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Photo of Megan Butala Megan Butala Assistant Professor
(352) 294-7876

Ph.D., 2017, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Interests: Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI; energy storage materials, functional and electronic materials, lithium-ion batteries, structure-property relationships, X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, local structure, amorphous and disordered materials

Lab Website: Butala Research Group

Photo of Honggyu Kim Honggyu Kim Associate Professor
(352) 846-3766

Ph.D., 2015, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI, Energy Materials, Nanomaterials; Advanced electron microscopy techniques, Quantitative analysis of electron microscopy data, Digital image processing, Understanding materials properties at the atomic scale, Functional oxides and semiconductors

Lab Website: Kim Electron Microscopy Group

Photo of Aroba Saleem Aroba Saleem MSE Undergrad Coordinator, Instructional Associate Professor
(352) 294-1789

Ph.D., McGill University, 2017

Research Interests: Metallurgy, Advanced Materials Characterization, Engineering Education

Photo of Yong Yang Yong Yang NE Graduate Coordinator, Associate Professor
(352) 846-3791

Ph. D., 2005, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests: Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Metallurgy, Machine Learning and AI, Materials Processing; structural and fuel materials for nuclear energy systems; LWRs sustainability and aging management, advanced fabrication and joining technologies, used fuel dry storage and disposition.

Lab Website: Nuclear Materials Degradation Research Group (NuMad)