Team – Garg Group

Principal Investigator

“Let’s examine materials at the small scale and not lose sight of the big picture.”
Dr. Nishant Garg
Assistant Professor
(217) 300-9448
nishantg@illinois.edu

Graduate Students

PhD Candidates

**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)

MS Candidates

**Pratyush Kumar**
*MS Candidate (2019 – Present)*

*BS: Vellore Institute of Technology (2019)*

**Ravi Sharma**
*MS Candidate (2021 – Present)*

*BS: Indian Institute of Technology Indore (2020)*

**Pablo R. Contreras**
*MS Candidate (2020 – Present)*

*BS: University of Santiago Chile (2016)* d

**Omar Abdelrahman**
*MS Candidate (2021 – Present)*

*BS: Helwan University (2017)*

**Vikram Kumar**
*MS Candidate (2020 – Present)*

*BS: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (2018)*

**Jacob Doehring**
MS Candidate (2021 – Present)

BS: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2021)

**Sonali Srivastava**
*MS Candidate (2020 – Present)*

*BS: Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (2019)*

Undergraduate Students

Summer 2021: Ishaan Murarka, Grant E. Siegmund, Nithiya Vivagandan

Alumni

Graduate: TBA

Undergraduate:

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

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

Last Updated: July 18, 2021