Principal Investigator

Wenzhuo Wu, Ph. D.

Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor

Education

  • Postdoc. Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2013-2015)
  • Ph. D. Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2013)
  • M. E. Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore (2008)
  • B. S. Electronics Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (2005)

Current Member

Shivangi Agarwal

4th-year undergraduate in Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B.S. Computer Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2023)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Biomedical devices, Design and Manufacturing of Self-Powered Wearable Sensors, Human/Plant – Machine Interfaces
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Anime, Table Tennis, Badminton, Gym, Reading

Pedro Henrique de Souza Barbosa

1st-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Campinas (2022)
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Bahia (2018)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Eco-friendly energy harvesting; Long-lasting self-powered devices; Social innovation and human-centered nanomanufacturing.
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Pastry; Dancing; Going to the movies or the theatre; Traveling and knowing other cultures.

Robert Ccorahua

2nd-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. E. Materials Science and Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru (2017)
  • B. S. Biotechnology, National University of San Marcos, Peru (2013)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Synthesis and holistic integration of 2D materials, Nanomanufacturing of self-powered wearable sensors, Human/plant-machine interfaces, Materials chemistry fundamentals.
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Skiing, football, music.

Meghan Gron

3rd-year undergraduate in Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2024)

About Me

  • Research Interest: I'm interested in research that can impact the medical field (such as our nano sensors used for health monitoring!). More specifically, I'll be focusing on potential materials that can be used for these sensors.
  • Hobby Outside Lab: FSCL philanthropy, going on walks with my friends to take much needed homework breaks

Blake Iftiger

3rd-year undergraduate in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2024)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Nanomanufacturing and Hardware Design
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Basketball, hiking, and music

Conor MaCarthy

4th-year undergraduate in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2023)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Design Manufacturing
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Going out with friends, gaming, sports

Jing Jiang

3rd-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. S. Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2020)
  • B. S. Powder Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University (2018)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Design and Nanomanufacturing of self-powered wearable sensors, Hydrothermal Synthesis
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Reading

Meng Hao Lee

3rd-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. S. Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara (2020)
  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Scalable manufacturing of 2D materials for wearable devices, Synthesis of novel 2D materials for electronic devices
  • Hobby Outside Lab: basketball, badminton, music, mixology, traveling

Manikandan Muthu

Overseas Doctoral Visiting scholar in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. E. Manufacturing Engineering, Anna University, Tamilnadu, India (2017)
  • B. E. Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Tamilnadu, India(2013)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Fabrication of Energy Harvesting Device, Laser Manufacturing Processing, and Fabrication of smart material based actuators
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Cycling, Mountaineering

Don Kavitha Perera

1st-year Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (2022)
  • B. S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University (2020)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Advanced Nano-Manufacturing Techniques for Human-Integrated Wearable Sensors and Specially Coordinated UAV Based Spray Coating for Rapid Manufacturing
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Travelling, Hiking, Watching F1

Saichandana Pothireddy

4th-year undergraduate in Biomeidical Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2023)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Medical devices, biomedical imaging, nanomedicine, wearable technology
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Baking, bowling, painting

Mihika Saxena

2nd-year undergraduate in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2025)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Human-integrated technologies, Ergonomics
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Reading, Sketching, Writing

Adit S. Shah

3rd-year undergraduate in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2024)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Manufacturing of Plastic/ Di-electric materials, Optimization of resources
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Table Tennis, Meeting new people, and making new friends

Hongyi Shen

3rd-year undergraduate in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University (class of 2024)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Manufacturing area
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Designing, inventing, and learning new things

Nachiket Vatkar

2nd-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • B. S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University (2021)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Design and Nanomanufacturing of self-powered wearable sensors
  • Hobby Outside Lab: Bouldering, Soccer and working on my car

Mingyi Wang

4th-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering (minor Electrical and Computer Engineering), Purdue University

Education

  • B. E. Functional Materials, Donghua University (2019)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Semiconductor physics, Microelectronics, Two-dimensional materials, and Simulations
  • Hobby Outside Lab: YouTube, Netflix, & Table Tennis.

Shujia Xu

4th-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. S. Biomedical Engineering, Sun-Yat Sen University (2018)
  • B. S. Mechanical Engineering, South China University of Technology (2015)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Design and Nanomanufacturing of self-powered wearable sensors
  • Hobby Outside Lab: tennis, music

Ruifang Zhang

4th-year Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Education

  • M. S. Physical Chemistry, East China Normal University (2018)
  • B. S. Materials Chemistry, China University of Petroleum - Huadong (2015)

About Me

  • Research Interest: Design and Nanomanufacturing of biosensors
  • Hobby Outside Lab: music, travel

Alumni

Nofel Tiwana, Undergraduate student (2022)

Kai Thong Tan, Undergraduate student (2022)

Michael D. Sinanis, PhD student (2022)

Vignesh Ram, Master student (2022)

Shengjie Gao, PhD student (2021)

Ruoxing Wang, PhD student (2021)

Current Position: Postdoc at UCLA

Min Wu, PhD student (2021)

Current Position: Software Engineer at Amazon

Yixiu Wang, PhD student (2020)

Current Position: Principle Investigator at Zhijiang Lab (Hangzhou ,China)

Qiang He, Visiting Graduate Student (2019-2021)

Current Position: Ph. D. Student at Chongqing University

Hongmei Yang, Visiting Graduate Student (2019-2020)

Current Position: Ph. D. Student at Chongqing University

Fengru Fan, Postdoc (2019-2020)

Current Position: Professor at Xiamen University (Xiamen, China)

Nianzu Liu, Visiting Graduate Student (2018-2019)

Current Position: Ph. D. Student at Qingdao University of Technology (Qingdao, China)

Chenxiang Ma, Visiting Graduate Student (2016-2018)

Current Position: Ph. D. Student at Tianjing University (Tianjin, China)

Mo Lv, Master Student (2016-2018)

Shihan Wan, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2017-2018)

Current Position: Engineer at SuperATV

Yihui Ma, Visiting Graduate Student (2018-2019)

Current Position: Ph.D. Student at Qingdao University of Technology (Qingdao, China)

Dr. Seongsu Kim, Postdoc (2018-2019)

Current Position: Samsung Electronics

Xiongchao Chen, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher (2018)

Current Position: Ph. D. Student at Yale University