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 an AFOSR Young Investigator Award (YIP), a 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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Nicholas GingaEducation: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2008)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The College of New Jersey (2005)
Research Focus: Composite Materials
Contact: nginga@umich.edu
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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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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, Biotemplating, Surface Functionalization
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: Nanomanufacturing, Composite Materials
Contact: robinrod@umich.edu
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Will LePage (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tulsa (2013)
M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2015)
Research Focus: Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Material Degradation and Failure
Co-advisors: Samantha Daly, John Shaw
Contact: wlepage@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 Physics, Brigham Young University (2016)
Research Focus: Solid-state Batteries
Contact: andrewld@umich.edu
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Master’s Students
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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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Lauren Ranshoff (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University (2016)
Research Focus: Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: lcranso@umich.edu
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Ziyuan Jiao (ME)Education: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan (2016)
Research Focus: Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition
Contact: zyjiao@umich.edu
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Nicholas Wurtz (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2016)
Research Focus: Composites
Contact: nwurtz@umich.edu
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Undergraduate Students
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Yuxin Chen (ME) |
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Andre Brooks (ME) |
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Heena Singh (ME) |
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Cigdem Kokenoz (ChemE) |
Past Members
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Kevin Wood (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Debashree Das (IIT Delhi)
Master’s Students:
Sneha Agarwal (Farasis Energy)
Hyunwoo Park (Cymer, an ASML Company)
Yang Chen (Ph.D. Student, UCLA)
Thomas Lawton (Boeing)
Abhishek Goyal (Cummins, Inc.)
Undergraduate Students:
Ezinwo Weli
Daniel Cruz
Rachel Goubert
Phillip Nwachokor
Jerry Mar
David Nang
Qingtian Yin