TEAM

Principal Investigator

Prof. Michael McAlpine

Kuhrmeyer Family Chair

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director, 3D Electronics Center (3DE)

B.S. Brown University (2000)

Ph.D. Harvard University (2006)

mcalpine@umn.edu

Bio | CV | Google Scholar

GROUP MANAGER

Melanie Burns

mfburns@umn.edu

RESEARCHERS

Spencer Bertram

B.S. University of Minnesota (2024)

bertr138@umn.edu

Postdocs

Dr. Jinsheng Fan

B.Eng. University of Science and Technology Beijing (2014)

M.Eng. University of Science and Technology Beijing (2017)

Ph.D. Purdue University (2023)

fan00066@umn.edu

Dr. JiYong Lee

B.S. Yonsei University (2014)

Ph.D. Yonsei University (2020)

jiyong@umn.edu

Dr. Sandy Ritchie

B.S. Mississippi State University (2018)

M.S. Carnegie Mellon University (2023)

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University (2023)

sritchie@umn.edu

Dr. Jacob Quint

B.S. University of Nebraska (2017)

M.S. University of Nebraska (2020)

Ph.D. University of Connecticut (2023)

jquint@umn.edu

Graduate Students

Meghan Griffin

B.S. Boston University (2021)

grif0599@umn.edu

Yosup Kang

B.S. Yonsei University (2017)

M.S. Yonsei University (2022)

kang0543@umn.edu

Hyunjun Kim

B.S. Mokpo National University (2018)

kim01726@umn.edu

Matthew Lawler

B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology (2017)

lawle172@umn.edu

Younjee Lee

B.S. University of Utah (2019) 

lee04352@umn.edu

Daniel Wai Hou Ng

B.S. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2018)

danie965@umn.edu

Noah Robison

B.S. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023)

robis070@umn.edu

Adarsh Somayaji (Co-Advised with Prof. Kowalewski)

B.Tech. & M.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2020)

somay011@umn.edu

Undergraduate Students

Yahel De Jesus Vega

Arsen Madanyan

Mihir Madhaparia

Ian Seremet

Former Members

Song Ih Ahn, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pusan National University

Vincent Belsito, Reliability Engineer at Medtronic

Nathan Carter, Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton

Huai-An Chin, Process Engineer at Intel

Shichao Cui, Product Design Engineer at Apple

Yue Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Peking University

Kellye Cung, Senior Scientist at Merck

Xiaoxiao Fan, Engineer at LIKE Foods Future Technologies

Zachary Fuenning, Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Abbott Labs

Shuang-Zhuang Guo, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University

Maneesh Gupta, Research Scientist at Air Force Research Laboratories

Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer at Seagate Technology

Daehoon Han, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Chonnam National University

Guebum Han, Structural Analyst (Mechanical Engineer) at Intel Corporation

Ryan Han, Engineer at Pentair

Blake Johnson, Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech

Daeha Joung, Assistant Professor of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University

Saravanan Sujit Kaarthik, Visiting Technology Commercialization Fellow at University of Illinois Chicago

Jihoon Kim, R&D Senior Manager at EMD Electronics

Yong Lin Kong, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah

Manu Mannoor, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Alabama State University

Fanben Meng, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Thanh Nguyen, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut

Stephen Nonnenmann, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass-Amherst

Xia Ouyang, Senior Design Engineer at Huawei

Sung Hyun Park, Senior Researcher at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

Yi Qi, Director of Process Engineering at Applied Materials

Kaiyan Qiu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University

Ruitao Su, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Power Engineering at Zhengzhou University

Guru Venkatesan, Business Development Manager at Fred Hutch 

Fujun Wang, Associate Scientist at Sartorius

Zhijie Zhu, Senior Research Scientist at The 3M Company