Principal investigator

Postdoctoral scholar

Dr Brian Salazar (MS 2017; PhD 2021) Nanomanufacturing process simulation and digital manufacturing for construction.


Current graduate students

Nour Akiki (PhD student in CAL processes)
Maria Echeverria Molina (Graduate student researcher for BearAir)
Abrar Khan (PhD student)
Alvin Li (MS 2018, PhD student: CAL and 3DHL, co-advised with Professor Vivek Subramanian, EPFL)
Nicole Luk (PhD student in bioprinting applications of CAL)
Yunsu Park (MS student in simulation of patterning of plastic thin films)
Yaxuan (X) Sun (PhD student: optiCAL and bioprinting applications of CAL; BearAir)
Joseph Toombs (MS 2020, PhD student: micro-CAL, R2RCAL) website
Taylor Waddell (PhD student: SpaceCAL, OpenCAL)
Jennings Ye (PhD student)


Current MEng capstone students

Issam Bourai
Aemon Li
Shiv Makim
Garrett Miller
Jake Nickel


Current undergraduate researchers

Roma Ankolekar
Chang Bo
Alexander Castillo
Tavis Chen
Greg Dachtler
Magnus Gu
Yuqi Han
Katherine How
Yiheng Ji
Landon Knipp
Anne Le
Tasha Lewis
Christopher Luo
Gregoria Millensifer
Sophya Mirza
Vishnu Murali
Dylan Potter
Sebastian Ramos-Roux
Claudia Renero Lopez
Tristan Schwab
Ingrid Shan
Cam Smith


Visitors and affiliates

Malek Alaouie
Christian Castaneda
Samira Feili
Italo Leite de Camargo
Aadhav Prabu
Quinten Thijssen


Group alumni: PhD

Brett Kelly, MS 2015, PhD 2018 (Align)
Hannah Gramling, PhD 2019 (Waymo)
Kyle Chung, PhD 2019 (Samsung)
Kristyn Kadala, MS 2015, PhD 2019 (Lockheed Martin)
Hossein Heidari, MS 2017, PhD 2020 (Lecturer/assistant professor, Queen Mary, University of London)
Brian Salazar, MS 2017, PhD 2021 (postdoc in this group)


Group alumni: postdocs

Lance Brockway (Founded spin-out Nelumbo)
Yasaman Daghighi (BD Biosciences)
Elyas Goli (Applied Materials)
Zahra Hemmatian (Quantapore)
Emmeline Kao (Department of Energy)
Vu Nguyen (Western Digital)
Ian Williams (CDM Smith)


Group alumni: MS or MEng capstone project

Michael Loy, MS 2015
Artos Cen, MS 2017
Zack Yun, MS 2019
Saahil Agrawal (MEng capstone project, 2014-15)
Will Dickson (MEng capstone project, 2014-15)
Nick Foster (MEng capstone project, 2014-15)
Huizhe (Lucy) Zhao (MEng capstone project, 2014-15)
Weiran Zhang (MEng capstone project, 2014-15)
Emma Guerra (MEng capstone project, 2015-16)
Siyuan Ai (MEng capstone project, 2015-16)
Vismit Bansal (MEng capstone project, 2015-16)
Eric Schmidt (MEng capstone project, 2015-16)
Nick Stauss (MEng capstone project, 2015-16)
Varun Vohra (MEng capstone project, 2015-16)
Yumeng Xu (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Heting Fu (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Hazelynn Khoo (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Meijun Liu (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Mike Munckong (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Satomi Murayama Fritsch (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Alexander Watson (MEng capstone project, 2019-20)
Deshan Cai (MEng capstone project, 2020-21)
Vianna Quenon (MEng capstone project, 2020-21)
Weisa Wang (MEng capstone project, 2020-21)


Group alumni: undergraduate researchers

Guangkai An
Ricardo Avila
Arash Bastanfard
Brooks Barrett
Liam Berryman (Founded spin-out Nelumbo)
Jacob Brito
Andy Chen
Yining Chen
Youngmoon Choe
Lizzette Corrales
Kevin Coulson
Nicholas Crispie
Hannah Dam
Caleb Davis (then Senior Research Engineer, BEARS, Singapore)
Bosen Ding
Lucas Filshill
Mina Finaian
Wing Tak Fung
Luis Flores
Max Gerber
Anoushka Giri
Defne Gun
Keith Hardaway
Mark Hedreen
Mitchell Hoertz
Michael Hong
Tiffany Hou
Jimmy Huang
Alberto Ibarra
Roger Isied
James Johnson
Brandon Kan
Adar Karny
Hams Laeeq
Sharjeel Laeeq
Dana Lansigan
Evan Lewis
Yash Mehta
Matthew Mesman
Pranit Mohnot
Peter Nguyen
Yunsu Park
Nicole Panditi
Rafael Prieto
Nathan Pucheril
Jie Qiu
Cameron Riley
Ashley Reilly
Mitchell Robinson
Allen Ruan
Miguel Salazar-Rivera
Anjana Saravanan
Shilpa Sathyanathan
Aayush Sehgal
Levi Seidel
Charlene Shong
Jeffrey Spitz
Aldo Suseno
Kim Sover
Shreyas Sudhakar (Former lab manager)
Travis Tindall
Arnav Vaid
Ganesh Vurimi
Gradey Wang
Kevin Widjaja
Yueying Wu
Yida Yao
Alex Yun
Grace Yun
Kai Yun
David Zarrin
Eric Zhang
Michelle Zhang


Group alumni: other

Vishal Bansal (High-school intern)
Indrasen Bhattacharya (Collaborator; supplementary MS thesis advisee)
Ailu Chen (Postdoctoral Scholar, NTU/BEARS, Singapore, 2014-15)
Tanya Das (Postdoctoral Scholar, BEARS, Singapore, 2015-17)
Tharindu Dissanayake (MEng exchange student from Imperial College 2015-16)
Alexander Lin (Postdoctoral Scholar, NUS/BEARS, Singapore, 2018-20)
Marcus Maier (Postdoctoral Scholar, BEARS, Singapore, 2018-20)
Michelle Mallahi (Research intern)
Chris McCoy, Ph.D. (Visiting entrepreneur)
Shawn Ng (NUS undergraduate; summer intern at BEARS 2016)
Richard O'Rorke (Postdoc at SUTD, Singapore)
Alondra Perez (PhD student collaborator on dropwise condensation modeling)
Amir Shakouri (Postdoctoral Associate 2012-13, NTU, Singapore)