People

Principal Investigator

Dhruv Bhate (ASU Bio Page)
– Associate Professor, The Polytechnic School,
– Affiliate Faculty, The Biomimicry Center,
– Graduate Faculty in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy

Brief CV
Professional Experience:
2017-present: Associate Professor, Arizona State University
2015-17: Sr. Technologist, Additive Manufacturing, PADT Inc.
2008-15: Process Engineer and Manager, Assembly Technology Development, Intel Corporation
2003-04: Bass guitar and singer-songwriter, The Blackbirds
2000-01: Engineering Co-Op, Tata Motors
Education:
2008: PhD (Fatigue Modeling), Purdue University
2003: MS (MEMS Adhesion Modeling), University of Colorado at Boulder
2001: BS (Mechanical Engineering), College of Engineering, Pune

PhD Students

Jordan Yaple (started Fall ’22)   Structural Weaves with Additive Manufacturing

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Tyler Smith (started Fall ’20)   Fatigue Failure Modeling of Additively Manufactured Metallic Cellular Materials

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Yash Mistry (started Summer ’20) Bio-inspired Weaves and Branches with Additive Manufacturing

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Cameron Noe (started Spring ’19)   Integrated Heat Pipes with Laser Powder Bed Fusion

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Irving Edwin Ramirez Chavez (started Fall ’18)   Deformation and Energy Absorption in Aperiodic Cellular Materials

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MS Students

 

Aniruddha Talange (Applied Project)   Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Bio-inspired Branching Channels for Fluid Flow

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Nicole Van Handel (Research Portfolio)   Image Processing and Analysis in the Mechanics of Architected Cellular Materials

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Undergraduates

Alexander Potts [Barrett Honors Thesis, co-advised with Prof. Xiangfan Chen]   Design and Manufacturing of Hair-Like Structures

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Zachary Goode   3D Printed Heat Pipes for Thermal Management

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Andrew Sarrasin [Co-advised with Prof. Heather Emady]   Characterization of particle trapping in hair-like structures

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Alumni (updated 03/2023)

• Post-Doc
  • Dr. Prince Jeya Lal Lazar (2021) – Faculty member at Bharath Institute of Higher Ed. & Research – LinkedIn
• PhD
  • Dr. Mandar Shinde (2018-23) – Packaging Engineer at Intel Corporation – LinkedIn
  • Dr. Paul Paradise (2018-22) – Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – LinkedIn
•  MS
  • Thesis
    • Athul Rajeev (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Jordan Yaple (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Samuel Temes (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Anushree Saxena (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn 
    • Rajeshree Varma (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Derek Goss (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Dhiraj Patil (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn
    • Raghav Sharma (M.S. ’19) –  LinkedIn
  • Applied Project
    • Mikayla Johnston (M.S. ’22) – LinkedIn
    • Kevin White (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Shawn Clonts (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Sean Lederer (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Antony Romero (M.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Andrew Creasman (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Yash Mistry (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Varun Agrawal (M.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
    • Bharath Santhanam (M.S. ’19) – LinkedIn
  • Independent Study
    • Afsana Nizamudeen (M.S. ’23) – LinkedIn
•  Undergraduates
  • Barrett Honors Thesis
    • Sameer Naguib (B.S. ’22) – LinkedIn
    • Nicole Van Handel (B.S. ’22) – co-advised with Prof. Shenghan Guo – LinkedIn
    • Jaime Andreotti (B.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Andrew Fechter (B.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
    • Thao Le (M.S. ’18) –  LinkedIn
    • Ziyad Salti (B.S ’18) – LinkedIn
    • Trevor Eppley (B.S. ’18) –  LinkedIn
  • Austin Suder (B.S. ’23) – LinkedIn
  • Daniel Anderson (B.S. ’20) – LinkedIn
  • Daniel Bruce (B.S. ’21) – LinkedIn
  • Quoc Lam (B.S. ’18) –  LinkedIn

Research Collaborators (Current)

Academia

• Prof. Clint Penick, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, at Kennesaw State University
• Prof. Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
• Christine Lee, Director, Interwoven Labs
• Prof. Xiangfan Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University
• Prof. Enrique Cuan-Urquizo, Assistant Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
• Prof. Shenghan Guo, Assistant Professor, School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University

Industry

• Donald Godfrey, Senior Fellow, SLM Solutions, Inc.
• Dr. Alex Grishin, Consulting Engineer at Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies, Inc.

Group Photos

November 2021

November 2019Picture credits: Kevin Steverson