Alumni

PhD Graduates

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Brandon Mackey

Graduated: May 2024

Placement: Pratt & Whitney

PhD Thesis Title: High Temperature Process to Structure to Performance Material Modeling

 

 

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John Ferguson

Graduated: December 2023

Placement: US Air Force

PhD Thesis Title: Residual Stress and Microstructural Evolution of Composites and Coatings for Extreme Environments

 

 

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Glenn R. Peterson

Graduated: August 2023

Placement: US Air Force

PhD Thesis Title: Novel Ultra-High Temperature Material Processing, Characterization, and Modeling  

 

 

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Sven Gustafson

Graduated: May 2023

Placement: Cornell High Energy Synchroton Source

Thesis Title: Sub-Grain Deformation Mechanisms of Structural Materials Exposed through X-ray Microscopy  

 

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Saikiran Gopalakrishnan

Graduated: May 2022

Placement: Engineering USA - Changing Manufacuturing Consultants

Thesis Title: Integration of product lifecycle behavior into component design, manufacturing and performance analysis to realize a digital twin representation through a model-based feature information network  

 

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John Rotella

Graduated: December 2021

Placement: Air Force Research Laboratory

PhD Thesis Title: Preferential microstructural pathways of strain localization within nickel and titanium alloys  

 

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Greg Scofield

Graduated: December 2021

Placement: Rolls-Royce Corporation

PhD Thesis Title: Chemomechanical behavior of a melt-infiltrated SiC-Si composite at 900°C 

 

 

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Ronald Agyei

Graduated: August 2021

Placement: Post-doc at Johns Hopkins University

PhD Thesis Title: Investigating damage in short fiber reinforced composites    

 

 

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Imad Hanhan

Graduated: May 2020

Placement: Post-doc at Purdue University

PhD Thesis Title: Investigating damage in discontinuous fiber composites through coupled with in-situ X-ray tomography experiments and simulations

 

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Veerappan Prithivijan

Graduated: May 2020

Placement: Post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory

PhD Thesis Title: Modeling fatigue behavior of additively manufactured Ni-based super alloys via crystal plasticity    

 

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Ritwik Bandyopadhyay

Graduated: May 2020

Placement: Post-doc at Purdue University

PhD Thesis Title: Ensuring fatigue performance via location-specific lifing in aerospace components made of titanium alloys andnickel-base superalloys 

 

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Kartik Kapoor

Graduated: December 2019

Placement: Intel Corporation

PhD Thesis Title: Experimentally Validated Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Titanium Alloys at Multiple Length-Scales based on Materials Characterization, Accounting for Residual Stresses    

 

 

 

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Andrea Nicolas

Graduated: August 2019

Placement: Post-doc Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

PhD Thesis Title: Effects of the local micromechanics and electrochemistry on the galvanic corrosion of AA7050-T7451  

 

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Diwakar P. Naragani

Graduated: August 2019

Placement: Post-doc Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

PhD Thesis Title: High Energy X-ray Study of Defect Mediated Damage in Bulk Polycrystalline Ni-based Superalloys   

 

 

 

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Dr. Andrea Rovinelli

Graduated: December 2017

Placement: Post-doc Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

PhD Thesis Title: A General Probablistic Framework Combining Experiments and Simulations to Identify the Small Crack Driving Force    

 

 

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LTC Todd Book, PhD

Graduated: July 2016

Placement: Research Group Leader, West Point, US Military Academy

Thesis title: Structural Integrity of Additive Materials: Microstructure, Fatigue Behavior, and Surface Processing

 

 

 

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Saikumar Reddy

Graduated: December 2015

Placement: Post-doc NASA Langley (LaRC)

Thesis: A Microstructure-Based Fatigue Life Prediction Framework and its Validation

 

Masters Graduates

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Taylor Hodes

Graduated: December 2024

Placement: Blue Origin

MS Thesis Title: Understanding Loading Effects and Post-Processing Effects on the Durability of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

  

 

 

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Gaurav Gandhi

Graduated: December 2024

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Fatigue Behavior of LPBF GRCop-42 Specimens with Cooling Channels 

 

 

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Chase Larsen

Graduated: December 2024

Placement: Rolls-Royce Corporation

Non-Thesis Research Topic: Development and Testing of Joined High Temperature Materials for Hypersonic Thermal Protection System  

