Dr. Ahmed has extensive experience in the areas of solar cell fabrication and simulation. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Physics and Materials Science and Engineering respectively. After completing this Ph.D. Dr. Ahmed worked at the Intel Corporation for 7 years serving different roles from Logic Technology Development (LTD) Engineer to an Individual Contributor (IC). He has published over 10 referred journal publications and has presented in over 20 national/international conferences and technical meetings. Dr. Ahmed collaborates extensively with Dr. Banerjee in the areas of fabrication and simulation of active materials.
Sankha Banerjee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Graduate Program Coordinator
Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno
Office: Engineering East 158
Collaborative Principal Investigator
Gustavo Silva Hernandez, MS
Research Associate
B.S., M.S. California State University, Fresno
Research Area: Capacitive deionization based water purification in carbon nanotube and graphene filter stacks
Research Associate
Energy devices and Plasma applications Laboratory (EdPL)
Dr. Banerjee has extensive experience in the interdisciplinary areas of active materials fabrication, non-thermal plasma-based materials processing, and characterization. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Rutgers University and completed his postdoctoral work at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He also founded the Energy Devices and Plasma Applications Laboratory in 2015 at Fresno State which is partially funded by the Department of Defense and the Lyles Colege of Engineering. He has over 30 refereed journal publications and over 40 presentations in national/international conferences and technical meetings.
Undergraduate Students
Mai Tser Yang
Graduate Researcher
B.S. Material Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Graduate Equity Fellow
Research Area: Water purification and selective removal of ions using graphene and activated carbon filter stacks
Principal Investigator
Saquib Ahmed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo State
Office Location:
Engineering East
2320 E. San Ramon Ave.
Fresno CA 93720
Jack Luong
Undergradaute Researcher
B.S., M.S. California State University, Fresno
Research Area: Surface modification of bio-compatible 3-D printed materials for applications in selective cell growth
Laboratory Location:
Jordan Agricultural Research Center
5311 N Woodrow Ave, Fresno, CA 93726
Mandeep Singh
Graduate Researcher
B.S. California State University, Fresno
LCOE Sponsorship Fellow
Research Area: Fabrication and characterization of electro-active and photo-active materials for the development of biomedical devices
Noah Haworth
Graduate Researcher
B.S. California State University, Fresno
LCOE Sponsorship Fellow
Research Area: Fabrication and characterization of a non invasive wearable Glucose Monitoring System