DDLab TEAM
Ph.D. Students
** Zinia Sultana Joti [Co-advisor : Prof. Fatemeh Ahmadpoor]
— Winner of the prestigious Gary Thomas Fellowship [Only 2 incoming Ph.D. students out of 2000+ applicants win this award every year]
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh, MS in Applied Statistics and Data Science, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
** Joy Datta
Education:: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Website : LinkedIn
** Rumana Hasan
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh ; MS in Mechanical Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur, Bangladesh
Website : LinkedIn
** Raita Rahman
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur, Bangladesh
Website : LinkedIn
Ph.D. Graduate
** Dr. Vidushi Sharma (Graduated in October 2021)
Ph.D. Dissertation : Electro-chemo-mechanics of the interfaces in 2d-3d heterostructure electrodes
After Ph.D. : Research Scientist for Material Discovery at IBM Research, Almaden, California, USA
Education: BS in Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India ; MS in Molecular Engineering and Advanced Chemical Analysis, NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana, India; Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (focus on Materials Chemistry), NJIT, USA
** Dr. Jatin Kashyap (Graduated in August 2022)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Modeling of two-dimensional and biological materials towards diverse nano-systems applications.
After Ph.D. : Postdoc at Biomedical Engineering Department, NJIT, USA. Currently, Digital Modeling Research Scientist, Innovision LLC, Ohio, USA
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India; MS in Thermal Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad, India ; Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (focus on nano-bio modeling), NJIT, USA
Postdoctoral Scholar
** Dr. Kamalika Ghatak (May 2017 – December 2019)
Education:: Ph.D. in Chemistry, CSIR – National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, India ; Ph.D. Adviser : Prof. Sourav Pal ; BS & MS in Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
After Postdoc: Pursued MBA at Kent State University; Currently Program Manager at Immobileyes Inc.
Website : LinkedIn
Master Students
** Mr. Nil Dhankecha (Spring 2019 – Summer 2019)
** Mr. Kevintejas Sheth (Fall 2018)
** Mr. Navneet Kumar (Fall 2018)
** Mr. Satbir Singh Bhatti (Spring 2018)
** Mr. Harsimranjit Singh (Spring & Fall 2017)
Undergraduate Students
————— @ NJIT, Newark, USA —————
** Mr. Drew Chichester ; Undergrad student at Rice University, Houston, USA
** Ms. Defne Yesim Turgut
** Mr. Kyle Concha
** Mr. Adrian Cespedes
** Mr. Joseph Torsiello
** Mr. Jinay Shah
** Mr. Arjav Shah
** Mr. Lucas Janusik
** Mr. Yagiz Balkay
** Ms. Nitya Iyer ; undergrad students at Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
————— @ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA —————
** Ms. Weiwei-Bing Zhang (Summer 2014)
** Mr. Kevin Zhai (Summer 2014 & Fall 2014)
** Mr. Bill Guo (Summer 2014)
** Mr. Clark Shurtleff (Summer 2014)
Community College Students
Students from Essex County College, Newark, NJ
** Mr. Edson Josius (Summer 2019), Funded by the National Science Foundation, Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (NSF-LSAMP).
High-School Student
** Ms. Priyanka Solanki ( July 2017 – December 2018), Montville Township High School, Montville, New Jersey, USA.
– Published a first-author paper in Computational Materials Science.
– Presented a poster at the MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, 2018.
– Among the 10% applicants selected for oral presentations at ‘The 2019 New Jersey Junior Science & Humanities Symposium at Rutgers University‘ (March 4-5, 2019). Congrats, kid.
** Mr. Amruth Nadimpally, John P. Stevens High School, Edison, New Jersey (Summer 2024); Co-authored a paper in Generative AI (under review in Cell Reports Physical Science), Preprint in arXiv.
** Ms. Jamelle Shameyn Serrano, Philippine Christian School of Tomorrow, Paranaque City, Philippine
** Mr. Yohan Gil, Jose Marti STEM Academy, ACS Project SEED Program
** Mr. Diego Correa, Jose Marti STEM Academy, ACS Project SEED Program
** Mr. Andrew Lee: Regis High School, New York City
** Mr. Aarav George, Livingston High School, New Jersey
** Ms. Nayanasree Reddy Pala, Parsippany High School, New Jersey
** Mr. Nayan Saini, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro, New Jersey
** Mr. Achyut Manoj, Tenafly High School, New Jersey
** Mr. Advai Aiyer, The Academy for Mathematics, Science & Engineering, New Jersey
** Mr. Bryan Roca, Jose Marti STEM Academy, ACS Project SEED Program
** Mr. Tatva Kabat, The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Rockaway, New Jersey
** Mr. Rachit Surve, John P. Stevens High School, Edison, New Jersey
** Mr. Swarnadeep Purkayastha, Springdales School, Jaipur, India.
** Mr. Shashank Satish, John P. Stevens High School, Edison, New Jersey
** Mr. Madhav Mandala, Edison High School, Edison, New Jersey
** Mr. Bryan Roca, Jose Marti STEM Academy, New Jersey,, ACS Project SEED Program
** Mr. Amruth Nadimpally, John P. Stevens High School, Edison, New Jersey
** Mr. Pradnesh Thoppay, Bernards High School, Bernardsville, New Jersey
** Mr. Justin Vasquez, Union City High School, NJ, USA. (ACS SEED Program)
** Ms. Oluwafunmilayo Fatolu, Jonathan Dayton High School, NJ, USA (US Army REAP Program)
** Ms. Haley Flores, Memorial High School, NJ, USA (US Army REAP Program)
** Mr. Manuel Guzman, Union City High School, NJ, USA. (ACS SEED Program)
** Mr. Yoshiki Kakehi (Summer 2019 – present) , Bergen County Technical High School Teterboro, NJ, USA
