DRL Alumni

Visitors and Postdocs

TieJun (TJ) Zhang

tiejun.zhang@ku.ac.ae

Visiting Professor 2011-2012

Associate Professor at Masdar Institute, Khalifa University

Faisal AlMarzooqi

fabdulla@mit.edu

Visiting Professor 2017-2019

Assistant Professor at Masdar Institute, Khalifa University

Ryuichi Iwata

ryuichi.iwata@gmail.com

Visiting Scholar 2017-2020

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

Matt McCarthy

McCarthy@coe.drexel.edu

Postdoc 2009-2010

Associate Professor at Drexel University

Anand Veeraragavan

anandv@mit.edu

Postdoc 2009-2010

Associate Professor at the University of Queensland

Nitin Shukla

shuklan@mit.edu

Postdoc 2009-2011

Researcher at the Fraunhofer Center

Ryan Enright

renright@mit.edu

Postdoc 2009-2011

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs

Shalabh Maroo

scmaroo@syr.edu

Postdoc 2010-2011

Associate Professor at Syracuse University

Teresa Peters

teresab@mit.edu

Postdoc 2009-2012

Independent Researcher, Volunteer

Youngsuk Nam

ysnam@mit.edu

Postdoc 2010-2012

Associate Professor at Kyung Hee University

Martin Cleary

clearym@mit.edu

Postdoc 2011-2012

Systems Analysis Lead at Shell TechWork

Rishi Raj

rraj@mit.edu

Postdoc 2011-2013

Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

Qian Liang

lian0070@e.ntu.edu.sg

Postdoc 2012-2014

Senior Scientist at Delta Research Centre

Jiansheng Feng

jsfeng@mit.edu

Postdoc 2012-2014

Senior Scientist at Delta Research Centre

Shankar Narayanan

ssn@mit.edu

Postdoc 2011-2015

Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Xiansen Li

xsli@mit.edu

Postdoc 2012-2015

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

Scott Schiffres

sschiffr@mit.edu

Postdoc 2014-2015

Assistant Professor at Binghamton University

Sivanand Somasundaram

sivanand@smart.mit.edu

Research Fellow 2015

Senior Research Scientist at Nanyang Technological University

Banafsheh Barabadi

banafsheh.barabadi@gmail.com

Postdoc 2014-2016

Thermal Product Design Engineer at Apple

Bin He

hebi0001@e.ntu.edu.sg

Postdoc 2014-2019

Liquid cooling consultant at Swift Specialist

Sungwoo Yang

swyang@mit.edu

Postdoc 2012-2017

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Dion Antao

dantao@mit.edu

Postdoc 2013-2017

Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University

Zhenyuan Xu

xuzhy@sjtu.edu.cn

Postdoc 2016-2017

Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Sameer Rao

srrao@mit.edu

Postdoc 2015-2018

Assistant Professor at University of Utah

Bikram Bhatia

bikram.bhatia@louisville.edu

Postdoc 2014-2019

Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville

Shuai Gong

sgong2@mit.edu

Postdoc 2017-2019

Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mengyao Wei

weim0005@e.ntu.edu.sg

Postdoc 2017-2020

Data Scientist at Haier

Nicolas Courtois

contact.ncourtois@gmail.com

Postdoc 2020

Heat Transfer specialist at Lion Electric

Xiangyu Li

xli148@utk.edu

Postdoc 2020-2022

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Gustav Graeber

gustav.graeber@hu-berlin.de

Postdoc 2021-2023

Principle Investigator at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Hyeongyun Cha

