Electrical and Systems Engineering

ESE PhD Job Market

Welcome to the ESE PhD Job Market page, which represents upcoming graduates on the job market for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Rex Ndubuisi Ali

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Network Engineer/Network Specialist (Full time)
  • Email: rex.ndubuisi@gmail.com; alirex@seas.upenn.edu Expertise/research area:
  • Advisor(s): Professor Saswati Sarkar
  • Expected graduation date: December 2025

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Adam Alfieri

Adam Alfieri

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Postdoctoral research position or R&D engineering in field of photovoltaics/ optoelectronics
  • Email: alfieri@seas.upenn.edu
  • Expertise/research area: thin film photovoltaics, optoelectronics, materials science
  • Advisor(s): Professor Deep Jariwala
  • Expected graduation date: December 2025

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Nikolaos Bousias

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Engineering Position
  • Email: nbousias@seas.upenn.edu, nboussias@gmail.com
  • Research area: Equivariant MARL, Safety in Deep Policies, Learning for Distributed Control
  • Advisor: Professor George Pappas
  • Expected graduation: February 2026

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Xilin Feng

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Research scientist or engineer in photonics
  • Email: xlfeng@seas.upenn.edu
  • Expertise/research area: Photonics
  • Advisor(s): Professor Liang Feng
  • Expected graduation date: May 2026

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Chloe Leblanc

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Industry, R&D process engineering
  • Email: chloeleb@seas.upenn.edu
  • Expertise/research area: nanofabrication, semiconductor devices, 2D materials, ferroelectrics
  • Advisor(s): Professor Deep Jariwala
  • Expected graduation date: March 2026

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Farhad Nawaz

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Full time position in Industry
  • Email: farhadn@seas.upenn.edu, Portfolio webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/farhad-nawaz
  • Expertise/research area: Learning for planning and control, Robot Manipulation, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Advisor(s): Professor Nikolai Matni and Professor Nadia Figueroa
  • Expected graduation date: May 2026

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Liangzu Peng

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Industrial or Academic Positions
  • Email: lpenn@seas.upenn.edu
  • Expertise/research area: Machine Learning, Optimizationa
  • Advisor(s): Professor Rene Vidal
  • Expected graduation date: May 2026

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Elizabeth Schell

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Industry R&D or national lab, full-time
  • Email: evschell@seas.upenn.edu
  • Expertise/research area: System design using novel device technologies (biodegradable/flexible/stretchable), agricultural monitoring
  • Advisor(s): Professor Mark Allen
  • Expected graduation date: May 2026

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Nandan Tumu

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Postdoc or Research Scientist roles
  • Email: nandant@upenn.edu
  • Expertise/Research Area: Conformal Prediction, Physics Constrained Learning for Control, Multi-agent Systems
  • Advisor(s): Professor Rahul Mangharam
  • Expected Graduation Date: May 2026

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Xuan Wang

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Seeking: Electrical/System/Hardware Engineer positions
  • Email: wxuan@seas.upenn.edu
  • Expertise/research area: Power magnetics design and integration; high-frequency power converters
  • Advisor(s): Professor Mark Allen
  • Expected graduation date: 2025-2026

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