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People of PERG

Director

Prof Alexander H. Slocum

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Rm 3-445

Cambridge, MA 02139

slocum@mit.edu | Personal Site

Interests: MEMS, Nanotechnology, Precision Engineering; Machine Design; Product Design; Going faster on my snowboard, staying down longer SCUBA diving!

Staff

Dr. Nevan Hanumara

Research Scientist

Rm 3-470 | +1.617.258.8541

hanumara@mit.edu

Medical Device Innovation Center

MIT Tata Center

2.75 / 2.753 Courses

MIT Global Startup Workshop

Interests: Medical Devices, Mechanical Design, Industrial Design, Entrepreneurship, Decent pastries

Dr. Antoni Gil

Rm 4-370

antonigp@mit.edu

Project: Concentrated Solar power on demand

Interests: Thermal and mechanical engineering, Solar energy, Life cycle assesment, coaching, discover sports, balance between stress with zen calm, capture the moment with my camera."

Deborah Alibrandi

Deborah Alibrandi

Administrative Assistant II

Rm 3-359 | +1.617.258.8541

deborah@mit.edu

 

Doctoral Students

Nikhil Padhye, MS

Rm 4-370

npdhye@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Thin-film tablet manufacturing

Interests: Engineering design, optimization, manufacturing processes, pharmaceuticals

Alison Greenlee, MS

Rm 3-470

palmtree@mit.edu

Project: Wave Energy

Interests: Things Solar

Tyler Wortman

Tyler Wortman, MS

National Science Foundation Research Fellow

Rm 3-470

wortman@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Skin Cancer Detection

Interests: Design, Entrepreneurship, Movies, Recreational Sports, Hunting/Fishing

Douglas Jonart, MS

Rm 3-438

jonart@mit.edu

Project: Submarine propulsion shaft life

Interests: Corrosion, metallurgy, ice hockey, alternative energy, games of every kind. beer brewing

David Taylor

David Taylor, MS

Tata Center for Technology and Design Fellow

Rm 3-470

dtaylor@mit.edu | LinkedIn

Project: Distributed Water Demand Management in Large Indian Cities

Interests: The Intersection of International Development, Engineering, and Systems Thinking; Windsurfing; West African Cuisine

Jacob Bayless

Jocelyn Kluger, MS

National Science Foundation Research Fellow

Rm 3-470

jociek@mit.edu | Personal Website

Project: Ambulatory vibration energy harvester

Interests: Renewable energy, System dynamics, Socializing, Chocolate

Maha Haji

Maha Haji, MS

National Science Foundation Research Fellow

Rm 3-438

mhaji@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Extraction of uranium from seawater

Interests: Ocean engineering, Renewable energy, Entrepreneurship, Underwater hockey

 

Master's Students

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Kevin Simon, BS

kevinpsi@mit.edu | Personal Website

Rm 3-438

Project: TBD (any recommendations?)

Interests: Energy, Bicycling, Emerging Economies, Food, Climbing, Compliant Actuation

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Jonathan Abbott, BS

Tata Center for Technology and Design Fellow

Rm 3-470

jabbott@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Beekeeping Technology for India

Interests: International Development, Church, Joggling, Trumpet, Ultimate

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Megan Lynn O'Brien, BS

Abdun-Nur Presidential Fellow

Rm 3-470

obrienm@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: TBD

Interests: Energy, climate change, skiing, mountain biking, dessert

 

Bachelor's Students

Charles Francois Marie Vitry

Charles Francois Marie Vitry

Cambridge - MIT Visiting Student

Rm 3-438

cv293@mit.edu

Project: Harvesting uranium from seawater

Interests: Energy, Manufacturing, Running, Startups

 

 

Recent Alumni

Nikolai Begg, PhD (2014)

Rm 3-470

nikolai@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Puncture Access, Remote Tissue Sampling, Surgical Instruments

Interests: Medical Device Design, Invention, Mechanism Design, Skiing, SCUBA Diving, Ice Hockey.

Folkers Rojas, PhD (2014)

Rm 3-470

folkersr@mit.edu

Personal Site

Project: HAWK Nest

GATES Millennium Scholar

Interests: Snowboarding, Scubadiving, Triathlons

Brandon Hopkins

Brandon Hopkins, MS (2014)

Rm 3-438

bhopkins@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Design of Flow Batteries

Interests: powerlifting and visual and performing arts

Nicholas Sondej, MS (2014)

nsondej@mit.edu | Personal Site

Rm 3-470

Project: Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing for Novartis-MIT CCM

Interests: Triathlons, skiing, biking, building gizmos, woodworking

Anthony Wong, MS (2014)

Rm 3-438

arwong@mit.edu

Project: Spherical Hydrostatic Bearings

Interests: Machine Design, Barbeque, Running

Just Herder

Prof. Just Herder

Visiting Professor, TU Deflt 2013 - 14

Rm 3-470 | +1.617.258.8541

deborah@mit.edu

Jacob Bayless

Jacob Bayless, MS (2014)

Rm 3-438

jbayless@mit.edu
Project: Turbo spindle design
Interests: Bicycling, electromagnetism, metrology, violin, Japanese language

Melanie Hoehl, PhD (2014)

Rm 3-438

melanie@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Low cost diagnostics

Interests: Engineering, healthcare in developing countries, entrepreneurship, travel, skiing, music, dogs

Brian Heberley, PhD

Rm 3-470

heberley@mit.edu

Project: Hydrostatic bearing

Interests: Hunting, fishing, golf, outdoor sports, Philadelphia Eagles

Omar Carrasquillo, MS

Rm 3-470

oyc@mit.edu

Project: Light-weight, portable solar concentrator

Interests: Basketball, skiing, traveling, beach

Emily Gobaty 

Emily Gorbaty, MS

Tata Center for Technology and Design Fellow

Rm 5-414
egorbaty@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Diesel-powered Submersible Pump for Groundwater Irrigation in Eastern India

Interests: International development, Traveling, SCUBA diving, Hiking, Blogging, Hindi

Gokhan Dundar, MS

Rm 5-309

gdundar@mit.edu

Project: Ocean renewable energy storage (ORES)

Interests: Renewable energy and design, diving, biking, sailing, tennis, baklava

L. Daniel Bridgers, MS

Rm 3-470

bridgers@mit.edu | Personal Site

Project: Brain containment device

Interests: Cycling, bike framebuilding, clever mechanical mechanisms, sustainable engineering, GTAW

 

Alumni

Fadi Abu-Ibrahim Daniel Frey Luis Muller Kate Thompson
Shorya Awtar Heinz Gaub Samir Nayfeh A Zachary Trimble
Asha Balakrishnan Marc Graham Don O'Sullivan Ryan Vallance
Eberhard Bamberg John Hart Andreas Pfahnl Tim Vanderpoel
Daniel Braunstein Chris Ho Jin Qiu Felipe Varela
Keith Breinlinger Carsten Hochmuth Melissa Read Conor Walsh
Mike Chiu Stephen Hou Alec Robertson Alexis Weber
Danny Codd Nathan Kane Matt Rosario Jaime Werkmeister
Roger Cortesi Sepehr Kiani Gerald Rothenhofer James White
Martin Culpepper Sami Kotilainen Gaurav Rohatgi Patrick Willoughby
Keith Durand David Levy Paul Scagnetti Onnik Yaglioglu
Farooq Ellahi Jian Li Mike Schmidt-Lange Xue'en Yang
Greg Fennell Hongshen Ma Joachim Sihler Julia Zimmerman
Stacy Figueredo Eric Marsh Micah Smith James Meredith
David Freeman Sean Montgomery Alexander Sprunt