CTRC Staff

CTRC Research

Research Center Staff

CENTER DIRECTOR	ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR	CONSORTIUM ADMINISTRATOR
Dr. Suresh V. Garimella Biography	Dr. Justin A. Weibel	Dr. Deanne Kemeny

PhD Students Go To Top
Taylor Allred	Kalind Baraya	Aaditya Candadai	Julian Castillo	Aditya Chandramohan
Matt Clark	David Cuadrado	Jin Cui	Kevin Drummond	John Holaday
Harshad Inamdar	Aakriti Jain	Hyungyung Jo	Helen Lai	Xiangyu Li
Huanyu Liao	Sara Lyons	Todd Kingston	Collier Miers	Carolina Mira
Serdar Ozguc	Gaurav Patankar	Rishav Roy	Karen Nielson Son	Srivathsan Sudhakar
Mike Toomey	Pavan Kumar Vaitheeswaran

MS Students Go To Top
Sukshitha Achar	Ivel Collins	Prachi Kale	Prahlad Kulkarni

Undergraduates Go To Top
	Prathik Kaundinya

Visiting Scholars and Post-Doctoral Researchers Go To Top
Monojit Chakraborty	Han Hu	Ankur Miglani	Martina Tomelleri

Alumni in Faculty Positions Go To Top

Dr. Tailian Chen Gonzaga University	Dr. Fabien Volle University of Paris	Dr. Mark Kimber PhD, 2007 Texas A&M University	Dr. David Go PhD, 2007 University of Notre Dame	Dr. Stefan Bertsch PhD, 2007 NTB Interstaatliche Hochschule fur Technik Buchs, Switzerland	Dr. Poh-Seng Lee PhD, 2007 National University of Singapore	Dr. Suwat Trutassanawin PhD, 2006 Mahidol University, Thailand
Dr. Dong Liu PhD, 2006 University of Houston	Dr. Lorenzo Cremaschi 2004-2006 Oklahoma State University	Dr. Hao Wang 2004-2006 Peking Universit, Beijingy	Dr. Amaresh Dalal 2008-2009 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Dr. Zhen Yang 2008-2010 Tsinghua University	Dr. Tim Persoons 2009-2011 Trinity College Dublin	Dr. Brian Iverson PhD 2008 Brigham Young University
Dr. Justin Weibel PhD 2012 Purdue University	Dr. Vaibhav Bahadur PhD 2008 University of Texas at Austin	Pierre Valiorgue Universite Claude Bernard 2013	Shankar Krishnan PhD 2006 IIT Bombay	Craig Bradshaw PhD 2012 Oklahoma State University	Zhenhai Pan 2012-2016 Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Dr. Matt Rau PhD 2016 Penn State
Dr. Xuemei Chen 2013-2017 Nanjing University	Dr. Tae Young Kim 2010-2012 Chonbuk National University	Dr. Susmita Dash PhD 2014 Indian Institute of Science

