Our Team
ROHINI BALA CHANDRAN
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Rohini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She obtained her B.S. (2008) from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani), India, an M.S (2010) and a Ph.D. (2015) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, all in Mechanical Engineering. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 2015-2017 in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources division.
Graduate Students
LUISA BARRERA
ME PhD StudentLuisa obtained her Bachelor's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016.
She is currently working on photoelectrochemical approaches for water splitting and wastewater treatment applications. BINGJIA LI
ME MS StudentBingjia earned his Bachelor's degree in Building Environment & Energy Application Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology (2018). Currently he is working on thermal modeling to optimize extrusion-based additive manufacturing technologies.
AISHWARYA KRISHNAN
Aishwarya received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS,Pilani Dubai Campus. She is currently a first year Master's student with a background in computational fluid dynamics working on modeling moving particles that are either directly or indirectly irradiated by a concentrated solar power plant.
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PRATYUSH AGARWAL
ME PhD StudentPratyush obtained his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Roorkee). He will be working on modeling radiative transport in granular materials for high temperature energy storage applications for concentrated solar power applications
KORY NELSON
Dual (ME and Energy Systems) MS StudentKory received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Iowa in 2013. He spent four years in industry working as a manufacturing engineer as well as senior research and development engineer. He is interested in grid-scale renewable energy solutions. He is currently evaluating high-temperature energy storage systems for CSP applications that couple sensible heat storage with thermochemical energy storage.
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Undergraduate Students
ERIKA BROWER
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CONNOR BOERMAN
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Erika is a Junior majoring in Mechanical Engineering and is working on performing electrochemical measurements to evaluate redox shuttle kinetics
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Connor is a Freshman majoring in Mechanical Engineering and is interested in understanding and gaining experience with different methods of device prototyping, especially microfabrication, to study electrochemical reactions.
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Alumni
1. Fawaz Ali (Summer and Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
2. Yudong Chen (Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
3. Xingyu Zhou (Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
4. Chisang Park (Summer 2018), M.S. Student, Research Volunteer, presently doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
2. Yudong Chen (Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
3. Xingyu Zhou (Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
4. Chisang Park (Summer 2018), M.S. Student, Research Volunteer, presently doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
