Advanced Manufacturing Processes Laboratory

Faculty

Jian Cao

Cardiss Collins Professor

Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing 
Science and Innovation (NIMSI)

Email: jcao@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-1032

Jian Cao Faculty Page

Kornel Ehmann

Professor

Email:k-ehmann@northwestern.edu               
Phone: 847-491-3263

Kornel Ehmann Faculty Page

Kuniaki Dohda

Research Professor

Email: dohda.kuni@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-7470

Kuniaki Dohda Faculty Page

Staff

Dominik Kozjek

Postdoctoral Scholar

Email: dominik.kozjek@northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Applications of artificial intelligence
in mechanical engineering
2. Data analytics
3. Additive manufacturing

Fan Chen

Postdoctoral Scholar

Email: fanchen@northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. FEM, solid mechanics problems
2. Heat transfer, residual stress
3. Additive manufacturing, LPBF, DED

Jihoon Jeong

Postdoctoral Scholar

Email: jihoonjeong@northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
- Additive Manufacturing: Direct Energy
  Deposit (DED) / Selective Laser
  Sintering (SLS)
- Nano-and Micro-scale Thermal
  Characterization

Tianju Xue

Postdoctoral Scholar

Email: tianju.xue@northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
- Machine Learning
- Computational Mechanics
- Additive Manufacturing

Maegen Gregory

AMPL Coordinator
NIMSI Program Coordinator

Email: maegen.gregory@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-3048
Fax: 847-491-3915

PhD Student Members

Conor Porter

PhD Student

Email: 
conorporter2024@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Laser Powder Bed Fusion
2. Directed Energy Deposition

Daniel Quispe

PhD Student

Email: 
daniel.quispe@northwestern.edu

Research Interests:mechanical
behavior of hybrid fiber composites

Derick Suarez

PhD Student

Email: 
dericksuarez2024@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Computational mechanics –
manufacturing and composites
2. Data-driven methodss

Fred Carter

PhD Student

Email:
Fredcarter2024@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Additive Manufacturing
    (a) Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF)
    (b) Laser Directed Energy
         Deposition (DED) 
2. CFD simulation for Additive
    Manufacturing Processes
3. Machine Learning for Additive
    Manufacturing 

Faith Rolark

PhD Student

Email:
rolark@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Development of and design for
additive manufacturing
2. Functional materials
3. Applications in biomedical devices

Itzel Salgado

PhD Student

Email:
itzelsalgado2026@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Composites

Jin Choi

PhD Student

Email:
jinchoi2024@u.northwestern.edu

Project:
1. Additive manufacturing

Marisa Bisram

PhD Student

Email:  
mbisram@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
Composites- modeling and
manufacturing

Nhung Nguyen

PhD Student

Email: 
nhungnguyen2022 @u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Additive Manufacturing
Microstructure Evolution

Putong Kang

PhD Student

Email: 
putongkang@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Laser-Induced Plasma Micromachining
2. Additive manufacturing

Rujing Zha

PhD Student

Email: 
rujingzha2026@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Metal Additive Manufacturing

Sanjana Subramaniam

PhD Student

Email: 
sanjanasubramaniam2024
@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. DSIF
2. Electrospinning

Shuheng Liao

PhD Student

Email: 
ShuhengLiao2023@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Thermomechanical FEM simulation
of Directed Energy Deposition Process
2. Application of Artificial Intelligence
in Additive Manufacturing

Suman Bhandari

PhD Student

Email: 
SumanBhandari2022
@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Laser-Induced Plasma Micromachining
2. Directed Energy Deposition Additive
Manufacturing

Vasudev Aravind

PhD Student

Email: 
vasudevaravind2022@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Directed Energy Deposition -
Additive Manufacturing
2. Functionally Graded Materials

M.S. Students

Prathamesh R. Korgaonkar

Master's Student

Email: 
prathameshkorgaonkar2024@u.northwestern.edu

Shengke Huang

Master's Student

Email: 
f6j6a8@u.northwestern.edu

Aniket Sharma

Master's Student

Email: 
aniketsharma2022@u.northwestern.edu

Undergraduate Students

Brandon Beckle

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
brandonbeckle2023@u.northwestern.edu

Raymonde Council

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
raymondecouncil2023@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Directed Energy Deposition -
Additive Manufacturing

Gracia Cosenza

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
GraciaCosenza2023@u.northwestern.edu

Penelope De La Torre

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
penelope@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Modeling and manufacturing of composites

Dean Huang

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
deanhuang2023@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: 
1. Automation of manufacturing
processes
2. UR5 robotic arm feedback control
system design
3. Thermal control in directed energy
deposition (DED)

Julian Rocher

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
julianrocher2024@u.northwestern.edu

Anchen Tong

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
anchentong2023@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests:
1. Directed Energy Deposition -
Additive Manufacturing

Henry Victor-Halliday

Undergraduate Student

Email: 
HenryVictor-Halliday202 @u.northwestern.edu