 

 

 

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Nitilasksh Prasad

Graduated: December 2024

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: The Effect of High Temperature Treatment on the Ablative and Flexural Performance of 2D Carbon-Carbon

 

 

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Patrick Morrison

Graduated: May 2024

MS Thesis Title: Fatigue Modeling of Cold Spray 6061 Aluminum as a Repair Strategy  

 

 

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Drew Priest

Graduated: May 2024

Placement: US Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Developing Methods of Characterizing, Evaluating, & Optimizing Additively Manufactured Metals for High-Temperature Hypersonic Applications  

 

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Liam Ward

Graduated: May 2024

Placement: Leidos Dynetics

MS Thesis Title: A Computational Assessment of the Design and Tolerancing of Joints for Thermal Protection Systems in Hypersonic Vehicles  

 

 

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Sidharth Krishnamoorthi

Graduated: August 2022

MS Thesis Title: Modeling the fatigue response of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V with prior 𝜷 boundaries using crystal plasticity finite element methods

 

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Paul Gardner

Graduated: May 2022

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Assessment of Ti-6Al-4V laser clad repair

 

 

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Joe O'Gara

Graduated: December 2021

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Analysis of Mode I fatigue crack growth in carbon fibre reinforced polymer laminates

 

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Alejandra Ortiz

Graduated: August 2021

Placement: MITO Materials Solutions

MS Thesis Title: Slow crack growth criteria for continuous fiber composite laminates

 

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Samuel Noone

Graduated: December 2019

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Analysis of Laser Clad Repaired Ti-6Al-4V Fatigue Life  

 

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Alexandra Mallory

Graduated: May 2019

Placement: Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

MS Thesis Title: On the development of an open-source preprocessing framework for finite element simulation    

 

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Michael Waddell

Graduated: December 2018

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Investigation of Short Fatigue Crack Growth and Damage Tolerance in Additive Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V  

 

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Priya Ravi

Graduated: December 2017

Placement: Purdue University - Professional Master’s Program

Non-Thesis Research Topic: High Energy X-ray Diffraction applied to closure effects in small crack growth  

 

 

 

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Stephen Carter

Graduated: December 2017

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Measuring Fatigue Crack Deflections via Cracking of Constituent Particles in AA7050-T7451 Rolled Plate via In-Situ X-ray synchrotron Computed Micro-Tomography

 

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Alexander W. Finch

Graduated: December 2017

Placement: Tri-D (start-up co-founder)

MS Thesis Title: Characterization of Porosity Defects in Selectiverly Laser Melted IN718 and Ti-6Al-4V via Synchrotron X-ray Computed Tomography  

 

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Daniel James Chadwick

Graduated: December 2016

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Mechanism of Shot Peening Enhancement for the Fatigue Performance of AA7050-T7451  

 

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Seth Kijewski

Graduated: May 2016

Placement: The Aerospace Corporation

Non-Thesis Research Topic: Characterization of fiber length distributions in composites  

 

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Lena Huynh

Graduated: December 2015

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Fatigue Behavior of Complex Geometries Produced via Additive Manufacturing

 

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Ajey Venkataraman

Graduated: May 2015

Placement: Agronne National Lab

Non-Thesis Research Topic: Grain boundary sliding  

 

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Javier Esquivel

Graduated: December 2014

Placement: Boeing

MS Thesis Title: Digital Image Correlation of Heterogeneous Deformations in Polycrystalline Materials with Electron Backscatter Diffraction  

 

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Dr. Andrea Rovinelli

Graduated: May 2014

Placement: PhD program - Purdue University

MS Thesis Title: Influence of Microstructure Variability on Short Crack Growth Behavior MS Research Performed at Purdue University and degree was granted at University of Bologna, Italy  

 

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Matt Durbin

Graduated: December 2013

Placement: Royal Australian Air Force

MS Thesis Title: Assessing Variability in Microstructural Influence of Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior        

 

 

 

Post-Doctoral Alumni

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Dr. Bhisham Sharma

January - August 2014 

Project: Uncertainty Quantification in the Characterization of Fiber Orientation and Length Distributions of Long Fiber Reinforced Composites January - August 2016

Project: Response Surface and Decision Making based on Machining Simulations

Placement: Faculty member at Wichita State University

 

