DDLab TEAM

Ph.D. Students

** Tusar Saha

Education & Experience: Lecturer of Physics at American International University-Bangladesh; MSc in Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh ; BSc in Physics, Jessore University of Science and Technology

Website : Google Scholar

** Zinia Sultana Joti

Co-advisors : Prof. Fatemeh Ahmadpoor , Prof. Samaneh Farokhirad

— Winner of the prestigious 2025 Gary Thomas Fellowship (fully supports year 1 and 2).

Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh , MS in Applied Statistics and Data Science, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Website : LinkedIn , Webpage

** 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

** Joy Datta (Graduated in March 2026)

Ph.D. Dissertation : A Generative AI-Driven Computational Framework for Industry-Scale Discovery of Novel Battery Materials

After Ph.D. : Research Scientist at ABB R&D, USA

Education:: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Website : LinkedIn

** 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

Website : LinkedIn ; YouTube ; IBM Page

** 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

Website : LinkedIn ; YouTube

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