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

Hyeongyun Cha

Postdoc 2020-2023

Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo

Xinyue Liu

Postdoc 2021-2023

Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University

Bachir El Fil

Postdoc 2021-2024

Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology

Xuanjie Wang

Postdoc 2023-2024

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Joseph Phelim Mooney

Postdoc 2023-2024

David Keisar

Postdoc 2023-2024

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

Lenan Zhang

PhD ’22

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Yajing Zhao

PhD ’22

Alina LaPotin

PhD ’23

Geoffrey Vaartstra

PhD ’23

Yang Zhong

PhD ’24

Carlos Díaz-Marín

PhD ’24

Chad T. Wilson

PhD ’24

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

Young Ko

MS ’23

Staff

Thea Szatkowski Strodel

Theresa Werth