz
Ph.D. Student
Kishan Jayanand
Ph.D. Student
Undergraduate Students
Gerardo Gamboa
Undergraduate Student
Daniel White
Undergraduate Student
Former Members & Alumni
Graduate Students & Postdocs
- Ashique Zaman, MS, 5/2024, MTSE (QCell - Atlanta, Georgia)
- Kishan Jayanand, Ph.D., 8/2022, MTSE (IBM Research - Albany, NY)
- Ravindra Mehta, Ph.D., 5/2022, MTSE (Micron Technology - Boise, ID)
- Dr. Kranthiraja Kakaraparthi, Postdoctoral Research Associate (Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
- Avra Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., 12/2020, EE (Intel-Oregon)
- Ridwan F. Hossain, Ph.D., 5/2020, EE (Intel-Oregon)
- Dr. Misook Min, Postdoctoral Scholar (R&D Scientist, Merck; EMD Electronics)
- Gustavo Saenz, Ph.D., 5/2020, EE (Intel-Oregon)
- Dr. Jason Ma, Postdoctoral Scholar (Research Scientist, Virginia Commonwealth University)
- Srishti Chugh, Ph.D., 8/2018, MMBME (Eugenus Inc; Oxford Instruments)
- Jay Desai, Ph.D., 8/2018, MMBME (Adjunct Asst. Prof. of Practice, Metallurgical and Materials Engr., VNIT Nagpur, India)
- Jorge Catalan, M.S. 12/2017, MMBME (Freeport-McMoran)
- Carlos De Anda Orea, M.S. 12/2017, EE (Intel-Oregon)
- Jackie Horn, M.S. 6/2020, EE (Texas Instruments)
- Monica Michel, Ph.D., 12/2016 MASE (Postdoctoral Scholar, UTEP)
- Dr. Dalal Fadil, NMDL Postdoctoral Scholar (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Rovira, Spain)
- Alberto Delgado, M.S., 05/2016 MME (Boeing Co.)
- Christopher Gaytan, M.S. (non thesis), ECE (Raytheon)
- Dr. Nirmal Adhikari, Postdoctoral Scholar (Global Foundaries)
Undergraduates
- Michael Huerta (with Dr. Yuankun Lin, Physics)
- Chandler Lewis (with Dr. Yuankun Lin, Physics)
- Nathan Nixon (Senior, EE)
- Jude Abunaaba (Senior, EE)
- Tyler Radichel (Senior, EE)
- Brendan Jones (Senior, EE)
- Araceli Herrera Mondragon (with Dr. Yuankun Lin, Physics)
- Carlos Padilla (Senior, EE)
- Allyson Tesky (Junior & Senior, BME & EE)
- Julia Molitor (Sophomore, Junior, ME)
- Thomas Mather (Junior & Senior, EE)
- Ideal Ademaj (Junior & Senior, EE)
- Jose Martinez (with Dr. Mahbub's lab, Junior-Senior EE)
- Jose Marcelino (with Dr. Mahbub's lab, Junior-EE)
- Travis Roberts (with Dr. Mahbub's lab, Senior EE)
- Keaton McGill (with Dr. Mahbub's lab, Junior EE)
- Erik Pineda-Alvarez (with Dr. Mahbub's lab, Junior EE)
- Omar Madera (with Dr. Mahbub's lab, Junior EE)
- Bushra Alharbi (Junior, BME)
- Gerardo Gamboa (Junior, MSE)
- Daniel White (Junior, Senior, MSE)
- Alex Teoh (Sophomore, BME)
- Roman Madoerin (Junior, MSE)
- Spencer Gellerup (Junior, MSE)
- Daniel Pleshek (Junior, MSE)
- William Mullins (Junior, MEE)
- Robert Maxson (Senior, EE)
- Perla Perez (Senior, ME, UTEP)
- Silvino Bastos (Senior, ECE, UTEP)
- Raymundo De La Rosa (Senior, ECE, UTEP)
- Antonio Delgado (Senior, ECE, UTEP)
- Victor Torres (Senior, ECE, UTEP)
High School Students
- Guillermo Lopez (High School, Transmountain Early College High School, El Paso, TX)
- Damaris Cortes (Senior, Clint Early College High School, El Paso, TX)
- Susan Naoko Ward (Senior, Franklin High School, El Paso, TX)
- Sophie Li (Centennial High School, Dallas, TX)