Postdocs
Yuval Harduf, PhD
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 2024
Sean Dobson, PhD
PhD, Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2024
Graduate Students
Harsh Bhundiya
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2022
BS Mechanical Engineering, CalTech, 2020
*Mathworks Fellow, NASA NSTGRO recipient
Andres Garcia Jimenez
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2023
BS Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2020
*NSF-GRFP recipient, Aeropuertos Argentina Fellow
Spencer Taylor
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2022
BS Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 2019
*NDSEG recipient
Matthew Shorter
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2020
SB Mechanical Engineering, Brown University, 2017
Roger Hou
PhD student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
SM Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2024
BS Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2021
*Mathworks Fellow^2
Bodie Ziertman
SM student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
BS Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2024
Tomás Wexler
SM student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
BS Mechanical Engineering, CalTech, 2024
*NSF-GRFP recipient
Alumni
Suhas Prameela PhD, postdoc, MIT, 2022-2024, assistant professor @ University of Utah Isha Gupta PhD, postdoc, MIT, 2021-2024, assistant professor @ University of
Southampton
Colin Pavan PhD, postdoc, MIT, 2022-2023, senior mechanical engineer @ emvolon
Fabien Royer PhD, postdoc, MIT, 2021-2022, assistant professor @ Cornell
Christopher Reyes PhD, postdoc, Rice, 2019-2020, CTO @ Material Hybrid
Manufacturing Inc
Abdel Moustafa PhD, postdoc, Rice, 2017-2020, manufacturing engineer @ Top Grain Technologies LLC
Lynnora Grant PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2017-2022, NRC postdoc @ NIST
Carlos Parra PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2018-2021, metallurgist technologist @ Tenaris
Austin Ward PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2021, scientist @ NRO
Logan Ware PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2020, lead computational materials scientist @
Eaton Corporation
Reid Carazzone PhD, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2019, CEO/president @ Top Grain
Technologies LLC
Christopher Carter, SM, MechE, 2021-2024, graduate student @ MIT MechE
Kinjal Ruecker, SM, AeroAstro, MIT, 2022-2024, graduate student @ MIT MechE
Zhen Rong Yap, Visiting Masters Student, DMSE, MIT, 2023-2024, engineering @ AI
startup
Thian Daniel Iskandar, Visiting Masters Student, DMSE, MIT, 2023-2024, graduate
student @ UCSB materials
Samair Alyassini, SM, MechE, MIT, 2021-2023, staff engineer@ GE aviation
Kaleb Overby, SM, AeroAstro, MIT, 2021-2023, Air Force
Dom Peachey, Visting Masters Student, DMSE, MIT, 2021-2022, metallurgist @ Alloyed
UK
Eric Jorgensen, SM, MechE, MIT, 2020-2021, lead mechanical engineer @ GE aviation
Sebastian Eder, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2018-2019, global trainee @ Tenaris
William Yarberry III, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2017, materials engineer @
Schlumberger
Yibing Zhang, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2017, line manager @ Hempel
Jimena Ochoa, Prof. Masters, MSNE, Rice, 2016-2017
Kelsi Wicker, UG Researcher, 2016-2017, Boeing
Matthew French, UG Researcher, 2016-2018, Navy
Matthew Weatherman, UG Researcher, 2016-2018, Carpenter Tech Corp
Michael Bonar, UG Researcher, 2017-2018, ARL
Daniel Suzuki, UG Researcher, 2017-2018, MIT DMSE
Caroline Krawczyk, UG Researcher, 2018, Boom Supersonic
Christopher Hareland, UG Researcher, 2017-2019, Northwestern MSE
Lauren Poole, UG Researcher, 2017-2019, UCSB Materials
Hope Fa-Kaji, UG Researcher, 2018-2019, Rice MECH
Ben Herstein, UG Researcher, 2018-2020, Rice MECH
Mark Cantu, UG Researcher, 2017-2020, Rice MSNE
Chris Fang, UG Researcher, 2018-2020, Rice MECH
Nathan Palmerio, UG Researcher, 2017-2020, Samsung
Raquel Torres, HISD RET, 2017, Houston ISD
Andrew Catalanotto, HCC REU, 2017-2018, ATEC
Nathaniel Ocanas, HCC REU, 2017-2018, Disney
Magdi Alameen, HCC REU, 2018, Univ. of Houston
Angel Chagolla, HCC REU, 2018, Texas A&M
Chahat (Myra) Padda, HCC REU, 2019, Texas A&M