Principal Investigator
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Neil DasguptaAssociate Professor, Miller Faculty Scholar
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, the AVS Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award, the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, a Scialog Fellowship in Advanced Energy Storage, 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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Jing WangEducation: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University
B.E. in Measurement, Control Technology and Instruments, Tsinghua University
Research Focus: Surface Wetting, Anti-Fouling Coatings
Contact: juw@umich.edu
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Eric KazyakEducation: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2019)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (2014)
Research Focus: Batteries, In Situ/Operando characterization
Contact: kazyak@umich.edu
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Manoj JangidEducation: Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2019)
B. Tech & M. Tech in Nanotechnology, University of Rajasthan (2012)
Research Focus: Electrochemical Energy Storage (solid-state batteries)
Contact: manojj@umich.edu
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Srinivas YadavalliEducation: Ph.D. in Materials Engineering, Brown University (2021)
B-Tech and M-Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2016)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics, Solid-state Batteries
Contact: syadaval@umich.edu
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Ph.D. Students
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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
Contact: asanche@umich.edu
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Andrew Davis (ME)Education: B.S. in Applied Physics, Brigham Young University (2016)
Research Focus: Solid-state Batteries
Contact: andrewld@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, Photovoltaics, 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, Solar Thermal
Contact: ajbgayle@umich.edu
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Julia Lenef (MSE)Education: B.S. in Chemistry, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2018)
Research Focus: Catalysis, Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: jlenef@umich.edu
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Tae Cho (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2018)
Research Focus: Nanomanufacturing, Printable Electronics
Contact: taecho@umich.edu
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Daniel Penley (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2019)
Research Focus: Nanomanufacturing, Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: dpenley@umich.edu
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Alondra Ortiz-Ortiz (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (2019)
Research Focus: Anti-Fouling Coatings, Nanomanufacturing
Contact: aortizor@umich.edu
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Daniel Liao (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: danliao@umich.edu
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Clare Lanaghan (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University (2020)
B.S. in Physics, Beloit College (2018)
Research Focus: Solar energy
Contact: lanaghan@umich.edu
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Master’s Students
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Yuvraj Singh (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University (2020)
Research Focus: Batteries
Contact: yuvrajs@umich.edu
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Park Huff (ChemE)Education: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky (2018)
Research Focus: Photocatalysis
Contact: huffpa@umich.edu
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Larson Lovdal (ME)Education: B.A. in Physics, Middlebury College (2017)
Research Focus: Battery Manufacturing
Contact: llovdal@umich.edu
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Andrew Timmins (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University (2017)
Research Focus: Batteries, Electrochemistry
Contact: atimmins@umich.edu
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Undergraduate Students
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Jose Lasso (ME)Research Focus: Solid-State Batteries |
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Claire Huang (ME)Research Focus: Composite Materials |
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Hannah Faustyn (ME)Research Focus: Bio-inspired Materials |
Past Members
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Minjeong Shin (Assistant Professor, Sungshin University)
Orlando Trejo (Solutions Architect, Applied Materials)
Will LePage (Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa)
Sudarat Lee (Senior Research Engineer, Intel)
Nicholas Ginga (Lecturer, University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Kevin Wood (Assistant Professor, San Diego State University)
Debashree Das (Research Scientist, InnoSense)
Ph.D. Students:
Kuan-Hung Chen (Battery Cell Engineer, Rivian)
Eric Kazyak (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan)
Ashley Bielinski (Maria Goeppert Mayer Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory)
Master’s Students:
John Lee
Monya Bransky (Quantum Signal AI)
Mark Main (Ford Motor Co.)
Fenghe Fu
Susan Liu (Gess RNG)
Shreya Chandrashekhar (Romax Technology)
Carli Huber (ASML)
Andre Brooks (Ford Motor Co.)
Ellis Herman (Spacemaker AI)
Raghav Muralidaran (Rocky Mountain Institute)
Lauren Ranshoff (Northrop Grumman)
Nicholas Wurtz (SpaceX)
Ziyuan Jiao (Ph.D. Student, UCLA)
Sneha Agarwal (GlobalFoundaries)
Hyunwoo Park (Cymer, an ASML Company)
Yang Chen (Ph.D. Student, UCLA)
Thomas Lawton (Boeing)
Abhishek Goyal (Cummins, Inc.)
Undergraduate Students:
Jacob Hoffman
Enpei Zhao
Ethan Pattison
Heena Singh
Cigdem Kokenoz
Ezinwo Weli
Daniel Cruz
Rachel Goubert
Phillip Nwachokor
Jerry Mar
David Nang
Qingtian Yin
Michael Mossington