Sambandamurthy Ganapathy, Ph. D.

Professor of Physics and
Associate Dean for Research (CAS)

Nicholas Jerla (PhD)

Research work centering on understanding equilibrium and non-equilibrium transport characteristics in complex oxide materials such as various phases of vanadium oxides and their phase transitions. Current interests are in thermal- and electrically-driven conductor-insulator transitions in vanadium pentoxides.

Nitin Kumar (PhD)

Projects focusing on understanding the electronic properties of correlated nanoscale materials towards applications in neuromorphic computing and next-generation memory. Current interests are in resistive switching processes and transport noise signatures in NbO2 and ZIF-8.

Dominic D'arrigo (BS)

Project developing resistive switching oscillators for neuromorphic computing applications. Current interest is in designing and optimizing oscillator behavior to mimic biological neural networks.


Recently graduated from the group:

  • Sangit Baskota (M.S., August 2024), University at Buffalo
  • Dr. Dasharath Adhikari (Ph.D., May 2021), Intel Inc., OR
  • Dr. Ahmed Ali (Ph.D., October 2019), Professor, Almareef University, Iraq
  • Dr. Colin Kilcoyne (Ph.D., August 2018), Wolfspeed Inc., NH
  • Dr. Ali AlSaqqa (M.S., August 2014; Ph.D., August 2017), Apple Inc., TX
  • Luke Lyle (B.S. (Hons.), May 2016), Penn State University, PA
  • Young-In Kim (M.S., May 2016), Chicago, IL
  • Dr. Sujay Singh (Ph.D., February 2016), ON Semiconductors, PA
  • David Wilson (M.S., August 2014), ADP Inc., VA
  • Dr. Zhenzhong Shi (Ph.D., September 2013), Professor, Soochow University, China
  • Dr. Adam Stabile (Ph.D., August 2012), IBM, NY
  • Dr. Minsoo Kim (Ph.D., May 2012), Yonsei University, Korea
  • Chun-Pui Kwan (B.S. (Hons.), May 2012), Global Foundries, NY
  • Dr. Tailung Wu (Ph.D., August 2011), Purdue University, IN
  • Sasmita Srichandan (M.S., July 2011), Infineon Technologies, Austria

Other lab alumni:

  • Luke Meiler (Undergrad): Spring/Summer 2021
  • Anthony Cabannilas (Undergrad): 2019-2020
  • Shashank Paithankar (Undergrad): 2019-2020
  • Dustin Solomon (Undergrad): Summer 2016
  • Eric Bigenwald (Undergrad): Fall 2014
  • Sarath Vijayan (Graduate): Spring 2013
  • Colin Kilcoyne (Undergrad): Spring 2012, Fall 2012
  • Chun-Pui Kwan (Undergrad): 2011-2012
  • Connor Gorman (Undergrad): Spring 2012
  • Samantha Shojaie (Undergrad): Spring 2012
  • Payam Taherirostami (Graduate): Summer 2011
  • Ed von Iderstein (High School Teacher): Summers 2011, 2012
  • Rich Brosius (Undergrad): Fall 2010
  • Hally Stone (Undergrad): Summer 2010
  • Jonathan Schuster (Undergrad): Spring 2008
  • Gayatri Venugopal (Graduate): 2007
  • James Kennicutt (Undergrad): Spring 2007
  • Jennifer Schanke (Undergrad): Spring 2007

Current and recent collaborators: (in alphabetical order)

  • Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee (Texas A&M Univ.)
  • Prof. Jak Chakhalian (Rutgers U.)
  • Prof. Nathaniel Cady (U Albany)
  • Prof. Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Prof. Lloyd Engel (Magnet Lab, Tallahassee)
  • Prof. Jong Han (SUNY Buffalo)
  • Prof. Shenqian Ren (UMD)
  • Prof. Reza Yassar-Shabhazian (UIC)
  • Prof. Ali Yazdani (Princeton University)
  • Prof. Peihong Zhang (SUNY Buffalo)