Group Openings!
The Picoscale Engineering Group at UF is actively seeking multiple highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Our current interests are in tackling challenging problems in quantum science, semiconductors, and energy applications of societal interest through a combination of advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy, including atomic electron tomography (AET) and atomic scale quantum mechanical simulations. For more information regarding current and future projects, please refer to the Research and Publications pages. If interested, please email your C.V. and a short description of your research interests to Prof. Kim.
Graduate Students
Shaeek Ameen
ECE PhD Student
Quazi Shafayat Hossain
ECE PhD Student
Adithya Narayanaswamy
Chemical Engineering MS Student
Undergraduate Students
Daniel Takshi
ECE
Wasseem Barghouthi
ECE
Principal Investigator (PI)
Education
PhD California Institute of Technology
BS University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Dennis S. Kim holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UF, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a STROBE postdoctoral fellow and a research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry, respectively, at UCLA. For further details on past, ongoing, and upcoming projects, please visit the Research page.
Professional Experience
2024 – present
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
2022 – 2024
Research Scientist, University of California Los Angeles
2020 – 2022
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017 – 2020
STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards
- STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow Award 2017
- Lamgmuir-NSSA Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award at the American Conference for Neutron Scattering 2014
- Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Association KUSCO_KSEA Scholarship for Graduate Students 2012
- Youngnak General Academic Scholarship 2012
- California Institute of Technology Clark Graduate Fellowship 2011-2012
- American Institute of Chemists Award 2011
- George R. Richason, Jr. Award for Excellence in Undergradaute Research 2009
- University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College Merit Scholarship 2008-2011