Vitaliy Lomakin, Professor
Vitaliy Lomakin received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kharkov National University (Ukraine) in 1996 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (Israel) in 2003. From 1997 to 2002 he was a Teaching Assistant and Instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2005, where he currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego. His research interests include computational Electromagnetics, computational Micromagnetics/Nanomagnetics, the analysis of microwave phenomena on structured surfaces, the analysis of optical phenomena in photonic nanostructures, the analysis of magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures. Vitaliy Lomakin teaches several graduate and undergraduate courses on various aspects of Electromagnetics and Optics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Group members
Denis Iakushev
Denis Iakushev is Visiting Researcher at University of California, San Diego in Vitaliy Lomakin’s group. His research interests include Electromagnetics, Photonics, and Magneto-Optics.
Xueyang Wang
Xueyang Wang is currently a PhD candidate from University of California, San Diego.
Egor Savostin
Egor Savostin is a PhD student at University of California, San Diego in Vitaliy Lomakin’s group. Egor's research interests include theoretical spintronics, magnetoelastic modeling and superconductivity.
Alumni
Fangzhou Ai
Dr. Fangzhou Ai recieved his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in 2024. His dissertation title is high-performance computational techniques for X-ray imaging and micromagnetic analysis of periodic arrays.
Zhuonan Lin
Dr. Zhuonan Lin recieved his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in 2022.
Iana Volvach
Dr. Iana Volvach has been working on the physics of nanomagnetic materials for Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) and theoretical research on interactions between currents and magnetic materials. Her research interest also include micromagnetic modeling and simulation and implementation of coupled SPICE and micromagnetic solvers. Iana received her M.S. and B.S. in Applied physics and electronics from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine in 2013.
Marco Menarini
Dr. Marco Menarini has been working on the implementation of physical models for studying optical and thermal effects in granular structures. His research interests gravitate around the study and the modeling of optical induced transition in magnetic materials such as heat assisted magnetic recording, helicity dependent all optical transitions, and ultrafast magnetization dynamics. Marco received his M.S. in Energy Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2010 and his M.S. In Applied Optics from University of California San Diego in 2014.
Simon Couture
Simon Couture is currently a research software engineer at Brain Corporation, San Diego
Sidi Fu
Dr. Sidi Fu was a PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego. His research interest was parallel computation algorithms and implementations on GPU to accelerate electromagnetic and micro-magnetic simulations. Sidi Fu received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Peking University (China) in 2011 and joined CEMM group after his graduation. He received M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2013.
Majd Kuteifan
Dr. Majd Kuteifan was a PhD student at University of California San Diego in Vitaliy Lomakin’s group. He was working on the implementation of physical phenomena to the FastMag micromagnetic solver. His research interests gravitate around the influence of various factors such as spin-polarized current or Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on the properties and dynamics of magnetic materials. Majd received his M.S. in Material Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France in 2012.
Marco Escobar
Marco A. Escobar obtained a Ph.D. in EE from UCSD in 2016. He investigated efficient algorithms for static and dynamic simulations, and energy barrier calculations. He is currently a professor at Universidad de La Salle Bajio in México.
Ruinan Chang, Oracle Inc.
Ruinan received his B.S. in electronic engineering and M.S. in microelectronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include applying fast numerical algorithms to micromagnetism and electromagnetism. Especially, he is working on all kinds of integral equation methods and finite elements to solve problems in various complex structures used in communications systems and recording systems.
Marko Lubarda, University of Donja Gorica
Dr. Marko V. Lubarda is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Polytechnics, University of Donja Gorica, in Podgorica, Montenegro. Dr. Lubarda obtained his B.S. in Physics in 2006 from the University of California, San Diego, and his M.S. (in 2007) and Ph.D. (in 2012) in Materials Science and Engineering from the same institution. His research area is computational micromagnetics and device physics. Dr. Lubarda received two highest Montenegrin annual recognitions given to young scientists: The 2013 Young Researcher Award from the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and The Annual Montenegrin Ministry of Science Award for Most Distinguished Scientist Under the Age of 35. Since 2014, he is a member of the Center for Young Scientists of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Shaojing Li, Apple Inc.
Shaojing Li received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University, China, in 2007. He joined Prof. Lomakin's group at the University of California San Diego after his graduation. His research interests were in fast algorithm for Electromagnetics and Micromagnetics/Nanomagnetics, parallel computing, and the study of magnetic nanostructures.
Qian Ding, Entropic Inc.
Qian Ding received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2007, and M.S. in Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology in 2009 both from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. She joined UCSD in Sep. 2009, pursuing her Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Prof. Lomakin. Her research interests were optical fields in nanoscale waveguiding and radiating systems, and nanoscale lasers.
Derek Van Orden, SRI International
Derek Van Orden received his B.S. in applied physics from Rice University in 2004, and in 2005 came to UCSD to pursue his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include the computational study of electromagnetic wave propagation in nanoscale structures, including plasmonic and resonant structures and their interaction with metal-dielectric surfaces. Derek Van Orden conducts discussion sessions in ECE107 (Electromagnetism) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Boris Livshitz, Western Digital Corp.
Boris Livshitz received the M.S. degree in EE/physics from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia, in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in EE from Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 2006. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computational Electromagnetics group of Prof. Lomakin in 2006-2009. His research interests cover two areas. The first area includes numerical Micromagnetics, recording process modeling, novel designs of multilayer and patterned media. The second area of interests includes fast techniques in computational Electromagnetics, algorithms for efficient analysis of electromagnetic fields in complex configurations.
Currently Boris Livshitz is with Western Digital Corp., where he is a Principal RSS Modeling Engineer.
Javier Espigares Martín, ANSYS
Electromagnetics, Numerical Methods, FDTD, Parallel Computing, Computer Architecture, Heuristical Optimization, Antennas, Wireless communications, UWB, Networks.
Liang Feng, State University of New York at Buffalo
Liang Feng received his B.S. degree in Biophysics in 2002 and M.S. degree in Condensed Matter Physics in 2005 from Nanjing University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UCSD in 2010. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Matthew Hu, MS at Stanford University
Matthew Hu was working on the OOMMF on GPU while pursuing his B.S. degree at the University of California, San Diego.