Past Graduate Students, Post Doctoral Researchers, and Visiting Scholars
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Suneethi Gudapati MS 1993	James McNulty MS 1994	Boris Nenaydykh 1994	Roy Rice MS 1995	Garron Morris MS 1996 Rockwell Automation	Janice Fitzgerald MS 1997 AO Smith	Vince Schroeder MS 1997
Lei Z. Schlitz PhD 1998 ITW Technology Center	Hani El-Sheikh MS 1999 BD Biosciences	Luis Brignoni MS 1999	William Mohs MS 1999 Ingersoll-Rand	C. V. Madhusudana 2000 University of New South Wales, Australia	C.B. Sobhan 2000 Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India	Bechir Moussa PhD 2000 GE Aviation
Danielle Daniels (Wade) 2009 University of Rochester	James Simpson PhD 2000 GE	Philipp Buermann 2001 German Aerospace Center	Moogeun Kim 2002 Inje University, South Korea	Chin Yuan Li PhD 2002 Inventec	Paul Litke MS 2002 Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratories	Rebecca Fields MS 2002 Dupont
Madhusudan Iyengar 2003 Facebook	Sudipta Basak MS 2003	Anthony F. Black MS 2003 Black & Veatch	Sung Jin Kim 2004 Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea	Kyu Hyung Do 2004 Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea	Dawei Sun 2004 Saint-Gobain Northboro Research Development Center	Dan J. Schlitz PhD 2004 Thorrn Microtech
Unni Vadakkan PhD 2004 Intel	Sydney Wait MS 2004 American University, Sharjah	M.S. Peterson MS 2004 Concepts and Designs Inc.	Jared Harvest MS 2004 Fluent/Ansys	Vishal Singhal PhD 2005 Thorrn Microtech	Tyler Westover PhD 2005	Christine Merrill MS 2005
Avionne Northcutt MS 2005 Sandia National Laboratories	Vince Badagnani MS 2005 Boeing	Wei Zhang PhD 2006 Schlumberger	Shankar Krishnan PhD 2006 Intel	Jun Xu PhD 2006 Honeywell	Tine Stevens 2007 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Moeketsi Mpholo 2007 University of Lesotho
Placidus Amama 2007 Air Force Research Lab	Tolga Acikalin PhD 2007 Intel	Pramod Chamarthy PhD 2007 General Electric	Sasanka Kanuparthi PhD 2007 Amkor	Himanshu Mishra MS 2007 California Tech	Enrico Da Riva 2008 Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland	Abhijit Sathe PhD 2008 Parker Hannifin
Sriharsha Aradhya MS 2008 Columbia University	Glen Powell MS 2009	Thomas Key 2009 Air Force Research Lab	Tom Saenen 2009 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Cord Tomforde 2009 University of Kassel, Germany	Anu Bulusu 2009	Gouping Xiong PhD 2009
Brad Holcomb MS 2009 Gamma Technologies Inc	Simranjit Khalsa MS 2010 Intel	Xuelei Nie 2010 Chinese Academy of Sciences	Joan Mas Centre Tecnologic de Transferencia de Calor, Spain	Hemanth Dhavaleswarapu PhD 2010 Intel	Tannaz Harirchian PhD 2010 Intel	Niru Kumari PhD 2010 Hewlett-Packard
Ben Jones PhD 2010 imec, Belgium	Zhen Huang PhD 2010 IBM	Yoon-Shik Shin PhD 2010 Robert Bosch LLC	Yuefeng Wang PhD 2010	Nikhil Bajaj MS 2010 Purdue Unviersity	Robert Leffler MS 2011 UT Carrier Corp.	Berhane Gebreslassie 2011 Northwestern University
Ravi Annapragada PhD 2011 UTRC	John McHale PhD 2011 The Aerospace Corporation	Ram Ranjan PhD 2011 UTRC	Hung-Yun Lin PhD 2011	Jiuning Hu PhD 2011	Don West MS 2012 Intel	Tae Young Kim 2012 Korean Institute of Machinery & Materials
Oisin Lyons 2012 Trinity College Dublin	Fangjun Hong 2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Peng Guan 2012 Tsinghua University	Sidharth Paranjape 2012 Paul Sherrer Institute	Sri-Chaitra Chavali PhD 2012	Leyuan Yu PhD 2012 Intec SEA	Jeremy Schroeder PhD 2012 LinkÖping University
Chris Migliaccio PhD 2012 Army Research Lab	Craig Bradshaw PhD 2012 Torad Engineering	Abhinav Krishna MS 2012	Jason Steill MS 2012 Advanced Green Innovations, LLC	Adrienne Little PhD 2013	Andrea Diani University of Padua	Jochen Dietl Technical University of Darmstadt
Orkan Kurtulus 2013	Andres Heldstab NTB Buchs, Switzerland 2013	Simone Mancin 2013 University of Padua	Liangliang Chen 2013	Karthik Bodla PhD 2013 GE	Scott Flueckiger PhD 2013 The Aerospace Corporation	Yuvraj Singh 2013
Kelly Rickey 2014	Hsien-Chin Su 2014 National Taiwan University	Yuezhong Feng 2014	Mercy Dicuangco MS 2014	Yashwanth Yadavalli MS 2014	Susmita Dash PhD 2014 MIT	Dongseob Kim 2014
Niki Ritchey PhD 2015	Vellaisamy Kumaresan 2015	Yonghua Huang 2015	Ninad Trifale 2014	Wonjun Park	Supriya Dhakar 2015	Rich Simmons 2015
Steve Taylor 2015	Matt Rau 2016	Zhenhai Pan 2016	Ryan Wasielewski	Suchismita Sarangi 2016	Tijs Van Oevelen 2016	Sajad Alimohammadi 2016
Yash Ganatra 2016	Quentin Pelletier 2017	Alex Bruce 2017	Chun-Pei Chen 2017