cha10@mit.edu

Postdoc 2020-2023

Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo

Xinyue Liu

xinyliu@mit.edu

Postdoc 2021-2023

Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University

Bachir El Fil

belfil@mit.edu

Postdoc 2021-2024

Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology

Xuanjie Wang

xwang2@mit.edu

Postdoc 2023-2024

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Joseph Phelim Mooney

jpmooney@mit.edu

Postdoc 2023-2024

David Keisar

keisar@mit.edu

Postdoc 2023-2024

Omer Caylan

caylan@mit.edu

Postdoc 2023-2025

Students

Rong Xiao

rongxiao@mit.edu

PhD ’12

Reservoir Engineer at ExxonMobil

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Arthur Kariya

hak@alum.mit.edu

PhD ’12

Senior Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories

Nenad Miljkovic

nmiljkov@mit.edu

PhD ’13

Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kuang-Han (Hank) Chu

khchu@mit.edu

PhD ’13

Research Engineer at Intel

Andrej Lenert

alenert@mit.edu

PhD ’14

Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

Tom Humplik

thumplik@mit.edu

PhD ’14

Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses

Jeremy Cho

jeremy.cho@unlv.edu

PhD ’16

Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Solomon Adera

sadera@umich.edu

PhD ’16

Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

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Daniel Hanks

dhanks@tesla.com

PhD ’16

Engineer at Tesla Motors

Heena Mutha

hmutha@mit.edu

PhD ’16

Fueling and Tritium SRO at Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Kevin Bagnall

kbagnall@mit.edu

PhD ’17

Technical Staff at Lincoln Laboratory

David Bierman

bierman@mit.edu

PhD ’17

Co-Founder & CTO at Antora Energy

Hyunho Kim

hyunho@mit.edu

PhD ’17

Senior Engineer at Samsung Electronics

Daniel J. Preston

djp@rice.edu

PhD ’17

Assistant Professor at Rice University

Yangying Zhu

yyzhu@mit.edu

PhD ’17

Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara

Zhengmao Lu

zhengmao@mit.edu

PhD ’18

Assistant Professor, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Lin Zhao

zhlin8921@gmail.com

PhD ’19

Optical Engineer at 3M

Kyle Wilke

klwilke@mit.edu

PhD ’19

Cofounder & CTO at AeroShield

Elise Strobach

strobach@mit.edu

PhD ’20

Cofounder & CEO at AeroShield

Jay Sircar

jsircar@mit.edu

PhD ’21

Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arny Leroy

aleroy@mit.edu

PhD ’21

Associate at Exponent

Youngsup Song

song@mae.ufl.edu

PhD ’21

Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Lenan Zhang

lzhang2@mit.edu

PhD ’22

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Yajing Zhao

yjzhao@mit.edu

PhD ’22

Alina LaPotin

alapotin@mit.edu

PhD ’23

Geoffrey Vaartstra

gvaartst@mit.edu

PhD ’23

Yang Zhong

yzhongx@mit.edu

PhD ’24

Carlos Díaz-Marín

cddiaz@mit.edu

PhD ’24

Chad T. Wilson

wilsonct@mit.edu

PhD ’24

Brentan Alexander

brentan.alexander@gmail.com

MS ’08

CSO & CCO at New Energy Risk

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Jon Allison

allj@mit.edu

MS ’09

Engineer at Boeing

Karl Suabedissen

ksuab003@mit.edu

MS ’10

Naval Aviator

Batya Fellman

bfellman@mit.edu

MS ’10

Head Of Engineering at Casca Designs Inc.

Catherine Koveal

ckoveal@mit.edu

MS ’10

Program Manager at Raytheon

Matthew Thoms

mthoms@mit.edu

MS ’12

Early Stage Investor at Bolt

Siyu Chen

chensiyu@mit.edu

MS ’13

Engineer at Oracle

Jean Sack

jsack@mit.edu

MS ’13

Technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Ian McKay

ism@mit.edu

MS ’14

CTO of Open Water Power

Ari Umans

ariumans@mit.edu

MS ’15

Senior Mechanical Engineer at L3 Open Water Power

Stephen Walsh

smwalsh@mit.edu

MS ’18

Nuclear Submarine Officer

Colin Kelsall

ckelsall@mit.edu

MS ’18

Graduate Student at MIT

Cody Jacobucci

codyjaco@mit.edu

MS ’21

Consultant at Blueprint Talent Group

Young Ko

hyko@mit.edu

MS ’23

Staff