Alumni
Undergraduate Research Projects
(+ External sponsors; # Research Honors; ^Minority; $Matriculated to graduate school)
Undergraduate Researcher Summary: Total number (101), Number of 1st authored papers (9), Number of co-authored papers (7)
Current Undergraduates
- Emma Baker – "Operation of Tribology and Surface Metrology Instrumentation"
- Chris Renovato – "R&D of Binder Jet 3D printer Test Instrument"
- Nicholas Wolf – "R&D of Binder Jet 3D printer Test Instrument and Fluid Technology"
- Kaysie Tam – " Microfluidics in Particle Flow & Tribology"
- James Phillips – "Oil & Gas Drilling Tribology"
- Sage Mcadams – "Configuring Particle Flow & Tribology Research Infrastructure"
Undergraduate Alumni
At CMU (2004- 2016):
- Natalie Kuang – "Experiments with a COR (impact and drop) tester", Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2015.
- Joel Accorsi – "Advancing slurry and granular tribology computation", Member of the Slurry/Granular sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
- Justin Kelly – "An impact study of content and analytics on PFTL Research", Member of the PFTL M-Team in Fall 2015 – Present.
- Alaaddin Ismail– "Slurry Tribology", Member of the Slurry sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
- #Alec Mervis – "Powder Tribology." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
- #Zachary Fisher– "Powder characterization in Additive Manufacturing." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2015 – Present.
- Andrew Bouma (interned from Calvin College)– "Experiments with a COR tester and Powder Rheometry." Member of the powder/granular sub-group in Summer 2015.
- #Eric Meyers– "Powder characterization in Additive Manufacturing ." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2014 – Spring 2015. (Won Alcoa award for Best Research in AM)
- #Jeffrey Cole – "Tribology of rock drilling." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015. (Won Best Overall Research award in the CMU College of Engineering)
- Peter Chiappa – "Solid Modeling of a Nuclear Reactor Pump Seal", Member of the Slurry/WEC sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
- Annie Chen (BME/MechE) – "Algae microfluidics experiments and modeling", Member of the Slurry sub-group in Fall 2014 – Spring 2015.
- Megan Tienjaroonkul – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
- Nia Christian – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
- David Chou – "Algae Biofuel Chemistry Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
- Shannon Horgan – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
- # David Keyser – "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Korey Haug – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- #,^ Gloriana Redondo – "Evaluation of P-STAC", Member of the Slurry sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Allen Miller – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Ian Rosado – "Algae Cultivation and Photobioreactor Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Shuyi Zhang – "Algae Biofuel Chemistry Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Daniel Cushman – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – present.
- Conor Fitzgerald – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Laura Fleury – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Ben Avery – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Anchal Bhargava – "Algae Biofuel Generator Research", Member of the Slurry/Biofuels sub-group in Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
- Daniel Cardenas#– "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
- Hannah Shepard (MSE/BME)–"Materials characterization of powder/solid lubricated sliding contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
- Pamela Hu# (EPP/ME)– "The impact of friction on the U.S. economy." Member of the slurry sub-group in Spring 2012 – Fall 2012.
- Yixing Shi (BME/ME)#– "Modeling of artificial hip joint tribology." Member of the slurry sub-group in Spring 2012 – Fall 2012.
- Brian Duff# (ECE)– "Parallelization of the slurry Eulerian-Lagrangian solver on supercomputers." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2012 - present.
- Nicholas Ricciardi#– "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
- Phanindraja (Indu) Ancha# – "Utilizing CFD software and in-house CFD code to model the multiphase problems." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
- Andre Sutanto#,^– "Experimental characterization of slurries." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
- Miranda McCoy#– "Characterization of Electrical Sliding Contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
- Aditya Bhandaru# (ECE)– "Parallelization of cellular automata code on supercomputers." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
- Gautham Nagaraju# (ECE)– "Parallelization of cellular automata code on supercomputers." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
- Benjamin Cosio^– "Design of COR tester." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2012 - present.
- Kyle Irish+,$ – "Experiments in Granular & Slurry Tribology." Member of the slurry/granular sub-group in Summer 2012.
- Mikio David^– "Development of Powder Lubricated Electrical Sliding Contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Spring 2012 – present.
- Cecily Sunday#,$– "Characterization of Electrical Sliding Contacts." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2011 – Spring 2012. (CMU Meeting of Mind Undergraduate Research Symposium, finalist)
- Alex Chou (ChemE)#,$– "Experimental characterization of filter cake phenomena." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2011 - Spring 2012.
- Jonathan Fijal (ChemE)–"Chemical characterization of powder/solid lubricated sliding contacts." Member of the powder sub-group for Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.
