Research Center Staff

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
Alex Bruce	Aditya Chandramohan	Susmita Dash	Kevin Drummond	John Holaday
Harshad Inamdar	Aakriti Jain	Todd Kingston	Carolina Mira	Karen Nielson
Wonjun Park	Ravi Patel	Matt Rau	Kelly Rickey	Niki Ritchey
Suchismita Sarangi	Richard Simmons	Steve Taylor	Yashwanth Yadavalli

MS Students Go To Top
Julian Castillo	Mercy Dicuangco	Gaurav Patankar	Ninad Trifale
Supriya Dhakar

Undergraduates Go To Top
Nitesh Bajaj	Michael Frank	Chris Robinson

Visiting Scholars and Post-Doctoral Researchers Go To Top
Xuemei Chen	Yuezhong Feng	Dongseob Kim	Zhenhai Pan
Hsien-Chin Su

Alumni in Faculty Positions Go To Top

Dr. Tailian
Chen
Gonzaga University

Dr. Fabien
Volle
University of Paris

Dr. Mark
Kimber
PhD, 2007
University of Pittsburg

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

Beijing University

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

Université Claude Bernard

2013

Past Graduate Students, Post Doctoral Researchers, and Visiting Scholars
Go To Top

Suneethi Gudapati

MS 1993

James

McNulty

MS 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

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

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

Vince Badagnani
MS 2005
Boeing

Avionne Northcutt
MS 2005
Sandia National Laboratories

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

Danielle Daniels (Wade)

2009
University of Rochester

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
IMECE, 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

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

2013

Scott
Flueckiger

PhD 2013
The Aerospace Corporation

Yuvraj
Singh

2013

Past Undergraduate Students Go To Top

Boris Nenaydykh

1994

Jim

Oehmcke

1995

Katy Schuchardt

1996

Erik

Olsen
2000

Dan
Taylor

2000

Gbenga Showole

2000

Ken

Leer

2002

Renee Wenstrup
2003

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

►Congratulations to Niki Ritchey for Purdue University Graduate School's Excellence in Teaching Award. Purdue's highest award recognizing grad student teachers.

►Congratulations to Matt Rau for the Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching.

►Congratulations to Alex Bruce for the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship.

►Congratulations to Dr. Hsien-Chin Su for coming in third place in the 2014 Burton D. Morgan Business Plan competition as the team leader of EcoBreeze.

►Outstanding Paper Award in Thermal for “Effects of non-uniform heating on two-phase flow through microchannels,” by SN Ritchey, JA Weibel, and SV Garimella, at the ASME International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packing and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), Burlingame, CA, July 16-18, 2013.

Student Awards

CTRC Poster Awards

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