
Principle Investigator
Noel Naughton
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Mechancial Engineering at Virginia Tech. Before this I was a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology. I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was an NSF Graduate Fellow. I am originally from St. Paul, MN where I completed my undergrad at the University of Saint Thomas.
Graduate Students

Apoorva Khairnar
Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering
apoorvak@vt.edu

Bokun Zheng
Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering
bokunz@vt.edu

Advait Borole
Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering
advaitb@vt.edu

Johannes Rümmelein
M.S. Student
Mechanical Engineering
rjohannes@vt.edu
Undergraduate Students

Claudia Sanna
Mechanical Engineering

Lys Micheli
Mechanical Engineering

Tim Perez
Mechanical Engineering
Alumni
- Azhar Ramadhan (UG) - Boeing
- Michael Chiou (UG) - PhD student @ UPenn