Dr. Ryou Research Group

Mission statement

Welcome to Ryou Group. We study materials and devices based on semiconductors for photonic, electronic, and energy applications.

News

• Mina and Sara’s collaborative work is features in Women Researchers at the Forefront of Crystal Engineering: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00609

• Researchers Develop Sensors That Operate At High Temperatures, In Extreme Environments: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202305/researchers-develop-sensors-operate-high-temperatures-extreme-environments

• Crystal Growth & Design Picks Ryou Research Group Work For Cover: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202207/crystal-growth-design-picks-ryou-research-group-work-cover

• The PI won the W. T. Kittinger Teaching Excellence Award from Cullen College of Engineering: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202205/cullen-recognizes-efforts-faculty-students-2021-22-excellence-awards

• Non-Invasive Eye-Movement Sensors Developed By UH's Ryou: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202105/non-invasive-eye-movement-sensors-developed-uhs-ryou

• Postdoc Pouladi takes home another award: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202108/postdoc-pouladi-takes-home-another-award

• Moradnia Co-Authors Paper On Semiconductor Improvement: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202109/moradnia-co-authors-paper-semiconductor-improvement

• The PI won the Rising Innovator Award from Cullen College of Engineering: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/202006/college-honors-17-yearly-faculty-and-student-excellence-awards

• UH Wearable Electronics Research Featured in Advanced Functional Materials: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201910/uh-wearable-electronics-research-featured-advanced-functional-materials

• Research brings self-powered wearable electronics closer to reality: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201905/uh-engineering-doctoral-student-publishes-nano-energy

• The PI won Research Excellence Award from Cullen College of Engineering: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201905/cullen-college-celebrates-excellence-outstanding-service-awards

• Flexible, Low-Cost Solar Cell Device Key to Affordable Energy: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201902/uh-research-breakthrough-lands-journal-cover

• Doctoral Student Won the top honored 2018 AL THUMANN SCHOLARSHIP in the FAEE program:    http://materials.egr.uh.edu/announcement/201901/doctoral-student-won-top-honored-2018-al-thumann-scholarship-faee-program

• Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. Student Brings Home Poster Prize:
  https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201707/materials-science-and-engineering-phd-student-brings-home-poster-prize

• The PI won Teaching Excellence Award from Cullen College of Engineering: https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201705/best-our-brightest-outstanding-service-awards-given-cullen-college

• “Bend” and “Flex” No Longer Just Terms for Exercise, They’ll Soon Describe Your Laptop!:
  https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201609/bend-and-flex-no-longer-just-terms-exercise-they-soon-describe-your-laptop

• UH Engineers Make Journal Cover with Flexible LED Theoretical Study
  https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201604/uh-engineers-make-journal-cover-flexible-led-theoretical-study

• Engineering Professor Earns Grant to Pursue Energy-Saving Semiconductors
  https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201411/engineering-professor-earns-grant-pursue-energy-saving-semiconductors

• Engineering Research Aims to Build a Better Light Bulb
  https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201310/engineering-research-aims-build-better-light-bulb

Group updates

• Mina Moradnia joined Zeta Energy after completing Ph.D.

• Nam-In Kim’s work was featured as a cover article of the March 2023 issue of Advance Functional Materials.

• Mina Moradnia won the 2nd place in 58th TcSUH Student Symposium in April 2023. Congrats, Mina!

• Rheno Paul joined the group as an M.S. candidate in Spring 2023.

• Crystal Ly joined the group as an M.S. candidate in Spring 2023.

• Miad Yarali joined Samsung Austin Semiconductor after completing Ph.D.

• Nam-In Kim won the Best Dissertation Award of Cullen College of Engineering in 2021-202. Congrats, Nam-In!

• Nam-In Kim won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in 2021-202. Congrats, Nam-In!

• Mina Moradnia received Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship, The AEE Foundation, 2022. Congrats, Mina!

• Asad Ali joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2022.

• Mina Moradnia's work was featured as a supplementary cover article of the April 2022 issue of Crystal Growth and Design.

• Muhammad Aqib joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Spring 2022.

• Mina Moradnia received Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship, The AEE Foundation, 2021. Congrats, Mina!

• Sara Pouladi won Best Poster Award in 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-48), Jun. 2021. Congrats, Sara!