- Nelson Jenkins^,+ (Morehouse College)–"Numerical predictions of the hydrodynamic pressure in CMP and air bearing slider systems." Member of the slurry-integrated circuit (IC) sub-group in Summer 2011.
- Sean Lubner#,$,^– "Modeling of soft-EHL tribosystems.", Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
- Jacob Beatty#,$– "Utilizing Fluent to model the momentum kill problem." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011. (CMU Meeting of Mind Undergraduate Research Symposium, finalist)
- David Daniel Stonestrom#,$– "Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
- Patrick S. Dougherty#,$,+– "Analysis of powder lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group for Spring 2009 - Spring 2011.
- Joan Onyejekwe+,^– "Increasing the Computational Efficiency of the Particle Augmented Mixed Lubrication." Member of slurry sub-groups in Summer 2009.
- Alejandro Francisco Queiruga+,$– "Parallel computing in particle tribology." Member of slurry/granular sub-groups in Fall 2008 - Spring 2011.
- Shrey Aggarwal#– "Utilizing MFIX to model the momentum kill problem." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
- Santia N. Valerio^ – "Literature search on OpenFOAM applications." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
- Kory Francis McDonald^– "Design of force instrumentation for a Granular Lubricated Journal Bearing." Member of the granular sub-groups in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
- Brandon VanTassel#– "Utilizing Fluent to model filter cake experiments for oil drilling." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
- Reyes Flete^ – "Powder lubricated tribometer testing." Member of the powder sub-group in the Summer 2010.
- Kayla Aloyo^– "Development of a wheel abrasion tester for NASA research." Member of the slurry sub-group in Spring 2010 – Spring 2012.
- Richard Musgrave – "Experimental measurements in granular flow." Member of the granular sub-group in Spring 2010 – Spring 2012.
- Steven Christopher Das# (ECE)– "Automated fractal code and integration of CAD software." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2009.
- Yung-King Leo Ma#,$– "Measurements on a filtration rig for oil drilling fluid tests." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Thomas J. Lambert#,$ – "Learning CFD using OpenFOAM software." Member of the slurry sub-group in sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Terrence Long (CS)– "Mobile computing in mechanical engineering." Member of the slurry-IC and A-Team sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Stephanie C. Paticopoulos (MSE)– "Microstructure characterization of thin films." Member of the slurry-materials sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Sean Coleman# (ECE)– "Parallel processing using CUDA & Nvidia GPUs." Member of slurry – IC sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Ryan Leonard Yates# – "Properties of compacted powder lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Daniel Lin#,$ (ECE)– "Integration of CMP modeling into Cadence and Mobile computing in mechanical engineering." Member of the slurry-IC and A-Team sub-groups in Summer 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Daniel Alan Liptz#–"Tribology of thin solid lubricants." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Christopher E. Rizzo# (ChemE)– "Explicit FEM simulations of grain drops." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Francisco Santiago^,$– "Design modification and tests with the granular lubricated journal bearing." Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2009.
- Kristoffer Mauclaire– "Modification of a filtration rig for oil drilling fluid tests." Member of the slurry/deep oil sub-group in Summer 2009.
- Nicola Kisson^,$,+ (FAMU/FSU)– "Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Constituent Particle Matrix using Nanoindentation." Member of the materials sub-group in Summer 2009.
- Jessica Vanterpool^,+ (FAMU/FSU)– "Renovation and setup of a Bridgeman Crystal Growth Furnace." Member of the materials sub-group in Summer 2009.
- Brian Gaudio# – "Design of force instrumentation for a Granular Lubricated Journal Bearing." Member of the granular sub-groups in Spring 2009 - Spring 2010.
- Travis Iwanaga# (ECE) – "Liaison between Physics-based CMP modeling and CAD of ICs." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2008 - Spring 2009.
- Geo A Thukalil#,$– "Experimental studies in nanoscale slurry tribosystems." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2008 - Spring 2010.
- Takahiro Matsuura#,$– "Granular Lubrication: Modeling and Experiments." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2008 - Spring 2009.
- Jonathan Kyle+,^,$– "Analysis of powder lubrication & Labview Development." Member of the slurry/powder sub-group in Spring 2006 - Fall 2008.
- Randyka Pudjoprawoto#,$– "Dry and Wet Powder Lubrication." Member of the slurry/powder sub-group in Summer 2008 - Fall 2008.
- Young Eun Choi$– "DPTV and Granular Coefficient of Restitution Testing." Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2007 - Summer 2008.
