About the Instructors
Alejandro Strachan is a Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University and the Deputy Director of the Purdue’s Center for Predictive Materials and Devices (c-PRIMED). He leads the efforts on uncertainty quantification and materials NSF’s Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Before joining Purdue, he was a Staff Member in the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar and Scientist at Caltech. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1999. Among other recognitions, Prof. Strachan was named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar (2012-2017), received the Early Career Faculty Fellow Award from TMS in 2009 and the Schuhmann Best Undergraduate Teacher Award from the School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University in 2007.
Prof. Strachan’s research focuses on the development of predictive atomistic and molecular simulation methodologies to describe materials from first principles, their application to problems of technological importance and quantification of associated uncertainties. Application areas of interest include: coupled electronic, chemical and thermo-mechanical processes in devices of interest for nanoelectronics and energy as well as polymers and their composites, molecular solids and active materials, including shape memory and high-energy density materials. His research has resulted in over 95 peer reviewed journal publications.
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JOeDlUkAAAAJ Publication list.]
Joe Cychosz began his computing career in 1974 at the University of Illinois where he became an electrical engineer by degree and a programmer by trade while working with the Control Data computer systems which comprised the university’s computing center and PLATO system. Upon leaving the University of Illinois Joe went to work for Control Data where he eventually served as technical liaison between CDC’s Supercomputing and CADCAM divisions and various university efforts. One of which evolved into Purdue’s NSF funded ERC for Collaborative Manufacturing.
With the founding of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and the NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing in 2002 Joe joined these efforts as systems manager and has since migrate to production manager for online presentations and serves as site lead for the NCN@Purdue effort.
Joe has a masters in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, has published several articles on computer graphics and has authored contributions in the Graphics Gems series. He has chaired various committees for SIGGRAPH and is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
DR. PETER BERMEL is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His research focuses on improving the performance of photovoltaic, thermophotovoltaic, and nonlinear systems using the principles of nanophotonics. Key enabling techniques for his work include electromagnetic and electronic theory, modeling, simulation, fabrication, and characterization.
Dr. Bermel is widely-published in both scientific peer-reviewed journals and publications geared towards the general public. His work includes the following topics:
- Understanding and optimizing the detailed mechanisms of light trapping in thin-film photovoltaics
- Fabricating and characterizing 3D inverse opal photonic crystals made from silicon for photovoltaics, and comparing to theoretical predictions
- Explaining key physical effects influencing selective thermal emitters in order to achieve high performance thermophotovoltaic systems
Dr. Bermel and his colleagues have built and made available on nanoHUB several widely used electromagnetic simulation tools, including the TPV efficiency simulation and TPXsim to simulate the efficiency of thermophotovoltaic systems; MEEPPV, a Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation for photovoltaic cells; and S4: Stanford Stratified Structure Solver, a frequency domain code to solve layered periodic structures.
Extending on this pioneering work, Dr. Bermel has also developed a five-week nanoHUB-U course on nanophotonic modeling to explore the next generation of optical and opto-electronic systems. The course will include advanced methods of simulating nanophotonic, plasmonic, and metamaterial structures. Related applications in thermal radiation will also be discussed.
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Dr. Justin A. Weibel is a Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University. He received the BMSE from Purdue in 2007, and his Ph.D. from Purdue in 2012. His research focuses on two-phase electronics cooling and packaging solutions, heat pipe testing, modeling, and design, optimization and analysis of porous structures for use in thermal management applications, and thermal system analysis for energy efficiency. Recently, he received the 2011 ASME Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) Student Member of the Year Award in recognition of a student who has excelled in research and has shown promise to be a strong contributor in the field of electronic and photonic packaging.
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Dhruv Bhate
Purdue University
Ganesh Subbarayan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He began his professional career at IBM Corporation (1990-1993). He holds a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and his M.S. (1989) and Ph. D. (1991) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Dr. Subbarayan's core research is broadly concerned with developing computational techniques to seamlessly integrate CAD with CAE while practical aspects of his research are to model and experimentally characterize failure in microelectronic devices and assemblies. He was a pioneer in using geometric models directly for analysis, popularly referred to as Isogeometric Analysis. As an independent consultant, he contributed to ensuring reliable designs of Microsoft Kinect and Surface line of products. Among others, Dr. Subbarayan is a recipient of the 2005 Mechanics Award from the ASME EPP Division and the NSF CAREER award. He is a Fellow of ASME as well as IEEE, and he served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging during 2002-2010. He also served as the topical editor for John Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering during 2011-2012.
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Dhruv Bhate is an associate professor at Arizona State University in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, where his research group (3DX Research) studies design and mechanics of additive manufacturing (AM) structures and materials. Prior to joining ASU, Dhruv spent two years at PADT, Inc, a small business in Tempe, AZ, where he led the company's R&D efforts in Additive Manufacturing. Prior to joining PADT, he spent seven years at Intel Corporation developing several laser-based manufacturing processes, taking them from early-stage research to High-Volume-Manufacturing. He also spent a year in the automotive industry, working for India’s largest car manufacturer, Tata Motors.
Dhruv has a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Purdue University where he developed constitutive and failure models for the prediction of fatigue fracture in ductile metal alloys. Prior to this, he obtained his master's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied the phenomenon of adhesion in MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) structures.
Education
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2008
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2003
B.E. Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India, 2001
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