Past members

Graduate students

Spencer Currie, B.S.
Current position: Graduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine

Graduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2023-2024
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022-2023
UCI SURP Fellow, 2022

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Irvine (2023)

Research interests: Control theory, autonomous driving, material synthesis, natural gas reforming

Undergraduate students

James Wateska
Current position: Graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022-2023
Research interests: Additive manufacturing, 3D printing

Lawrence Lu
Current position: Graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022-2023
Research interests: High-speed diagnostics in reacting flows

Felix Liu
Current position: Mechanical Engineering Intern at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022-2023
Research interests: Computational fluid dynamics, OpenFOAM

Michael Truong
Current position: Mechanical Engineer 1 at Design West Technologies
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022-2023
Research interests: Aerospace propulsion, carbon materials

Narek Kajikian
Current position: Build Reliability Engineer at SpaceX
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022-2023
UCI UROP Fellow, 2022
Research interests: Rotating detonation engines

Caden Donovan
Undergraduate Student Researcher, MAE, UC Irvine, 2022
Research interests: Computational fluid dynamics, machine learning