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 Student 

Luisa 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 Student

Bingjia 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 and thermochemical modeling to laser-powered additive manufacturing techniques

AISHWARYA KRISHNAN

ME MS Student

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 radiative transport in particulate media

Undergraduate Students

ERIKA BROWER

CONNOR BOERMAN

Erika is a senior in the Mechanical Engineering department and is working on prototyping and testing (photo)electrochemical flow cells for wastewater nutrient and energy recovery applications

Connor is a a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student and is interested in understanding and gaining experience with different methods of device prototyping, especially microfabrication, to study electrochemical reactions.

Alumni

1. Kory Nelson (Fall 2018 and Winter 2019), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan  
   
2. Fawaz Ali (Summer and Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
3. Yudong Chen (Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
   
4. Xingyu Zhou (Fall 2018), M.S. Student (ME 590 Project), Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
   
5. Chisang Park (Summer 2018), M.S. Student, Research Volunteer, presently doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan