People

Postdoctoral Scholars

Graduate Students

Research Scientist

• Michael Mello

Lab Manager

• Petros Arakelian

Assistants

• Maria Cervantes (Chair Matters)
  Donna Mojahedi (Research)

Past

Doctoral Students

• Weinong Chen* (1995)
  Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University

• Mark Walter* (1996)
  Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University

• Jon Hodowany* (1997)
  CEO & General Manager, J.C. Grand Corporation

• Karina Edmonds (1997)
  Technology transfer Coordinator, Department of Energy

• Kenji Oguni (2000)
  Associate Professor, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, Japan

• Benjamin Chow (2001) (co-advised)
  MBA, Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management

• Eric Burcsu† (2001)
  MIT Lincoln Laboratory

• Shiming Zhuang* (2002)
  Kimberly Clark

• Weidong Zhu (2002) (co-advised)
  Bose Corporation

• Jun Lu (2002)
  International Rectifiers, Inc.

• David Anderson (2002) (co-advised)

• Matt Fago (2004) (co-advised)
  Northrop Grumman

• Rongjing Zhang† (2006)
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

• Min Tao (2006)
  Intel Corporation

• Theresa Kidd* (2007)
  Northrop Grumman

• Samantha Daly◊ (2007)
  Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

• Christian Franck* (2008)
  Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University

• Winston Jackson◊ (2008)
  Northrop Grumman

• Ling Zheng◊ (2009)
  Intel Corporation

• Benny Poon (2009)
  Intel Corporation

• Sharlotte Kramer†+ (2009)
  Sandia National Laboratories

• Michael Silva (2011)
  Princeton Consultants

• Christopher Kovalchick◊ (2011)
  Intel Corporation

• Justin Brown** (2011)
  Sandia National Laboratories

• Jacob Notbohm (2013)
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health

• Victoria Richmond (2014)
  Harris Corporation

• Kristen John (2014)
  Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Johnson Space Center

• Michael Rauls (2015)
  National Technical Systems

*Recipient of the William F. Ballhaus Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation in Aerospace
** Recipient of the Centennial Prize for best thesis in Mechanical and Civil Engineering
†Recipient of the Donald Coles Prize in Aeronautics for the best design of an experiment for doctoral dissertation in Aerospace
+Recipient of the Hans Hornung Prize for best dissertation presentation in Aerospace
◊Recipient of the Charles D. Babcock Prize for contributions to teaching in Aerospace

Engineer's Degree Students

• Mullahalli Srinivas (1994)
  General Electric

• Nitin Deshpande (1999)
  Intel Corporation

Post-Doctoral Scholars

• Ghatu Subhash, Knox T. Millsaps Professor
  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida

• Wei Tong, Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University

• Yeong Joo Lee, Industry

• David Owen, Ultratech

• Min Zhou, Professor
  Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Sunil Yadav, Bank of America
  

• Sangwook Lee, Industry
  

• Yann Carin, Peugeot
  

• Murat Vural, Associate Professor
  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

• Wei Zhang, Industry
  

• Doron Shilo, Associate Professor
  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion Yabei Gu, Industry

• Yabei Gu, Industry

• Abhishek Bhattacharyya, Industry
  

• Soonsung Hong, Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University

• Jianheng Zhao, IFP, CAEP

• H. J. Kwon, Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo

• Arjun Tekalur, Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University

• Laurent Ponson, Universite Marie et Pierre Curie

• Shuman Xia, Assistant Professor
  Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Maen Alkhader, Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University

• Addis Kidane, Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina

• Laurence Bodelot, Assistant Professor
  Ecole Polytechnique, France

• Owen Kingstedt, Assistant Professor
  University of Utah

Visitors

• Doo-Hyun Baik
  Agency for Defense Development, South Korea

• Jean-Thibault de Besombes
  Student Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique

• Elizabeth Bouchaud
  CEA, France

• Robin Briend
  Student Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique

• Herzl Chai
  Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

• Atul Chokshi
  Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science

• S. C. Deevi
  ORNL

• Alexandra Gdoutou
  Student Researcher, Northwestern University

• Louis Hallez
  Student Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique

• Gwenael Huelou
  Student Researcher, ENS-Cachan

• Nathanael Kriven
  Student Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique

• Soon-Bok Lee
  Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

• Aurlien Miller
  Student Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique

• Alain Molinari
  Professor, University of Metz, France

• Bilel Ourertani
  Student Researcher, ENS-Cachan

• Loic Peletan
  Student Researcher, ENS-Cachan

• Daniel Rittel
  Zandman Professor of Experimental Mechanics
  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion

• Joseph Sariel
  NRCN, Israel

• Arun Shukla
  Simon Ostrach Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island

• Ishan Tebhekar Student Researcher, IIT-Gandhi Nagar

• Jean-Noel Truchet
  Student Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique

• Alban de Vaucorbeil
  Student Researcher, ENS-Cachan

• Arie Venkert
  NRCN, Israel