Lab Members

Devang Tavkari

Devang Tavkari

Hello! I am Devang. I recently finished my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington in May 2024. Starting from June 2024, I will be pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. I will be working on a project related to heat spreading in thermal interface materials, which will […]

Dr. Gopinath Sahu

Dr. Gopinath Sahu

Gopinath earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur, where he worked jointly with Dr. Sameer Khandekar and Dr. K. Muralidhar. His doctoral research focused on investigation of liquid jet and spray impingement heat transfer over high-power electronics. Currently, he is working with Professor Justin A. Weibel and Prof. Tiwei Wei at CTRC and S-PACK […]

Dr. Ketan Yogi

Dr. Ketan Yogi

Dr. Ketan Yogi is postdoctoral research scholar at Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering. Before joining Purdue University, he worked as post-doctoral research fellow in Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Bombay, INDIA from 2022 to 2023. He was working on the heat transfer with the combination of jet impingement and periodic metal foam using IR […]

Keyu Wang

Keyu Wang

Keyu Wang received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from Nankai University. Afterward, she completed a master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Duke University in 2022. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. She is interested in advanced semiconductor packaging and thermal management technologies. Outside of the […]

Lab member, Shuhang Lyu

Shuhang Lyu

Shuhang received his MS in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 2022. Before that, he was an undergraduate student majoring in Energy and Power Engineering at North China Electric Power University. He is now pursuing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. In his BS and MS study, Shuhang […]

Dr. Tiwei Wei

Dr. Tiwei Wei

Tiwei Wei is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He worked as an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University from 2022 to 2025. He was the postdoc research scholar in the NanoHeat lab at Stanford University between 2020 and 2022, working with […]