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MATTHEW GRAYSON Address Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Phone: (847) 491-8137 Fax: (847) 491-4455 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~grayson Education Princeton University 1998 Thesis Advisor - Daniel C. Tsui Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering M. S. in Electrical Engineering Notre Dame University 1990 B. S. in Electrical Engineering Appointments Northwestern University Professor, EECS Department 2018-present Associate Professor, EECS Department 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, EECS Department 2007-2012 Technische Universität München 2003-2007 Supervisor - Gerhard Abstreiter Habilitand Research Associate, Walter Schottky Institut Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow 2000-2002 Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart 2002 Supervisor - Klaus von Klitzing Research Associate University of Maryland 1998-2000 Supervisor - Dennis Drew Research Associate, Department of Physics Awards & Honors AT & T Research Professor in Electrical Engineering 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Alumni Award 2012 Gastdozent (Guest Lecturer Title), Tech. Universität Muenchen 2010 Teacher of the Year Award, McCormick School 2009 Searle Junior Teaching Fellow 2009 Best Teacher Award, Dept. of EECS 2008 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 2007 Bernard-Hess Dozentur Teaching Prize, Universität Regensburg 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 2000-2002 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 1991-1994 Basil R. Meyers Award for Undergraduate Engineering 1990 Matthew Grayson - Curriculum Vitae A. LEADERSHIP Leadership: Buffet Global Council Member 2019-present Northwestern Engineering Global Initiatives Director 2016-present Director of Global Engagement, ECE Department 2016-present Director of Graduate Studies, EECS Department 2016-2017 co-Director of Graduate Studies, EE-Division 2014-2017 Global McCormick co-Director 2014-2016 Murphy Scholar Advisor 2013-2015 Northwestern Engineering Global Ambassador for Germany 2014-present Chair: Teacher of the Year/Advisor of the Year Committee 2010 & 2011 Undergrad Study Abroad Committee McCormick representative 2009-2016 ETOPiA Outreach Founder, EXecutive Producer 2008-present External Service Conferences Organizing: Co-Chair: 2017 SPIE 2017 – Photonics West: Optical and Electronic Cooling of Solids II San Francisco, CA Co-Chair: 2017 SPIE 2017 – Defense & Security: Tri-Technology Device Refrigeration (TTDR); Baltimore, MD Organizing Committee: 2012 MIOMD-XI – Infrared Optoelectronics Materials and Devices; Evanston, IL Organizing Committee: 2009 Recent Advances in Peltier Cooling in the Range Including 10 K; Albuquerque, NM Program Committee: 2009 SPIE 2009, San Francisco, CA – Photonics West Program Committee: 2007 Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems-17, Genoa, ITALY Program Committee: 2006 Frontiers in Semiconductor Nanoscience, Garching, GERMANY Organizing Committee: 2004 COLLECT European Community Research Training Network, Garching, GERMANY Program Committee: 1999 APS March 2000 Sorting Session, Semiconductor Team Leader Program Committee: 1998 APS March 1999 Sorting Session, Semiconductor Team Leader External Service Grant Review: 2017 AFOSR Proposal Reviewer 2017 DoE Proposal Reviewer 2010 NSF Panel Review, Division of Materials Research Directorate 2008 NSF Panel Review, Electrical Engineering Directorate EECS Department Committees: Structures and Procedures Committee Distinguished Seminars Committee Teaching Laboratory Committee McCormick/Northwestern Committees: Northwestern Study Abroad Director, Search Committee Northwestern Office of Fellowships Director, Search Committee Churchill Fellowships Committee DAAD Fellowships Committee Gates Fellowship Committee Applied Physics Founding Program Committee Physics Theory Faculty Search Committee Matthew Grayson - Curriculum Vitae B. TEACHING AND ADVISING Teaching: Fellow of the Critical Thinking Initiative in STEM (CTIS) at Northwestern, 2011-13 Teacher of the Year, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2009 Searle Junior Teaching Fellow, 2009 Best Teacher Award, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008 Course Development and Improvement: Developed and taught eight undergraduate and graduate level courses in the first 5 years including 2-1/2 week subsection of EECS-202 "Introduction to Electrical Engineering" in collaboration with Prof. Mohseni, with favorable CTEC student evaluations. • EECS-409 “Semiconductor Lasers” • EECS-403 “Quantum Semiconductors” • EECS-402 “Advanced Electronic Devices” • EECS 389 “ Superconductivity” • EECS-385 “Optoelectronics” • EECS-384 “Solid State Electronic Devices” • EECS-250 “Physical Electronics and Devices” • EECS-202 “Introduction to Electrical Engineering” Advising: I am currently supervising one post-doc, five PhD students, and two undergraduate student in my laboratory. Students who have received awards are highlighted in red. Current NU PhD students (5 current students) 1) Xueting Yan (PhD EE, 2021, eXpected) – is a first year EE graduate student researching thermal conductivity of thin films and transverse thermoelectrics. 