Alumni
PhD Graduates
Brandon Mackey
Graduated: May 2024
Placement: Pratt & Whitney
PhD Thesis Title: High Temperature Process to Structure to Performance Material Modeling
John Ferguson
Graduated: December 2023
Placement: US Air Force
PhD Thesis Title: Residual Stress and Microstructural Evolution of Composites and Coatings for Extreme Environments
Glenn R. Peterson
Graduated: August 2023
Placement: US Air Force
PhD Thesis Title: Novel Ultra-High Temperature Material Processing, Characterization, and Modeling
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
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
John Rotella
Graduated: December 2021
Placement: Air Force Research Laboratory
PhD Thesis Title: Preferential microstructural pathways of strain localization within nickel and titanium alloys
Greg Scofield
Graduated: December 2021
Placement: Rolls-Royce Corporation
PhD Thesis Title: Chemomechanical behavior of a melt-infiltrated SiC-Si composite at 900°C
Ronald Agyei
Graduated: August 2021
Placement: Post-doc at Johns Hopkins University
PhD Thesis Title: Investigating damage in short fiber reinforced composites
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saikumar Reddy
Graduated: December 2015
Placement: Post-doc NASA Langley (LaRC)
Thesis: A Microstructure-Based Fatigue Life Prediction Framework and its Validation
Masters Graduates
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
Gaurav Gandhi
Graduated: December 2024
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
MS Thesis Title: Fatigue Behavior of LPBF GRCop-42 Specimens with Cooling Channels
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
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
Patrick Morrison
Graduated: May 2024
MS Thesis Title: Fatigue Modeling of Cold Spray 6061 Aluminum as a Repair Strategy
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
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
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
Paul Gardner
Graduated: May 2022
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
MS Thesis Title: Assessment of Ti-6Al-4V laser clad repair
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
Alejandra Ortiz
Graduated: August 2021
Placement: MITO Materials Solutions
MS Thesis Title: Slow crack growth criteria for continuous fiber composite laminates
Samuel Noone
Graduated: December 2019
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
MS Thesis Title: Analysis of Laser Clad Repaired Ti-6Al-4V Fatigue Life
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
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
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
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
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
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
Seth Kijewski
Graduated: May 2016
Placement: The Aerospace Corporation
Non-Thesis Research Topic: Characterization of fiber length distributions in composites
Lena Huynh
Graduated: December 2015
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
MS Thesis Title: Fatigue Behavior of Complex Geometries Produced via Additive Manufacturing
Ajey Venkataraman
Graduated: May 2015
Placement: Agronne National Lab
Non-Thesis Research Topic: Grain boundary sliding
Javier Esquivel
Graduated: December 2014
Placement: Boeing
MS Thesis Title: Digital Image Correlation of Heterogeneous Deformations in Polycrystalline Materials with Electron Backscatter Diffraction
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
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
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
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
Dr. Burak Bal
July 2015 - January 2016
Project: FE-Based Machining Simulations
Placement: Faculty member at Abdullah Gul University
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
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
Dr. Imad Hanhan
May 2020 - July 2021
Project: Investigating damage in fiber reinforced composites via X-ray tomography
Placement: Pratt & Whitney
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
Dr. Kun Wang
Visited: Dec. 2013 - Nov. 2014
Affiliation: School of Energy and Power Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST)
Dr. Lijie Chen
Visited: Nov. 2012 - Oct. 2013
Affiliation: Department of Astronautics in Xiamen University
Undergraduate Alumni
Allie Renshaw
Summer 2025
Ryan Horn
Fall 2022 to Spring 2023
Samuel Hagner
Spring 2023
Javi Solano
Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021
Michael Pilipchuk
Summer 2021 - May 2022
Michael Pardo
Summer 2021
Aman Chokshi
Spring 2021
Ryoma Kawakami
Summer 2020
Aidan Molnar
August 2019 to February 2020
Nolan Miller
Summer 2019
Rachel Roth
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 and Fall 2019
Jennifer Bergeson
Spring 2023
Hayden Hermes
Spring 2023
Kenneth Seranno
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 and Fall 2019
Brian Chen
Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018
Michael Reinhold
Summer 2017 - Spring 2018
Rachel Delmontagne
Summer 2017
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
Alexandra Mallory
Summer 2016
Stuart B. McCrorie
Summer 2016
Samuel Otto
Summer 2016
Hannah Woods
Summer 2015
Catalina Parada
Summer 2015
Connor Sullivan
Summer 2014 through Spring 2015
German Parada
Summer 2013
Kevin Vuong
Summer 2013 and Spring 2014
Brandon Puccio
Spring 2013 and Spring 2014
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)