Team

Principal Investigator

Ognjen Ilic   

Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Faculty, School of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Editor, Optics Express
[faculty page]

Education: Ph.D. MIT (Soljacic Group), A.B. Harvard University
Experience: Postdoc, Caltech (Atwater Group)

Awards:
DARPA Director’s Fellowship
NASA Early Career Faculty Award (ECF)
DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)
McKnight Land-Grant Professor
Air Force Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) Award
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin Prize

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

Seung Yeol Lee, Ph.D.

Ph.D. & B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

 

Graduate Students

Daniel Kindem

Mechanical Engineering

Yujie Luo

MechE / ECE

Sam Keller

Mechanical Engineering

Homayra Mumu

Chem. Eng./Mat. Sci.
(co-advised with Cari Dutcher)

Sam Carlson

Mechanical Engineering

Karl Pederson

Mechanical Engineering

Adib Tawsif

Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Undergraduate Students

Khoa Le

Chemical Engineering

Noah Nelson

Mechanical Engineering

David Li

Physics / ECE

 

Visitors

Christopher Lenius

Science Teacher, Chaska High School
NNCI Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program

 

Alumni

David Carlson, MechE MS student

Dr. Matthew Stein, MechE PhD student

Dr. Avinash Kumar, Postdoc (now a Research Scientist at MIT)

Ebise Teshale, Aerospace Engineering undergrad

Dr. Gunnar Nelson, Chem. Eng./Mat. Sci. PhD student

Simon Horning, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

Drew Hohenhaus, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

Nick Tulshibagwale, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

Samantha Kusters, MechE Department REU

John McCauley, Physics Department REU

 

Collaborators

Our collaborations cut across engineering (mechanical, electrical, materials) and science (physics, applied physics) disciplines and departments - more info.