Congrats to Venkat and Jinqiang for being recognized as “Rising Stars” by The REMADE Institute. Both have made outstanding contributions to our REMADE project titled “Data-Driven Design Support for Re-X of High-Value Components in Industrial and Agricultural Equipment”. Read more about their work on this project through the links below:
Venkat and Jinqiang – Well done and well deserved! Congratulations!
Todd Thompson and Rohan Rao joined SRSL for their Ph.D. studies. Todd is a Staff Engineer in the John Deere Power Systems group. He will work on his doctoral research at ISU while working at Deere. Prior to joining SRSL, Rohan obtained his Bachelor’s degree from IIT Bombay in India and spent two years working as an Engineer at TEX E.G. Co., Ltd. in Japan. Welcome, Todd and Rohan!
Sheng passed his Ph.D. final oral exam. Big congrats to Dr. Shen!
Nazli and Hao completed their internships at Grace Technologies. Their intern work focused on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Predictive Maintenance of Industrial Equipment. Here is an article on the Grace HumpDay Blog where Nazli and Hao reflected on their learnings from their internship experiences: https://www.graceport.com/blog/grace-internships-2020.
Meng passed his Ph.D. final oral exam. He will start working as a Data Scientist at National Oilwell Varco. Big congrats to Dr. Li!
Adam Thelen joined SRSL for his Ph.D. study in May 2020. He was an undergraduate student majoring in ME at ISU. His first semester as a Ph.D. student started on May 18, 2020. Welcome, Adam!
Dr. Venkat Pavan Nemani joined SRSL for his postdoctoral studies and Nazli Javadi Eshkalak joined SRSL for her Ph.D. studies. Welcome, Dr. Nemani and Nazli!
Martin A. Martinez, who had worked in SRSL as an REU student in the past summer, received the Emerging Graduate Student Award for Research Excellence in Mechanical Engineering graduate programs. This award recognizes students with great potential for academic excellence in mechanical engineering research. Congrats!
Meng was offered a summer internship at Leica Biosystems, a medical device company and a division of Danaher Corporation. He will work full-time as a student engineer from this June to August. Congratulations!
Mohammad passed his Ph.D. final oral exam. Big congrats to Dr. Sadoughi!