Group photo taken in Spring 2023
Principal Investigator
Honggyu Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida
168 Rhines Hall
Phone: 352-846-3766
Email: honggyukim@ufl[dot]edu
University of Florida
Education:
- Postdoc, Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara (Advisor: Prof. Susanne Stemmer)
- Ph.D. in Materials Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Prof. Jian-Min Zuo)
- M.S., B.S. in Materials Science, Hanyang University, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Hyeongtag Jeon)
Ph.D. Students
Garrett Baucom (Ph.D. Student)
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, NC State University
- Research: Phase analysis of ferroelectric hafnia thin films using 4D-STEM
Cullen Hutchison (Ph.D. Student)
- B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (minor), University of Texas at Dallas
- Research: Characterization of 2D ferroelectrics and shape memory alloys; ML-powered digital data processing
Joseph (Franco) Frascogna (Ph.D. Student)
- B.S. in Physics, Mississippi State University
- Research: Characterization of ferroelectric and piezoelectric nitride thin films
Christopher Little (Ph.D. Student co-advised by Prof. Jones) – Joining in Fall 2025
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida
- Research: Laser Anealing for Ultralow Contact Resistance
Jiyun Song (Ph.D. Student co-advised by Prof. Jones) – Joining in Fall 2025
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science, Sogang University (South Korea)
- Research: Digital Twin for Semiconductor Processes
Undergraduate Students
Jason W. Barfield (UF-MSE, Honors Thesis)
- Research: Bloch-wave diffraction simulation of hafnia and digital image processing
Alexander Johnstone (UF-MSE)
- Research: Characterization of amorphous structure
Previous Members
Keon Sahebkar (Ph.D. Student)
- Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2025)
- Position after the Kim Group: Quantum Formatics
Meer Mahfuz (Honors Thesis)
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2025)
- Position after the Kim Group: Ph.D. Student at Rice (NSF-GRFP)
Shornam Gandhi (Honors Thesis)
- B.S., M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2024, 2025)
- Position after the Kim Group: L3Harris
Aspen Miller
- B.S., M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2024, 2025)
- Position after the Kim Group:
Eitan Hershkovitz
- Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2024)
- Position after the Kim Group: Postdoctoral researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Timothy Yoo
- Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2024)
- Position after the Kim Group: Intel
Jordan Sweeney (Honors Thesis)
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2023)
- Position after the Kim Group: Ph.D. Student at Colorado School of Mines
Mauricio Ceballos (Honors Thesis)
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2023)
- Position after the Kim Group: Ph.D. Student at Northwestern University
Matthew Jones
- B.S., M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2022, 2023)
- Position after the Kim Group: NextEra Energy
Hunter Long
- B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, UF (2022)
- Position after the Kim Group: M.S. Student at UF