ZHAO RESEARCH GROUP

Faculty

Faculty profile
Dr. Kejie Zhao is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science in 2012 from Harvard University, and his bachelor's and master's degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at MIT in 2012-2014. He joined the faculty at Purdue in 2014 and was promoted to Professor in 2023. His group focuses on chemomechanics of electrochemically active materials using experimentation and multi-scale modeling approaches. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Extreme Mechanics Letters Young Investigator Award, 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist Award, J. W. Dally Young Investigator Award, A. J. Durelli Award, and B.F.S. Schaefer Scholarship. He is a fellow of ASME. He serves on the Board of Directors of Society of Engineering Science and is an Associate Editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews and a Technical Editor of Experimental Mechanics.

Address: 585 Purdue Mall, RM3166, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Email: kjzhao@purdue.edu
Phone: Phone: 765-496-0224

PhD Students

Xixian Yang
School of Mechanical Engineering
2021.01 - present: PhD student
585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN

yang1989@purdue.edu

Yetong Jia
School of Mechanical Engineering
2023.08 - present: PhD student

585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN
jia170@purdue.edu

Aishwary Shrivastava
School of Mechanical Engineering
2024.01 - present: PhD student
585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN

shriva16@purdue.edu

Sameep Rajubhai Shah
School of Mechanical Engineering
2018.11 - 2019. 12: Thesis Master
2020.01 - present: PhD student

585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN
shah484@purdue.edu

Jiaxiu Han
School of Mechanical Engineering
2019.08 - present: PhD student

585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN
han602@purdue.edu

Jeongok Choe
School of Mechanical Engineering
2024.08 - present: PhD student
585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN
choe42@purdue.edu

Zubair Mumin Wahed
School of Mechanical Engineering
2024.08 - present: PhD student
585 Purdue Mall, RM2166, West Lafayette, IN

zwahed@purdue.edu

Postdocs
Thesis Master Students

Alumni

Dr. Nikhil Sharma,   PhD student and postdoc (2017.08 - 2024.07)
Dr. Xiaokang Wang,   PhD student (2018.01 - 2023.05)
Dr. Xianyang Wu,   Master and PhD student (2017.08 - 2022.05)
Dongliang Wu,  Master student (2019.08 - 2021.12)
Shan Hu,  Visiting scholar (2019.01 - 2021.12)
Macy Wohlford,  Undergrad Researcher (2021.05 - 2021.08)
Yifei Zheng,  Undergrad Researcher (2020.01 - 2021.05)
Zhengdao Chen,  Undergrad Researcher (2019.08 - 2021.05)
Gary Li,  Undergrad Researcher (2020.01 - 2021.05)
Dr. Luize Scalco de Vasconcelos,   PhD student (2015.01 - 2020.12)
Xiaomei He,  visiting PhD student (2019.09 - 2021.01)
Dr. Hong Sun,  PhD student (2015.08 - 2020.10)
Dr. Fei Yin,  Visiting scholar (2019.05 - 2020.03)
Dr. Yan Ru,  Visiting scholar (2020.01 - 2020.09)
Yue Guo, Visiting PhD student (2018.09 - 2020.03)
Pengfei Liu, Visiting PhD student (2017.12 - 2019.09)
Dr. Rong Xu, PhD student (2014.08 - 2019.06)
Shadad Hassan, Undergrad researcher (2018.05 - 2019.06)
Ram Kishore Venkatesan, Master student (2018.08-2019.01)
Haijun Ruan, Visiting PhD student (2018.03 - 2018.11)
Yanfei Liu, Undergrad researcher (2017.07-2018.05)
Dongliang Wu, Undergrad researcher (2017.07-2018.05)
Yang Ding, Undergrad researcher & Thesis Master (2016.06-2017.12)
Jincheng Lei, visiting PhD student (2015.09 - 2017.02)
Junzhe Shi, Undergrad researcher (2015.01-2016.12)
Waikien Goh, Undergrad researcher (2015.01-2016.05)
Haoran Zhang, Undergrad researcher (2014.11-2016.05)
Hanlin Wang, Undergrad researcher (2014.11-2015.06)
Prof. Xueling Fan, Visiting Scholar (2014.08-2014.10)
Yanjie Sun, Master student (2014.08-2015.08)