Research Team

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Komal Chawla, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Spring 2020 – Fall 2023 (Subsequent appointment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Lab).

Jizhe Cai, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Fall 2018 – Summer 2023 (Subsequent appointment: Assistant Professor, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, FL).

Awards: 2022 WARF Innovation Award, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; 2^nd Place in 7^th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium Poster Competition

Harshavardhan Kalathur, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2017-2018 (Current appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India).

Doctoral Students

Abhishek Gupta, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019 – Summer 2024, (Subsequent appointment: Hibbitt Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University).

Awards: 2024 Hibbitt Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University; 2024 Graduate Student Service Award, UW-Madison; 1^st Place, 2023 Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition, Society for Experimental Mechanics; 2022 Society for Engineering Sciences Conference Travel Award; 2021 Mentorship Excellence Award, Undergraduate Research Scholars Program.

Yanghao (Harry) Fang, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Fall 2018 – Spring 2024, (Subsequent appointment: Precision Module Engineer, Huawei Technologies, China).

Claire Griesbach, Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, Fall 2019 – Spring 2023, M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, Summer 2018 – Fall 2019, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Su 2023 (Subsequent appointment: Postdoctoral Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland).

Awards: 1^st Place in 2023 DoE – NEUP Open Competition – Fuel Cycle Technologies; 2022 DoE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award; Finalist in 2022 Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition – Society for Experimental Mechanics; 2022 MeV Summer School Scholarship – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Master’s Students

Mathushan Manivannan, Master’s Independent Study Student (Engineering Mechanics) Spring 2023 – Summer 2023.

Graham Hunt, Master’s Independent Study Student (Engineering Mechanics) Fall 2022 – Spring 2023.

Kyle Seledic, Master’s in Engineering Mechanics, Spring 2021-Summer 2022, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2020 – Fall 2021 (Subsequent appointment: Aerospace Engineer, ATA Engineering, Huntsville, AL).

Awards: 2020-21 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship; 2020 NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Melissa Schmidt-Landin, Master’s in Engineering Mechanics, Fall 2019-Summer 2022.

David Murgado, Master’s in Engineering Mechanics, 2018-2019 (Subsequent appointment: Aerospace Engineer, ATA Engineering, Huntsville, AL).

Award: Finalist, 2019 SEM Student Paper Competition

Normarieli Passalacqua-Alvarado, GERS Fellow, 2018-2019.

Undergraduate Students

Matthew Bartz, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2024 – Fall 2024

Jiayan Zhang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2023 – Spring 2024

Awards: Faustin-Prinz, Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Subsequent appointment: PhD Student, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California – Berkeley).

Dhanvi Bharadwaj, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2020 – Spring 2024

Awards: 2023/2024 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship (Subsequent appointment: PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

Nicholas Jaegersberg, B.S. in Engineering Physics (Hons.), Summer 2021 – Summer 2023 (Subsequent appointment: Master’s Student in Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Awards: 2021, 2022 NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Daniel Jing, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2023.

Benjamin Ahluwalia, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2022 (Subsequent appointment: Electromechanical Engineer, Littlefuse, Madison, WI).

Savanna Ahnen, Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS), Fall 2020-Fall 2021. (Subsequent appointment: Solar Lab, Electrical Engineering, UW-Madison).

Shreya Sreedhar, Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS), Fall 2020-Spring 2021. (Subsequent appointment: Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab, UW-Madison; and PhD student, UT-Austin, Fall 2024).

Riley Rogowski, Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS), Fall 2020.

Jacob Kerkhoff, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring-Summer 2020.

Ryne Wang, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2019.

Samuel Hossain, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2019.

David Zeugner, 2018, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Subsequent appointment: Mechanical Engineer I-Propulsion, Sierra-Nevada Corporation, Madison, WI).

Yirou Wang, Visiting Undergraduate Student, Zhejiang University of Technology, China, Spring 2018.