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)

Duncan Craine (Ph.D. student, co-advised with Dr. Chao Hu)

Nao Tomita (Undergraduate researcher, accelerated M.S. track)

Alumni

Paolo Alderucci (2026 M.S., with full Research Assistantship. First Position after graduation: Manufacturing Engineer, Howmet Aerospace)

Leidong Xu (2025 Ph.D. First Position after graduation: Data Scientist-AI/ML, Ford Motor Company)

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)

 

Sept 9, 2026 @ ME department office

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!