People

Principal Investigator

Prof. Qing Gu

Associate Professor of ECE Bio
Associate Professor of Physics Bio
Carbon Electronics Cluster
Email: qgu3@ncsu.edu

Honors and Awards:
2025: DARPA MTO Pitch Day Award
2024: NCSU Bennett Faculty Fellow
2021: Texas Instruments Early Career Fellow
2021: UT Dallas Jonsson School Faculty Research Award
2020: NSF CAREER Award
2019: ARO Young Investigator Award

Postdoc Researchers

Jiazhen Li

Ph.D. 2021, Physics, South China Normal University

Aneek Biswas

Ph.D. 2025, Physics, City University of New York

Graduate Students

Md Anwar Sadath

Ph.D. Candidate in ECE

Sahar Behroozinia

Ph.D. Candidate in ECE

Anna Capuano

Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering

Elaheh Karooby

Ph.D. Candidate in ECE

Md Ayenul Azim

Ph.D. Candidate in ECE

Research Assistants

Ben Hanestad

B.Sc., 2025, Physics, NC State University

Jackson Ingraham

M.Sc., 2026, ECE and Computer Science, NC State University

Visiting Researcher

Disha Biswas

Ph.D Candidate at at University of Texas at Dallas (Advisor: Dr. Joseph Friedman)

Undergraduate Students

Bryce Willems

Physics

Reagan Wilkinson

Computer Engineering

Aidan Dumain

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alumni

2026: Octavius Anderson (REU in ECE)
2025: Gage Bledsoe (REU in ECE)
2024: Dayang Lin (PhD in ECE, now in industry)
2024: Mopel Kitele (REU in ECE)
2022: Abouzar Gharajeh (PhD in ECE, now in industry)
2022: Xi Li (PhD in ECE, now postdoc in Gu group)
2021: Masoud Alahbakhshi (PhD in ECE, now in industry)
2021: Jiyoung Moon (PhD in MSE, now in industry)
2021: Zhitong Li (PhD in ECE, now Assistant Professor)
2021: Farhat Abbas (MS in ECE)
2021: Bayron Lennin Murillo (MS in ECE)
2020: Michael Mikhael (Undergraduate in ECE)
2019: Ali Coban (Undergraduate in ECE)
2017: Teddy Hsieh (Plano West Senior High School)
2017: Mitchell Ament (Undergraduate in ECE)