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Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering
701 West Stadium Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045

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Curriculum Vitae

Nazmul Haque

Nazmul received his B.S. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2020. During his master’s he worked on simplifying the additive manufacturing process for lightweight composites. He also conducted his undergrad research on developing biocomposites utilizing rice husk as reinforcing material.  

Nazmul joined the Davis Research Group in Fall 2021 and is pursuing his doctorate in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental interfacial mechanics of polymer composites using mechanoresponsive molecules.

Tyler Roberts

Tyler received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in 2021. He is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in chemical engineering. He is co-advised by Dr. Stephen Beaudoin in CHE and Dr. Chelsea Davis in MSE. Tyler’s current research centers on characterizing the fracture toughness of high solids loaded, additively manufactured polymers. 

Previous to starting his graduate studies, Tyler completed two internships with Crane Composites, a summer term of paid research under Dr. Stephen Beaudoin, and one internship with GTI. He completed multiple semesters of undergraduate research which culminated into a solo conference presentation titled “Optimization of the Enhanced Centrifuge Method to Quantify the Effect of Particle and Surface Properties Towards van der Waals Particle Adhesion.” 

Geeta Pokhrel

Geeta Pokhrel received her undergraduate degree from the Department of Forestry, Nepal in 2019 and a master’s degree in Bioproducts Engineering from the University of Maine in 2021. During her undergraduate degree, she did an intern and worked as a product engineer in a wood-based industry in Nepal. She worked at Advanced Structures and Composites Center in Maine as a Graduate Research Assistant on manufacturing thermoplastic composites and testing, performing the cost analysis, and life-cycle assessment (LCA). 

Geeta joined the Davis Research Group in January 2022 and is co-advised by Prof. Chelsea Davis and Prof. John Howarter. She is pursuing a doctorate degree in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Her research is funded by the Cooling Technologies Research Center (CTRC) that focuses on designing mechanically robust thermal interface materials (TIMs). 

Angie Rojas

Angie received her B.S in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) in 2022. As an undergraduate she won the Undergraduate Research Experience Purdue-Colombia scholarship (UREP-C) spring 2021 to work at Davis Research Group. She conducted research focusing on elastic modulus assessment of particle-reinforced elastomers and visualization stresses on a confinement elastomer using mechanophores. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Materials engineering department at Purdue University. 

Angie’s research focuses on enhance the thermal conductivity in polymer composites. She is working under the guidance of Prof. Chelsea Davis (MSE) and Prof. Amy Marconnet (ME) in a Cooling Technologies Research Center (CTRC) project.

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Shanmukhi Sripada

Shanmukhi Sripada received her Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi) in 2021. After finishing her undergraduate education, she worked for a brief period as a software engineering associate at Dassault Systemes Solutions Lab, Bengaluru, India. She joined Purdue University in Fall 2022 and is currently working on projects under the supervision of Dr Amy Marconnet, Dr Chelsea Davis, and Dr Justin Weibel. On the experimental side, she is currently working on developing thermally conducting and electrically insulating polymers for their application in motors, generators, power electronics, and power distribution. On the computational side, she is working on developing a Physics Informed Neural Networks Model for the thermal characterization of materials. She has been awarded the Adelberg Fellowship from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Besides research, she is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and loves reading books and solving puzzles.   

William Zummo

William Zummo is a first year PhD Student studying peel mechanics. He completed his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Central Michigan University, graduating in 2020. Following his undergraduate degree he began graduate school at Purdue in 2020. He Graduated with a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2022. William is attempting to write equations of motions to predict the peel force based on material properties for soft-substrate peel experiments.  

Janine Lee

Janine is currently a junior studying Materials Engineering here at Purdue. She is working on a project for Angie Cardenas in Professor Chelsea Davis’s research group that involves determining the mechanical properties of different epoxy formulations. 

Nicholas Christ

Nicholas Christ is working independently with guidance from Tyler Roberts to investigate the application of sound to create standing waves in liquid polymeric media resulting in small, ordered surface patterns which could be solidified in-situ. To achieve this, he is using a combination of physical experimentation and finite element analysis. 

Isabella Gueth 

Isabella is a fourth-year student studying Materials Engineering at Purdue University. She is currently working on visualizing stress via y-shaped cutting and mechanophores and is advised by Tyler Roberts.   

Tristan Wiley

Tristan is a senior in Materials Engineering at Purdue. He has been with the group since the summer of 2021, working with Jared and Nazmul on visualizing stress concentrations in polymer composites using mechanophores.  

Becca Jennings 

Becca is a junior at Purdue University pursuing a degree in Materials Engineering. Her current work focuses on the interfacial mechanics between pressure sensitive adhesives and soft substrates. She is advised by Jared Gohl and William Zummo.  

Naomi Deneke

Completed Ph.D. in MSE Summer 2022, “Adhesive Properties of Topographically Patterned and Mechanically Deformed Surfaces,” Currently Postdoc at Georgia Tech