{"id":10,"date":"2025-06-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:21:47","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Ram_ECS_Photo2016-e1544181259551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/>Director<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:ram.katiyar@upr.edu\">Ram S. Katiyar<\/a>, Professor of Physics, Fellow of <em>APS,<\/em> <em>MRS, ECS, &amp; ACerS<br \/>\nPhone: 787-764-0000 Ext.\u00a088444, 88472, 88467, 88443<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<dl class=\"sc-accordions\"><dt class=\"sc-accordion-title\"><a href=\"#\">Post-doctoral Research Fellow<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"sc-accordion-pane\">\n<p>Dr. Shivaraju Chandrappa<br \/>\nemail: <a href=\"mailto:shivaraju.chandrappa@upr.edu\">shivaraju.chandrappa@upr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Charanjeet Singh<br \/>\nemail:<a href=\"mailto:charanjeet.singh@upr.edu\">charanjeet.singh@upr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"sc-accordion-title\"><a href=\"#\">Technical Specialist <\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"sc-accordion-pane\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-169 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/20180524_142624-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/20180524_142624-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/20180524_142624-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/20180524_142624-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/speclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/02\/20180524_142624-1024x1021.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>William Perez<br \/>\nemail: <a href=\"mailto:william.perez4@upr.edu\">william.perez4@upr.edu<\/a><br \/>\nphone: 787-764-0000 Ext. 88446<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"sc-accordion-title\"><a href=\"#\">Graduate Students <\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"sc-accordion-pane\">\n<p>Satyam Kumar<\/p>\n<p>Shweta Rathee<\/p>\n<p>Sunny Chaudhary<\/p>\n<p>Diana Liza Castillo<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"sc-accordion-title\"><a href=\"#\">List of SPECLAB Visiting Professors\/Researchers (1995 to date)<\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"sc-accordion-pane\">\n<p>Hari D. Bist (1995-1997), Amar S. Bhalla (1995-1997, 2006), C.S. Tu (1996), Ravi K. Soni (1998-2000), Igor Siny (1998-2000), S. Krupanidhi (2000), S. Srinwas (1999-2002), Yuri I. Yuzyuk (2003), Vinay Gupta (2003), Sudipt Bhattacharyya (2004), Menka Jain (2004), B. Sundarakannan (2004-2005), Dinesh C. Agrawal (2006), Ram Naresh P. Choudhary (2006), Anju Dixit (2006), Pramod S. Dobal (2001-04, 2006), P. Paranthaman (2006), Subhasish Majumder (1999-2006), B. Natesan (2003-06), Pijush Bhattacharya (2000-06), Sergey Lushnikov (2008), Rahul Singhal (2006-10), Ratnakar Palai (2006-08), G.L. Sharma (2007-10, 13-14), Manoj K. Singh (2006-11), P. Sivaprakash (2008), H. K. Yadav (2008), Dilip Pradhan (2008), Dwarika N. Bose (2009), Monika Tomar (2010), Neeraj Panwar (2010), Indrani Kundu (2010), Kousik Samanta (2010), James F. Scott (2007&#8211;2021), Arun Singh (2011), Ashok Kumar (2006-12, 2016), K. Saxena (2010), K. Jindal (2010, 2012), M. Tyagi (2012), Margarita Correa (2011), Reji Thomas (2006-12), Gurbachan Singh (2011-12), T. Gujar (2011-12); V. Shinde (2011-12); R. Chatterjee (2012-2013, 15); Sujeet K. Barik (2012-13), Sandwip K. Dey (2013), Chitturi V. Rao (2012-14), Pankaj Misra (2012-14), Sudhindran Kooriyattil (2013-14), Nitu Kumar (2013-16), Ricardo Martinez (2015), Surbhi Gupta (2015), Rohit Medwal (2015), Jiffi Shojan (2015), Nora Ortega (2009-15), Satyaprakash Sahoo (2010-15), Kallol Pradhan (2014-15), Mehmet S. Bozgeyik (2015-16), Shojan P. Pavunny (2013-16), Balram Tripathi (2016-2017,2022-23), Pawan Kumar (2016-2017,2025), Shivaraju, Chandrappa (2024-25).<\/p>\n<p>.<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"sc-accordion-title\"><a href=\"#\">List of graduated students (1995 to date) <\/a><\/dt><dd class=\"sc-accordion-pane\">\n<p><strong>Undergraduates:<\/strong> J. Cordero, A. Reynes Figueroa, A. Schmidt, E. Cameron, M. Bonner, A. D\u00edaz, J. Nieves, J. Cintr\u00f3n, I. Meneses, C. Rodr\u00edguez, C. Villanueva, C. Tirado, G. Bonilla, J.G. Burgos, R. Pagan, J.R. Calzada, J. L\u00f3pez, K. Asmar, L. Torres, S. Nieves, J. Williams-Sierra, S. Torres<\/p>\n<p><strong>M.S.:<\/strong>\u00a0G. Morell (1995), D. Torres (1996), B. K. Rai (1997), R. Guo (1997), T. Ruiwu (1997), S. Gupta (1999), B. Roy (2001), J. Mass (2001), S. R. Das (2006)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ph.D.:<\/strong> E. Ching-Prado (1995), G. Morell (1995), S. Bhaskar (2002), R. R. Das (2003), A. Dixit (2003), M. Jain (2004), A. A. Savvinov (2004), S. Nieto (2006), R. Melgarejo (2007), K. Samanta (2009), N. Ortega (2009), J. Saavedra (2009), N. Karan (2009), N. Murari (2011), M. Correa (2011), A. Kumar (2012), R. Mart\u00ednez (2012), V. S. Puli (2013), S. Dussan (2013), Shojan P. Pavunny (2013), Jifi Shojan (2015), Jose Liriano (2015), Dilsom Sanchez (2015), D. Barrionuevo (2016), A.P.S. Gaur (2016), G. Khurana (2016), Loraine Torres (2016), Dhiren Pradhan (2016), Shalini Kumari (2016), Yogesh Sharma (2016), Radhe Agrawal (2017), Alvaro Instan (2018), M\u00f3nica L\u00f3pez de Victoria Mart\u00ednez (2018), Adriana M. Rivera (2020), Sita Dugu (2021), Mohan Bhattarai(2022), Yamile Rosas Blancas (2022), Claudia Zuluaga (2023), Ivan Castillo (2023), Nischal Oli (2025).<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Ram S. 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