Principal Investigator

Jonathan A. Malen (jonmalen@andrew.cmu.edu). Jon arrived at Carnegie Mellon in 2009 and is currently an Associate Professor. He is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2011), the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award (2011), the NSF CAREER Award (2012), the CIT Dean’s Early Career Fellowship (2013), ARO Young Investigator Award (2014), and the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer (2014). At Carnegie Mellon his obsession with phonons has been rewarded with the CIT Dean’s Early Career Fellowship and the CIT Outstanding Research Award. Jon recieved his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under the co-advisory of Professors Arun Majumdar (ME, MSE) and Rachel Segalman (ChemE).  Jon received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000 and an S.M. in Nuclear Engineering (2003) from MIT, under the advisory of Professor Neil Todreas. 

PhD Students

Minyoung Jeong (minyounj@andrew.cmu.edu).

PhD student (MSE) since Fall 2014. Minyoung graduated with honor as an Honors College student in 2009 with a BS, and with an MS in 2013 in Materials Science and Engineering from Michigan State University. Before coming to CMU, Minyoung worked as a research intern at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) developing thin-film thermoelectric generator modules. Minyoung also served in the Korean Army as an Army English translator from 2009 to 2011 in the 52nd Infantry Division. Minyoung enjoys working out in his free time.

Ph.D. & Postdoc Alumni

Kevin Parrish.  PhD, Graduated Spring 2017.  Soon to be working at Westinghouse.

William Wei.  PhD, Graduated Spring 2017.

Lili Ehrlich.  PhD, Graduated Winter 2016/2017.  Now working for the startup Cognowear

Shubhaditya Majumdar.  PhD, Graduated Spring 2016. Now working a Postdoc with Rachel Segalman at University of California, Santa Barbara

Keith Regner.  PhD, Graduated Winter 2015/2016. Now an Instructor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder

Justin Freedman.  PhD, Graduated Winter 2015/2016. Completed a postdoc with Ravi Prasher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now at Lam Research.

Wee-Liat Ong.  PhD, Graduated Winter 2014/2015. Completed a postdoc with myself and Xavier Roy at Columbia, now an Assistant Professor at the Zhejiang-UIUC Joint Institute

Scott Schiffres.  PhD, Graduated Spring 2013. Completed a postdoc with Evelyn Wang at MIT, now an Assistant Professor at SUNY Binghampton

Zonghui Su.  PhD, Graduated Spring 2013. Now a Mechanical Engineer at Applied Materials

Current Undergrads and Masters

Turga Ganapathy, MS Student, joined the lab in Spring 2016.

Dipanjan Saha (dsaha@andrew.cmu.edu).

PhD Student since Fall 2015.  PhD Student, Fall 2015.  Dipanjan attained his undergraduate degree from the honors program of the University of Connecticut in 2014, with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.  He worked for one year as a design engineer on military jet engines at Pratt and Whitney, before deciding to pursue his PhD at Carnegie Mellon.  Dipanjan is co-advised by Jeff Weldon, ECE.

Henry Aller (haller@andrew.cmu.edu).

PhD student since 2016. Henry graduated from University of

Washington-Seattle in 2016 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Mechatronics and Control Systems. During his undergraduate years, he spent a year as a research assistant for Nicholas Boechler studying non-linear acoustic effect seen in closely packed granular metamaterials. He has three years of tutoring experience from various universities. Some of his hobbies are hiking, video games, and chess. Henry is jointly advised by Alan McGaughey.

Matthew Bartnof (mbartnof@andrew.cmu.edu).

PhD student since 2017.  Matthew graduated with honors from Columbia University and Pitzer College as part of the Combined Plan program in 2013, earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and a BA in Management Engineering. He subsequently worked at The Boeing Company for four years as a Manufacturing Engineer in Seattle, WA. His hobbies include hiking, and cooking. Matthew is coadvised by Prof. Alan McGaughey.

Alex Christodoulides (achristo@andrew.cmu.edu).

PhD student since 2017.  Alex received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Miami in May of 2017. As an undergraduate, he served as a TA for thermodynamics and materials science classes. Additionally, he worked as a CRLA certified tutor at the Camner Academic Resource Center in Miami for three years. Alex has prior research experience in a variety of topics including CNT-based composite material characterization and vibrational behavior of micro-cantilever beams.

 

Xiaoman Wang (xiaomanw@andrew.cmu.edu).

PhD Student since Fall 2017. Xiaoman graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017 with a BS degree in Energy and Power Engineering. During her undergraduate years, she spent one year in Prof. Nuo Yang’s lab studying steady-state and three-omega methods for thermal properties measurements. Her personal website: http://xmwang.weebly.com/. Xiaoman is co-advised by Professor McGaughey.