Distinguished Professor Enrique J. Lavernia 
Principal Investigator

 

 

 

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Yizhang Zhou 
Senior Staff Scientist

 

 

 

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Darryl Mack 
Senior Development Engineer

 

 

 

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Ephie Bakou
Senior Contract & Grant Analyst

 

 

 

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Baolong Zheng
Project Scientist

Joined Prof. Lavernia’s research group as a student January 2002 and received Ph.D degree in June 2006. He has extensive experience in materials processing and characterization, including development of non-equilibrium (nanocrystalline and amorphous) structured novel alloys and composites with laser based additive manufacturing, gas atomization and spray forming, mechanical milling and alloying, spark plasma sintering, coating, extrusion, and rolling, etc.  

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Dafan Du
Post Doctoral Scholar

 

 

 

 

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Cheng Zhang

Post Doctoral Scholar

 

 

 

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Ben Macdonald
Ph.D. Student

Pursues his graduate studies through investigation of fundamental phenomena in a novel materials system, high entropy alloys.

 

 

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Kehang Yu
Ph.D. Student

Joined the Lavernia research group in 2018 and is now researching deformation twinning on Mg and its alloys under an NSF DMREF program. He received his B.S. degree from Fudan University.

 

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Calvin Belcher
Ph.D. Student

Joined the Lavernia research group in 2019 and is now studying powder metallurgy and process design of soft magnetic alloys for transformer cores.

 

 

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Dr. Byoungchul Hwang
Visiting Scholar – Seoul National University of Science and Technology