Group members

Sanket Mundhe

Now: Cell Product Development Staff Engineer, Tesla (previously Senior Engineer, Our Next Energy)

Yamini Kurapati

Gowtham Rajkumar

Sathish Rajendran

Now: Ford Motor Company · Argonne National Laboratory

Maher Almohammedali

Kiran Mahankali

Now: Staff Materials Scientist, Lyten

Nirul Masurkar

Now: Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Deepesh Gopalakrishnan

Now: Sr. Energy and Power Devices Research Scientist, Nissan

Uday Praveen Tiruvalluri

Now: Senior Mechanical Engineer, VenTek International, Petaluma, CA (since June 2025)

Hesham Al Salem

Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tafila Technical University, Jordan

Khalid Ababtain

Now: Assistant Professor, Yanbu Industrial College, Saudi Arabia

Sanjeev Selvan Porchelvan

Now: LG Energy Solution, Troy, MI

Bassam Bitar

Now: Staff Engineer, Stryker Instruments

Devang Marvania

Now: Senior Calibration Engineer, Low-Voltage Infrastructure, General Motors, Milford, MI

Chalicheemalapalli J. Deviprasad

Now: Paderborn University, Germany: Research Associate, Automotive Lightweight Design (LiA), 2016 – 2026

Darina Gopchenko

B.S. and M.S., Wayne State University

Dr. Naresh Thangavel

Now: Senior Researcher, Lyten (previously Reliance Industries, New Energy battery R&D)

Dr. Munaiah Yeddala

Now: Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (since Jan 2025)

Dr. Shuangjie Liu

Now: Professor, School of Equipment Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, China

Dr. Babu Ganguli

Now: Battery Materials Scientist, Tesla (previously Senior Manager, Lyten)

Dr. Bhuvaneswari Dharamarajan

2014-2017

Dr. Venkateswara Rao Chitturi

Now: Senior Scientist, Wonik Materials North America / Nova-Kem LLC

Dr. Humeshkar Nemala

Now: Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Illinois Wesleyan University

Prajakta Kulkarni

Worked Oct 2018 to May 2021

Prachi Deshpande

Now: Software Engineer, Cisco (AppDynamics), Folsom, CA (since 2020)

Abdualrazzag Sawas

Worked Sept 2014 to May 2018

Sushil Bhosale

Now: Project Engineer, automotive thermal systems, PACCAR (Dallas–Fort Worth, TX)

Rukshal Masurkar

Now: CAE / R&D Engineer, Superior Industries (since August 2015)

Rohit Panikar

Now: Business excellence and transformation (previously Cummins, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors)

Gregory Hunter

Ann Amarachi Mark

Samia Alkatie

Neha Bhagirath

Now: Lead Modeling Engineer, Stellantis, Auburn Hills, MI

Jacqueline Wax

Ao Yang Yu

Now: Engineer, General Motors

Petro Kindratsky

Mary Rose Azar

Aida Mouzoon

Mykyta Mihalkin