• Mina Moradnia and Shahab Shervins's work was featured as a front-cover article of the February 2021 issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

• Onosetale Aigbe joined Alliant Group after completing M.S.

• Sara Pouladi won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in Nov. 2020. Congrats, Sara!

• Miad Yarali joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Spring 2021.

• Onosetale Aigbe joined the group as an M.S. candidate in Fall 2020.

• Weijie Wang joined Applied Optoelectronics Inc. after completing Ph.D.

• Jie Chen joined Colorado School of Mines/National Renewable Energy Laboratory after completing Ph.D.

• Jie Chen won the Best Dissertation Award of Cullen College of Engineering in Nov. 2019. Congrats, Jie!

• Weijie Wang won the Best Dissertation Award of Mechanical Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in Nov. 2019. Congrats, Weijie!

• Jie Chen won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in Nov. 2019. Congrats, Jie!

• Weijie Wang's work was featured as an editor's pick article of September 2019 issue of Applied Physics Letters.

• Jie Chen's work was featured as a back-cover article of the September 2019 issue of Advanced Functional Materials.

• Sara Pouladi received CWEEL Scholarship from the Association of Energy Engineers, The AEE Foundation, 2019. Congrats, Sara!

• Shahab Shervin joined ASML in Aug. 2019, after completing Ph.D.

• Jie Chen won the 2nd place in 56th TcSUH Student Symposium in May 2019. Congrats, Jie!

• Nam-In Kim joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Spring 2019.

• Sara Pouladi's work was featured as a cover article of the January 2019 issue of Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

• Shivkant Darsrath Singh joined the group as Post-Doctoral Researcher in Nov. 2018.

• Yu-Li Chang joined Applied Optoelectronics Inc. after completing M.S.

• Mina Moradnia joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2018.

• Sara Pouladi received Albert Thumann Scholarship from the Association of Energy Engineers, The AEE Foundation, 2018. Congrats, Sara!

• Sara Pouladi received Cullen Fellowship Travel Grant for her presentations at Electronic Materials Conference 2018 held in Santa Barbara, California. Congrats, Sara!

• Shahab Shervin received Association of Energy Engineers Scholarship, The AEE Foundation, 2017. Congrats, Shahab!

• Yu-Li Chang joined the group as an M.S. candidate in Fall 2017.

• Sara Pouladi won Best Poster Award in 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-44), Washington DC, Jun. 2017. Congrats, Sara!

• Dr. Seung Kyu Oh joined WavePhotonics.

• Sara Pouladi won the 3rd place in 53rd TcSUH Student Symposium in May 2017. Congrats, Sara!

• Weijie Wang passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2017. Congrats, Weijie!

• Shahab Shervin won the Best Dissertation Award of Materials Science and Engineering of Cullen College of Engineering in Apr. 2017. Congrats, Shahab!

• Mojtaba Asadirad joined Micron Technology in Mar. 2017, after completing Ph.D.

• Bharath Dixit joined KLA Tencor in Mar. 2017, after completing M.S.

• Shahab Shervin won the 2nd place in 52nd TcSUH Student Symposium in Dec. 2016. Congrats, Shahab!

• Jie Chen passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Fall 2016. Congrats, Jie!

• Shahab Shervin received Cullen Fellowship Travel Grant for his presentations at International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors 2016 held in Orlando Florida. Congrats, Shahab!

• Sara Pouladi was selected to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2016 at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Congrats, Sara!

• Sara Pouladi passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Spring 2016. Congrats, Sara!

• Mojtaba Asadirad's work was featured as a frontispiece article of the August 2016 issue of Advanced Electronic Materials.

• Shahab's work was featured as a cover article of the March 2016 issue of ACS Photonics.

• Jie Chen joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2015.

• Weijie Wang joined our group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2015.

• Mojtaba Asadirad received Houston Electrical League Scholarship in 2015. Congrats, Moji!

• Bharath Dixit joined the group as an M.S. candidate in Summer 2015.

• Sara Pouladi joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Spring 2015.

• Shahab Shervin passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Summer 2015. Congrats, Shahab!

• Weijie Wang joined group as an M.S. candidate in Summer 2014.

• Mojtaba Asadirad passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Summer 2014. Congrats, Moji!

• Shahab Shervin joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Fall 2013.

• Mojitaba Asadirad joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate in Spring 2013.