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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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Azhar Ramadhan
Mechanical Engineering
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Michael Chiou
Mechanical Engineering
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Kenneth George
Mechanical Engineering