Research Group Members

Dr. Pratibha Dev

Professor

Director of Graduate Studies 

pratibha.dev[at]howard.edu

Research Scientists 

Dr. Ivan Naumov

Graduate Students 

Sai Krishna Narayanan

Cyrille Armel Sayou Ngomsi

Benjamin Edun

Group Alumni 

Research Scientists


◆  Dr. Sharmila Shirodkar

    Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters

    

◆  Dr. Himani Mishra

      Research Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory


Postdocs


◆  Dr. Pankaj Kumar

      HPC Computational Scientist at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.


◆  Dr. Priyanka Manchanda

       Associate Analyst II, AML RightSource


Graduate Students


◆  Tamanna Joshi, PhD July 2022 

       Thesis title:  “First Principles Study of Defects for Future Technologies”

       Technical Sales Engineer, Bluefors Inc.


◆  Olasunbo Farinre, M.S. December 2018 

      Title: “Strain Effects: Properties of Boron Vacancy (VB) in hexagonal boron  nitride (hBN)” 

      Process Engineer at Intel Corp.


Undergraduate Students


◆  Christina McBean, Undergraduate Research Assistant

        Senior Thesis:  “Study of Molecular Adsorption on Two-Dimensional Materials using Density Functional Theory”

        Currently a graduate student in the Physics Department at Columbia University.


◆  Naomi Haddock, Undergraduate Research Assistant

      Currently a graduate student at Stanford University.


◆  Bipul Poudyal, Undergraduate Research Assistant

      Currently a graduate student in the Physics Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.


◆  Kevaughn Johnson Undergraduate Research Assistant

      Currently a graduate student in the Physics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

REU Students/Undergraduate Interns

Fall 2019               ●Christina McBean (NSF’s CAREER Award, undergraduate research intern) from the 

- Spring 2021         Howard University


Summer 2019   ●Bipul Poudyal (CIQM Intern) from the Howard University

                                    ●Christina McBean (NSF’s CAREER Award, summer intern) from the Howard University


Summer 2018    ●Sean Russell (REU) from the University of Evansville, Indiana (now in the Department of 

                                        Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington) 

                                     ●Bipul Poudyal (CIQM Intern) from the Howard University


Summer 2017    ●Evan Folk (REU) from the University of Nebraska at Kearney (now at Colorado State 

                                        University)

  

Summer 2016    ●Grant Cates (REU) from the Linfield College (now a Fulbright Research Fellow at the 

                                        University of Stuttgart, Germany) 

                                     ●Pradip Kattel (CIQM Intern) from the Howard University

                                     ●Andrew Scoon (PRDM Intern) from the Howard University 


  

Dr. Suryakanti Debata

Dr. Sharmila Shirodkar

(Part-time)