KONO - Key Persons


Andrey Baydin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Kono Lab Group
  • Research Assistant Professor / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Alina Lyuleeva

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  • Current Position: Advanced Consultant / Engineer, Altran Technologies

Dr. Andreas Stier

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  • Current Position: Group Leader, Technical University Munich, Germany

Dr. Kankan Cong

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  • Thesis Title: "Coherent Light - Matter Coupling and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Single - Chirality Carbon Nanotubes." Current Position: System Engineer, Veeco

Dr. Kazuhiro Yanagi

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  • Visiting Professor from Tokyo Metropolitan University, April - September 2017 )

Dr. Lijuan Xie

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  • Visiting Researcher from Zhejiang University, China, September 2013 - July 2016 )

Dr. Marie Pontier-Johnson

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  • Senior Research Scientist, Rice University, Co - Advised by Prof. Richard E. Smalley, July 2001 - July 2002 )

Dr. Minjie Wang

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  • Thesis Title: "Synthesis and Terahertz Applications of Large - Area Monolayer Graphene." Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

Dr. Motonori Nakamura

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  • Visiting Professor

Dr. Weilu Gao

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  • Thesis Title: "Wafer - Scale Films and Devices of Spontaneously Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Dr. Xinwei Li

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  • Thesis Title: "Probing Cooperative Phenomena in Solids by Terahertz Magnetospectroscopy." Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore

Dr. Yong-Sik Lim

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  • Visiting Professor from Konkuk University, Korea, December 2004 - February 2006 )

Dr. Yuji Sakai

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  • Visiting Researcher from Osaka University, Japan, March 2016 and August - October 2016 )

Gustavo Rodriguez Barrios

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Jacques Doumani

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Kono Lab Group
  • Graduate Student

Karl F. Hasselmann

Job Titles:
  • Director, Applied Physics Graduate Program
  • Professor in Engineering

Keshav Zahn

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  • Administrator

Kiran Kulkarni

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  • Graduate Student

Mr Kenji Hayashida

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  • Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, August 2019 )

Mr. Akira Ikeuchi

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, October 2010 - January 2011 )

Mr. Akira Kikuchi

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tokyo University, Japan, September 2016 - January 2017 )

Mr. Andre Zepeda

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from UT Austin, May - August 2018 )

Mr. Ari J. Briskman

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  • REU Student

Mr. Brian Bustamante

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  • REU Student

Mr. Bruce E. Brinson

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  • Optical Analyst, Rice University, July 2000 - February 2003 )

Mr. Cody Sewell

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  • Thesis Title: "Terahertz Conductivity Assessment of Doped and Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Mr. Daiki Kato

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, October 2011 - January 2012 )

Mr. Feng Xie

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Texas a & M University, June - August 2008 )

Mr. Florian Vigneau

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from University of Toulouse, France, September - November 2015 )

Mr. Fumiya Sekiguchi

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from University of Tokyo, Japan, January - March 2015 )

Mr. Gregory A. Bond

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  • REU Student

Mr. Haotian Li

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Zhejiang University, China, July - August 2012 )

Mr. Hirotaka Kasai

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, December 2014 - February 2015 )

Mr. Hiroyuki Sugahara

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, Summer 2011 )

Mr. Katsumasa Yoshioka

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Yokohama National University, Japan, August - October 2017 and February, 2018 )

Mr. Kazuki Kojima

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tohoku University, Japan, July - August 2013 )

Mr. Keisuke Sawada

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, August - October 2008 )

Mr. Kenji Yamamoto

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, October 2009 - January 2010 )

Mr. Kota Katsumi

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from University of Tokyo, Japan, February 2016 - March 2016 )

Mr. Kousuke Okada

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Osaka University, Japan, February 2016 - March 2016 )

Mr. Masato Suzuki

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, September 2011 - January 2012 )

Mr. Roopam K. Gupta

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Indian Inst. of Sci. Ed. & Res. Kolkata, India, May - July 2014 )

Mr. Ryo Mori

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Keio University, Japan, Summer 2011 )

Mr. Ryohei Fukumoto

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, August - October 2011 )

Mr. Ryota Kawai

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, June 2012 - March 2013 )

Mr. Ryusuke Kaneko

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Osaka University, Japan, Summer 2011 )

Mr. Sanjay Kumar

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from SRM University, India, February - October 2015 )

Mr. Srikrishna Pandey

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, July - August 2012 )

Mr. Takafumi Akiho

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, January - March 2011 )

Mr. Takahiro Katayama

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Tottori University, Japan, August - September 2015 )

Mr. Takahiro Kinoshita

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, August - October 2009 )

Mr. Takatoshi Yamamoto

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, January 2008 - March 2008 )

Mr. Takayuki Watanabe

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tohoku University, Japan, August - October 2011 )

Mr. Tomohide Morimoto

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Osaka University, Japan, January - March 2018 )

Mr. Trong Chien Nguyen

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Chiba University, Japan, August - October 2010 )

Mr. Xuan Duy Luong

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Chiba University, Japan, August - October 2012 )

Mr. Yoichi Harada

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, September 2015 - July 2016 )

Mr. Yota Ichinose

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, October 2018 )

Mr. Yu-Shuo Liao

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  • Visitng Graduate Student from National Taiwan University, September 2022 )

Mr. Yuan Tian

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tohoku University, September 2022 )

Mr. Yuki Kurita

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tohoku University, Japan, July - August 2013 )

Mr. Yusuke Hashimoto

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Chiba University, October 2003 - August 2004 )

Ms. Angela Edwards

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  • REU Student

Ms. Sarah Phillips

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  • Group International Education Programs Director, November 2009 - May 2020 )

Ms. Soraya Shirini

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, December 2014 - March 2015 )

Ms. Takami Kaji

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  • Visiting Graduate Student from Tottori University, Japan, August - September 2015 )

Ms. Yuna Sung

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  • Visiting Undergraduate Student from Hokkaido University, Japan, March - April 2012 )

Prof. Junichiro Kono

Job Titles:
  • Director, Applied Physics Graduate Program
  • Professor
  • Professor in Engineering
Prof. Junichiro Kono received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995. He was a postdoctoral research associate in condensed matter physics at the University of California Santa Barbara from 1995-1997, and the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Fellow in the Department of Physics at Stanford University from 1997-2000. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rice University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and to Professor in 2009. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, and Materials Science & Nanoengineering at Rice University.

Wenjing Wu

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Will Smith

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student