People

Principal Investigator

Konrad Rykaczewski

Portrait of Konrad Rykaczewski

Konrad Rykaczewski is an associate professor at School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at ASU. He received his BS (2005), MS (2007) and PhD (2009) in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology under supervision of Prof. Andrei Fedorov. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he was a research scientist at MIT working with Prof. Kripa Vanarasi’s group and NRC postdoctoral fellow at NIST.

contact: konradr (at) asu.edu

Students

  1. Aastha Uppal, PhD ME 2022, co-advised with Prof. Robert Wang
  2. Najam Ul Hassan Shan, PhD ME 2022-23, co-advised with Prof. Robert Wang
  3. Shreyas Kanetkar, PhD CHE, co-advised with Prof. Robert Wang
  4. Sai Susmitha Guddanti, MS AE
  5. Shri Harri Viswanathan, MS ME
  6. Daniel Martinez, UG ME
  7. Lyle Bartels, UG ME
  8. Ajay Sharma, MS ME
  9. Aditya Patil, MS ME
  10. Mahima Gupta, MS AE
  11. Vinay Kamleshbhai Nanami, MS ME
  12. Rajesh Ramesh, MS ME

Alumni

  1. Wilson Kong (PhD MSE 2021) @ NRC postdoctoral fellow at Air Force Research Lab
  2. Praveen Kotagama (PhD ME 2020) @ Intel
  3. Chad (Kenneth) Manning (PhD CHE 2020) @ Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head
  4. Akshay Phadnis (PhD ME 2019) @ Intel
  5. Matthew Ralphs* (PhD ME 2019) @ Space Dynamics Laboratory
  6. Xiaoda Sun (PhD ME 2017) @ Applied Materials
  7. Viraj Damle (PhD ME 2017) @ QZabre, past Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at University of Groningen
  8. Nathan Casey (MS CHE 2022) @ ASM
  9. Thomas Nordstog (MS ME 2022) @ Intel
  10. Tanmay Dhanote (MS ME 2021) @ Applied Materials
  11. Saurabh Pradhu (MS ME 2019) @ ASU
  12. Dylan DeBruin (MS CHE 2019) @ Gore
  13. Nick Kemme (MS ME 2017) @ General Atomics
  14. Aastha Uppal (MS ME 2016) @ Intel
  15. Ajay Roopesh (MS ME 2015) @ Axis Inc.
  16. Shanliangzi Liu (MS MSE 2015) Postdoc @ Northwestern University
  17. Kyle Doudrick (postdoc 2013-14) Assistant Professor @ Notre Dame University

Former volunteer researchers

Undergraduate: Nicholas Kemme, Matt Hart, Leo Lin , Nicholas Dhuyvetter, Rubin Linder, Chris Schott, Danny Sinnolet, Ian Sanders, Chandler Scheitlin, Erik Woods, Cassidee Kido. 

Masters: David Tome, Niravkumar Bulsara , Emil Joseph (visiting researcher), Salil Rabade, Sujal Tipis, Sushruth Subbarao, Abhishiktha Tummala, Sriram Chandrashekar, Gopala Akella.