Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised

PhD Dissertation Primary Advisor

Current:

  1. Sheila Cherono (Post Qualifier, PhD)

  2. Ikenna Chris-Okoro

  3. Wisdom Akande

2024

  1. Ryan Moxon (Spring 2024)

    • Dissertation Title: Development of novel mercury-free dental materials

  2. Abiodun Odusanya (PhD, Fall  2024)

    • Dissertation title: Structural, Electrical, and Optical Properties of Pulsed Laser Deposited Titanium Oxynitride (TiNxOy) Thin Films - An Experimental and Computational Approach

  3. Oluwatobi Kalejaiye (PhD, Fall 2024)

    • Dissertation Title: Influence of Moisture Content on the Shear Properties of Powders Utilized in Additive Manufacturing (AM) Using Boron Carbide (B4C) as a Case Study 

2022:

  1. Manosi Roy (PhD, Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University)

    • Dissertation Tittle: Modulation of Transport, Magnetic, and Optical Properties of Titanium Nitride for Thin Film Electronics

  2. Kaushik Sarkar (PhD,  Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NCSU)

    • Dissertation Title: Rare-earth free low dimensional transition metal-based alloys for magnetocaloric applications

  3. Jacob Som (PhD, Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University)

    • Dissertation title: Roles of the transition metal oxide-oxynitride strain on the water-splitting reactions

2021

  1. Panupong Jaipan (PhD, Spring 2021, Talent Wave Tokyo Electron)

    • Dissertation Title: Multi-functional titanium oxynitride nanowires by pulsed laser deposition"

  2. Rina Mudanyi (PhD, Summer II 2021, Currently employed at Corning @ New York)

    • Dissertation Title: W-ZrC composites fabricated by reactive melt infiltration of molten Zr2Cu alloy into binder jet 3D printed WC preforms

2020

  1. Surabhi Shaji (PhD, Fall 2020, Currently employed at Intel)

    • Dissertation Title: Electrical, Magnetic, and Magnetocaloric Properties of Fe-Ta Thin Films

  2. Nikhil Reddy Mucha (PhD, Spring 2020, Currently employed at Intel)

    • Dissertation Title: Development of Titanium Nitride Based Oxynitride Thin Film Systems for Alternative Energy Applications

Previous years

  1. Nana Kwame Yamoah (PhD, 2016, Intel)

    • Dissertation Title: Influence of processing parameters on the magnetic properties of Fe W powder and thin films

  2. Sally Ibrahim (PhD, 2016, United Technologies)

    • Dissertation Title:  Magnetic properties and structure of iron-nickel nanoparticles and thin films synthesized by pulsed laser deposition

  3. Talisha Haywood (MS, PhD, 2014, Honeywell Aerospace)

    • Dissertation title: Pulsed laser deposition processing of improved titanium nitride coatings for implant applications

  4. Suhaila Abdalla (PhD, 2013, United Technologies)

    • Dissertation Title: Effect of doping on β-tricalcium phosphate bioresorbable bulk material and thin film coatings

  5. Kwadwo-Darkwa Mensah (PhD, 2012, Associate Professor, Ghana)

    • Dissertation Title: Pulsed laser deposited magnesium - hydroxyapatite composite thin films for resorbable magnesium bone implants

MS Thesis Primary Advisor

  1. Ikenna Chis-Okoro (2024)

  2. Manosi Roy (MS, NCAT, 2018)

  3. Rahul Ponnam (MS, 2016, XPO Logistics)

  4. Vedvyas Arvalpali (MS, 2016, unknown)

  5. Seyram Gbordzoe (MS, 2016, Intel)

    • Thesis Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Zero, one and two dimensional metallic and ceramic nanostructures

  6. Chandra Shekar Reddy Nannuri (MS, 2015, IBM)

    • Thesis Title: Physical and structural properties of self-assembled titanium nitride nanowires

  7. Ninh Dang (MS, 2012)

    • Thesis Title: Pulsed laser deposition of magnesium oxide nanowires and their physical, structural, and biological properties

  8. Mainul Faruque (MS, unknown)

    • Thesis Title: Growth Mechanism of titanium nitride nanowires and their physical, structural, and biological properties

  9. Marlin Ellis (MS, 2010)

    • Thesis Title: Controlled-coating of aluminum nano-particles for ignition and combustion studies"

  10. Adero Page (MS,2007)

    • Title: Magnetic properties of  Fe nanoparticles in cerium oxide thin film matrix

