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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


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Apoorva Khairnar


Ph.D. Student


Mechanical Engineering


apoorvak@vt.edu

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Bokun Zheng


Ph.D. Student


Mechanical Engineering


bokunz@vt.edu


Undergraduate Students


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Claudia Sanna


Mechanical Engineering



Alumni


  • Azhar Ramadhan (UG) - Boeing
  • Michael Chiou (UG) - PhD student @ UPenn