Our Team
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Shubhra Bansal
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Materials Engineering
bansal91@purdue.edu
Dr. Shubhra Bansal is an Associate Professor at Purdue University with a joint appointment in School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Engineering. Her research interests include developing stable and sustainable materials for Optoelectronic/Semiconductor Devices and Heterogeneous Integration/Advanced Packaging. She completed her undergraduate studies in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology- Roorkee, India. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Before joining Purdue, she worked as a faculty at University of Nevada Las Vegas, and in industry at GE Global Research. She has also served as a Senior Technical Advisor for President Obama’s SunShot Initiative at the Department of Energy. Her honors prestigious NSF CAREER Award; and NASA and DOE faculty fellowships. Her research is currently funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, DARPA and Department of Defense. She currently serves as the Associate Editor of Solar Energy Journal, IEEE- Journal of Photovoltaics. Outside of work, she is a busy mother of two boys.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Faharia Hasan Bhuiyan
MSE Research Assistant
Materials Engineering
West Lafayette
bhuiyaf@purdue.edu
Bijay Chhetri
Me Graduate Research Assistant
Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette
bchhetri@purdue.edu
Haohan Guo
ME Graduate Research Assistant
Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette
guo774@purdue.edu
Haohan Guo is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University since Fall 2023. His research focuses on electro-thermo-mechanical reliability of sub-10 micron pitch interconnects for semiconductor packaging. He graduated from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology with a M.S. degree in Energy and Power Engineering. His likes skating and skiing.
Karthika Haridas
MSE Graduate Research Assistant
Materials Engineering
West Lafayette
kharidas@purdue.edu
Karthika Haridas is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University since Fall 2023. She holds a M.S. in Chemistry from Manipal Institute of Technology (India) and B.S. in Chemistry from Sree Kerala Varma College affiliated with Calicut University (India). Prior to joining Purdue, she also worked as Project Associate at the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, IISC on 3D Heterogeneous Integrated Micro-Nano Scale Devices. She enjoys reading books.
Alexander Kratzer
MSE Research Assistant
Materials Engineering
West Lafayette
kratzer@purdue.edu
Huilong Liu
ME Graduate Research Assistant
Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette
liu3601@purdue.edu
Huilong joined Purdue as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2023 and his research focuses on development of low-Dimensional (2D, Nanoparticles, Quantum Dots) Lead-Free Halide Perovskites. Huilong obtained his B.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) in Biomedical Engineering and M.S. from Chongqing Medical University (China). He loves to sketch.
Jakob Ramos
ME master’s student
Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette
ramos168@purdue.edu
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Ethan Christie
West Lafayette
chris295@purdue.edu
Mark Tereck
West Lafayette
mtereck@purdue.edu
Patrick Thompson
West Lafayette
thomp897@purdue.edu
Kyle Wiegand
West Lafayette
wiegand1@purdue.edu
Kyle Wiegand is a junior studying Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Originally from Frederick, Maryland, Kyle has experience in manufacturing and production, as well as working with microelectronic systems. He is currently researching developments for Pb-free solders, with a particular focus on the Bi-Sn compositions. He is a SCALE student.
POSTDOCS
Tulja Bhavani Korukonda
Limited Term Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette
tkorukon@purdue.edu
ALUMNI
NAME | PREVIOUS ROLE | CURRENT POSITION |
Dr. Puruswottam Aryal | Postdoctoral Fellow | Laser Diode Engineer, Leonardo |
Colin Bashore | Undergraduate Student | PhD at UC-Boulder |
Dr. Jonathan Boyle | Postdoctoral Fellow | MITRE |
Donald Chicas | Undergraduate Student | M.S. at UNLV |
Michelle Chiu | Undergraduate Student | PhD at Arizona State University |
Vanessa Esquivel | Undergraduate Student | VTN Nevada |
Isaiah Henry | Undergraduate Student | TIMET |
Nir Hersovic | Undergraduate Student | PCC Metals Group |
Dr. Mohsen Jahandardoost | PhD Student | |
Harry Larson | Undergraduate Student | |
Dr. Rubaiya Murshed | PhD Student | Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
Eric Ng | Undergraduate Student | |
Ryan Phung | Undergraduate Student | Honeywell |
Kalli Ramos | Undergraduate Student | Toray Composite Materials |
Dakota Schwartz | M.S. Student | NLine Energy |
Krishna Solasa | M.S. Student | |
Kristen Tagaytayan | Undergraduate Student | |
Sarah Thornton | M.S. Student | Sandia National Laboratory |
Dr. Curtis Walkons | Postdoctoral Fellow | Sandia National Laboratory |
