Research Group

Graduate Researchers

• Swapnil Sawalkar – PhD MSE 2026
• Nathan Brown – PhD MSE 2027
• Daniel Jones – PhD MSE – 2028
• Stan Watson Teagho Voufo – PhD MSE – 2028
• Joshua Oguntoyinbo – MS ME – 2026

Undergraduate Researchers

• Alex Brown
• John Jin
• James Schenck
• Ezra Klinghofer
• Michael Buntain
• Tristan Mauermann
• Lucas Nuxoll

Visitors and Post-Doctoral Researchers

• Syeda Sumaiya
• Dr. Claire Adams

Previous Group Members

• Claire Adams – PhD MSE 2025 – currently post-doctoral researcher at WSU
• Katy Gosser – PhD MSE 2024 – currently at Boeing
• Manon Mathieu – Visiting researcher from Polytech Nancy, (Univ. Lorraine), France
• Gunnar Blaschke – MS MSE 2022 – currently at  Caterpillar
• Stan Watson Teagho Voufo – Visiting from Univ. Lorraine
• Sam Karcher (with John McCloy) – PhD MSE 2021 – currently Research Assistant Professor at WSU
• Mueed Jamal – MS ME 2021 – currently Researcher at WSU
• Benjamin Schuessler – PhD MSE 2021 – currently at PNNL
• Vineet Joshi – PhD MSE 2020 – currently at PNNL
• Maryam Jamalian – PhD ME 2020 – currently at Lam Research
• Jacqueline Reeve – MS MSE 2020 – currently at PNNL
• German Valderrama – MS Eng 2018 – currently at SEL
• Tarang Mungole – PhD MSE 2018 – currently at Hitachi High Tech America
• Dr. Natalia DeVincentis, Fulbright Scholar, 2018 – Universidad Nacional de Rosario
• Jingyi Zhang – PhD ME 2017 – currently at Applied Materials
• Julie Dewberry – PhD ME 2017 (with Ron Omberg) – currently at Raytheon
• Karun Kalia – MS ME 2017 – currently at UMass, Lowell
• Longping (Robin) Zhu – MS MSE 2017 – currently in China, send me an email if you know details
• Fan Zhang – MS MSE 2012, PhD MSE 2016 – currently at Niron Magnetics
• Batholomew Kimani – MS MSE 2016 – currently at Microsoft
• Wen Feng – visiting researcher from Nanjing University of Science and Technology
• John Young – PhD MSE 2015 – currently at JST, Boise
• Khaled Adam – PhD ME 2015 – Post Doctoral Researcher 2016 – Currently at Georgia Southern University
• Professor Amrita Kundu – Visiting Professor – Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), at WSU 2015
• Yuri Hovanski – PhD ME 2015 – currently at Brigham Young University
• Graden Hardy – PhD ME 2015 – currently at Caterpillar
• Colin Merriman – MS MSE – 2007, PhD ME 2015 – currently at Idaho National Lab
• Zhe Leng – MS MSE 2010, PhD MSE 2014 – currently at Stellantis
• Osama Fakron – PhD ME 2014 – currently at Purdue University, Fort Wayne
• Alexander Plonczak – MS MSE 2014 – currently at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
• Erin Patterson – MS MSE 2013 – currently Metallurgist at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division
• Linxiao Zhao – MS MSE 2013 – currently at Victaulic, Dalian, China
• Isaac Steele – MS MSE 2013 – currently professor at Everett Community College
• Nathaniel Sanchez – PhD ME 2013 – currently Program Lead at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Hao Yu – MS MSE 2011 – currently at NJIT, Nanjing
• Hina Malik – MS MSE 2010 – currently at Morgan Chase
• Jameson Root – MS MSE 2010 – currently Pocatello, ID
• A. Alankar – PhD ME 2010 – currently Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay
• Chang-Kyu Yoon – MS MSE 2009 – currently Assoc. Professor at Sookmyung Women’s University
• Sudip Kumar Sinha – MS MSE 2009 – currently Assistant Professor at NIT Raipur
• Ravi Kumar – Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2006 – currently Professor at IIT Madras
• Ioannis Mastorakos – Post Doctoral Researcher, 2004-2006 – currently Associate Professor, Clarkson Univ.
• J. Pablo Escobedo Diaz – MS MSE 2004 – PhD ME 2007 – currently at Univ. New South Wales
• Chia-Jeng Chung – MS MSE 2007 – currently at MSI, Los Angeles
• Professor No-Jin Park – Visiting Professor – Kumoh National Institute of Technology (Korea), at WSU 2004-2005
• Reza S. Yassar – PhD Mat Sci 2005 – currently at Univ. Illinois – Chicago
• Pankaj Trivedi – PhD Mat Sci 2005 – currently at Booz Allen Hamilton
• Tejodher Muppidi – MS MSE 2003 (then UCLA and UNC) – send me an email if you know…

Previous Undergraduate Researchers

Debbie Mahmood, Adam Mortensen, Yasuyuki Kusama, Pablo Escobedo (REU), Mark Walpole, Nathan Muntz, Brian Mattson (REU), Brian True, Jason Swaim (REU), Eva McGowan, Joe Flood, Matt Foss, Ryan Eames, Daryl Bolejack, Ali Zbib, Jeffrey Yanke (REU), Ross Johnson (REU), Laura Bradford, Adam Dirkes, Evan Pierce, Adam Hein (REU), Jerrod Miller, Jason Drexler, Sharla Hopkins (REU), Aaron Wilkinson, Ryuji Imoto, Cameron DuBois (REU), Greg Santone (REU), Julie Smith, Austin Harvie, Christopher Melvin, Casey Stratton, Ashley Tracy, Kale Stephenson, Lisa Behrens (REU), Mark Taylor(REU), Skylar Hatch, David Koch, Adam George, Ashley Teare, Garrett Kelley, Cory Parker (REU), John Bryson, Michael Heiden, Alyssa Arrigoni, Jake Bair, Jonathon Lueck, Jose Marcial, Karen Nash, John Young, Tyler Claus, Juan Trevino, Christine Joseph, Mengil Deane, Victoria K, Kassi Smith, Chris Gay, Melanie Salmond, Craig Horne, Denise Blohowiak, Jace Barley, Sam Karcher, Lucas Norstrem, Ahmed Alyahyaal, AmmarAlbalushi, Samir Alraisi, Logan Winston, Quentin Buck, Corey Palmieri, Ahmed Aldossary, Ira Warlick, Cody Christiansen, Blake Peters, Corey Bisonette, Jessie Schweitzer, Gunnar Blaschke, Connor Toulou, Jeff Washburn, Solon Simpson, Caeden Erdmann, Leif VanAken, Usama Al Hinai, Saeed Alnemer, Khalfan Al-Musalami, Sebastian Walker, Jordan Taylor, Rory Schneider, Lucas Shockley, Said Aloraimi, Mohammad Al-Washahi, Aditya Bose-Bandyopadhyay (HS), Anabelle Alamangos, Brian Elder,

Photos of Past Research Groups