Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Davis, 2023
  • M.S., Physics, University of California, Davis, 2018
  • B.S., Physics, Stanford University, 2017

Dr. Ullah is an experimental physicist with significant hands-on experience using, designing, troubleshooting, and repairing research machinery and instrumentation. He has years of experience building custom electronics from the ground up, and investigating electromechanical failures in systems involving circuit boards.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Ullah completed his Ph.D in physics at the University of California, Davis under professor Valentin Taufour. As a graduate student in experimental condensed matter physics, he focused on the high-temperature growth and cryogenic characterization of single crystal ferromagnets. His research explored what happens when magnetism is suppressed. Along the way, he worked with a wide range of research instrumentation, both old and new. He analyzed numerous component-level power supply failures in a SQUID magnetometer, and made upgrades so that it could continue measuring magnetization well beyond its marketed service life. He developed spot-welding electronics to make resistivity measurements on sub-millimeter samples more reliable and tinkered with X-ray chillers, vacuum systems and furnaces. As a teaching assistant, he taught the analog and digital electronics laboratory component to physics majors for four years in a row.