Past Undergraduate Students Go To Top

Jim

Oehmcke

1995

Katy Schuchardt

1996

Erik

Olsen
2000

Dan
Taylor

2000

Gbenga Showole

2000

Ken

Leer

2002

Renee Wenstrup
2003

GE

Girum

Berhane
2003

Indra Tjahjono
2003

Maria

Burnett

2003

Vishnu
Dwadasi

2004

Himani
Shah

2006

Carlos Kemeny
2006

Carnegie Mellon

Lizmar Principe

2007

A. J. Mastropietro
NASA
Josh

Christian

2008

Adithya
Bhat

2008

Jon
Shelton

2008

Ronan
Lonergan

2008

Raul
Maturana

2008

Bryson
Sullivan

2008

Sonal

Vaid

Sai
Chodavarapu

2008

Abhijeet
Patel

2010

Marie
Alt

2011

Nick
Czapla

2012

Nadim
Chakroun

2012

Karl
Tucker

2012

Abilasha
Nandakumar

2013

Nico
Weigand

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2013

Vagner
Velho

2013

Ankita
Deshmukh

IIT Bombay

2013

S.G.
Krishnan

IIT Hyderabad

2013

Letian
Wang
Tsinghua University

2013
Nitesh
Bajaj

Michael
Frank
Srivathsan
Sudhakar
Chris
Robinson
Ruixuan
Ren

Sarah
Boes

Ashish
Daga
Michael
Woodworth

Vivek
Sree
Yu
Han
Gonzalo
Cacho

Soumya
Bandyopadhyay
Rajakumar
Ganne
Chaithanya
Kondur
Javieradrian
Ruiz

Andrey
Moskalenko
Nicholas
Vu
USNA
Nick
Stovall-Kurtz USNA

►Karen Son worked as a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow. See the publication here.

►Pavan Vaitheeswaran was awarded Best Paper at 2017 InterPACK

►David Gonzalez was awarded Outstanding Paper at 2017 InterPACK

►Karen Son was awarded 1st Place for 2017 ICES Student Poster Competition

►Srivathsan Sudhakar was awarded Best Student Poster Award at ITherm in Thermal Management 1: Component Level.

►Gaurav Patankar was awarded Best Student Poster Award at ITherm in Thermal Management 2: System Level.

►Todd A. Kingston was awarded Outstanding Student Poster Award at ITherm in Emerging Technologies & Fundamentals.

►David Cuadrado is in the spotlight for Purdue's Graduate School. Click here for his interview.

►Congratulations to Kevin Drummond for 2017 Best Student Paper at SEMI-Therm (P.K. Mulay Memorial Scholarship) and Best Student Paper in the are of Two-Phase Thermal Management Technology and/or Applications.

►Congratulations to Suresh Garimella for 2016 ITHERM Achievement Award.

►Congratulations to Kevin Drummond for Best Paper Award in Emerging Technologies Track for ITHERM 2016.

