People
Visitors & Postdocs
Branden Kirchner
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Email kirchnr2@nospam651bc4fdbd76f.illinois.edu
Title Postdoctoral Scholar (CEESD)
Department Aerospace Engineering
School University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering (B.S, Ph.D.)
Wooyoung Lee
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Email wylee@nospam651bc4fdbe471.illinois.edu
Title Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Hanyang University (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
Je-Ir Ryu
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Email jryu@nospam651bc4fdbf148.berkeley.edu
Title ARL-Central Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of California Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Research UAS Center for Propulsion
People
Graduate Students
Richard Alonso
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Email ralonso3@nospam651bc4fdc22b0.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S.)
Weihao Cheng
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Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Rutgers (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Research UAS Propulsion Systems
Jeongan Choi
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Email jchoi154@nospam651bc4fdc3beb.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical science and engineering
Office MEB 221E
School Hangyang University (B.S. 13), KAIST (M.S. 15)
Research Laser Diagnostics & Mesoscale Array Combustion
Notes Korean International Fellowship Recipient
Mitchell D’Agostino
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Email md43@nospam651bc4fdc48cd.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant
Department Aerospace Engineering
School University at Buffalo (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Izzi Gessman
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Email gessman2@nospam651bc4fdc557e.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@nospam651bc4fdc6265.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)
Nozomu Kato
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Email nozomuk2@nospam651bc4fdc6ef8.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@nospam651bc4fdc7bb6.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
Gyu Sub Lee
Email glee14@nospam651bc4fdc88c8.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)
Research Supersonic aero/gas dynamics, hypersonic propulsion
Notes co-advised with Professor Greg Elliott (Aero)
Brendan McGann
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Email bmcgann2@nospam651bc4fdc96ec.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
Office MEB 221A
School Lehigh University (B.S. 13), Notre Dame (M.S. 15)
Research Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Ignition, Laser Ignition
Austen Motily
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Email amotily2@nospam651bc4fdca370.illinois.edu
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School University of Wyoming (B.S.)
Gloy Numkiatsakul
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Email phn4@nospam651bc4fdcaf64.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant (Ph.D.)
Department Material Science & Engineering
School Penn State (B.S.)
Alex Solecki
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Email solecki4@nospam651bc4fdcbbdd.illinois.edu
Department Mechanical Science & Engineering
School Marquette University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering)
Research Sustainable Alternative Jet Fuels
Paxton Wiersema
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Email pww2@nospam651bc4fdcc84a.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@nospam651bc4fdcd470.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@nospam651bc4fdce07f.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
People
Undergraduate Students
Peter Sakkos
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Email psakkos2@nospam651bc4fdd0e07.illinois.edu
Title Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department Aerospace Engineering
Research Hypersonic Combustion