Group Leader

Dilpuneet Aidhy

PhD, 2009, Materials Science and Engineering,

University of Florida

POSTDOC

Dharmendra Pant

PhD, 2023, Physics, Michigan Technological University

Current students

Nathan Linton (Phd student)

Jacob Fischer (MS student)

Oriyomi Opetubo (PhD student)

Mohit Singh (MS, Comp Sci student)

Omar Azim (UG, Honors)

Eric Barr (UG, ME)

Previous group members

PhD

Anus Manzoor (PhD, 2021, now postdoc at University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Thesis – Vibrational and defect properties of high entropy alloys from density functional theory and machine learning

Gaurav Arora (PhD, 2022, now postdoc at Fermi Lab, Chicago)

Thesis – Defect properties in high entropy alloys from atomistic calculations and machine learning

Postdoc

Debajit Chakraborty (postdoc, 2019, now at Wake Forest)

MS

Tim McMaster (MS, 2018)

Arron Harms (MS, 2019)

Thesis – Vacancy defect and mechanical evolution in high entropy alloys

Kanishk Rawat (MS, 2021)

Thesis – Breaking atomic-level ordering via biaxial strain in functional oxides

Gaurav Raj (MS, 2021)

Thesis – Structural and electronic properties of graphene from DFT

Kita Paorojtanachai (MS, Comp Sci student, 2023)

UG

Bryant Jerome (UG, 2020)

Bailey Norman (UG, 2021)

Natasha Miller (UG, 2022)

Jacob Arment (UG, 2022)

Leo Beck (UG, 2023)

OTHERS

Joshua Carroll, RET (summer 2023) – Eastside High School, Greenville