People

Postdocs
Sean Dobson, PhD
PhD, Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2024
 
Suhas Prameela, PhD
PhD, Materials Engineering, JHU, 2022
*MIT Engineering Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Isha Gupta, PhD
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2021
 
Graduate Students
Harsh Bhundiya
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2022
BS Mechanical Engineering, CalTech, 2020
*Mathworks Fellow, NASA NSTGRO recipient
 
Andres Garcia Jimenez
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2023
BS Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2020
*NSF-GRFP recipient, Aeropuertos Argentina Fellow
 
Spencer Taylor
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2022
BS Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 2019
*NDSEG recipient
 
Matthew Shorter
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2020
SB Mechanical Engineering, Brown University, 2017
 
Christopher Carter
SM student in Mechanical Engineering, MIT
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2021
*NSF-GRFP recipient, GEM Fellow, MIT UCEM Fellow
 
Roger Hou
SM student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
BS Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2021
*Mathworks Fellow
 
Kinjal Ruecker (co-advised with Zoltan Spakovszky)
SM student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
BS Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2021
*NSF-GRFP recipient, Zakhartchenko Fellow
 
Thian Daniel Iskandar
Visiting SM student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SB Materials Science and Engineering, Oxford University, 2023
 
Zhen Rong Yap
Visiting SM student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SB Materials Science and Engineering, Oxford University, 2023
 
Alumni
Colin Pavan PhD, postdoc, MIT, 2023-2024, engineer @ Emvolon
Fabien Royer PhD, postdoc, MIT, 2021-2022, assistant professor @ Cornell
Austin Ward PhD, postdoc, Rice, 2021, research scientist @ ExOne
Christopher Reyes PhD, postdoc, Rice, 2019-2020, process scientist @ X-Celeprint
Abdel Moustafa PhD, postdoc, Rice, 2017-2020, founder @ Top Grain Engineering, Inc. 
 
Lynnora Grant PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2017-2022, NRC postdoc @ NIST
Carlos Parra PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2018-2021, metallurgist technologist @ Tenaris
Austin Ward PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2021, research scientist @ ExOne
Logan Ware PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2020, materials scientist @ Eaton Corporation
Reid Carazzone PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2019, founder @ Top Grain Engineering, Inc.
 
Samair Alyassini, SM, MechE, MIT, 2021-2023, staff engineer@ GE aviation
Kaleb Overby, SM, AeroAstro, MIT, 2021-2023, Air Force
Dom Peachey, Visting Masters Student, DMSE, MIT, 2021-2022, metallurgist @ Alloyed UK
Eric Jorgensen, SM, MechE, MIT, 2020-2021, lead mechanical engineer @ GE aviation
Sebastian Eder, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2018-2019, global trainee @ Tenaris
William Yarberry III, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2017, materials engineer @ Schlumberger
Yibing Zhang, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2017, line manager @ Hempel 
Jimena Ochoa, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2017
 
Kelsi Wicker, UG Researcher, 2016-2017, Boeing
Matthew French, UG Researcher, 2016-2018, Navy
Matthew Weatherman, UG Researcher, 2016-2018, Carpenter Tech Corp
Michael Bonar, UG Researcher, 2017-2018, ARL
Daniel Suzuki, UG Researcher, 2017-2018, MIT DMSE
Caroline Krawczyk, UG Researcher, 2018, Boom Supersonic
Christopher Hareland, UG Researcher, 2017-2019, Northwestern MSE
Lauren Poole, UG Researcher, 2017-2019, UCSB Materials
Hope Fa-Kaji, UG Researcher, 2018-2019, Rice MECH
Ben Herstein, UG Researcher, 2018-2020, Rice MECH
Mark Cantu, UG Researcher, 2017-2020, Rice MSNE
Chris Fang, UG Researcher, 2018-2020, Rice MECH
Nathan Palmerio, UG Researcher, 2017-2020, Samsung
 
Raquel Torres, HISD RET, 2017, Houston ISD
Andrew Catalanotto, HCC REU, 2017-2018, ATEC
Nathaniel Ocanas, HCC REU, 2017-2018, Disney
Magdi Alameen, HCC REU, 2018, Univ. of Houston
Angel Chagolla, HCC REU, 2018, Texas A&M
Chahat (Myra) Padda, HCC REU, 2019, Texas A&M