Group
Current Members
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Svetlana Neretina
Principal Investigator, Professor
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Robert A. Hughes
Associate Research Professor
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Brendan Nieukirk
Ph.D. Student
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Zach Lawson
Ph.D. Student
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Walker Tuff
Ph.D. Student
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Runze Tang
Ph.D. Student
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Luca Ciambriello
Ph.D. Student
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Parham Keshavarzi
Ph.D. Student
Undergraduate Researchers

Delaney Clark
(Fall 2023)
Senior Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

John Howe
(Summer 2023)
Sophomore Undergraduate
Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Ana Corcoran
(Summer 2022)
Junior Undergraduate
Chemistry
Saint Mary's College

Mateo Gutierrez
(Summer 2022)
Senior Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Hailey Meyer
(Summer 2021)
Junior Undergraduate
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Saint Mary's College

Melanie Perez
(Fall 2020 & Spring 2021)
Sophomore Undergraduate
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Zijuan Liang
(Summer 2019)
Senior Undergraduate
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Zhicheng Ouyang
(Summer 2019)
Senior Undergraduate
Energy & Power Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, China
Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Zhenxiang Wang
(Summer 2019)
Senior Undergraduate
Energy & Power Engineering
Huazhong University
Wuhan, China

Runhui Zhang
(Summer 2019)
Senior Undergraduate
Renewable Energy Engineering
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China

Yuko Inoue
(Summer 2018)
Senior Undergraduate
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame

Victor Manuel Rey Davila
(Summer 2018)
Senior Undergraduate
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bo Yuan
(Summer 2018)
Senior Undergraduate
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, China
Ph.D. student at Cornell University

Ban Lin
(Summer 2018)
Senior Undergraduate
Sichuan University
Sichuan, China
Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University

Kyle Kotesky
(Summer 2017)
Senior Undergraduate
Purdue University

Ryan Toth
(Summer 2017)
Senior Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University

Justin Campanaro
(2016-2017)
Senior Undergraduate
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Group Alumni

Robert D. Neal
(Ph.D. 2023)
Adjunct Teaching Professor
University of Notre Dame

Spencer D. Golze
(Ph.D. 2022)
Installation and Service Engineer
Oxford Instruments

Arin S. Preston
(Ph.D. 2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho Falls, ID

Stefania Porcu
(Ph.D. 2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Physics Department
University of Cagliari, Italy

Trevor Demille
(Ph.D. 2021)
Process Development Engineer
Intel, Albuquerque, NM

Eredzhep (Eric) Menumerov
(Ph.D. 2018)
Opto-Mechanical Engineer
Meta
San Jose, CA

Maryam Hajfathalian
(Ph.D. 2017)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

Kyle D. Gilroy
(Ph.D. 2015)
Application Development Manager
Vision Research - Phantom High-Speed Cameras
Ametek Materials, NJ

Pouyan Farzinpour
(Ph.D. 2014)
Surface Scientist
Johnson & Johnson
West Chester, PA

Aarthi Sundar
(Ph.D. 2014)
Engineer
Samsung Electronics
Austin, TX