News
2026
: Soumik presented his work on steering directional thermal emission at the Summer Heat Transfer Conference.
: Nahidul Islam Shadin successfully defended his MS thesis, “Reversible Symmetry Breaking of Tunable Directional Thermal Emission in VO2-SRO Gratings.” Congratulations, Nahidul.
: Jacob Thomas successfully defended his MS thesis, “A Viable Alternative to Manual J: Residential Load Calculation for Sizing an HVAC System in Residential Buildings.” Congratulations, Jacob.
2025
: Prof. Ghanekar delivered an invited talk at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: “Breaking the Boundaries of Thermal Emission with Active Metasurfaces.”
2024
: Prof. Ghanekar received a Maryland Industrial Partnerships Grant ($100,000: MIPS $90,000 and RIDO LLC $10,000).
: Prof. Ghanekar and Prof. Liang Zhu received the Technology Catalyst Fund ($10,000).
: Prof. Ghanekar delivered an invited talk at the University of Pennsylvania Singh Center for Nanotechnology Annual User Meeting: “Breaking the Boundaries of Thermal Emission with Active Metasurfaces.”
: Soumik and Nahidul joined the Energy Photonics Lab.
: Prof. Ghanekar and Prof. Rajasekhar Anguluri received the 2024 COEIT Interdisciplinary Proposal Program Award ($20,000 combined).
: Prof. Ghanekar received the SURFF Award ($8,000).
: Prof. Ghanekar received the University of Pennsylvania Singh Center 2024 Innovation Seed Grant ($1,000).
: Alok Ghanekar joined UMBC.