- Ryan Comes#,$(ECE)– "Liaison between Physics-based CMP modeling and CAD of ICs." Member of the slurry sub-group for Fall 2007- Spring 2008. (CMU Meeting of Mind Undergraduate Research Symposium, finalist)
- Martin Marinack Jr. #,$ – "Granular Lubrication: Novel Modeling and Experimentation." Member of the granular sub-group for Fall 2007- Spring 2008.
- Sarah Neyer#,+,$– "Development of Solid Lubrication for MEMS Devices." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2006 - Spring 2008.
- Karim Shaban+,$ (CS)– "Interactive Web-based Numerical Tools for Enhancing Collaborative Research with the PFTL." Member of PFTL in Fall 2005 - Summer 2008.
- John Bistline+,$– "Development of a Data-Acquisition Platform for an Extreme-tribometer." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2005 - Spring 2008.
- Sarah Biltz+– "Optimization of a High-speed Granular Flow Lubrication Video and –Material Issues in CMP." Member of the granular and slurry materials sub-groups in Fall 2005 - Fall 2007.
- Kellsey Brown^,+ (Cal Univ. of PA) – "Exploration of CMP modeling inside a CAD/SPICE Framework", Member of slurry sub-group, in Summer 2007.
- Brie Witherspoon^,+ (FAMU/FSU) – "Materials and mechanical characterization of thin films", Member of the slurry sub-group, in Summer 2007.
- Alyssa Haney#,$,^ – "Research on Powder Lubrication and Artificial Hip Joints tribology tests." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2006 - Summer 2007.
- Michael Kuo#– "Development of CMP Test Procedure and Wafer/Pad Position code in MM." Member of the slurry sub-group in Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.
- Brian Chin#,$– "Development of a Granular Coefficient of Restitution Test Rig." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.
- Justin Feig$,#– "Research on Electromagnetic Solid Lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group in 2006 – Fall 2006.
- Bradley Camburn$,#– "Simulation of granular bearing using EDEM." Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2006.
- Jason Waddell+– "Weight optimization in a granular journal bearing."Member of the granular sub-group in Summer 2006.
- Storm Walden+,^– "Enhancement of the Pellet TribometerDAQ."Member of the powder sub-group in Summer 2006.
- Brad Brown+– "Development of 3D Granular Dynamics Simulations." Member of the granular sub-group in Spring 2006.
- Jeremiah Mpagazehe#,^,$–"Research on Electromagnetic Solid Lubrication." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2005 - Spring 2006.
- Nadav Cohen (The Technion)– "Development of a Granular Dynamics Computational Simulation tool." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2005.
- Mark Trapp– "Design and development of high-speed, powder-lubricated pellet-on disk tribometer for measuring friction and wear at multiple sliding interfaces." Member of the powder sub-group in Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
- Julian Dunn+– "Development of digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) tool for tracking the granular particles in an annular shear cell." Member of the granular sub-group in Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
- Yoojin Kwak+ (CS)– "Development of the original PFTL website and platform-independent webMathematica front-end interface for computational models." Member of PFTL in Fall 2004 - Spring 2005.
- Jeff Thoene+ – "Upgrade of an optical profilometer." Member of slurry sub-group in Fall 2004.
- Jonathan Garcia#,^ – "Nanofabrication of magnetic head wafers." Member of slurry sub-group in Spring 2004 - Fall 2005.
Master's Students Alumni
- Joseph Bonivel (co-advised with B. Ozdoganlar)–"Considering Microstructure Behavior in the Tribological Performance of Abrasive Manufacturing Processes for Microelectronic Devices". Graduated May 2008.
- Sunny M Jhurani– "Modeling Particle-dynamics of wear debris in Hip Joints". Graduated May 2009.
- Kanate Thana-Anekcharoen–"Drilling fluid induced filter cake in oil drilling", Graduated in May 2011.
- Isaac Marx– "Flight of the granular lubricated journal bearing", Graduated May 2013.
- John Ni, Experiments and Modeling of Filter Cake Formation and Expression. Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2012
- Varoon Shankar–"An Experimentally-validated Modeling Framework to Predict Skin Friction during Cleansing", Graduated December 2012.
- Sanjay Adhikari –"Evaluation of the Particle Dynamics in in-house Particle-Surface Tribology Analysis Code (P-STAC)", Graduated, Dec. 2014.
- Weiyu Zhang– "Incorporating Thermal treatments into the in-house Particle-Surface Tribology Analysis Code (P-STAC)", Expected graduation, Dec. 2015.
- Joshua Umo, "Granular tribology: grain impact testing", Expected graduation, May 2016.
- Shashank Sharma–"Advancing the Virtual Fabrication for DFM Research", Expected graduation, Dec. 2015.
- Akash Mehta – "Modeling of grain-fluid flows by incorporating our fast discrete particle solve into the commercial CFD tool Fluent", Expected graduation, May 2017.
