Doctoral Student Profiles
Email: jkkearns@wpi.edu
Joel Kearns is a part-time PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at WPI. He works full time as a member of the United States Government Senior Executive Service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is currently Deputy Director of the Space Flight Systems Directorate at NASA John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. There he provides executive direction of solar electric propulsion, cryogenic fluid management, radioisotope power, advanced communications and microgravity physical science research for NASA. He specializes in solidification and single ...
view profileEmail: jliu2@wpi.edu
Joining the electrochemical energy laboratory on 2012. Working on the design of High Energy Density Flow Battery and additive battery manufacturing. Interests on the Auto Industry and the Energy Industry.
view profileEmail: ypan@wpi.edu
B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China, 2012 M.S. in Material Science and Engineering, WPI, US, 2014 Ph.D. candidate in Material Science and Engineering, WPI, US, 2018 Mr. Pan joined the Integrative Material Design Center (iMdc) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute since 2012. His expertise is in areas of friction stir welding (FSW), metallurgy and micro-structure analysis, fracture and failure analysis, computational simulation and modeling, and composite materials.
view profileEmail: jporzio@wpi.edu
Mr. Porzio received his B.S. in Physics from Ithaca College in 2014, where he did research on PLD growth of YBCO. Jeff joined iMdc in August 2014 with the goal of pursuing a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. His PhD project will focus on creating novel Al matrix nano-composites and developing a theoretical model to explain their properties.
view profileEmail: sfeng2@wpi.edu
Shuaichuan earned his master degree in Financial Mathematics at WPI and now he is a PhD student in Statistics. He is interested in statistical genetics.
view profileEmail: xchen7@wpi.edu
I am a first-year Phd student. My research area is Bayesian statistics. And I am interested in programming and raspberry pi. I received my B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2015.
view profileEmail: lchen5@wpi.edu
I am a fourth year PhD student whose research interests include Bayesian Statistics, Spatio-Temporal statistical model and Small Area Estimation. I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University in 2010 and my M.S. in Finance from Clark University in 2013.
view profileEmail: achokchaisiripak@wpi.edu
Thai Scholar
view profileEmail: mchowdhury@wpi.edu
After receiving my masters in Mathematics from Jadavpur University, I joined as a research scholar at Indian Institute of Engineering Science And Technology, Shibpur. I worked in application of non-linear dynamics in neural networks. I taught undergraduate mathematics as a guest faculty in Sister Nivedita University for two semesters. Now, I am enrolled as a PhD student in the department of Mathematical Sciences at WPI. My research interest lies in Mathematical Biology. Currently I am working with Professor Min Wu. I love to explore and learn new mathematical concepts. Also I enjoy ...
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