DRL Alumni

Visitors and Postdocs

TieJun (TJ) Zhang

Visiting Professor 2011-2012

Associate Professor at Masdar Institute, Khalifa University

Faisal AlMarzooqi

Visiting Professor 2017-2019

Assistant Professor at Masdar Institute, Khalifa University

Ryuichi Iwata

Visiting Scholar 2017-2020

Research Scientist at Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc

Matt McCarthy

Postdoc 2009-2010

Associate Professor at Drexel University

Anand Veeraragavan

Postdoc 2009-2010

Associate Professor at the University of Queensland

Nitin Shukla

Postdoc 2009-2011

Researcher at the Fraunhofer Center

Ryan Enright

Postdoc 2009-2011

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs

Shalabh Maroo

Postdoc 2010-2011

Associate Professor at Syracuse University

Teresa Peters

Postdoc 2009-2012

Independent Researcher, Volunteer

Youngsuk Nam

Postdoc 2010-2012

Associate Professor at Kyung Hee University

Martin Cleary

Postdoc 2011-2012

Systems Analysis Lead at Shell TechWork

Rishi Raj

Postdoc 2011-2013

Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

Qian Liang

Postdoc 2012-2014

Senior Scientist at Delta Research Centre

Jiansheng Feng

Postdoc 2012-2014

Instrumentation Scientist at the University of Akron

Shankar Narayanan

Postdoc 2011-2015

Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Xiansen Li

Postdoc 2012-2015

Engineer/Scientist Sr. R&D II at Honeywell UOP

Scott Schiffres

Postdoc 2014-2015

Assistant Professor at Binghamton University

Sivanand Somasundaram

Research Fellow 2015

Senior Research Scientist at Nanyang Technological University

Banafsheh Barabadi

Postdoc 2014-2016

Thermal Product Design Engineer at Apple

Bin He

Postdoc 2014-2019

Liquid cooling consultant at Swift Specialist

Sungwoo Yang

Postdoc 2012-2017

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Dion Antao

Postdoc 2013-2017

Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University

Zhenyuan Xu

Postdoc 2016-2017

Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Sameer Rao

Postdoc 2015-2018

Assistant Professor at University of Utah

Bikram Bhatia

Postdoc 2014-2019

Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville

Shuai Gong

Postdoc 2017-2019

Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mengyao Wei

Postdoc 2017-2020

Data Scientist at Haier

Nicolas Courtois

Postdoc 2020

Heat Transfer specialist at Lion Electric

Xiangyu Li

Postdoc 2020-2022

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Gustav Graeber

Postdoc 2021-2023

Principle Investigator at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Students

Rong Xiao

PhD 12′

Reservoir Engineer at ExxonMobil

Arthur Kariya

PhD 12′

Senior Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories

Nenad Miljkovic

PhD 13′

Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kuang-Han (Hank) Chu

PhD 13′

Research Engineer at Intel

Andrej Lenert

PhD 14′

Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

Tom Humplik

PhD 14′

Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses

Jeremy Cho

PhD 16′

Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Solomon Adera

PhD 16′

Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

Daniel Hanks

PhD 16′

Engineer at Tesla Motors

Heena Mutha

PhD 16′

Fueling and Tritium SRO at Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Kevin Bagnall

PhD 17′

Technical Staff at Lincoln Laboratory

David Bierman

PhD 17′

Co-Founder & CTO at Antora Energy

Hyunho Kim

PhD 17′

Senior Engineer at Samsung Electronics

Daniel J. Preston

PhD 17′

Assistant Professor at Rice University

Yangying Zhu

PhD 17′

Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara

Zhengmao Lu

PhD 18′

Assistant Professor, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Lin Zhao

PhD 19′

Optical Engineer at 3M

Kyle Wilke

PhD 19′

Cofounder & CTO at AeroShield

Elise Strobach

PhD 20′

Cofounder & CEO at AeroShield

Jay Sircar
PhD 21′

Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arny Leroy

PhD 21′

Associate at Exponent

Youngsup Song

PhD 21′

Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Brentan Alexander

MS 08′

CSO & CCO at New Energy Risk

Jon Allison

MS 09′

Engineer at Boeing

Karl Suabedissen

MS 10′

Naval Aviator

Batya Fellman

MS 10′

Head Of Engineering at Casca Designs Inc.

Catherine Koveal

MS 10′

Program Manager at Raytheon

Matthew Thoms

MS 12′

Early Stage Investor at Bolt

Siyu Chen

MS 13′

Engineer at Oracle

Jean Sack

MS 13′

Technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Ian McKay

MS 14′

CTO of Open Water Power

Ari Umans

MS 15′

Senior Mechanical Engineer at L3 Open Water Power

Stephen Walsh

MS 18′

Nuclear Submarine Officer

Colin Kelsall

MS 18′

Graduate Student at MIT

Cody Jacobucci

MS 21′

Consultant at Blueprint Talent Group

Staff

Thea Szatkowski Strodel

Theresa Werth