2) Can Aygen (PhD EE, 2022, eXpected) – is a first year EE graduate student researching novel magnetotransport measurement techniques and relaXation mechanisms in amorphous semiconductors and other glassy systems. 3) Qing Shao (PhD EE, 2022, expected) – is a first year EE graduate student researching electrical characterization of transverse thermoelectrics. 4) Chulin Wang (PhD EE, 2022, eXpected) – is a first year EE graduate student researching novel anisotropic condensates in the valley-degenerate QHE. 5) Juncen Li (PhD MSE, 2022, expected) – is a first year MSE graduate student researching growth of transverse thermoelectric crystals in collaboration with co-advisor Mercouri Kanatzidis (Chemistry). NU PhD Graduates (6 students) Northwestern University: 1) Chuanle Zhou (PhD EE, 2013) – “Transverse p x n-Type Thermoelectrics: Type II Superlattices and their Thermal Conductivity Characterization." Award of EXcellence in Nanotechnology Research, International institute of Nanotechnology. Now post-doc at U. North Carolina, Charlotte / Missouri Univ. Science and Technology, in the group of Prof. Ian Ferguson. Matthew Grayson - Curriculum Vitae 2) Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar (PhD EE, 2014) – “Tuning Spin- and Valley-Degeneracies in Multicomponent Quantum Well Transport." Awarded Ryan Fellow in Nanotechnology. Now post-doc at U. Chicago. 3) Wang Zhou (PhD EE, 2016) – “Beyond van der Pauw: Novel methods for four-point magnetochara- cterization.” Now staff scientist at IBM T.J. Watson. 4) Jiajun Luo (PhD EE, 2017) – “Characterizing and modeling transient photoconductivity in amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O thin films.” Wall Street consultant. 5) Yang Tang (PhD EE, 2017) – “Anisotropic semiconducting thin films: Synthesis, in-plane & cross-plane characterization, and thermoelectric application” Ryan Fellow in Nanotechnology. Programmer at GrubHub 6) Boya Cui (PhD Applied Physics, 2017) – “Thermal and electrical transport in thin-film materials for energy management.” Working at Intel, in Portland. 7) Lintao Peng (PhD Applied Physics, 2018) – “Novel transport characterizations in layered two- dimensional materials and bulk chalcogenides.” Post-doc at Argonne National Labs. NU Post-docs (1 researcher) 1) Jun Peng (2017- present) – researching 3D printed thermoelectric threads for transverse thermoelectric textiles. Technische Universitaet Muenchen: * Note: All five PhD and five MS students at TUM advised by myself as principle research advisor, under administrative supervision of Prof. Gerhard Abstreiter. Shivaji Dasgupta (PhD Physics, 2009)– "High Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron System in AlAs" Lucia Steinke (PhD Physics, 2009) – "Magnetotransport of Coupled Quantum Hall Edges" Michael Huber (PhD Physics, 2009)- "Tunneling Spectroscopy in the Quantum Hall Regime" Sebastian Roth (PhD Physics, 2006) – "n- and p-Type Transport in (110) GaAs Structures” Frank Fischer (PhD Physics, 2005) - "Two-Dimensional Systems on (110) Oriented GaAs" Masters Students (19 total) Northwestern University: 1) Andrew Varrenti (MS EE, 2010) Project: “Lithographically patterned chromium-nickel thermocouples for integrated circuit temperature sensing applications” 2) Florian Herzog (MS Physics at TUM, 2011) – visiting Diplom student from the TU-Munich, 3 months research at NU for analysis of AlAs quantum well growth with TEM and AFM analysis. PhD at TUM 3) Yash Shah – (MS EE, 2011) Thesis: “A methodical approach towards realizing capacitive contacts for electrical four-point characterization” Completed PhD in Physics at Cambridge, UK 4) Rebecca Seung Chyung (MS EE, 2012) – Thesis: “Thermal sensing using thin-film thermocouple and integrated diagnostic heaters” 5) Johnny Sun (MS EE, 2013) – Thesis: “Characterization of integrated heating element thin-film thermocouple devices” 6) Matthew Morton (MS EE, 2013) – course-based masters (BS/MS), electronic materials & devices 7) Gautham Sundar (MS 2014) – Thesis: “Towards a non-contact four-point measurement system: Characterizing dc proximity gates and ac proximity contacts” 8) Alexander Freedman (MS 2015) - Thesis: “Characterization and magnetotransport of Bi-Cr-Se and BiTeI layered nanomaterials” Now working at Pratt & Whitney. 9) Heun Mo Yoo (MS EE, 2016) – Thesis: “Valley pseudo-spin quantum Hall anisotropy in (001) oriented AlAs/AlGaAs quantum wells” Now grad student at MIT in physics. 10) Stephan Kim (MS EE, 2017) – Thesis: “Measuring