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People

Visitors & Postdocs

Kyungrae Kang

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Email krkang@nospam680da74ddf2f3.illinois.edu
Title Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Seoul National University (B.S., Ph.D.)
Research Computational High Flow Physics

Gyu Sub Lee

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Email glee14@nospam680da74ddfba1.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Aerospace Engineering
Office Talbot 302C
School University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S. 15, M.S. 17, Ph.D. 23)
Research Supersonic aero/gas dynamics, hypersonic propulsion

Wooyoung Lee

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Email wylee@nospam680da74de02dc.illinois.edu
Title Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Hanyang University (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)

Brendan McGann

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Email bmcgann2@nospam680da74de0a9c.illinois.edu
Title AFRL Postdoc (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Lehigh University (B.S. 13), Notre Dame (M.S. 15), UIUC (Ph.D. 2021)
Research Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Ignition, Laser Ignition

Deyvid Do Carmo Silva

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Email deyvidcs@nospam680da74de125f.illinois.edu
Title Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Material Science & Engineering
School Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
Research Condensed Matter Physics

Sukruth Somappa

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Title Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Georgia Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)

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Graduate Students

Anson Regi

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Email regi2@nospam680da74de37fd.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (M.S.)
Department Environmental Engineering & Science
School NIT Calicut (B. Tech 2023)

August Beck

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Email adbeck2@nospam680da74de4167.illinois.edu
Phone (517) 290-8005
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Aerospace Engineering (B.S.)

Mitchell D’Agostino

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Email md43@nospam680da74de48e2.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant
Department Aerospace Engineering
School University at Buffalo (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)

Izzi Gessman

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Email gessman2@nospam680da74de4fde.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of Vermont (B.S.)

Shruti Ghanekar

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Email ssg2@nospam680da74de576a.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (M.S./Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School SRM University (B. Tech 16)
Research Fire Safety & Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS)

Audrey Godsell

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Email godsell3@nospam680da74de5e2c.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant
Department MECHSE
School UIUC Aerospace (B.S. 2022)

Emily Grinage

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Email Grinage2@nospam680da74de6551.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (M.S.)
School University of New Mexico
Research FAA Sustainable Aviation Fuel Database

Seongyong Hong

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Email sh36@nospam680da74de6bea.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Candidate
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School UIUC Aerospace (B.S. 2023)

Sungho Hwang

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Email sunghoh2@nospam680da74de734c.illinois.edu
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Korea University (B.E., 2023)
Research Advanced Compact Gas Turbine & Kinetics

Junhyoung Jo

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Email jhjo2@nospam680da74de79e7.illinois.edu
Title Resesarch Assistant
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Hanyang University, Department of Automotive Engineering B.S 2024
Research Machine Learning in Aerospace Sciences

Nozomu Kato

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Email nozomuk2@nospam680da74de8185.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Keio University (B.S., 2017), Notre Dame (M.S., 2020)
Research Hypersonic Propulsion

Keunsoo Kim

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Email keunsoo2@nospam680da74de8852.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
Office MEB 24
School KAIST (B.S. 12, M.S. 14)
Research Ignition of Alternative & Renewable Fuels
Notes Korean International Fellowship Recipient

Jie Lim

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Email jielim2@nospam680da74de8ed9.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School UIUC Aerospace (B.S. 2023)
Research Chemistry and Turbulence Interaction in Reactive Hypersonic Flows

Connor Malley

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Email cmalley2@nospam680da74de97d0.illinois.edu
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School North Carolina State University (B.S. Aerospace Engineering & B.S. Philosophy, 24)
Research Condensation Physics

Austen Motily

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Email amotily2@nospam680da74dea846.illinois.edu
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of Wyoming (B.S.)

Gloy Numkiatsakul

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Email phn4@nospam680da74deaff3.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Material Science & Engineering
School Penn State (B.S.)

Cory Philippe

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Email coryp3@nospam680da74deb6bd.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (M.S.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Stevens Institute of Technology (B.E. 2022)
Research Flexible Fuel UAV Propulsion Systems

Shoham Saha

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Email shoham2@nospam680da74debd6a.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (M.S.)
School Purdue University (BSME)
Research Explosion Physics

Paxton Wiersema

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Email pww2@nospam680da74dec448.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S.)

Tyler Wineger

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Email wineger2@nospam680da74decae1.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Material Science & Engineering
School Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (B.S.)
Research Advanced materials for novel ignition system

Eric Wood

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Email ejwood2@nospam680da74ded190.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (M.S./Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
Office MEB 221E
School University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S. 2017)
Research Combustion Flow Imaging

Josh Yoon

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Email joshua78@nospam680da74ded868.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Washington University in St. Louis (B.S. 2024)
Research SAF Prescreeing M1 and S1 Combustor

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Undergraduate Students

Peter Sakkos

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Email psakkos2@nospam680da74deee94.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Aerospace Engineering
Research Hypersonic Combustion

Devon Vanlaningham

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Email devonnv2@nospam680da74def5b1.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Intern
Department Material Science & Engineering
Research Advanced High Temperature Ceramics