Student Awards

CTRC Poster Awards

October 2017 : Sponsored by Intel
1st	Gaurav Patankar
2nd	Monojit Chakraborty
3rd	Xiangyu Li
May 2017 : Sponsored by Intel
1st	Gaurav Patankar
2nd	Todd Kingston
3rd	Jin Cui
November 2016 : Sponsored by Huawei
1st	Kevin Drummond
2nd	Tijs Van Oevelen
3rd	Aditya Chandramohan
May 2016 : Sponsored by Huawei
1st	Kevin Drummond
2nd	John Holiday
3rd	Todd Kingston
November 2015 : Sponsored by Raytheon
1st	Xuemei Chen
1st	Rich Simmons
3rd	Matt Rau
May 2015 : Sponsored by Raytheon
1st	Yash Ganatra
1st	Todd Kingston and Kevin Drummond
3rd	Suchismita Sarangi
November 2014 : Sponsored by Laird
1st	Steve Taylor
2nd	Alex Bruce and Holly Avins
3rd	Aditya Chandramohan
May 2014 : Sponsored by Laird
1st	Dongseob Kim
2nd	Alex Bruce
3rd	Steve Taylor
November 2013: Sponsored by IBM
1st	Matt Rau
2nd	Julian Castillo
3rd	Susmita Dash, Aditya Chandramohan
May 2013: Sponsored by IBM
1st	Matt Rau
2nd	Scott Flueckiger
3rd	Niki Ritchey
October 2012: Sponsored by Denso International
1st	Niki Ritchey
2nd	Scott Flueckiger
3rd	Yuvraj Singh/Ruxiao An
May 2012: Sponsored by Denso International
1st	Suchismita Sarangi
2nd	Ravi Patel/Niki Ritchey
3rd	Steve Taylor/Sidharth Paranjape
November 2011: Sponsored by Toyota
1st	Abhinav Krishna
2nd	Tae Young Kim
3rd	Susmita Dash/Mercy Dicuangco
May 2011: Sponsored by Toyota
1st	Abhinav Krishna
2nd	Sidharth Paranjape/Niki Ritchey
3rd	Susmita Dash/Ravi Annapragada
November 2010: Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories
1st	John McHale/Suchismita Sarangi
2nd	Ravi Patel/Tannaz Harirchian
3rd	Ram Ranjan
May 2010: Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories
1st	Ravi Annapragada/Susmita Dash
2nd	Tannaz Harirchian/Sidharth Paranjape/Niki Ritchey
3rd	Tannaz Harirchian
November 2009: Sponsored by Rockwell Collins
1st	Ben Jones
2nd	Tannaz Harirchian/Sidharth Paranjape/Niki Ritchey
3rd	Nikhil Bajaj
May 2009: Sponsored by Rockwell Collins
1st	Adrienne Little
2nd	Tannaz Harirchian
3rd	Brian Iverson, Niru Kumari and Ravi Annapragada
October 2008: Sponsored by Intel
1st	Niru Kumari/Ravi Annapragada
2nd	Tannaz Harirchian
3rd	John McHale/Ben Jones
May 2008: Sponsored by Intel
1st	Craig Bradshaw
2nd	Tannaz Harirchian
3rd	John McHale, Ben Jones and Osman El-Atwani
November 2007: Sponsored by Honeywell
1st	David Go
2nd	Niru Kumari
3rd	Himanshu Mishra
May 2007: Sponsored by Honeywell
1st	Hao Wang and Hemanth Dhavaleswarapu
2nd	Tannaz Harirchian
3rd	Stefan Bertsch
November 2006: Sponsored by Eaton
1st	Hao Wang and Hemanth Dhavaleswarapu
2nd	Mark Kimber
3rd	Poh-Seng Lee
May 2006: Sponsored by Eaton
1st	Brian Iverson
2nd	David Go
3rd	Tailian Chen
November 2005: Sponsored by Delphi
1st	Brian Iverson
2nd	Poh-Seng Lee and Dong Liu
3rd	Christine Merrill
May 2005: Sponsored by Delphi
1st	Poh-Seng Lee and Dong Liu
2nd	Shankar Krishnan
3rd	Suwat Trutassanawin
Nov 2004: Sponsored by Apple
1st	Poh-Seng Lee and Dong Liu
2nd	Hao Wang
3rd	Brian Iverson
June 2004: Sponsored by Apple
1st	Sydney Wait
2nd	Poh-Seng Lee and Dong Liu
3rd	Vaibhav Bahadur and Dan Schlitz
November 2003: Sponsored by Aavid
1st	Suwat Trutassanawin
2nd	Sydney Wait
3rd	Tolga Acikalin
June 2003: Sponsored by Aavid
1st	Jun Xu
2nd	Tony Black and Sydney Wait