{"id":73,"date":"2022-08-27T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T02:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2025-07-15T19:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:25:29","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-1024x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1197\" style=\"width:730px;height:366px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-1536x794.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/aidhy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MCDC2025-2048x1059.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500;text-transform:uppercase\">Group Leader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Dilpuneet Aidhy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">PhD, 2009, Materials Science and Engineering,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">University of Florida<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">POSTDOC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Dharmendra Pant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">PhD, 2023, Physics, Michigan Technological University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500;text-transform:uppercase\">Current students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Nathan Linton (Phd student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Oriyomi Opetubo (PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Mark Mueller (PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Ali Azarmi (PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Suyash Varsney (PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Sriram (MS, Comp Sci student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Michael Zakrzwski (UG student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500;text-transform:uppercase\">Previous group members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Gaurav Arora (PhD, 2022, now postdoc at Fermi Lab, Chicago)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Thesis &#8211; <em>Defect properties in high entropy alloys from atomistic calculations and machine learning<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Anus Manzoor (PhD, 2021, now postdoc at University of Wisconsin, Madison)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">             Thesis &#8211; <em>Vibrational and defect properties of high entropy alloys from density functional theory and machine learning<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Postdoc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Debajit Chakraborty (postdoc, 2019, now at Wake Forest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">MS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Jacob Fischer (MS, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Thesis &#8211; 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