Research Group

Graduate Researchers

Nathan Brown – PhD MSE 2027
Daniel Jones (with Scott Beckman) – PhD MSE – 2028
Stan Watson Teagho Voufo – PhD MSE – 2028
Maria Paula Garcia Tovar – PhD MSE – 2029
Joshua Oguntoyinbo – MS ME – 2026
Alexis Williams – MS ME – 2027
John Jin – PhD MSE – 2030

Undergraduate Researchers

Alex Brown
Bobby Smith
Morgan Chapman
Josie Soles
Dominic Ramirez
Alex Klemp

Visitors and Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Syeda Sumaiya
Dr. Kubra Saha
Saumya Gupta
Michael Buntain

Previous Group Members

Sujit Nayak, 2026, Visiting researcher from IIT Kharagpur, India
Gaurav Pandey, 2026, Visiting researcher from IIT Kharagpur, India
Swapnil Sawalkar – PhD MSE 2026 – currently post-doctoral researcher at PNNL
Claire Adams – PhD MSE 2025 – currently post-doctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Katy Gosser – PhD MSE 2024 – currently at Boeing
Manon Mathieu – 2023 – Visiting researcher from Polytech Nancy, (Univ. Lorraine), France
Gunnar Blaschke – MS MSE 2022 – currently at Caterpillar
Stan Watson Teagho Voufo – 2022 – Visiting from Univ. Lorraine
Sam Karcher (with John McCloy) – PhD MSE 2021 – currently 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 – 2015 – 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 – 2015 – Visiting Professor – Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India)
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 at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division
Linxiao Zhao – MS MSE 2013 – currently at Victaulic, Dalian, China
Isaac Steele – MS MSE 2013 – currently at Everett Community College
Nathaniel Sanchez – PhD ME 2013 – currently 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 Professor at IIT Bombay
Chang-Kyu Yoon – MS MSE 2009 – currently at Sookmyung Women’s University
Sudip Kumar Sinha – MS MSE 2009 – currently at NIT Raipur
Ravi Kumar – Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2006 – currently at IIT Madras
Ioannis Mastorakos – Post Doctoral Researcher, 2004-2006 – currently at 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 – 2004-05 – Visiting Professor – Kumoh National Institute of Technology (Korea)
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 where he is now…

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, Ezra Klinghofer, Tristan Mauermann, James Schenck, A.J. Brogsia, Lydia Koenig, Lucas Nuxoll, Michael Buntain