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Dr. Alberto Mello

July 2014 - August 2018

Project: Heterogeneous deformation through high resolution digital image correlation of: (i) Ni-based superalloys during high temperature fatigue, (ii) corrosion of AA7050, and (iii) Ti-6Al-4V at high R ratio fatigue

Placement: Faculty member at Embry Riddle University  

 

 

 

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Dr. Burak Bal

July 2015 - January 2016

Project: FE-Based Machining Simulations

Placement: Faculty member at Abdullah Gul University  

 

 

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Dr. Leslie Mushongera

October 2017 - July 2018 

Project: Fatigue behavior of additively manufactured materials and phase field modeling of substructure during fatigue loading

Placement: Faculty member at University of Nevada, Reno

 

 

 

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Dr. Quan (Jason) Zhou

July 2019 - July 2020 

Project: Development of high-throughput high-energy X-ray diffraction microscope at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) inside Argonne National Laboratory

Placement: Post-doc at the University of Utah / Hitachi America

 

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Dr. Imad Hanhan

May 2020 - July 2021

Project: Investigating damage in fiber reinforced composites via X-ray tomography

Placement: Pratt & Whitney  

 

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Dr. Ritwik Bandyopadhyay

June 2020 - June 2022

Project: Modeling framework to unify the treatment of Type I, Type II, and Type III residual stresses and high energy X-ray diffraction microscopy characterization

Placement: Faculty member at IIT Dehli      

Visiting Scholars Alumni

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Dr. Kun Wang

Visited: Dec. 2013 - Nov. 2014

Affiliation: School of Energy and Power Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST)

 

 


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Dr. Lijie Chen

Visited: Nov. 2012 - Oct. 2013

Affiliation: Department of Astronautics in Xiamen University   

 

 

 

Undergraduate Alumni

Allie Renshaw's photo

Allie Renshaw

Summer 2025

 

 

Horn's photo

Ryan Horn

Fall 2022 to Spring 2023

 

 

Hagner's photo

Samuel Hagner

Spring 2023    

 

 

Solano's photo

Javi Solano

Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021 

 

 

 

Pilipchuk's photo

Michael Pilipchuk

Summer 2021 - May 2022 

   

  

 
Pardo's photo

Michael Pardo

Summer 2021  

 

 

Chokshi's photo

Aman Chokshi

Spring 2021  

 

 

Kawakami's photoRyoma Kawakami

Summer 2020   

 

 

Molnar's photo

Aidan Molnar

August 2019 to February 2020  

 

 

 

Miller's photo

Nolan Miller

Summer 2019 

 

 

Roth's photo

Rachel Roth

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 and Fall 2019 

 

 

Bergeson's photo

Jennifer Bergeson

Spring 2023   

 

 

Hermes' photo

Hayden Hermes

Spring 2023   

 

 

 

Seranno's photo

Kenneth Seranno

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 and Fall 2019    

 

 

Chen's photo

Brian Chen

Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018  

 

 

 Reinhold's photo

Michael Reinhold

Summer 2017 - Spring 2018 

 

 

Delmontagne's photo

Rachel Delmontagne

Summer 2017  

 

 

 

Soni's photo

Amit K. Soni

Fall 2014 & Fall 2015 through Summer 2016

Graduated: Aug 2016 w/ honors 

Honors Thesis: Exp. Load Frame Redesign for In Situ HEDM 

 

Mallory's photo

Alexandra Mallory

Summer 2016

 

McCrorie's photo

Stuart B. McCrorie

Summer 2016  

 

 

Otto's photo

Samuel Otto

Summer 2016  

 

 

Woods' photo

Hannah Woods

Summer 2015   

 

 

 

Parada's photo

Catalina Parada

Summer 2015

 

 

Sullivan's photo

Connor Sullivan

Summer 2014 through Spring 2015

 

 

Parada's photo

German Parada

Summer 2013

 

Vuong's photo

Kevin Vuong

Summer 2013 and Spring 2014    

 

 

Puccio's photo

Brandon Puccio

Spring 2013 and Spring 2014  

 

 

 

Fala's photo

Nicoletta Fala

Summer 2012     

 

 

Openings

There are openings in the lab for motivated and hard-working individuals who are interested in a combination of materials science, solid mechanics, and manufacturing. Interested individuals should provide their CV and a statement indicating their areas of interest to Dr. Sangid (msangid@purdue.edu)