Our People

Principal Investigator

Anter El-Azab
Professor Of Materials Engineering
aelazab@purdue.edu

Graduate Students

Khaled Abdelaziz
Graduate Research Assistant
kabdelaz@purdue.edu
continuum dislocation dynamics
Ahmad Ahmad
Graduate Research Assistant
ahmad68@purdue.edu
Thin films growth
Rayaprolu Goutham Sreekar Annadanam
Post Doctoral Research Associate
arayapro@purdue.edu
microstructure evolution and voids growth
Ying-Cheng Chen
Graduate Research Assistant
chen5305@purdue.edu
Thin films growth
Ethan Francoeur
Graduate Research Assistant
Thermal conductivity research
Shiwei Fu
Graduate Research Assistant
fu435@purdue.edu
Recrystalization phenomena in metals
Manikandan Muruganandam
Graduate Research Assistant
Discrete dislocation dynamics

Alumni

Karim Ahmed
Assistant professor in Nuclear engineering at Texas A&M
Joseph Anderson
jpanderson@purdue.edu
FLEX 3041
Visiting assistant professor of physics at Carthage college
Walter Deskins
wdeskins@purdue.edu
Simulation engineer at Northrop Grumman
Sanjoy Mazumder
mazumder@purdue.edu
Currently working as a postdoc at Idaho National lab
Yash Pachaury
ypachaur@purdue.edu
Currently working as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab
Maniesha Kaur Salaken Singh
msalaken@purdue.edu
Kyle Starkey
Contract Researcher at Materials Design, Inc
starkeyk@purdue.edu
Vignesh Vivekanandan
vvivekan@purdue.edu
Postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab

Postdocs

Riccardo Civiero
Post Doc Research Assistant
rciviero@purdue.edu
Riccardo joined our group in 2024, and will be working on mesoscale plasticity
Peng Lin
Associate Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China
lin936@purdue.edu
Jie Peng
peng276@purdue.edu
currently working as a Post Doc at Villenova University in the school of mechanical engineering