Principal Investigator
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Neil DasguptaAssistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan Neil Dasgupta completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 2011 with Prof. Fritz Prinz. Prior to joining UM in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Peidong Yang. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (YIP), the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the AVS Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award, the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, and a U. S. Department of Energy EERE Postdoctoral Research Award (SunShot Fellowship). |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Sudarat LeeEducation: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Michigan (2017)
B.S. in Chemistry (ACS-accredited), Purdue University (2012)
Research Focus: Photoelectrochemistry
Contact: sudlee@umich.edu
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Orlando TrejoEducation: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2015)
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2010)
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2008)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics
Contact: otrejo@umich.edu
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Will LePageEducation: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2018)
M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2015)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tulsa (2013)
Research Focus: Solid Mechanics, Batteries, Composites
Contact: wlepage@umich.edu
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Ph.D. Students
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Ashley Bielinski (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (2014)
Research Focus: Nanofabrication, Hierarchical Nanostructures, Photoelectrochemistry
Contact: arbie@umich.edu
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Eric Kazyak (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (2014)
Research Focus: Batteries, In Situ/Operando characterization
Contact: kazyak@umich.edu
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Robin Rodriguez (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (2015)
Research Focus: Composite Materials, Nanomanufacturing
Contact: robinrod@umich.edu
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Adrian Sanchez (ME)Education: B.S.E in Engineering Physics, University of Michigan (2016)
Research Focus: Batteries, Electrochemistry, Manufacturing
Contact: asanche@umich.edu
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Andrew Davis (ME)Education: B.S. in Physics, Brigham Young University (2016)
Research Focus: Solid-state Batteries
Contact: andrewld@umich.edu
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Kuan-Hung Chen (MSE)Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, (2014)
Research Focus: Batteries, Nanostructure Growth
Contact: knhgchen@umich.edu
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Yuxin Chen (ME)Education: B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2017)
B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2017)
Research Focus: Batteries, Solid Mechanics
Contact: yxchen@umich.edu
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Andrew Gayle (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University (2017)
Research Focus: Photocatalysis
Contact: ajbgayle@umich.edu
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Master’s Students
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Andre Brooks (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2017)
Research Focus: Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: ajbrooks@umich.edu
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Ellis Herman (ME)Education: B.S. in Physics and Math, University of Richmond (2016)
Research Focus: Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: edhe@umich.edu
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Raghav Muralidharan (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2017)
Research Focus: Photocatalysis
Contact: muralir@umich.edu
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Carli Huber (MSE)Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan (2018)
Research Focus: Nanomanufacturing
Contact: carhuber@umich.edu
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Undergraduate Students
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Jose Lasso (ME)Research Focus: Solid-State Batteries |
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Tae Cho (ME)Research Focus: Composite Materials |
Past Members
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Nicholas Ginga (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kevin Wood (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Debashree Das (IIT Delhi)
Master’s Students:
Lauren Ranshoff (Northrop Grumman)
Nicholas Wurtz (SpaceX)
Ziyuan Jiao
Sneha Agarwal (GlobalFoundaries)
Hyunwoo Park (Cymer, an ASML Company)
Yang Chen (Ph.D. Student, UCLA)
Thomas Lawton (Boeing)
Abhishek Goyal (Cummins, Inc.)
Undergraduate Students:
Heena Singh
Cigdem Kokenoz
Ezinwo Weli
Daniel Cruz
Rachel Goubert
Phillip Nwachokor
Jerry Mar
David Nang
Qingtian Yin