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Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory

College of Engineering

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Principle Investigator

  

Gianluca (Gian) Piazza

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Nanofab 

Gianluca Piazza is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of the John and Claire Bertucci Nanotechnology Laboratory (a.k.a. the CMU Nanofabrication Facility). He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining CMU he was the Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on piezoelectric micro and nano electromechanicalsystems (M/NEMS) for RF wireless communication, optomechanics, chemical/biological detection, and mechanical computing. He also has a general interest in the areas of micro/nano fabrication techniques and integration of micro/nano devices with state-of-the-art electronics. He has more than 10 years of experience working with piezoelectric materials and devices. He holds several patents in the field of micromechanical resonators some of which have been acquired by industry. He received the IBM Young Faculty Award in 2006 and has won, with his students, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013, and at the IEEE Ultrasonic Symposium in 2012. He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (JMEMS).

E-mail: piazza AT ece.cmu.edu
Website: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/directory/bios/piazza-gianluca.html      

Jacqueline Chraska
chraska@ece.cmu.edu
Tel:412-268-3096
Fax:412-268-9687

PhD Students

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.Sc. (2020)  in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida. 

Research Interests:  Ferroelectric, In-Memory Computing, Phase Change Material, MEMS/NEMS Actuators, M/NEMS Fabrication, Phase Change Memory.

E-mail: lhurtado AT andrew.cmu.edu
Bokyung Suh Head Shot
PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. (2023) in Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas

Research Interests: Resonators, RF MEMS, M/NEMS Fabrication

E-mail: bokyungs AT andrew.cmu.edu

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.A. in Physics, University of Chicago (2023).

Research Interests: Piezoelectric Films, RF MEMS, M/NEMS Fabrication.  

Email: juhunb AT andrew.cmu.edu
Daniel Noronha Head Shot

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame (2025)

Research Interests: Ferroelectric Devices, In-Memory/Neuromorphic Computing, RF
MEMS, M/NEMS Fabrication

Email: dnoronha AT andrew.cmu.edu

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

M.S. (2024) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.

B.S. (2022) Electrical Engineering, Ohio Northern University.

Research Interests: M/NEMS Sensor and Actuators, Photonic Integrated Circuits, M/NEMS Fabrication, System-on-a-chip, Design for Manufacture, Data Analysis and Automation

E-mail: acochran AT andrew.cmu.edu

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

M.Sc. (2023) and B.Sc. (2021) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Research Interests:  Integrated Photonics, Nanofabrication, MEMS.

Email: tashfiqa AT andrew.cmu.edu

Alumni