- Wentai Zhang– "Additive manufacturing spreading experiments", Member of the Powder sub-group in Fall 2015 - present.
- + Mohamad Talib– "Using a Nanoindenter to Integrate Actual Surface Topography into Tribology Models". Graduated Summer 2005.
- + Courtney Heller– "Development of A Granular Lubricated Journal Bearing". Graduated December 2005.
- + Christopher Racusen– "Development of Granular Flow Data Acquisition and Visualization Techniques". Graduated December 2005.
- + David Engel– "Development of CMP simulation asperity tracking algorithm", Graduated August 2006.
- Thomas Diaz–"Contamination Modeling of in a Head/Disk Interface: Modeling and Simulations". Graduated December 2007.
- +Gloria Kim (ChemE)-- "Development of Self-assembled Solid Lubricant: Experiments and Characterization". Graduated December 2008.
- +Michael Salame– "The tribology of ultra-deep oil extraction". Graduated May 2009.
- +Randyka Pudjoprawoto–"In situ self-replenishing powder lubrication", Graduated in Summer 2009.
- +Carlton Reeves–"Drilling fluid induced filter cake in oil drilling", Graduated December 2009.
- +Ashik Mohideen– "Space particle abrasion experimental setup", Expected Graduated in December 2010.
- +Boyuan Li – "CMP experimentation and modeling", Graduated in December 2010.
- +Andrew Tremblay – "Development of a faster PAML modeling approach", Graduated in December, 2010.
- +Geo A Thukalil – "Modeling of artificial hip joints", Graduated in December, 2010.
- Tristan Greiner, Photobioreactor Design and Implementation for Cultivating Microalgae to Produce Biofuels. Carnegie Mellon University, Graduated Aug. 2014
- Shannon Horgan – "Contacting seals transfer film lubrication experiments", Member of the Powder sub-group in Fall 2015.
- Natalie Kuang – "Experiments with a COR (impact and drop) tester", Graduated December 2016.
Ph.D. Alumni
(all advisees below graduated from Carnegie Mellon)
- Elon Terrell– Thesis title: "Application of a Particle Augmented Mixed Lubrication Model to Chemical Mechanical Polishing: Modeling and Experimentation". Graduated August 2007. (Teaching Professor at Baylor University)
- Venkata Jasti– "Development of a Granular Shear Cell: Lattice-based Modeling and Experiments". Graduated September 2008. (Currently: Manager - Submarine Cable Group at Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.)
- Emmanuel Wornyoh– "Development of an Oil-free, Powder Lubrication Mechanism for Extreme-Environments: Modeling and Experimentation". Graduated January 2009. (Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee)
- #Jeremiah Mpagazehe– "A Physics-based, Eulerian-Lagrangian Computational Modeling Framework to Predict Particle Flow and Tribological Phenomena". Graduated May 2013. (Deceased: was Project Scientist, CMU Mechanical Engineering Dept. and Chief Technical Officer, InnovAlgae, LLC, a CMU start-up, Pittsburgh).
- Martin Marinack, Jr.– "Sheared Granular Material: Single and Multi-Particle Experiments and Physics-Based Cellular Automata Modeling". Graduated May 2013. (Currently: Senior Engineer, Alcoa Technical Center, Alcoa, PA.)
- Randyka Pudjoprawoto–"In situ self-replenishing powder lubrication Graduated May 2014. (Currently: Senior Engineer, Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ.)
- Jonatan Sierra–"CMP-aware Design for Manufacturing", Graduated May, 2015. (Sloan PhD Fellowship)
- Gagan Srivastava–"Extending the Particle Augmented Mixed Lubrication Model", Graduated in May, 2015. (Dowd Fellowship)
- Patrick S. Dougherty– "Special Application of Solid Lubrication to Textured Surfaces", Graduated in May 2016. (Awarded the NSF Fellowship as undergraduate researcher in Higgs Lab)
- Kristin Warren (co-advised with P. LeDuc)– "An Experimentally-Validated Computational Framework to Predict Algae Biomass Filtration & Health", Graduated in May, 2016. (California Science and Technology Policy Fellow)
Current PhD students:
- Prathamesh Desai – "Additive manufacturing and P-STAC modeling of particle systems".
- Jordan Wagner–"Advanced Issues in Bio-Tribology of Soft Materials".
- Joshua Wagner–"Advanced Issues in Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing and Powder Tribology".
- Nia Christian – "Biotechnology issues in cancerous knee implants".
- Lynnora Grant – "Material Science issues in Additive Manufacturing".
Post-doctoral Associates
Coming soon.
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