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THOMPSON RESEARCH GROUP

THE ZOO

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Michael O. Thompson

Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering

Cornell Material Science & Engineering

mot1@cornell.edu

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.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Cameron Gorsak

Ph.D. Candidate (Co: Nair)

M.Ed, B.S Physics

University of Notre Dame 2021, 2019

cag284@cornell.edu

Yinan Zhao

Ph.D. Candidate

B.S. Materials Science in Physics

Duke Kunshan University 2023

yz2922@cornell.edu

Tianhai Luo

M.S.

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering,

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (China), 2023

tl843@cornell.edu

Pantao Hu

M.S. Student

B.S. Material Science & Engineering

UIUC, 2024

ph488@cornell.edu

Divyam Modi

M.S. Student

B.S. Nano Eng. & Bussiness Admin.

UCSD, 2022

dm955@cornell.edu

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

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Galaton Zhou

Undergraduate Student

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering,

Cornell University 2025 (expected)

gbz2@cornell.edu

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Kelly Mao

Undergraduate Student

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering,

Cornell University 2026 (expected)

kym4@cornell.edu

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Erin Collins

Undergraduate Student

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering,

Cornell University 2025 (expected)

ec925@cornell.edu

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