Group Opening
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.
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The beautiful campus of Florida’s flagship university in Gainesville is located in central Florida only a short drive to Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando. The University of Florida is home to over 54,000 diverse students including over 19,000 graduate students and is ranked as the No. 1 public institution on the 2024 Wall Street Journal’s Best U.S. Colleges and considered a “new ivy” by Forbes. UF is a research powerhouse, investing more than $1 billion in research annually on discoveries and inventions that improve the world. The university supports research through the campus supercomputer HiperGator and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Nanoscale Research Facility, Florida Semiconductor Institute and plans for a UF Quantum Institute. These facilities offer students access to state-of-the-art instruments and computational resources, including an aberration-corrected electron microscope.
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Graduate Students
Quazi Shafayat Hossain, ECE PhD Student
Jeonghyeon Kim, ECE PhD Student
Shaeekul Ameen, ECE PhD Student
Adithya Narayanaswamy, ChE MS Student
Undergraduate Students
Daniel Takshi, ECE
Wasseem Barghouthi, ECE
Principal Investigator (PI)
Education
PhD California Institute of Technology
BS University of Massachusetts Amherst
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
Bio
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
Awards
- STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow Award 2017
- Langmuir-NSSA Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award at the American Conference
- for Neutron Scattering 2014
- Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association KUSCO-KSEA Scholarship for Graduate
- Students 2013
- 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 Undergraduate Research 2009
- University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College Merit Scholarship 2008-2011