Group Achievements

For recent student achievements, see the News page.

  • Graduates from our group are currently employed at Intel, General Electric, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
  • Four students in our group founded the Houston student chapter of Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) and are serving in the Executive team, 2025.
  • Two of our students served on the student boards of 2024 and 2022 Applied Superconductivity Conferences.
  • Three of our students received the 2024 and 2025 ASM International Scholarship.
  • Our student was selected as one of 12 UH Energy Graduate Fellows in 2024..
  • Two of our students received the Second Place Student Poster Awards in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications.
  • Our group was recognized a one of six awardees of CABLE Manufacturing Prize ($200,000 cash) from the U.S. Department of Energy in Stage 2 competition for work on advanced manufacturing of superconductors. (May 2023)
  • Our students received the International-level IEEE Council on Superconductivity Graduate Study Fellowship in 2016 and 2017 (only five awarded worldwide)
  • Our student won the International level Alexander Shikov Award for the best student paper at the 2016 Applied Superconductivity Conference.
  • Our student received national level Golden Key Scholar award.
  • Our students received “Best Ph.D. dissertation” award from the Cullen College of Engineering in 2017 and 2019.
  • Our student was one of only 100 students nationwide to attend the ARPA-E Innovation Summit in 2014 and 2017.
  • Our students organized the first chapter of the Materials Research Society at the University of Houston and served as the first president and vice president of the chapter. Several of our students continue leadership roles in the UH chapter of MRS.
  • UH Undergraduate student who conducted research on solar cells in Prof. Selva’s lab won the best research poster award at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM at Washington D.C., honors in the university wide undergraduate research day competition and the Ford Foundation scholarship.
  • 163 peer-reviewed publications have been co-authored by our students since 2013.
  • Our Ph.D. students were selected to present Young Scientist Plenary lectures at the International Applied Superconductivity Conference, Seattle, 2018 and the Magnet Technology Conference, Vancouver, 2019