Virginia M. Ayres earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from Purdue University, and two B.A.s in Physics and in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ayres is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Her research interests are in nanobiology and nanoelectronics and scanning probe microscopies. Dr. Ayres is the recipient of two NASA Faculty Fellowship Awards, two NSF Outstanding Performance Awards, and two international awards from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and from Tokyo Institute of Technology for research and education in Japan. (Full CV) (w/oPDF)
Kaylee McElroy received her B.S. degree in Physics from Brigham Young University in 2006, where she completed a Senior Thesis on "The Effect of Contact Length on Adhesion between Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Dioxide". She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Electronic and Biological Nanostructures Laboratory. An M.S. degree is expected in 2009. Her research interests include growth mechanisms and internal structures of gallium nitride nanowires and the fabrication and performance of gallium nitride and carbon nanotube nanocircuits in extreme environments. (Full Resume) (w/oPDF)
Raed Al-Duhaileb received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the King Fahd Unversity, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in 2004. He is an Instrumentation Engineer with Saudi Aramco, 2004-present (on leave). In 2008, he was awarded a full scholarship from Saudi Aramco for graduate work at Michigan State University, where he is currently a Graduate Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Electronic and Biological Nanostructures Laboratory. His research interests include the tribological properties of nano-carbons in extreme environments. (Full Resume) (w/oPDF)
Volkan Mujdat Tiyaki received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Istanbul,Republic of Turkey, in 2003 and 2006. In 2008, he was awarded a full scholarship from the General Directorate for Higher Education, Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey for graduate work at Michigan State University, where he is currently a Graduate Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Electronic and Biological Nanostructures Laboratory. His research interests include investigation of nanoscale cues for regenerative neural cell systems using Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. (Full Resume) (w/oPDF)
Jonathan C. Callahan is currently an Undergraduate at Michigan State University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Undergraduate Research Assistant member of the Electronic and Biological Nanostructures Laboratory. His research interests include the fabrication and performance of gallium nitride nanowire and carbon nanotube nanocircuits in extreme environments. (Full Resume) (w/oPDF)
Collaborators
- Thomas R. Bieler,Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Martin C. Crimp,Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Atsushi Hirata, Dept. of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-Okayama, Tokyo, Japan
- Benjamin W. Jacobs, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
- Reginald M. Ronningen, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Mary Anne Tupta, Keithley Electronics, Inc. Cleveland, OH
- Lutz Geelhaar, Paul Drude Institut, Berlin, Germany
- Albert F. Zeller, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
