People

Director: The AECL is led by Prof. Carrie Hall.  Prof. Hall received her PhD in Engineering from Purdue in 2012 and has been an assistant professor in the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) since 2013.  Her areas of interest include the development and control of advanced combustion modes, the implementation of alternative liquid and gaseous fuels, and the analysis and improvement of energy efficiency in transportation.  Dr. Hall was a graduate research fellow of the National Science Foundation, and a Lambert Teaching Fellow at Purdue, as well as the recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship and the Laura Winkleman Davidson Fellowship for Doctoral Studies. Dr. Hall is also a recipient of a NSF CAREER award which funds  research at the AECL on the control of dual fuel engines that leverage alternative fuels.  

Current Team:

Lab Alumni:

• Miriam Di Russo (PhD 2023), now at Argonne National Laboratory

• Hafiz Ahmad Hassan (MS 2024), now at University of Oklahoma

• Niyaz Afnan Ahmed (MS 2024), now at Atmos Energy 

• Qian Peng (PhD 2022), now at Argonne National Laboratory

• Michael Pamminger (PhD 2021), now at Argonne National Laboratory

• Wenbo Sui (PhD 2018), now at  QTcreate Tech Co., Ltd 

• Mateos Kassa (Phd 2017), now at Blue Origin

• Matthew Hulbert (MS 2017), now at General Atomics ASI

• Siwei Dong (MS 2015), now at Bosch Automotive Diesel Systems Co., Ltd. 

• Cedric Ramos Silva (MS 2015), now at Wanted