People
Director
Dr. Satish Kumar
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Satish Kumar is an assistant professor in the G. W.
Woodruff School of Mechanical at Georgia Institute of
technology. He
received his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati in
2001 and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge in 2003. He received his M.S.
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette in
2007. He is recipient of Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship
in 2005. He
joined IBM Corporation's
Systems and Technology Group in 2008
where he
was responsible for thermal management of electronics devices.
In 2009, Kumar joined Georgia Tech as an assistant
professor. His research
interests are in thermal management, atomistic transport models
for nano-structures and nano-composites, flexible electronics
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Graduate Students
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Man Prakash Gupta Man Prakash is a Ph.D. student and joined our group in fall 2009. He received his B.Tech. - M.Tech. dual degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in May 2009. His current research work involves electro-thermal modeling of carbon nanotube based composites. He has also been working on novel cooling techniques for microelectronics devices. His favorite activity is thinking and therefore he enjoys working in theoretical field. |
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Liang Chen
Chen Liang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Thermal and
Power Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2006 and
2009. He joined Dr. Kumar's research group in 2009 to pursue his
Ph.D. degree
in Mechanical Engineering. He currently focuses on
molecular simulations to estimate thermal conductivity of nano-materials
and analyze interfacial thermal transport at nano-junctions. In
his spare time, he enjoys swimming and playing Ping-Pong and
Basketball. |
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Banafsheh Barabadi
Banafsheh Barabadi received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
from K.N.T University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2005.
She got her M.Sc. in
Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Thermal Fluidics from
Villanova University in 2008. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D.
at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interests are in Micro/ Nano heat transfer and MEMS applications. Her doctoral thesis is
on: "Joule Heating in Planar and 3-D Interconnect Architectures
using Pulsed and Non-Periodic Transient Currents"
under the
supervision of Professors Yogendra Joshi and Satish Kumar. |
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Owen Sullivan
Owen Sullivan received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2010 and is currently
pursuing his M.S. degree
in Mechanical Engineering with
specialization in Heat Transfer. His Master's
thesis research involves the development of a compact model for
thermal transport analysis of
thermoelectric coolers integrated inside a
microelectronic package. He is a Fellow
of the Global Research Collaboration (GRC)
as a recipient of
the IBM/GRC Fellowship. |
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Pablo Salazar
Pablo, originally from Peru, received his B.S.
in Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering from the University of Piura (Peru) in
2006 and his M.S.
degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M
University in 2009. He joined Georgia Tech in Summer 2010 to
pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His research focus
is atomistic and macroscopic modeling of electrochemical
reactions, diffusion in thermogalvanic cells aimed for waste
heat energy conversion to electricity, as well as, experimental
testing. In his spare time, he enjoys playing Poker and
Soccer. |
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Matthew Redmond Matthew Redmond received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in May 2011 and is currently pursuing his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Heat Transfer. His Master's research is focused on the application of thermoelectric coolers for hotspot thermal management in 3D stacked packages. He is a recipient of Fulbright fellowship and will be completing his Master's research in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey. |
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