People
Principal Investigator
Randy H. Ewoldt
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Email ewoldt@nospam684e3a1ccdaf0.illinois.edu
Title Alexander Rankin Professor; Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering
Office 4418 MEL // 3357 Beckman
Phone (217) 333-6532
Postdocs
Ignacio Arretche
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Email ia6@nospam684e3a1ccf99b.illinois.edu
Title Postdoc
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering & Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Office (co-advised by Sam Tawfick)
Chai Saengow
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Email saengow@nospam684e3a1cd046e.illinois.edu
Title Postdoc
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering & Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Office 5217 Beckman Institute
Graduate Students
Shatakshi Gupta
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Email sg57@nospam684e3a1cd2368.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Tanver Hossain
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Email mth13@nospam684e3a1cd2ec4.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Thomas Livesay
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Email livesay5@nospam684e3a1cd3ab5.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Maxwell Marsh
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Email mmarsh31@nospam684e3a1cd45bb.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4429 MEL
Atharva Modi
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Email asm18@nospam684e3a1cd508d.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. student
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Abby Temple
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Email atemp3@nospam684e3a1cd5cfb.illinois.edu
Title M.S. 2026
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Ramdas Tiwari
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Email ramdast2@nospam684e3a1cd67eb.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4429 MEL
Undergraduate Students
Katherine Chen
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Email kc84@nospam684e3a1cd8a1a.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Mihika Dutt
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Email mihikad2@nospam684e3a1cd9548.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Ani Jha
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Email akjha2@nospam684e3a1cda022.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Pallab Layak
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Email playak2@nospam684e3a1cdaaa0.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Shubh Singh
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Email ssing223@nospam684e3a1cdb8d0.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Reed Swearingen
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Email reedrs2@nospam684e3a1cdc2eb.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Michael William Terry
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Email mwterry2@nospam684e3a1cdcd98.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Shashwath Thiyagarajan
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Email st52@nospam684e3a1cdd8bb.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Mia Leon Zaragoza
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Email miaz@nospam684e3a1cddc05.illinois.edu
Title Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Department of Chemistry
Alumni: Postdocs
Rubens Rosario Fernandes
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Email rrf@nospam684e3a1cdfebc.illinois.edu
Title Postdoc 2021-2023
Department Mechanical Engineering
Luca Martinetti
Title Postdoc 2016–2019
Department Graduate School: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Nabil Ramlawi
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Email ramlawi2@nospam684e3a1ce0d9f.illinois.edu
Title Postdoc 2023-2024
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Alumni: Doctoral Students
N. Ashwin Bharadwaj
Title Ph.D. 2016: Asymptotically nonliner oscillatory shear: theory, modeling, measurements and applications of nonlinear elasticity to stimuli-responsive composites
Department Mechanical Engineering
Brendan C. Blackwell
Title Ph.D. 2017: When sticky fluids do and do not stick: yield-stress fluid drop impacts
Department Mechanical Engineering
Gaurav Chaudhary
Title Ph.D. 2019: Mechanics of biopolymer networks, stimuli responsive particle suspensions, and their combinations
Department Mechanical Engineering
Rebecca E. Corman
Title Ph.D. 2019 Design tools for linear viscoelastic fluids
Department Mechanical Engineering
Jeremy Koch
Title Ph.D. 2017: Shaking, slamming, and vibrating yield-stress fluids: Inducing particle motion in rheologically-complex materials
Department Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM)
Mansi Kumar
Department Materials Science and Engineering
Yong Hoon Lee
Title Ph.D. 2020 (co-advised with James Allison, ISE): Methods for the integrated design of viscoelastic materials and structural geometry
Department Mechanical Engineering
Arif Z. Nelson
Title Ph.D. 2018:
Department Mechanical Engineering
Nabil Ramlawi
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Email ramlawi2@nospam684e3a1ce3042.illinois.edu
Title Postdoc 2023-2024
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Jonathon Schuh
Title Ph.D. 2018:
Department Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM)
Samya Sen
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Title Ph.D. 2022 : Meaningful descriptions of thixotropy and extensibility for yield-stress fluid drop impact on thin films
Department Mechanical Engineering
Piyush Singh
Title Ph.D. 2019:
Department Mechanical Engineering
Yilin Wang
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Email yilin7@nospam684e3a1ce4694.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. 2023: Rheology, conductivity, and structure of complex fluids in flow batteries
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering
Alumni: Masters Students
Liang, Jiahui (Carrie)
Department Mechanical Engineering
Olivia Carey-De La Torre
Title M.S. 2017: Elastic stiffening in PVA-Borax studied with experimental medium amplitude oscillatory shear
Department Mechanical Engineering
Carolyn Darling
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Email cndarli2@nospam684e3a1ce6a86.illinois.edu
Title M.S. 2020
Department Mechanical Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Jaekwang Kim
Email jk12@nospam684e3a1ce6d0e.illinois.edu
Title M.S. 2018
Department Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM)
Anthony S. Margotta
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Email margott2@nospam684e3a1ce76d1.illinois.edu
Title M.S. 2019: Model selection in rheology: Providing a practical framework, surveying the field, and assessing the uses and limitations of BIC
Department Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM)
Office 4426 MEL
Carson Osmond
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Email cosmond2@nospam684e3a1ce803f.illinois.edu
Title M.S. Student
Department Mechanical Science and Engineering
Office 4426 MEL
Alumni: Visiting Researchers
Muhammed Abdulrazaq
Email maa16@nospam684e3a1ce9695.illinois.edu
Title M.S. student, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Office Spring 2020
Leonardo Martin-Alarcon
Title Ph.D. student, University of Calgary, Canada
Office Fall 2017
Irene Natalia
Title Ph.D. student, KU Leuven, Belgium
Office Summer 2016
Bright Warrayut
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Email warrayut@nospam684e3a1cea43f.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. student
Department Materials Science
Office Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Alumni: Undergraduate Students
Tristan Antonsen
Nathan Bristow
Department graduate school: Notre Dame
Lianghao Cao
Department Graduate school: University of Texas - Austin
Kevin Chen
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Email kevin17@nospam684e3a1ceceff.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Engineering Mechanics
Marc Deetjen
Department graduate school: Stanford
Michelle Diaz
Nikita Dutta
Title from Yale
Department graduate school: Princeton
Joseph Gaudio
Department graduate school: MIT
Jill Godman
Riya Gyanmote
Sean Hidaka
Department graduate school: Cornell
Elisabeth Lang
Jason Lee
Danrong (Alison) Li
Chendi Lin
Jennifer Lin
Samantha Lund
Weija (Gary) Luo
Feargus MacFhionnlaoich
Title from USC
Anthony Margotta
Department Graduate school: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Blake Martin
Haley V. Middendorf
Department Mechanical Engineering
Anthony G. Morales
Athrey Nadhan
Natsuki Okuda
Department graduate school: University of California, Berkeley
Ankit Patel
Madeline Popelka
Title from Yale
Tiffany Price
Scott Rogman
Mrunal Sarvaiya
Gonzalo A. Gutierrez Schoenmakers
Arjun Shah
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Email arjunrs3@nospam684e3a1cef005.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Mechanical Engineering
Kerwin Shi
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Email kmshi2@nospam684e3a1cef931.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Mechanical Engineering
Yaashnaa Singhal
Department Department of Physics
Yushi (April) Wang
Alex Wu
Department Graduate school: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign