Our Team

Principal Investigator

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

Holman
Holman Lau

Graduate Teaching 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

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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.

Samarpan Farmer
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Education:

B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering VIT Vellore, India

 

 

Research Interest: Thermal behaviour of Li-ion battery electrolyte

Bongseok Kim
Graduate Research Assistant

Education:

Education:
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, PNU, South Korea


Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, PNU, South Korea

 

Research Interest:  Scientific Machine Learning,  ML-driven Mechanical Engineering and Molecular Dynamics

Master's Students

Alex Zhou
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University

 

Research Interest: Battery Thermal Runaway, CFD and Thermal Modeling, Propulsion and Energy Systems

Yuuki Valentino Horie
Graduate Research Assistant

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University

 

Research Interest:  Alternative fuel combustion

Undergraduate students

Nikolai Baranov

Margie Heritage

Thomas Wooldridge

Sriniketh Atmakur

Ishaan Breinig

High-school students

Serena Zhang

Allumni:

PhD Students:

Tianxiao Yu (July 2024), now a Postdoc Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago.

Chris Swanson (July 2024), now Senior Research Scientist at Purdue Universities Zucrow Laboratories.

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:

Smit Kapadia, Albert Lu, Tyler Yen, Andrej Damjanov, Dhanush Manjunath, 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