THE ZOO
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Michael O. Thompson
Professor Michael Thompson received his B.S. in Applied Physics from CalTech in 1979 and M.S./Ph.D degrees in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell. For the past 35 years, his group's research has focused on the behavior of semiconductor materials under pulsed and CW laser exposure. He is coauthor on more than 350 papers and over 20 patents.
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ming-Chiang Chang
Ph.D. Candidate
Dr. Katie Gann
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cameron Gorsak
Ph.D. Candidate (Co: Nair)
Yinan Zhao
Ph.D. Candidate
Tianhai Luo
M.S. Student
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering,
Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 2023
Hemant Gulupalli
M.S. Student
B.Tech. Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jaipur 2023
hg486@cornell.edu
Abhishek Kulkarni
M.S. Student
B.E. Chemical Engineering,
Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai 2023
Pantao Hu
M.S. Student
Divyam Modi
M.S. Student
​​​B.S. Nano Engineering & Bussiness Administration
University of California, San Diego 2022
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Galaton Zhou
Undergraduate Student
Kelly Mao
Undergraduate Student
Erin Collins
Undergraduate Student