PEOPLE

Former Members of Purdue Manufacturing Laboratories

Graduate Thesis Students

Yu-to Chen (M.S. 1990) Flexport
Stuart M. Revness (M.S. 1991) General Electric
Jeff Barthel (M.S. 1992) Toyota Motor Manufacturing (Senior Manager)
Chong H. Chen (Ph.D. 1993) Ford Motor Company
Reggie D. Hayes (M.S. 1993)
Sunil Elanayar V.T. (Ph.D. 1993) CaiCE Corporation
Scott A. Coker (M.S. 1994) NTN-Bower
Prashant Vishnupad (M.S. 1994) Latent View Analytics (Global Business Head)
J. William Novak (M.S. 1994) Tropenas Company
Carl E. Leshock (M.S. 1995) Barclays (Vice President)
Sung J. Oh (Ph.D. 1995) Sensortex Incorporated
Andrew J. Waters (M.S. 1995) AM Consulting Group, Inc.
Stephen J. Rober (M.S. 1990; Ph.D. 1995) Stellantis North America (Global Senior Vice President)
Timothy J. Rowell (M.S. 1995) 3M
Madhavi Deshpande (M.S. 1996) Zimmer Spine
Bert R. Jorgensen (Ph.D. 1996) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven A. Jensen (M.S. 1997) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jay C. Rozzi (Ph.D. 1998) Creare (Vice President)
Songhua Hu (M.S. 1998) InstallShield Software Corporation
David M. Shamine (M.S. 1998) General Dynamics (engineering manager)
Shuting Lei (Ph.D. 1999) Kansas State University (Carl R. and Mary T. Ice professor)
You H. Kim (M.S. 1999) Cummins Engine Company
Tom Nguyen (Ph.D. 2000)
Cheol W. Lee (Ph.D., 2000) University of Michigan at Dearborn (professor)
Patrick A. Rebro (M.S.) 2001 Applied Materials
Bason E. Clancy (M.S., 2001) Biodesy, Inc.
Balkrishna Rao (Ph.D., 2002) Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (professor)
Frank Pfefferkorn (M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2002) University of Wisconsin-Madison (professor)
Ignas Dwiardi (M.S. 2003) Indonesia
Rahul Patwa (M.S. 2004) Vision Solutions
Samuel Truesdale (M.S. 2004) Meta Reality Labs
Mark Anderson (M.S. 2005) Schlumberger
Stephen Skvarenina (M.S. 2005) M-I SWACO Product Group
Jeremy Hahn (M.S., 2006) FAA DER
Harsha Pahkal (M.S. 2006) Schlumberger
Hongqi Li (M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2006) Smith
Yinggang Tian (Ph.D. 2006) Saint-Gobain
Chengying "Cheryl" Xu (Ph.D. 2006) North Carolina State University (professor)
Ritesh Lakhkar (M.S. 2006) Google
Benxin Wu (Ph.D. 2007) Purdue University (professor)
Phil Stevenson (M.S. 2008) Schlumberger
Jonathan Shelton (M.S. 2008) Sandia National Laboratory
Niranjan Subrahmanya (Ph.D. 2009) Exxon Mobile
Chinmaya Dandekar (Ph.D. 2010) Eaton Corp.
Tyler A. Davis (Ph.D. 2011) Collins Aerospace
Wenqian Hu (Ph.D. 2011) Cummins Engine Company
Pratik Halani (M.S. 2011) Schlumberger
Hongtao Ding (Ph.D. 2012) Univ. of Iowa (professor)
Shaoyi Wen (Ph.D. 2012) Hewlett-Packard
J. Michael Wilson (M.S. 2012) Ascent Aerospace
Kevin Schoeffel (M.S. 2012) Aerospace Dynamics International
Gary Hedberg (M.S. 2013) Cenit North America
Xiaoyang Ye (M.S., 2014) CGG, US Imaging
Masiyang Luo (M.S. 2014) ZF Group
Xin Jin (M.S. 2014) Univ. of Maryland
Jason Wou (Ph.D. 2014) Ford Motor Company
Wenda Tan (Ph.D. 2014) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (associate professor)
Xin Zhao (Ph.D. 2014) Clemson University (associate professor)
Yunfeng Cao (Ph.D. 2015) Ford Motor Company
Phuong Ngo (Ph.D. 2016) the University of Tromso, Norway
Rapeepan Prompyo (Ph.D. 2016) IUPUI
Xingye Guo (Ph.D. 2016) Beijing University of Technology (assistant professor)
Shashank Sarbada (M.S. 2016) Apple (engineering program manager)
Abhishek Ajri (M.S. 2017) Glidewell Laboratories
Xiangyang Dong (Ph.D. 2017) Arizona State University (associate professor)
Pooja Shah (M.S. 2017) Apple
Yash Pachaury (M.S. 2018) Purdue University
Gaurav Inamke (M.S. 2019) Bruker
Mohamed Gomaa Elkhateeb (Ph.D. 2020) Mansoura University (assistant professor)
Neil Bailey (Ph.D. 2020) Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Stellantis
Nitin Rohatgi (M.S. 2020) ASML
Shunyu Liu (Ph.D. 2020) Clemson University (assistant professor)
Christopher Katinas (Ph.D. 2021) Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Bin Zhang (Ph.D. 2021) Baidu, China
Jeongwoo Lee (Ph.D., 2022) Trumpf
Corbin Grohol (Ph.D., 2024) Oerlikon AM
Akanksha Parmar (Ph.D., 2024) Idaho National Lab

