Principal Investigator

Prof. Ramakrishna Podila, PhD, FRSC, FInstP
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0978
Office: 864-656-0558
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Current Students and Postdocs
Connor Riahin (SRNL Post-doctoral Scholar): Betavoltaic devices
Shinto Francis (PhD Student, Y4): Ultrafast spectroscopy, ordered-disorder structures, and biosensors
Sajib Mohonta (PhD Student, Y4): Electrochemistry and battery thermal management
Gajendra Bohora (PhD Student, Y2): Solid-state electrolytes and thermal management
Prosanta Pal (PhD Student, Y2): Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning
Sreejesh Pattena Sankaramangalam (PhD Student, Y2): Ultrafast photoconductivity, Biosensors
Gaurav Sarmah (PhD Student, Y2): Quantum Computing and Quantum Thermodynamics
Andrew Ferebee (PhD student, Y1): Electrochemical interfaces and Machine Learning
MacKenzie L Partsch (MBIO PhD student, Y1): AI-driven biosensing and virtual teaching assistant for Medical Biophysics
Prakash Kumar Khati (PhD student, Y1): Electrochemistry and thermal interfaces
Adeep Sen (BS): Battery thermal management using machine learning tools
Alumni
Alyssa Nanneman (REU student)- Graphene FET biosensor
Nawraj Sapkota (PhD-Physics Aug 24, Co-advisor)- Battery Engineer at Empower
Alan Rowland (MS-Physcis May 24)-Research Associate, Furman University
Patrick Barrett (REU, CofC) Summer 24
Miriam Vereen (REU, Claflin) Summer 24
Savion Brown (REU, Claflin) Summer 24
Christian Captain (NASA Palmetto Academy Undergrad Student) Summer 23
Annie McKay (NASA Palmetto Academy Undergrad Student) Summer 23
Micheal Rutland (Undergraduate) Summer 21
Autumn Reed (REU student July 21)
Shailendra Chiluwal (PhD-Physics Aug 21-Primary advisor)- Battery engineer at Philips66
Bipin Sharma (PhD-Physics Dec 20-Primary advisor)- Data Scientist at FedEx
Wren Gregory (Phd-Physics Aug 20-Primary advisor)- Senior Scientist at Precision Genetics
Achyut J. Raghavendra (PhD-Physics 18-Primary advisor)- Post-doctoral fellow at FDA
Fengjio Liu (Phd-Physics 19; Collaborator)-Atlis Motor Vehicles
Anthony S. Childress (PhD-Physics 18; Collaborator)- Post-doc at Northwestern University
Sai Sunil Kumar Mallineni (PhD-Physics 18; Co-advisor)- Intel
Yongchang Dong (Phd-Physics 18; Co-advisor)- Applied Materials
Christopher Etteh (BS, Claflin University)- Summer research ’18
Kymani Miller (BS, Claflin University)- Summer research ’18
Sindhu Manchikanti (B.Tech, VIT)-Summer research ’18
Balakrishnan Pillai (BS-Chemistry)- Presently at the Medical University of South Carolina
Bishwambhar Sengupta (MS-Physics)-Continued to do PhD in Medical Physics
Joseph Denison (MS-Physics)-Presently lecturer at Presbyterian College
Eamon Espey, High-school student.
Dr. Pradyumna Mulpur (Visiting post-doctoral scholar)
For Prospective Students: We have openings for interested graduate and undergraduate students. An acceptance from the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (or a related discipline) at Clemson University is necessary. We do NOT offer independent PhD positions. For more details about the physics PhD program, you may visit https://www.clemson.edu/science/departments/physics-astro/academics/graduate/prospective.html

