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
CV

Postdoctoral Researchers (1)

Dr. Yujia Min

Postdoc (2022 – Present)

PhD: Washington University in

St. Louis (2017)

PhD Candidates (11)


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 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)

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


Aysan Farajnia

PhD Candidate (2023 – Present)

BS+MS: Shahid Beheshti University (2020)


Momina Rauf

PhD Candidate (2023 – Present)

MS: National University of Sciences and Technology (2019)


Gyeongryul Kim

PhD Candidate (2024 – Present)

BS+MS: Hanyang University (2023)



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):

2025: Hossein Kabir (PhD, in), Sunav Dahal (MS, in), Nischal Kanel (MS, in)
 
2024: Krishna C. Polavaram (PhD, in), Hamza Samouh (Postdoc, in), Sudharsan Rathnakumar (MS, in), Mohamed Abdelrahman (MS, in)
 
2023: Omar Abdelrahman (MS, in), Jacob Doehring (MS, in), Dhanush S. Bejjarapu (MS, in), Andrew Witte (MS, in)
 
2022: Pablo Romero (MS, in), Sonali Srivastava (MS, in), Ravi Sharma (MS, in)

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