Team

Principal Investigator

“Let’s examine materials at the small scale and not lose sight of the big picture.”

Prof. Nishant Garg
Assistant Professor
(217) 300-9448
garg-group@illinois.edu

Postdoctoral Researchers (2)

Dr. Hamza Samouh
Postdoc (2021 – Present)

PhD: Ecole Centrale de Nantes (2015)
Dr. Yujia Min
Postdoc (2022 – Present)

PhD: Washington University in St. Louis (2017)

PhD Candidates (12)

Krishna C. Polavaram
PhD Candidate (2019 – Present)

BS+MS: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2019)
Hossein Kabir
PhD Candidate (2020 – Present)

MS: University of Toronto (2019)

BS: Sharif University of Technology (2016)
Faisal Qadri
PhD Candidate (2020 – Present)

MS: Kansas State Univ. (2020)

BS: An-Najah National University (2016)
Bayezid Baten
PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)

MS: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Tech. (2019)

BS: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Tech. (2017)
Vikram Kumar
PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)

MS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2021)

BS: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (2018)
Chirayu Kothari
PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)

MS: The University of Tokyo (2021)

BS: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2019)
Hyeonseok Jee
PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)

BS+MS: Hanyang University (2020)
Brandy Diggs-McGee
PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)

BS+MS: North Carolina A&T State University (2017)
Farjad Iqbal
PhD Candidate (2022 – Present)

MS: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020)

BS: University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (2016)
Tausif Elahi
PhD Candidate (2022 – Present)

MS: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Tech. (2021)

BS: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Tech. (2018)
Aysan Farajnia
PhD Candidate (2023 – Present)

MS: Shahid Beheshti University (2020)

BS: University of Tabriz (2016)
Momina Rauf
PhD Candidate (2023 – Present)

MS: National University of Sciences and Technology (2019)

BS: University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (2016)

MS Candidates (7)

Andrew Witte
MS Candidate (2021 – Present)

BS: Valparaiso University (2021)

Mohamed Abdelrahman
MS Candidate (2022 – Present)

BS: Helwan University (2019)

Sudharsan Rathnakumar
MS Candidate (2022 – Present)

BS: National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (2022)
Sunav Dahal
MS Candidate (2023 – Present)

BS: Tribhuvan University (2017)
Nanzeeba Tabassum
MS Candidate (2023 – Present)

BS: Military Institute of Science and Technology (2018)
Nischal Kanel
MS Candidate (2023 – Present)

BS: Kathmandu Engineering College (2022)
Yaman Garg
MS Candidate (2023 – Present)

BS: New York University Abu Dhabi (2022)

Other Graduate Students

Students collaborating and/or pursuing side projects with Garg Group:

Manal Anis: 2021 – Present

Aniruddha Baral: 2019 – 2022

Undergraduate Students (11)

Summer 2023: Halle-Mari Santiago, Kyle Langenstein, Mackenzie Kimble, Izzatul H S Izam, Jiarui Yu, Emily Anak Victor Libau, Yating Feng, Xiaorui Gu, Daniel Sawai, Jordan Westphal, Wan Tsz Yik

Alumni

Graduate (6):

2023: Omar Abdelrahman (MS, in), Jacob Doehring (MS, in), Dhanush S. Bejjarapu (MS, in)

2022: Pablo Romero (MS, in), Sonali Srivastava (MS, in), Ravi Sharma (MS, in)

Undergraduate (31):

2023: Marla Portillo, Rydon Jalley, Jiwon Park, Han Sae Cho, Ben Manaugh

2022: Grant E. Siegmund, Mary De Guzman, Jee Min Kim, Nurul Husna, Saranya Yegappan, Yize Chen, Evan Saebeler, Yunseok Lee, Boyang Zhang, Micah Rubel, Shiven Garg, Min Young Kim, Muskan Jain

2021: Ishaan Murarka, Nithiya Vivagandan, Ishita Purwar

2020: Jacob Doehring, Xinyu Teng, Ananya Mittal, Bhagya Devnani, Matthew Grendzinski

2019: Cyrus Wang, Dev Patel, Lewis Monaxios, Paul Segovich, Heather Gathman

Last Updated: June 15, 2023