Present Members

Peter W. Chung (pchung15 at umd dot edu) Professor of Mechanical Engineering.   Prof. Chung is also the Director of the Center for Engineering Concepts Development.

 

 

Post-Doctoral Associates

Sangeeth Balakrishnan (sbalakri at umd dot edu) is working on applying machine learning for molecular and material science, with particular research interests in the prediction and optimization of mechanical properties of materials.

 

 

Zhiyu Liu (zliu555 at umd dot edu) is working on the computation of phonon properties of crystalline solids.

 

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Kevin Hayes (khayes1 at umd dot edu) is an Ph.D. student researching applications of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP).

 

 

 

Jesse Hearn (jhearn11 at umd dot edu) is a Ph.D. student researching the application of machine learning techniques to the de novo design of polymer molecules.

 

 

Connor O’Ryan (coryan at umd dot edu) is a PhD student researching machine learning and natural language processing (NLP).

 

 

 

Undergraduates & Interns

Jeremy Litka

 

Prospective students are welcome to inquire about openings in the group.  Potential graduate students should review the admissions requirements for the department before doing so.

Former Members

Post-Docs

Dan Elton (last known at MGH Boston)

 

Abdollah Bagheri (last known in industry)

 

Graduates

Connor Quigley (MS 2022, last known at Thomas and Thomas, Greenfield, MA).

Gaurav Kumar (PhD 2021, last known at Purdue Univ)

 

Jie “Michael” Peng (PhD 2020 last known at Villanova Univ)

 

Frank VanGessel (PhD 2018 last known at University of Maryland)

 

Eunjeong Jeong (MS, 2017, last known at Major in ROK Air Force)

 

Joseph Andrews (Primary Advisor: Prof. Das, MS, 2016)

 

Rose Gallagher, nee Weisburgh (MS, 2016, last known at alarm.com)

 

Undergraduates & Interns

Precious Worgu (was MS student in Data Science and Analytics)

Sanjana Vellanki (from Comp Sci)

 

Peter Hwang  (from ME)

 

Alex Juan  (from Comp Sci)

 

Miranda Song  (from Comp Sci)

 

Luke Perry (from Comp Sci)

 

Rachel Flanagan (BS, 2016)

 

 

Minh Truong

 

Austin Kim

 

Mark Butrico

 

Meir Kreitman

 

Efrem Perry

 

Mary Katie Cobb (Richard Montgomery High School, Summer 2017)

 

Stacey Wardenfelt (Stevenson Univ, Summer 2016)

 

Lalitha Madduri (Mt Hebron HS, Summer 2016)

 

David Nguyen (Richard Montgomery HS, Summer 2015)