News - Selva Research Group

Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student) - received the ASM International Scholarship (October2024).
Chirag Goel, Ph.D student - was featured in the Student Spotlight section of the IEEE CSC website. https://ieeecsc.org/post/student-spotlight
Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student) - selected as one of 12 UH Energy Graduate Fellows (August 2024)
Ph.D. graduate Jithin Sai Sandra - joined AMPeers LLC (June 2024).
Manoj Paulose (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2024).
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2024).
Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Cora Hawley award from Texas Center for Superconductivity (April 2024).
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Cora Hawley award from Texas Center for Superconductivity (April 2024).
Received $957k award from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - to develop novel in-situ quality control techniques for metal additive manufacturing. (February 2024). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2024/february/02122024-3d-printing-metal-collab-selvamanickam.php
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - selected to serve on the student board of 2024 Applied Superconductivity Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. https://www.appliedsuperconductivity.org/asc2024/program-committee/
Ph.D. graduate Vamsi Yerraguravagari - joined MetOx (December 2023
Received $2M award from Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e) - to develop low-cost, high-throughput techniques to manufacture superconductor tapes. (October 2023) https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/exploratory-topics/superconducting-tape
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - selected as one of eight Chevron Energy Fellows among 60+ applicants (August 2023). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/august-2023/08252023-uh-chevron-energy-fellow.php
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) https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2023/stage-2-winners-of-a-manufacturing-prize-are-supercharging-u-s-industries.html
Received $800k DURIP award from Office of Naval Research - for a Pulsed Laser Deposition tool for development of advanced superconductor tapes. (June 2023). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/june-2023/06282023-selva-pulsed-laser-navy-grant.php
Puskar Pathak (Ph.D. student) - received 2023 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2023)
Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student) - received the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship. (May 2023)
Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student), 2nd Place Student Poster Award - in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications. (April 2023)
Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student), 2nd Place Student Poster Award - in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications. (April 2023)
AMPeers and UH Group receive $1.7M Navy Phase II STTR award - – (March 2023) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a $1.7M funding for Phase II STTR project on “Defect-tolerant REBCO Tapes” from the U.S. Navy.
Ph.D. graduate Siwei Chen - joined Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (February 2023)
Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student) ranked in second place - for Best Ph.D. Dissertation, Mechanical Engineering (December 2022)
Ph.D. graduate Sahil Sharma - joined Intel (December 2022)
Ph.D. graduate Bo Zhang - joined Intel (December 2022)
Ph.D. graduate Rohit Jain - joined HTS Inc. (December 2022)
Ph.D. graduate Chuanze Zhang - joined PXW Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (December 2022)
Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student) selected to serve on the student board of ASC ’22 - Applied Superconductivity Conference, Honolulu, HI, October 2022.
Ph.D. graduate Mahesh Paidpilli joined Intel (August 2022)
Ph.D. graduate Carlos joined ThorLabs Quantum Electronics (May 2022)
Jithin Sai Sandra (Ph.D. student) received 2023 Cora Hawley award - from Texas Center for Superconductivity from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (April 2022).
University of Houston hosts successful superconductor workshop – CCA 2023 - 2023 CCA
Sahil Sharma, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) 2022 - Travel Support Award to attend and present paper at the 2022 SVC Telecon, Long Beach, CA. V. Selvamanickam
Siwei Chen awarded ISS Encouragement Award 2021 - (December 2021) Siwei Chen, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the ISS Encouragement Award 2021 (Best Oral Presentation) in the 34th International Symposium on Superconductivity(ISS2021). https://iss2021wlg.jp/iss-encouragement-award.html
AMPeers and UH Group receive $1.15M DOE Phase II SBIR - (July 2021) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a $1.15M funding for Phase II SBIR project on “Low-cost Manufacturing of Round REBCO Wires for Accelerator Magnets” from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics.
Dr. Sicong Sun joined View Inc. - (June 2021) Dr. Sicong Sun, post-doc and former Ph.D. student from our group joined View Inc., Memphis, TN.
Dr. Mehdi Kochat joined Renaissance Fusion - (June 2021) Dr. Mehdi Kochat, former Ph.D. student from our group joined Renaissance Fusion, Grenoble, France
UH Group receives Navy award - (May 2021) Our research group was awarded a $450k project on “New Superconductor Architecture for Fast Quench Detection in Superconducting Devices for Advanced Naval Power Systems” by the Office of Naval Research.
AMPeers and UH Group receives DOE award - (May 2021) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a Phase I SBIR project on “Multi-Strand Transposed Cables of Round REBCO Wires for Accelerator Magnets” from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics.
AMPeers and UH Group receives NAVSEA award - (May 2021) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a Phase I STTR project on “REBCO Tapes with Enhanced Current Sharing Characteristics for Quench Mitigation” from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).
Sahil Sharma presents at TCSUH Symposium - (May 2021) Sahil Sharma, Ph.D. student, presented his research on “Flexible, Inexpensive GaAs Concentrated Photovoltaics for Solar Powered Vehicle” at the TCSUH Scholarship Symposium.
Undergraduate Capstone teams present final projects - (April 2021) Two Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Capstone project teams that worked with our researchers to design, build and test a Superconductor Tape Exfoliation System presented their successful final projects. Congratulations Steffano Sanchez, Christopher Torres, Demetrious Perez, Mario Costa, Huy Truong, Alyssa Contreras, Casey Drew Shaw and Ahmad Zeidat.
Sahil Sharma awarded 2021 Cora Hawley scholarship - (April 2021) Sahil Sharma, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the 2021 Cora Hawley scholarship by the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TCSUH).
Dr. Yuan Zhang joins Intel - (April 2021) Dr. Yuan Zhang, former Ph.D. student joined Intel, Albuquerque.
Patent “Architectures enabling back contact bottom electrodes for semiconductor devices” granted - (April 2021) Our group’s patent application “Architectures enabling back contact bottom electrodes for semiconductor devices” was granted U.S. patent 10,991,836 by USPTO.
Siwei Chen co-chaired session at ASC 2021 - (November 2020) Siwei Chen, Ph.D. student, co-chaired a session at the 2020 Applied Superconductivity Conference.
Patent application “Superconductor Compositions” was granted - (November 2020) Our group’s patent application “Superconductor Compositions” was granted U.S. patent 10,832,843 by USPTO.
Patent application “Superconductor with Improved Pinning at Low Temperatures” was granted - (October 2020) Our group’s patent application “Superconductor with Improved Pinning at Low Temperatures” was granted U.S. patent 10,818,416 by USPTO.
Prof Selva’s team awarded $1.5M by ARPA-E - (September 2020) Our team was awarded $1.5M by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-e) for Advanced HTS Conductors Customized for Fusion to develop high-performance, low-cost, high-strength superconductor tapes for compact fusion energy systems. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/department-energy-announces-29-million-fusion-energy-technology-development
$900,000 DURIP award - (September 2020) Our group received a $904,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award for purchase of micro-computed tomography (Micro-CT) for non-destructive evaluation of advanced materials and devices for defense applications.
Patent application “High mobility silicon on flexible substrates” was granted - (September 2020) Our group’s patent application “High mobility silicon on flexible substrates” was granted U.S. 10,777,408 by USPTO. Co-inventors are former research faculty Dr. Pavel Dutta and former Ph.D. student and post-doc, Dr. Ying Gao.

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