Li Qiao
Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
School of Mechanical Engineering (Courtesy), Purdue University
Address: 701 W. Stadium Ave.,West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2045
Phone: 765-494-2040,
Fax: 765-494-0370,
E-mail: lqiao@purdue.edu
PhD Students
Chris Swanson
Graduate Research Assistant
Education:
BS Mechanical Engineering University of Florida
BS Aerospace Engineering University of Florida
Research Interest: Micro-combustion
Quenching of microscale flames
Microscale Heat Exchangers
Microscale Propulsion
Afaque Alam
Graduate Research Assistant
Education:
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad, India
Research Interest: Laser diagnostics in IC engine, Turbulent jet Ignition, Ammonia combustion, Proper orthogonal decomposition.
Tianxiao Yu
Graduate Research Assistant
Education:
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Research Interest: Pre-chamber turbulent jet ignition in internal combustion engines.
Holman Lau
Graduate Research Assistant
Education:
Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering, UC Irvine
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine
Research Interest: Micro Scale Combustion, Ceramic 3D Printed Micro Gas Turbine Engines, CFD Modeling of Micro Gas Turbine Engines
Undergraduate students
Smit Kapadia
Dhanush Manjunath
Albert Lu
Tyler Yen
Nikolai Baranov
Andrej Damjanov
High-school students
Serena Zhang
Allumni:
PhD Students:
Dong Eun Lee (June 2023), now an engineer at Tesla, California.
Yanan Gan (July 2012), now an engineer at Pratt&Whitney UTC, Connecticut.
Jian Xu (October 2014), now an engineer at Baltimore Aircoil Company, Maryland.
Saad Tanvir (July 2016), now an engineer at Apple Inc.
Sayan Biswas (July 2017), now an assistant professor at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Shourya Jain (December 2018), now a scientist at DowDuPont Inc, Delaware.
Suman Chakraborty (July 2022), now a Post Doc at the Argonne National Lab
MS-Thesis Students:
Deepti Singh (2011), now an assistant professor at Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington.
Takayuki Nishiee (2011), now an engineer at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan.
Saad Tanvir (2011), now an engineer at Tesla Inc, California.
Bogdan Pavlov (2012), now an engineer at SpaceX, Washington.
Ang Li (2016), now an engineer at Corporate Technology, Siemens, Beijing, China.
Alex Mastrean (2018), now an engineer at Orbital ATK, Arizona.
Shatakshi Gupta (2020), Thesis: Microscale Combustion Phenomena in Printed Circuit-type Fuel-air Heat Exchangers
Undergradute Students:
Saad Tanvir, Richard Wang, Mark Pfeil, Abhi Murty, Alex Chong Shao Teng, Dustin Truesdell, Jamal Enakhimion, Anthony Malito, Yi-Syuen Lim, Mark Danielson, Andrea Exil, Jesus Pozo, David Kun, Aaron Johnson, Jennifer Wu, Ye Nearn Teoh, Timothy Machin, Omar Yehia, Machael Woodworth, Tanyu Yang, Josia Lo, Jacob Hines, Erica Chadwell