Vladimir Bulović
Director of MIT.nano
Professor of Engineering, MacVicar Fellow
Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Chair in Emerging Technology
Vladimir Bulović is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding the Fariborz Maseeh Chair in Emerging Technology. He directs the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory, co-leads the MIT-Eni Solar Frontiers Center, leads the Tata GridEdge program, and is the Founding Director of MIT.nano, MIT's new 200,000 sqft nano-fabrication, nano-characterization, and prototyping facility that opened in the summer of 2018. He is an author of over 250 research articles (cited over 45,000 times) and an inventor of over 100 U.S. patents in areas of light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, photodetectors, chemical sensors, programmable memories, and micro-electro machines, majority of which have been licensed and utilized by both start-up and multinational companies. The three start-up companies Bulović co-founded jointly employ over 400 people, and include Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., developing nanostructured solar technologies, Kateeva, Inc., focused on development of printed electronics, and QD Vision, Inc. (acquired in 2016) that produced quantum dot optoelectronic components. Products of these companies have been used by millions. Bulović was the first Associate Dean for Innovation of the School of Engineering and the Inaugural co-Director of MIT’s Innovation Initiative, which he co-led from 2013 to 2018. For his passion for teaching Bulović has been recognized with the MacVicar Fellowship, MIT’s highest teaching honor. He completed his Electrical Engineering B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University.
Email: bulovic@mit.edu
Office: 13-3138
Phone: 617-253-7012
Tori Dang
3rd-year PhD Student in Electrical Engineering
Tori Dang joined the ONE lab in 2022 as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. She received her B.A. in Physics and Italian from Bryn Mawr College in 2020, and her M.S.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. Her prior work focused on nanofabrication and developing diamond metasurfaces for nanophotonic applications. Currently, she is working on the design and fabrication of acoustically active surfaces.
Subgroup: Nanomechanics
Current Research: Development of acoustic surfaces
Email: tongdang@mit.edu
Office: 13-3153
Mike Dillender
1st-year PhD Student in EECS
Mike Dillender joined the ONE lab in the summer of 2024 as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering with minors in physics and computer science at the University of Michigan in 2024. His prior work focused on Nanophotonics manipulation of exciton transport in TMDCs and designing free-space spectroscopy systems.
Subgroup: LED Technologies
Current Research:
Email: dil@mit.edu
Office: 13-3078
Nicky Evans
Postdoctoral Associate at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)
Nicky Evans (British Bestie) joined the ONE Lab in the fall of 2024. He received his MPhys (Physics) from the University of Surrey, UK, in 2020 and his PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2024. With a background in both organic and perovskite photovoltaics, Nicky’s PhD involved investigations into intrinsic and doped transport layers in solar cells, utilising electronic and spectroscopic characterisation techniques. Having previously been a research student with OPVIUS GmbH (now ASCA solar films) in 2019, Nicky has experience with optimising the laser patterning of commercial OPV modules to improve throughput. He is co-advised by Professor Tonio Buonassisi.
Subgroup: Solar Technologies
Current Research: He is currently working on meniscus coating techniques for scale-up of perovskite photovoltaics.
Email: nickye17@mit.edu
Office: 13-3078
Tamar Kadosh
5th-year PhD Student in DMSE
Tamar Kadosh joined ONE Lab in November 2021 as PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. She previously received her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Technion institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. Her previous research experience focused characterizing ceramic suspensions. She is co-advised with Professor Harry L. Tuller in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Subgroup: Solar Technologies
Current Research: Implementing and optimizing Vapor Transport Deposition processes of perovskites to promote solar cells scalability.
Email: tamarka@mit.edu
Office: 13-4010
Stella Lessler
1st-year PhD Student in EECS
Stella Lessler joined ONE Lab in the fall of 2024 as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 2024. Her prior work focused on utilizing block copolymer self assembly patterning for vertical transistor fabrication.
Subgroup: Solar Technologies
Current Research:
Email: stells13@mit.edu
Office: 13-3078
Shreyas Srinivasan
3rd-year PhD Student in Chemistry
Shreyas Srinivasan joined the ONE Lab in the fall of 2022 as a Ph.D. student in Chemistry. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022. His prior work explored the synthesis and application of atomically precise metal nanoclusters as electrocatalysts. Presently, he is researching the development of a vacuum-transport deposition system for the production of metal-halide perovskite solar cells. He is also researching the fabrication of nanoscale plasmonic optical cavities for use in colloidal quantum dot lasers. He is co-advised with Professor Moungi G. Bawendi in the Department of Chemistry.
Subgroup: LED Technologies, Solar Technologies
Current Research: Vacuum transport deposition of perovskite solar cells and optical cavities for colloidal quantum dot lasers
Email: shreyas2@mit.edu
Office: 2-216a
Karen Yang
3rd-year PhD Student in Electrical Engineering
Karen Yang Karen joined ONE lab in September 2022 as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. She previously received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her previous research experience focused on optimizing contacts for high efficiency III-V solar cells.
Subgroup: Solar Technologies
Current Research: Improving scalability of perovskite solar cells
Email: kyang37@mit.edu
Office: 13-3078
Ruiqi (Ricky) Zhang
4th-year PhD Student in EECS
Ruiqi Zhang joined ONE lab in the spring of 2022 as a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his B.S. Degree in Nanoengineering with a minor in Mathematics at UC San Diego in 2021. His previous works focus on developing flexible single-crystalline metal halide perovskite devices including solar cell, LED, FET and laser diode. He also studied the material and device physics of perovskite thin films and III-V group semiconductors. He is currently working on Quantum Dots LED fabrication, characterization and utilizing Machine Learning Approaches to investigate Next generation Perovskite Solar Cells.
Subgroup: LED Technologies, Solar Technologies
Current Research: QD-LEDs developments and ML approach in predicting metal halide perovskite solar cell properties.
Email: rqzhang@mit.edu
Office: 13-3078
Zhangqi (Jackie) Zheng
1st-year PhD student in EECS
Jackie Zheng joined ONE lab in the fall of 2024 as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She received her B.S. in Engineering Physics with a minor in Computer Science at the Cornell University in 2024. Her previous work focused on micro-robotics, and more specifically on fabrication and characterization of electrochemical actuators with nanoscale thickness. Currently, she is working on developing MEMS devices at both the nano-scale for electronics applications, as well as a larger scale for acoustics.
Subgroup: Nanomechanics
Current Research: Acoustically active thin-film devices and nano-scale electromechanical switches.
Email: zqzheng@mit.edu
Office: 13-3157
Percy
PostDog
MIT Boundless Energy Fellow
Percy earned his dogtorate from UC Barkley and became a PostDog at MIT at the age of 1 (the youngest in OneLab!), focusing on finding, inspecting and studying sticks. His work lead to the aggregation and analysis of at least 10 sticks in a variety of shapes and sizes, and has resulted in several puplications. In OneLab, his work is supportive in nature. He is in charge of playing with tennis balls in the main office and going on walks around the Charles River. His door is always open to anyone who wants to play, but he insists they must also bring snackies.
Subgroup: Pawptics and spectroscopuppy
Current Research: Stick inspection for next-gen fetch