
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

Everett Liggett
M.S. Student
Mechanical Engineering
everettl@vt.edu

Shane Scott
M.S. Student
Mechanical Engineering
shanescott@vt.edu
Undergraduate Students

Claudia Sanna
Senior (UG/G)
Mechanical Engineering

Lys Micheli
Senior
Mechanical Engineering

Tim Perez
Senior (UG/G)
Mechanical Engineering

Ryzher Medina
Senior
Mechanical Engineering

Krish Sharma
Sophomore
Mechanical Engineering

Brady Bernier
Sophomore
Mechanical Engineering
Alumni
- Robert Lorence (M.S.) - Researcher @ Monash University
- Azhar Ramadhan (UG) - Boeing
- Michael Chiou (UG) - PhD student @ UPenn