Our Team

Director

Professor Jamal Yagoobi

George F Fuller Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department

Current PhD Students

Alexander Castaneda

PhD Candidate

Hanshen Yu

PhD Candidate (co-advised by Prof. S. Narra)

Itamar Harris

PhD Candidate

Matthew Catuccio

PhD Candidate

Lindsey Podalski

PhD Candidate

Mana Masrouri

PhD Candidate

Recently Graduated PhD Students

Milad Farzad

    Mengqiao Yang

      Zahra Noori

      Nathaniel O’Connor

      Elif Asar

      Michal Talmor

        Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti

        Current Undergraduate Research Assistants

        Patrick Daly

        Undergraduate

          Grace Audette

          Undergraduate

            John Mansour

            Undergraduate

              Joshua Dunlap

              Undergraduate

                Jack Ploetz

                Undergraduate

                Owen MacNeil

                Undergraduate

                Recent Visiting Scholars, Post Doctorates, Research Associates

                Juan Rodriguez Ramirez

                Professor

                  Masahito Nishikawara

                  Professor

                    • Dr. J.W. Mohr, Post-Doctorate from Texas A&M University, September 1996 – January 1997
                    • Dr. L. Ye-Bo, Exchange Visitor from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Beijing, China, April 1997 – March 1998
                    • Dr. H. Noboa, Research Associate from Ecuador National Polytechnic University, October 1998 – April 2000
                    • Dr. J. Madadnia, Visiting Faculty Member from the University of Technology-Sydney; Sydney, Australia, September 1999 – December 1999
                    • Dr. Y. Feng, Research Associate from Texas A&M University, July 2002 – August 2004
                    • Dr. C. Louste, Visiting Faculty Member from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, March 2010 and April 2016
                    • Dr. M. Daaboul, Research Associate from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, November 2010 – December 2010
                    • Dr. S. I. Jeong, Research Associate from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, July 2010 – June 2011
                    • Dr. P. A. Vazquez Gonzalez, Visiting Faculty Member from Dpto. Fisica Aplicada III, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, June 2012 – August 2012 and June 2015 – August 2015
                    • Dr. G. Touchard, Visiting Faculty Member from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, June 2013
                    • Dr. P. Traore, Visiting Faculty Member from L’Universite de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, July 2015 – August 2015
                    • Dr. F. Duran-Olivencia, Post-Doctorate from Dpto. Fisica Aplicada III, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, August 2017 – August 2018.
                    • Dr. H. El-Ferouali, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco, September 2018 – August 2019 (Fulbright scholar)
                    • Dr. M. Nishikawara, Visiting Faculty Member from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, June 2019 – September 2021.
                    • Dr. J. Rodríguez Ramírez, Visiting Faculty Member from Instituto Politécnico Nacional CIIDIR Unidad Oaxaca, México, August 2019 – July 2020.

                     

                    Former Students

                    Yasmin Khakpour

                    Graduated: May 2014

                      V. Patel

                      Graduated: May 2015

                        Milad Yazdani

                        Graduated: May 2010

                          Matthew Pearson

                          Graduated: May 2011

                            • M. Famil Dardashti: December 2024
                            • N. O’Connor: August 2023
                            • Z. Noori: May 2023 (co-advised with Professor B. Tilley)
                            • E. Asar: December 2022
                            • M. Yang, Graduated: May 2022
                            • M. Talmor, Graduated: May 2022
                            • M. Farzad, Graduated: May 2021
                            • A. Mahdavi-Nejad, Graduated: August 2018
                            • L. Yang, Graduated: December 2017
                            • V. Patel, Graduated: 2015
                            • Y. Khakpour, Graduated: 2014
                            • M. Pearson, Graduated: 2011
                            • M. Yazdani, Graduated: 2010
                            • R. Sabbah, Graduated: December 2008
                            • S.A.S. Al Dini, Graduated: December 2005
                            • J. Hendrarsakti, Graduated: August 2003 (co-advised with Professor K. Kihm)
                            • K.Brand, Graduated: August 2002
                            • S. I. Jeong, Graduated: August 2002
                            • Y. Feng, Graduated: August 2002
                            • J. Wu, Graduated: August 2002
                            • V. Narayanan, Graduated: December 2001
                            • M.C. Asensio, Graduated: May 2000
                            • M. Wawzyniak, Graduated: December 1999
                            • J.E. Bryan, Graduated: December 1998
                            • J.W. Mohr, Graduated: August 1996
                            • D.K. Habetz, Graduated: December 1993 (co-advised with Professor R.H. Page)
                            • J. Wang, Graduated: December 1993