Group office: 312A and 312C Materials Science and Engineering Building

• Abhinav Jain, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Ravi Agarwal, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Anne Marie Tan, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Hyojung Kim, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Yang Dan, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Josh Vita, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Soham Chattopadhyay, PhD student (Materials Science and Engineering)
• Dr. Michael Fellinger, Research Scientist

Group Member Resources

• Louis G. Hector, Jr.
  General Motors Technical Center
• Richard Hennig
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Cornell University
• Brent Heuser
  Nuclear Engineering; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Richard Martin
  Physics (emeritus); University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• John Weaver
  Materials Science and Engineering; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• John Wilkins
  Department of Physics; The Ohio State University
• Gerard Wong
  Bioengineering; University of California, Los Angeles
• Christopher Woodward
  Metals Development Section; Air Force Research Laboratory
• Jim Zuo
  Materials Science and Engineering; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Chanda Lowrance, B.S. (Materials Science and Engineering 2009-2010)
• Pandu Wisesa, B.S. student (Materials Science and Engineering, 2011-2012)
• Arvind Srikanth, B.S. student (Materials Science and Engineering, 2011-2013)
• Ah-Young Song, M.S. student (Materials Science and Engineering, 2011-2013)
• Dr. Hadley Lawler, Postdoctoral researcher (2009-2010)
  Vanderbilt Physics
• Dr. Venkateswara Rao Manga, Postdoctoral researcher (2011-2013)
  University of Arizona
• Dr. Thomas Garnier, Postdoctoral researcher (2013-2014)
• Dr. Bora Lee, Postdoctoral researcher (2013-2015)
• Dr. Thomas Schuler, Postdoctoral researcher (2015-1016)
• Min Yu, PhD 2010 (Physics) “Energy density method and its applications to defect energies.” dissertation
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Maryam Ghazisaeidi, PhD 2011 (Mechanical Science and Engineering) “A first principles study of defects in Titanium: Interaction of twin boundaries with dislocations and oxygen interstitials.” dissertation
  Ohio State University
• Joe Yasi, PhD 2012 (Physics) “Strength and ductility of Mg alloys from first-principles.” dissertation
  (personal page), MathWorks
• Henry Wu, PhD 2013 (Materials Science and Engineering) “Oxygen Diffusion Through Titanium and Other HCP Metals.” dissertation
  Univ. Wisconsin, Madison
• Pinchao Zhang, PhD 2016 (Materials Science and Engineering) “Database optimization algorithm for empirical potentials.”
  TransMarket Group, LLC
• Zebo Li, PhD 2017 (Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering) “Multi-scale investigation of vacancy-mediated diffusion of Si in Ni near an edge dislocation”
  Ginkgo, LLC.
• Emily Schiavone, PhD 2017 (Materials Science and Engineering) “Ab initio modeling of hydrogen pipe diffusion in palladium”
  Viterbo University.