Yasser Ashraf Gandomi
Yasser completed his PhD in December 2018 and is a senior battery scientist.
James Bothe
James served as a postdoctoral associate for the lab until October 2011 and is an instructor at Stark State College.
Ozgur Cekmer
Ozgur received his PhD in summer 2015 and is a Post-Doc at Aix-Marseille University.
Subhadeep Chakrabortry
Subhadeep served as a post doctoral associate for the lab until fall 2012 and is an associate professor in the mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering department at the University of Tennessee.
Kyu Taek Cho
Kyu served as a post doctoral associate for the lab until October 2010 and is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Northern Illinois University.
Abel Chuang
Abel served as a post-doctoral research associate in 2002 and is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Merced.
Jason Clement
Jason received his PhD on October 13, 2016 and is a staff design engineer at Kaleidoscope Innovation and Product Design.
Cyrus Daugherty
Cyrus completed his PhD on November 9, 2020.
Qunlong Dong
Qunlong earned his PhD in summer 2006 and is a technology specialist, senior staff engineer at Volvo Group Trucks Technology.
Suhao He
Suhao earned his PhD in May 2007 and is a regional technology manager for Corning.
Tugrul Ertugrul
Tugrul earned his PhD in December 2021 and is a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Jake Houser
Jake earned his PhD in November 2018 and is a general engineer at the U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center.
Manish Khandelwal
Manish earned his PhD in November 2008 and is a senior scientist for UTC.
Saiid Kassaee
Saiid completed his PhD in the spring of 2021 and is a equipment and tools engineer at Boeing.
Soowhan Kim
Soowhan served as a post doctoral associate in the lab until June 2009 and is a principal researcher and fellow at OCI Corporation.
E. Caglan Kumbur
After completing his PhD under Matthew Mench, Caglan served as the associate director of the lab until September 2009. He is an associate professor and recipient of an NSF Early Career Development CAREER Award in the department of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Jake LaManna
Jake received his PhD in fall 2014, and is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Qingha Liu
Qingha served as a post doctoral associate for the lab until fall 2012, and is chief technology officer of a battery start-up company in China.
Michael Manahan
Michael received his PhD in spring 2013 and is a research associate at Penn State University.
Shiqi (Shawn) Ou
Shiqi received his PhD on October 30, 2015, and is a faculty member at the School of Future Technology at the South China University of Technology.
Jon Owejan
Jon received his PhD in spring 2014, and is an associate professor of mechanical and electrical engineering at Alfred State University.
Alan Pezeshki
Alan received his PhD on July 29, 2016, and is chief technology officer for Peroxygen Systems, Inc.
Rama Ramasamy
Rama served as a research associate in the lab from Dec 2005 to July 2008 and is a professor and associate dean of academic affairs and assessment at University of Georgia.
Erin Redmond
Erin served as a post-doctoral assistant for the lab until December 2014 and is a membrane technologist at W.L. Gore and Associates.
Anirban Roy
Anirban received his PhD in summer 2024 and is a postdoctoral researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Preetam Sharma
Preetam received his PhD in summer 2024 and is a postdoctoral researcher in the EESC.
Abdulkader (AK) Srouji
AK received his PhD in spring 2013 and is a principal battery scientist at Romeo Power.
Ahmet Turhan
Ahmet received his PhD under Matthew Mench and served as the post doctoral associate for the lab until spring 2013. He is a senior design engineer at ASELSAN Inc. in Turkey.
Feng Yuan Zhang
Feng served as a post doctoral associate for the lab until fall 2012 and is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee.
Lijuan Zheng
Lijuan received her PhD in spring 2013 and is a senior process development engineer in modeling and simulation at Proctor & Gamble.
Hemant Bajpai
Hemant earned his MS in 2010 and is a senior software engineer at Microsoft.
Kamalesh S. Bambare
Kamalesh earned his MS in May 2008 and works for Exa Corporation.
Andrew Burch
Andrew earned his MS on October 21, 2015 and is an application developer for Farm Credit Services of America.
Dan Burford
Dan earned his MS in spring 2004 and is a reliability engineer at DuPont.
Charlie Chacko
Charlie earned his MS in August 2008 and is a senior mechanical engineer at Defibtech, LLC.
Henry Chance
Henry Chance became the first alumni of the Mench group in spring 2003 and is now a master scheduler at JANUS Research Group.
Michael Early
Michael earned his MS in summer 2005 and is a project manager at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Berk Gerdes
Berk earned his MS in summer 2005 and works for DuPont.
Marta Hatzell
Marta earned her MS in 2010 and is an assistant professor at Georgia Tech.
F. Erinc Hizir
Erinc earned his MS in 2010 and is a PhD student at MIT.
J.J. Kowal
J.J. earned his MS in summer 2006 and is an electronics engineer for the US Army.
Rong Li
Rong earned her MS in May 2010 and is a reservoir engineer at ExxonMobil.
Nick Pekula
Nick earned his MS in spring 2004 and is a turnaround manager at PBF Energy.
Susan Red Cloud-Owen
Susan earned her MS in May 2009 and works for General Electric.
Susan Reid
Susan earned her MS in May 2013 and is an engineer at Restoration Services, Inc.
Tushar Swamy
Tushar Swamy earned his MS in 2010, got a PhD at MIT, and is now a senior cell engineer for Uber.
Ya-Ching Tseng
Ya-Ching earned her MS in 2010 and is senior process engineer at REC.
Quoqing (Jerry) Xu
Jerry earned his MS in fall 2013. He passed away in 2015.
Gif Zafred
Gif earned his MS in May 2009 and is a senior engineer at Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (BMPC).
Undergraduate Honors Students from the Mench lab
- Mark Brill (2007)
- Jake Comerford (2010)
- Elise Corbin (2007)
- Dustin Dienno (2004)
- Matthew Edson (2005)
- Michael Glath (2009)
- Marta Hatzell (2009)
- Benjamin Krzyzewski (2007)
- Jon Kull (2004)
- Chris Sommers (2007)
- Stephen Soung (2005)
- Zachary Trimmer (2010)
- Ben Webb (2015)
Undergraduates who worked at the Mench lab
- C. Ryan Alexander (2004)
- Aram Bejnood (2015)
- Austin Brown (2013)
- Ellen Cardwell (2016)
- June Cho (2021)
- Tommiejean Christensen (2020)
- Tyler Davis (2003)
- Mike Early
- Dom Falcone (2003)
- Isaac Grant (2023)
- Denham Hall (2011)
- Grace Biggs Hall (2014)
- Kolby Hamilton (2012)
- Caitlin Hensley (2017)
- Colby Jarrett (2010)
- Bailey Ketron (2012)
- Katie King (2011)
- Elizabeth Lulley
- Pete Ollis (2002)
- Hannah Myers (2011)
- Zachary Nolan (2020)
- Travis Roock (2016)
- Mitchel Routh (2010)
- Dan Shields (2004)
- Clifford Swanson (2017)
- June Cho (2019)
- Tommie Jean Christensen (2019)
- Isaac Grant (2021)
- Derrick Bailey (2021)
- Tom Donahue (2023)
- Will Buziak (2023)