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 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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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, Nanomanufacturing
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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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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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, Manufacturing
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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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, 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 (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (2019)
Research Focus: Anti-Fouling Coatings
Contact: aortizor@umich.edu
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Master’s Students
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Shreya Chandrashekhar (ME)Education: B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune (2018)
Research Focus: Photovoltaics
Contact: cshreya@umich.edu
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Mark Main (MSE)Education: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University (2016)
Research Focus: Solid-State Batteries
Contact: mainmark@umich.edu
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Monya Bransky (ME)Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2015)
Research Focus: Perovskite Manufacturing
Contact: mbransky@umich.edu
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Fenghe Fu (MSE)Education: B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology (2019)
Research Focus: Catalysis
Contact: fufenghe@umich.edu
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Undergraduate Students
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Jose Lasso (ME)Research Focus: Solid-State Batteries |
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Ethan Pattison (ME)Research Focus: Batteries |
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Jacob Hoffman (ChemE)Research Focus: Photocatalysis |
Past Members
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Sudarat Lee (Senior Research Engineer, Intel)
Nicholas Ginga (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kevin Wood (Assistant Professor, San Diego State University)
Debashree Das (IIT Delhi)
Ph.D. Students:
Ashley Bielinski (Maria Goeppert Mayer Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory)
Master’s Students:
Carli Huber (ASML)
Andre Brooks (Ford Motor Co.)
Ellis Herman (Spacemaker AI)
Raghav Muralidaran
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