  11. Nichole Herndon (MS, 2007)

    • Thesis Title: Iron Nanoparticles in ceramic and polymer matrices

  12. Alok Gupta (MS, Intel Corporation)

  13. Sundar Viswanathan (MS, unknown)

  14. Jermaine Bradley (MS, unknown)

  15. Tangela Coleman (PhD, unknown)

  16. Shree Dana (MS, unknown)

PhD Dissertation Committee Member

Current

  1. Manoj Rijal (PhD)

  2. Swapnil Nalawade (PhD)

  3. Armaghan Shalbaf Tabar (PhD)

  4. Naeimi Hessamedin (PhD, Current)

    • Dissertation Title: Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Chemical Looping Gasification of Biomass in a Fluidized Bed Reactor

2021

  1. Frimpong Opoku ( PhD, 2021)

    • Dissertation Title: Numerical investigation of a novel oscillating water column

  2. Sheikh Saudi (PhD, 2021)

    • Dissertation Title: Biodegradable Electrospun Mesh of Polymer-Metal Composites for Biomedical Application

  3. Sai Charan Dekkata (PhD, 2021)

    • Dissertation Title: Model Predictive Control for Unmanned Ground Vehicles Using Robot Operating System

2020

  1. Honglin Zhang (PhD, 2020)

  2. Sathwik Toom (PhD, 2020)

  3. Bharath Kenchappa (PhD, 2020)

2019

  1. Duy Tran (PhD, 2019)

  2. Manisha Bankar (PhD, 2019)

2018

  1. Oluwaseun Adewumi (MS, 2018)

  2. Lumei Liu (PhD, 2018)

  3. Udhab Adhikari (PhD, 2018)

Previous Years

  1. Paul McGhee (PhD, 2016)

  2. Muhammed Islam (PhD, 2016)

  3. Thomas Ryan (PhD, 2016)

  4. Kazi Imran (PhD, 2016)

  5. Stephen Ajinola (PhD, 2016)

  6. Ruben Koteka (PhD, 2016)

  7. Hiba Ali Ahmed (PhD, 2015)

  8. Rafid Kully (PhD, 2015)

  9. Eboni Adams (PhD, 2012)

  10. Vishawanath Deshmane (PhD, 2012)

  11. Jogi Gawda (PhD, 2011) A flexible syntactic foam for short mitigation

  12. Mathew Mickens (2011)

  13. Sachin  Shendokar (PhD, 2010)

    • Dissertation Title: Manufacturing and characterization of Advanced delamination resist composites interleaved with electrospun nanofibers

  14. Raghu Panduranga (PhD, 2010)

    • Dissertation Title: High strain rate responses of Eco-core and its modification

  15. M. Khan (PhD, 2006)

  16. T. Coleman (PhD, 2004)

    • Dissertation Title: Fabrication of high performance novel hetero-structured Li-Mn-O battery using a pulsed laser deposition process

  17. X. Wang (PhD, 2005)

  18. N. Sudhir (PhD, 2005)

  19. C. Waters (PhD, 2005)

MS Thesis Committee Member

  1. Sundaresan’ s student

  2. Sundaresan’ s student

  3. Torrance Eberhart (2023)

  4. Pia Agliam (2023)

  5. Sana Togol (2023)

  6. Sabrieh Mourak (2022)

  7. Manoj Rijal (MS, 2018)

  8. Furkan Ulu (MS, 2016)

  9. Klinton Davis (MS, 2016)

  10. Zanshe Thompson (MS, 2016)

  11. Alin Osman (MS, 2016)

  12. Abhimanyu Salin Madakali (MS, 2016)

  13. Mustafa Salih (MS, 2016)

  14. Ahmadreza Sedighi (MS, 2014)

  15. Ron Gamble (MS, 2014)

  16. Melanie Patrick (MS, 2012)

  17. Erica Clinard (MS, 2012)

  18. Ganesh Ramakrishnan (MS, 2010)

    • Thesis Title: Corrosion study of  metal thin films for implant applications using combinatorial technique

  19. Svitlana Fialkova (MS, 2010) Development of CNTd catalysts patterning by NIL method,"

  20. Gerald Moore (MS, 2010)

    • Thesis Title: Sonolytic synthesis of single and binary metal-based magnetic nanostructured materials

  21. Mark Gomes (MS, 2013)

  22. S. Manjari (MS, 2005)

Postdoctoral Fellow Advisor

  1. Dr. Jeremiah Abiade (Associate professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago)

  2. Dr. Ram Gupta (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh State University),

  3. Dr. Sang Ho Oh (Professor, Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)