Chaitanya Bathina 2023 – 2025 Research Area: Microfabrication, Surface Engineering, Thermal Management of Electronics, and Phase Change Heat Transfer
Mario Mata 2024 – 2025 Research Area: Boiling Heat Transfer, Dynamic Adsorption of Surfactants, and Design Engineering
Sumit Raj 2020 – 2022 Research Area: Phase Change Heat Transfer, Flow Boiling through Microchannels, and Boiling Instabilities.
PhD Graduates
Daniel Greene 2021 – 2025 Research Area: Microfluidic Dialysis and Electrolyte-Recovery Modules for Artificial Kidneys
Raju Bhatia 2021 – 2025 Research Area: Membrane-Assisted Falling Film Heat and Mass Exchangers, Ionic Liquid-Based Absorption, and HVAC Systems
Ashwani Verma 2021 – 2025 Research Area: Multi-Phase Heat Transfer, Energy Management and Conversion Technologies, Ionic Liquids, and Surfactants
Adam Kriz 2020 – 2024 Research Area: Microfluidic Device Design & Assembly, Microfabrication, Heat & Mass Transfer in Micro/Nanoscale, and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer.
Suhas Tamvada 2020 – 2024 Research Area: Multi-phase Heat Transport, Microfabrication, and Surface Engineering
Sidharth Sanadhya 2018 – 2023 Research Area: Performance Analysis of Cooling Systems.
Rohit Bhagwat 2018 – 2023 Research Area: Absorption Cooling Systems.
Masters Graduates
Zihan Hu Mechanical Engineering Research Area: Thermal Management and Electronics Cooling
Anushka Koustubh Mendjoge 2022 – 2024 Research Area: Heat Transfer, Plasma Physics, and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Varad Dange 2022 – 2024 Research Area: Heat Transfer, Plasma Physics, and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Alan Smith 2021 – 2023 Research Area: Microfabrication, Heat and Mass Transfer in Micro/Nanoscale, Boiling Heat Transfer, Thin film Evaporation
Srinivas Shashank Mantha 2021 – 2023 Research Area: Microfabrication, Surface Wetting Phenomenon, Micro-Nano Heat & Mass Transfer
Undergraduate Students
Chrisitan Stephens B.S, Environmental Science and Economics Research Area: Cultivating a feasible economic plan for an absorption/desorption system based on energy consumption and costs.
Jack Kuzmicki BS, Electrical Engineering Research Area: Ion recovery system for wearable artificial kidney applications.
Jackson Sammartino Undergraduate Researcher Completed Undergraduate Thesis Spring 2024 Research Area: Heat transfer and fluid flow in microchannels.
Anderson Sanchez Undergraduate Researcher Research Area: Manufacturing furnaces/solid models for pool boiling experiments and multiphase heat transfer applications.
Dylan Errico Summer 2022 REU Student REU Engineering for Healthcare Program Research Area: Ion Rejection in an In-House Built Electrodialysis Module.
Kerry Kruger Summer 2021 REU Student REU Engineering for Healthcare Program Research Area: Ion Rejection across Graphene Oxide Membranes for use in a Wearable Artificial Kidney System.
