Our Students

Yishu Bai (SNE IAC Lead Student)

Graduate (Ph.D.) Student

Electrical and Computer Engineering

yishu.bai@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Smart Manufacturing, Smart Modeling, Operations Research

Career Interest: To work as an applied scientist in areas like operation research, smart modeling

Prathamesh Patil

Graduate (Ph.D.) Student

Mechanical Engineering

prathamesh.patil@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Energy and Energy Efficiency with interests in Building Energy Science, Thermodynamics, HVAC/R, thermal storage, and machine learning/artificial intelligence

Career Interest: Research and development, field installation and maintenance, computer modeling and programming, and self-employment

Tianyu Zhu

Graduate (Ph.D.) Student

Electrical and Computer Engineering

tianyu.3.zhu@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Modeling, analysis, visualization of smart manufacturing systems and application of augmented reality

Career Interest: To work as an Electrical Engineer for an auto or automation company and carry out more research on smart manufacturing

Amogh Garuda Dwajan

Undergraduate Student (Senior)

Computer Science and Engineering

amogh.garudadwajan@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Software Engineering

Career Interest: Coding for Tech companies with a focus on renewable energy

Celia Chacko

Graduate Student

Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Systems

celia.chacko@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Energy efficiency, Retrofits, Building energy modeling

Career Interest: Sustainable design, Renewable energy

Nicholas Bailey

Undergraduate Student (Sophomore)

Management & Engineering for Manufacturing

nicholas.bailey@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Drone Photogrammetry, Efficient Air Nozzles, Workplace Safety, Industrial IOT

Career Interest:

Dinghui Peng

Undergraduate Student (Sophomore)

Mechanical Engineering

dinghui.peng@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Data analysis

Career Interest: Manufacturing

Maanit Malhan

Undergraduate Student (Sophomore)

Computer Science

maanit.malhan@uconn.edu

Research area(s): Data science, software engineering, and computer vision.

Career Interest: Working for a car company with a focus on the electrification of cars.

Past Students

  • Julia De Oliveira – Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
  • Alain Olhaberry – Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
  • Corey Lauer – Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
  • Mia Langston – Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering and French
  • Colby Hoffman – Undergraduate, Management & Engineering for Manufacturing
  • Nicholas Satta – Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering
  • Jiaming Gu – Undergraduate, Management & Engineering for Manufacturing
  • Chenyu Song – Undergraduate, Electrical & Computer Engineering