Group Members

Principle Investigator

Girish Krishnan, professor of industrial & enterprise systems engineering

          Prof. Girish Krishnan      

Graduate Students


Benjamin Walt, Ph.D Student
Master: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign , 2020
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
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
Arushi Tiwari, Ph.D Student
Bachelor: Iowa State University, 2021
John Golden, Master Student
Bachelor: University of California, Irvine, 2023
Pavan Kumar Dabilpuram,
Master Student,
Bachelor and Master : IIT Kharagpur,
2022
Poojan Shah, Master Student,
Bachelor: Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur,2020

Undergraduate Students


Everett Wang
Majoring in Computer Engineering, and
System Engineering

Alumni

  • 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)
  • Benjamin Walt (MS 2020, continuing PhD student)
  • 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 with Prof. Mattia Gazzola, currently a Postdoc at UIUC with Mattia Gazzola)

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)