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. Ainur Sabirova

Dr. Ainur Sabirova

Dr. Ainur Sabirova is a postdoctoral research scholar at Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. degree at the Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Before that, she completed her master’s degree at the University of Science and Technology of Lille, France. […]

Yubo Song

Yubo Song

Yubo Song completed his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 2023. During his undergraduate years, he focused on a range of skills including Thermal Management, Particle Image Velocimetry, Finite Element Analysis, Flow Simulation, and PCB Design and Assembly. As a SURF Research Fellow at the Semiconductor Packaging Lab, Yubo worked on applied […]

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 […]

Aaron Du

Aaron Du

Aaron Du is a highschool student at West Lafayette High School. He is interested in a career in engineering, and has participated in mathematics competitions and science fairs in order to prepare himself. He is currently working on optimizing electroplating techniques and exploring various advanced packaging methods. In his free time, he enjoys playing violin, […]

Akshat Patel

Akshat Patel

Akshat Patel received his B. Tech (Bachelor of Technology) from Institute of Technology, Nirma University (ITNU) in 2021. He also worked as a research intern at the thermal engineering division of Space Applications Centre (SAC-ISRO) till January 2023. He will be pursuing his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He has worked on novel […]

Feifan Xie

Feifan Xie

Feifan Xie received his bachelor’s degree at Zhejiang University in 2023. He was an exchange student at UIUC,IL and a visiting undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, MD. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. His primary interest is in fluid mechanics and heat transfer and he is working […]

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 […]