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Principal Investigator

Research Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers

Nikhil Gotawala

Postdoctoral Researcher

Seyed Hojjatzadeh

Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

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Kendall Knight

Ph.D. candidate: Thermal Measurement & Management

Xiaofeng Wu

Ph.D. candidate: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Characterization

Donnie Erb

Ph.D. student: Shape Memory Ceramics and Composites

Luke Hagedorn

Ph.D. student: Dynamic phase evolution during extreme thermomechanical processing

Mark Pandol

Ph.D. student: In situ monitoring and process control 

Hannah Glaser

Ph.D. student: Process Modeling 

Adam Seigler

 Ph.D. student: Constitutive Relationship under Extreme Conditions

Mohammad Salah

Master's student: Additive Manufacturing of Soft Magnetics

Max Remmert

Master's student: Instrumentation and Small-Scale Deposition

Brett Pennington

Master's student: In-situ Defect Detection and Modeling

Undergraduate Students

Helen Murray

 

 

Duncan McNamara

Mickey Coyle

Recent Group Alumni

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Mackenzie E.J. Perry

Ph.D. 2021 
Current Position: Materials Engineer, NSWC Carderock

Joey Griffiths

Ph.D. 2021

Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

David Garcia

Ph.D. 2020

Current Position: Materials Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jake Yoder

Ph.D. 2022

Current Position: Senior Materials Scientist, MELD Manufacturing Corporation

Doug Hartley

Ph.D. 2022

Current Position: Materials and Process Engineer, Blue Origin

Hunter Rauch

Ph.D. 2021

Current Position: Assistant Research Professor, Penn State University