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
[faculty page]

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

Awards:
McKnight Land-Grant Professor
Air Force Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) Award
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin Prize
Whiteman Fellow, MIT

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

Avinash Kumar, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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

Gunnar Nelson

Materials Science
(co-advised with Prof. Kortshagen)

Matthew Stein

Mechanical Engineering

Yujie Luo

MechE / ECE

 

Undergraduate Students

Sam Keller

Mechanical Engineering

Ebise Teshale

Aerospace Engineering

Simon Horning

Mechanical Engineering

Karl Pederson

Mechanical Engineering

 

Visitors

Christopher Lenius

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

 

Alumni

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.