Lab Personnel
| Principal Investigator | Nicole Key Associate Head for Graduate Studies and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics (by courtesy) PhD, Purdue University, 2007 MSME, Purdue University, 2002 BSAA, Purdue University, 2000 |
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| Research Scientist | Yujun Leng PhD, Purdue University, 2016 MSE, Purdue University, 2009 BE, National University of Singapore, 2006 |
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| Doug Matthews PhD, Purdue University, 2024 MSAA, Purdue University, 2017 BSAE, Iowa State University, 2015 |
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| Operations Engineer | Dean Dilley |  |
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| PhD Students | William Brown School of Mechanical Engineering MSME, Purdue University, 2020 BSME, Purdue University, 2018 |
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| Evan Bond School of Aeronautics and Astronautics MSAA, Purdue University, 2022 BSAE, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2019 |
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| Joey Brown School of Mechanical Engineering BSME, University of Portland, 2020 |
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| Yu Ning Dai School of Aeronautics and Astronautics MSAA, Purdue University, 2022 BSME, University of Calgary, 2019 |
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| Andrew Bedke School of Mechanical Engineering MSME, Brigham Young University, 2022 BSME, Brigham Young University, 2022 |
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| Shouyang You School of Aeronautics and Astronautics MSAA, Stanford University, 2022 BEng, University of Nottingham, 2020 |
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| Jhansi Reddy School of Mechanical Engineering MSME, Purdue University, 2023 BSME, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, 2020 |
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| Aochen Zhang School of Mechanical Engineering BSE, Case Western Reserve University, 2023 |  |
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| Master's Students | Charlotte Gump School of Aeronautics and Astronautics BSAE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023 |
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| Davy Brown School of Mechanical Engineering BSAE, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2024 |  |
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| Affiliated Researchers | Benjamin Holtmann |
MSME '24 | GE Aerospace | |
Jack Clement |
MSME '24 | GE Aerospace | ||
Adam Coon |
MSAA '23 | GE Aerospace | ||
Amanda Beach |
MSAA '23 | U.S. Space Force | ||
Mark Shapochka |
MSME '22 | Blue Origin | ||
Matt Meier |
PhD '22, MSME '19 | Penn State University | ||
Nicholas Kormanik |
PhD '21, MSAA '17 | Whirlpool Corporation | ||
Matt Fuehne |
MSAA '20 | GE Aerospace | ||
Will Gooding |
PhD '20, MSME '17 | Blue Origin | ||
Trey Harrison |
PhD '20, MSME '16 | NASA Glenn Research Center | ||
Nitya Kamdar |
MSME '18 | Cummins | ||
Ruben Adkins-Rieck |
MSAA '18 | SpaceX | ||
Amelia Brooks |
MSME '17 | Armstrong Teasdale LLP | ||
Razvan Rusu |
MSAA '17 | Bombardier Aerospace | ||
James Wallace |
MSME '17 | Pratt and Whitney | ||
Cameron Davis |
MSAA '17 | Pratt and Whitney | ||
Nyansafo Aye-Addo |
MSAA '16 | Purdue University | ||
Jeanne Methel |
MSAA '16 | ONERA | ||
Fangyuan Lou |
PhD '16 | Tsinghua University | ||
| PhD '15, MSME '12 | Penn State University | |||
Matt Dolan |
MSME '15 | Alambic Investment Management | ||
Natalie R. Smith |
PhD '15, MSAA '11 | Southwest Research Institute | ||
Dave Monk |
MSME '14 | Siemens Energy | ||
Bryce Heckaman |
MSME '14 | Cummins | ||
Bill Murray III |
MSAA '14 | Ursa Major Technologies | ||
Patrick Ball |
MSAA '13 | The Aerospace Corporation | ||
Evan Morrison |
MSAA '13 | Boeing | ||
John Brossman |
PhD '12 | Blue Origin | ||
Keith Miller |
MSME '12 | SpaceX | ||
Anton Talalayev |
MSME '11 | Apple | ||
Ryan Fleming |
MSME '10 | Lawrence Livermore National Lab | ||
Jonathan Salontay |
MSME '10 | Wright-Patterson AFB | ||
Kyle Miller |
MSME '09 | GE Aerospace | ||
N. Haris Md. Ishak |
MSAA '09 | Lotus Racing | ||
Favorite Pictures from the Compressor Lab Archives
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