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
CV
Postdoctoral Researchers (1)
PhD Candidates (11)

PhD Candidate (2020 – Present)
MS: Kansas State Univ. (2020)
BS: An-Najah National University (2016)

PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)
MS: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Tech. (2019)
BS: Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Tech. (2017)

PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)
MS: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021)
BS: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi (2018)

PhD Candidate (2021 – Present)
MS: The University of Tokyo (2021)
BS: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2019)

PhD Candidate (2022 – Present)
MS: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020)
BS: University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (2016)

PhD Candidate (2023 – Present)
MS: National University of Sciences and Technology (2019)
MS Candidates (6)

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

Yaman Garg
MS Candidate (2023 – Present)
BS: New York University Abu Dhabi (2022)

Ayyan Iqbal
MS Candidate (2024 – Present)
BS: University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (2022)

Bhuvesh Jaiswal
MS Candidate (2024 – Present)
BS: IIT Gandhinagar (2024)

Achyuth Kumar
MS Candidate (2025 – Present)
BS: National Institute of Technology Warangal (2024)

Bilal Khan
MS Candidate (2025 – Present)
BS: Middle East Technical University (2024)
Undergraduate Students (15)
Spring 2025: Juhnyun Back, Hayden Bui, Riddhi Chauhan, Ehyeok Choi, Laurel Decker, Cam Nguyen Huynh, Sangmin Kim, Mackenzie Kimble, Charles Knight, Venkata Krishna Teja Kolla, Yangze Liu, Fabian Padron, Thai Vu Tran, HaoChen Xia, Zayd Khan
Alumni
Graduate (13) & Postdoc (1):
Undergraduate (63):
2025: Yating Feng
2024: Xiaorui Gu, Emily Anak Victor Libau, Izzatul H S Izam, Mackenzie Kimble, Megan Otto, Andrea Nava, Jenny Hu, Jiewen Chen, Jocelyn Pytel, Rawda Abdeltawab, Vira Kasprova, Encheng Xie, Conor Blount, Xinyi Hu, Karan Jain, Duc Nguyen, Corey Yin, Ayush Jayakannan, Manav Balasubramanian Sankaran, Geovany Arias, Macey DeMoss, Fabian Padron, Saniya Wasti
2023: Marla Portillo, Rydon Jalley, Jiwon Park, Han Sae Cho, Ben Manaugh, Kyle Langenstein, Jiarui Yu, Daniel Sawai, Jordan Westphal, Wan Tsz Yik, Halle-Mari Santiago, Chung-Yen Fann, Jessica Nguyen
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
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Last Updated: May 15, 2025