Undergraduate Research Students

Paul Morel (Fall 1992)
Jon Zamber (Fall 1992)
Chris Uhlmansiek (Fall 1992)
Mauro Montrucchio (Fall 1992)
Brian Hood (Spring 1993)
Derek Warriner (Fall 1993)
Diane Dick (Fall 1993)
Tae W. Kim (Fall 1993)
Kurt E. Ashbaugh (Fall 1993)
John W. Pettengill (Fall 1994)
Darin Heesch (Fall 1995)
King W. Luk (Fall 1995)
Eric Chung (1997)
Ignas Dwiardi (1998)
Bansri Gandhi (Fall 2000)
Tyler Beck (Summer 2001 - Spring 2002)
Steve Hollander (Summer 2002)
Manpreet Singh (Spring and Fall 2002)
Michael Niemeyer (Summer 2003)
Bryce Welch (Summer 2003 - Summer 2004)
Adrian Lim (Summer-Fall 2004)
David Kessler (Spring 2005)
Mark Alexander (Fall 2005)
Matt Hockemeyer (Summer 2006)
Vincent Tandiono (Summer 2007)
Ricardo Ardila (Summer 2007)
Alex Krzywda (Summer 2008)
Nolan Jones (Spring 2009)
Alberto Macias (Summer 2009)
Jin Li (fall 2010)
Kewen Han (fall 2011)
Yu Cui (fall 2011)
Yinan Tian (summer 2012)
Kevin Vuong (fall 2014)
Rui Shen (spring 2015)
Alysson Boim (summer 2015)
Seung Joon Jay Kim (fall 2015)
SiJie Zhang (spring, summer 2016)
Chinmay Devmalya (spring 2016)
William Blakeslee (summer 2016)
Xianfeng Lu (spring 2017)
Gnyanesh Gandhe (spring 2017)
Xinye Gao (spring 2017)
Stephanie Andress (fall 2018)
Kaan Ardic (fall 2018, spring 2019)
Kameron Joseph Overley (spring and fall 2019)
Wentao Shi (fall 2019)
Angel Rajpal (summer 2020)
Ian Pitman (summer 2020)
Ugochukwu (Ugo) Asoluka (summer 2020)
Chutipol Thamaratnothai (Boss) (summer 2020)
Gabriella Giachini (fall 2020)
Shayan Boghani (summer, fall 2020)
Collin Feustel (summer 2020-spring 2021)
Michael Porro (summer 2020, spring 2021)
Michael Spivak (fall 2021- spring 2022)
Justin Tam (fall 2021)
Rohit Surya Kumar (fall 2021-spring 2022)
Aric Peine (spring 2022)
Everest Snyder (spring 2022)
Le Thanh Son (spring 2022)
Shreyas Khot (fall, 2022-spring 2023)
Jin Ayishe (fall, 2022)
Ethan Walker (fall, 2022)
Gregory Oldiges (fall, 2022)
James Miller (fall, 2022)
Ethan Kabatchnik (spring, 2023)
Cooper William (summer, 2023, fall 2023)
Min Thaw Ko (summer, 2023, fall 2023)
Cody Fuh (fall, 2023)
Ozan Altuntas (fall, 2023, spring 2024)
Eshaana Aurora (fall, 2023)
Tomas Montoya (fall, 2023)
Jack Ferlazzo (spring, 2024)
Jenna John (spring, 2024)
Phillip Goldberg (spring, 2024)
Joseph Latta (summer, 2024)
Ian Buerge (fall, 2024)
Caroline Curtis (fall, 2024)
Madelyn Strombom (fall, 2024)

Post Docs

C.H. Chen 1992-1993, (Ford Motor Company)
Sunil Elanayar V.T. 1993-1994 (CaiCE Corporation)
Cunhe Zhang 1999-2001 (Associate Professor, Tianjin University, PRC)
Shiva Gadag 2005 (Postdoc)
Suhash Ghosh 2006 (Postdoc)
Chengying Xu, 2006-2007 (Professor, North Carolina State University)

Visiting Scholars

Jin-Nam Kim 1993-1994 (Professor, Samcheok National University, Korea)
Jeong Suk Kim 1994 (Professor, Pusan National University, Korea)
Yue Jin Ren 1994-1995 (China)
Seong K. Kim 1994-1995 (Professor, Korea)
Seong-Wook Hong 1997-1998 (Professor, Kumho University, Korea)
Patricio Franco 1999 (Assistant Professor, Cartagena Polytechnic University, Spain)
Jinman Han 2000-2001 (Associate Professor, Jinan University, China)
Jin-young Kim 2002-2003 (Professor, Korea)
Taejoon Um 2004 (Professor, Korea)
Alessandro Fortunato, 2009 (Professor, University of Bologna, Italy)
Suryakumar Simhambhatla, 2012 (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Yinchen Ma, 2011-2012 (Donghua university/mechanical engineering, China)
Jie Meng, 2013-2014 (Associate Professor, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, China)
Lanrong Cai, 2014-2015 (Associate Professor, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, China)
Ali Osman, 2014-2015 (Turkey)
Shaopeng Wei, 2016 (Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China)
Weicheng Guo, 2015-2017 (Ph.D., Donghua University, China)
Yuewei Ai, 2016-2017 (Ph.D., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Vinod Parmar, 2017-2018 (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Luca Pellon, 2017-2018 (M.S., University of Bologna, Italy)
Jie Ning, 2017-2018 (Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Xian Jiatong University, China)
Jingxuan Bai, 2017-2018 (Ph.D., Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Guangyuan Wang, 2017-2018 (Ph.D., Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Lei Wang, 2017-2018 (Ph.D., Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Sujin Kim, 2018-2019 (Professor, Gyeongsang National University, Korea)
Hongguang Liu, 2017-2019 (Ph.D., Xian Jiatong University, China)
Jinsheng Ning, 2019-2020 (Ph.D., Northeastern University, China)
Akash Agarwall, 2021-2022 (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)

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