Group Members
Principle Investigator
Prof. Girish Krishnan
Associate Professor, Industrial and System Engineering
Affiliate: Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Mechanical Sciences and Engineering,
Center for Digital Agriculture, Center for Autonomy
Graduate Students
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| Ruoyu Sun, Ph.D Student Bachelor: University of California San Diego, 2019 | James Nam, Ph.D Student Bachelor: Seoul National University, 2022 Co-Advisor: Justim Yim | Sabyasachi Dash, Ph.D Student Bachelor: National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, 2021 | Arushi Tiwari, Ph.D Student Bachelor: Iowa State University, 2021 |
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| Zhiyu Ren, Ph.D Student Master: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign , 2024 | Nikhil Muralidhar, Ph.D Student Bachelor: B. M. S. College of Engineering, 2022 |
Alumni
- Benjamin Walt (MS 2020, PhD 2025, currently working as Postdoc in Sandia National Lab)
- Poojan Shah(MS 2025, currently working as an Advanced Servo Control Engineer in Kulicke & Soffa)
- John Golden (MS 2025, currently having a gap year)
- Pavan Kumar Dabilpuram(MEng 2024, currently working as Semiconductor Package development Engineer in Analog Devices)
- Evan Ripperger(MS 2023, currently working as System Engineer in DMC Engineering)
- Ali AlBeladi(PhD 2022, currently working as Assistant Professor in King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals )
- Naveen Kumar Uppalapati (MS 2016, PhD 2020, Postdoc 2022, currently working as Research Scientist in NCSA, UIUC)
- Nicholas Thompson(PhD 2022, currently working as Product Design Specialist in Solventum)
- Sree Kalyan Patiballa (PhD 2020, currently working as Assistant Professor in University of Alabama)
- SreeShankar Satheeshbabu (PhD 2019, currently working in Johnson & Johnson inc)
- Gaurav Singh (MS 2016, PhD 2019, continuing a Postdoc at Yale with Prof. Aaron M.Dollar, currently working as Assistant Professor in Lawrence Technological University)
- Komanduri Ranganath Sudhams (MS 2018, currently working in VRMD inc )
- Xiaotian Zhang (MS 2017, continuing PhD and Postdoc at UIUC with Prof. Mattia Gazzola, current a faculty at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Independent Study
Souvik Sen (M.S., Apple), Marc Abraldes Velasco (BS)
Undergraduate Research Assistants (from UIUC)
Daniel Grosser (B.S., Boeing), Lisa Crain (recipient of the ISE REU for Summer’ 14), Jared Spivy, John Shanley (currently MS in MechSE UIUC), Jacob Reese, Chen Zhang, Hugo Fiere (BS, currently in Cognizant Tech.), Ilyas Bankole-Hameed, Shashwat Gupta, Bingxu Li (recipient of the ISE REU for Summer ’17), Thomas Liu (recipient of the ISE REU for Summer’18), Chris Park, Ibadat Singh Chatha, Armeen Mahdian, Yash Khaitan, Vollin Mathew Mammen (ISE REU, Summer 2021), Miguel Moreno, Charlie Rivera, Daniel Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistants (from outside UIUC)
Fernando Ayyala (San Jose State university, through CCEFP REU program for summer 2017), Richard Heath (Univ. of New Hampshire, through CCEFP REU, Summer 2018), Nicholas Hennigan (Milwaukee school of Engineering, CCEFP REU, Summer 2018)





