Faculty

Hongyi Xu, Ph.D.

Current Lab Members

Ge Song, Ph.D. (Post-doc)

Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah (Ph.D. student)

Zhengkun Feng (Ph.D. student)

Hoang Anh Nguyen (Ph.D. student)

Paolo Alderucci (M.S. student, Accelerated MS program)

Nao Tomita (Undergraduate researcher)

Alumni

Leidong Xu (2025 Ph.D. First Position after graduation: Appointed at Ford and formal start pending)

Majid Kheybari (2025 Ph.D. First Position after graduation: Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota)

Zihan Wang (2024 Ph.D. First position after graduation: Post-doc at Northwestern University)

Filip Penda (2024 M.S., with full Research Assistantship. First position after graduation: Engineer Mechanical II at Newport News Shipbuilding)

Austin Bray (2024 M.S., with full Research Assistantship. First position after graduation: Industrial Automation Engineer at Baker Group)

William Hobson-Rhoades (2023 M.S., with full Research Assistantship. First position after graduation: Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)

Nathan Hoffman (2022 M.S., with full Research Assistantship, AMES program. First position after graduation: Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland)

Xianping Du (2019 – Visiting Ph.D. Student. First position after graduation: Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University)

Joseph Lee (Undergraduate researcher)

Benjamin Chasse (Undergraduate researcher)

Daniel Andrade (Undergraduate researcher)

Hannah You (High School Student for Extracurricular Research)

 

May 29, 2025 @ Willington Pizza House

May 12, 2025 @ ESB. The day of PhD hooding ceremony!

Aug 19, 2024 @ Asian Bistro

May 9, 2023 @ Willington Pizza House: William and Filip will graduate in the summer!

May 18, 2022 @ ESB. Nathan graduated with a Master’s degree!