Daraio Research Group Caltech

The Team

Group Lead and Staff

Chiara Daraio

Chiara Daraio
PI
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Carolina Oseguera

Carolina Oseguera
Administrative Assistant
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Tanya Hinh

Jaymie Mateo
Grants Manager
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Petros Arakelian

Petros Arakelian
Senior Laboratory Technician
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Tanya Hinh

Anthony (Tony) Robert Stephen
Industrial Collaborator
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Gunho Kim

Gunho Kim
Research Scientist
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Postdoctoral Scholars

Israel Kellersztein

Israel Kellersztein
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Ahyoung

Danial Panahandeh Shahraki
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connor

Edmond Zhou
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Wenjie

Wenjie Zhou
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Ahyoung

Ahyoung Kim
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news

Alex Ogren
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Graduate Students

Nicholas Higdon

Nicole Higdon
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Helen Wexler

Helen Wexler
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Tracy Lu

Tracy Lu
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sujeeka

Sujeeka Nadarajah
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jihoon

Jihoon Ahn
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Chelsea

Chelsea Fox
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brian

Seo Kyung (Brian) Ahn
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brian

Hujie (Henry) Yan
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sujeeka

Siddharth Premnath
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Alumni

Suyeong Jin - Visiting Post Doctoral Scholar (from KAIST)
Currently: Post Doctoral Scholar at KAIST, South Korea

Jagannadh Boddapati – Ph.D. Student (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2024)
Currently: Module Development Engineer at Intel, Santa Clara, CA

Isabella Fiorello - Visiting Scholar
Currently: Group Leader at University of Freiburg, Germany

Beatriz Sakamoto Arsuffi - Visiting Master Student
Currently: Ph.D. Student at ETH/Empa, Switzerland

Tommaso Magrini - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Connor McMahan – Ph.D. Student & Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2021)
Currently: Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA

Brian Kim – Ph.D. Student (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2023)
Currently: Mechanical Engineer at USDA Forest Service, San Dimas, CA

Linghui Wang – Ph.D. Student (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2023)
Currently: Data Scientist at Bayer, St. Louis, MO

Pietro Maria Santucci – visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Cagliari (Italy)

Max Kudisch - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Post Doctoral Scholar at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, CO

Vincenzo Costanza - Ph.D. Student (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2022)
Currently: Motion Sensing Systems Engineer at Apple Inc., San Diego, CA

Ke Liu - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Peking University, Beijing, China

Sai Sharan Injeti - Ph.D. Student (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2021)
Currently: Product Design Engineer at Apple, San Diego, CA

Yifan Wang - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Zhun Zhou - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Bloomberg News

Kirsti Pajunen - Ph.D. Student (Caltech) (Ph.D. 2020)
Currently: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Eleftheria Roumeli - Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH/Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Washington

Paolo Celli - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the Stony Brook University

Tae Hyun (Kevin) Kim - Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH/Caltech)
Currently: Post-Doctoral Scholar at SNU (Korea)

Semih Taniker - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Roketsan A.S. (Ankara, Turkey)

Luca Bonanomi - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)

Brian Ramirez - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona

Osama Bilal - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut

Behrooz Yousefzadeh - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Concordia University - Montreal

Antonio Palermo - Post-Doctoral scholar (ETH/Caltech)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna (Italy)

Anton Bauhofer - Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech)
Curently: Software developer at TNG Technology Consulting

Jinwoong Cha - Ph.D. Student (ETH) (Ph.D. 2018)
Currently: Sr. Research Scientist, Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea)

Andre Foehr - PhD Student
Currently: Project Manager, Luxembourg Government

Brittany Lydon - PhD Student

Changquan Lai - Visiting Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH/Caltech) 2016-2017
Currently: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Kathryn Matlack – Mechanical Engineering, Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH)
Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Illninois, Urbana Champaign, IL USA

Wei-Hsun Lin – Physics, PhD and Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH)
Currently: Research Engineer, TSMC Taiwan

Raffaele Di Giacomo – Electrical Engineering, Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH)
Currently: Sensirion

Miguel Moleron – Mechanical Engineering, Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH)
Currently: Senior Scientist (ETH)

Jan Rys – Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Student (ETH), (Ph.D. 2017)

Marc Serra Garcia – Aeronautics, Ph.D. Student (ETH), (Ph.D. 2017)
Currently: Post doctoral scholar at ETH Zurich, CH

Sebastian Krödel – Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Student (ETH), (Ph.D. 2017)
Currently: Sonova

Neel Prashant Nadkarni – Aeronautics, Ph.D. Student (Caltech), (Ph.D. 2016)
Currently: Amazon

Hayden Burgoyne – Aeronautics, Ph.D. Student (Caltech), (Ph.D. 2016)
Currently: Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, CA, USA

Paul Anzel – Applied Physics, Ph.D. Student (Caltech 2009-2016)
Currently: Data Scientist at Wiser, CA, USA

Patrizia Benzoni – University of Brescia, visiting Ph.D. Student (ETH) 2015
Currently: Post doctoral scholar at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Ferran Brosa-Planela – Ph.D. Student, University of Oxford, Project (ETH) 2015

Christopher Chong – Applied Mathematics, Post Doctoral Scholar (ETH 2014-2015)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College, USA

Joseph Lydon – Materials Science, Caltech (Ph.D. 2014)
Currently: Employed at McKinsey, Zurich, CH.

Ludovica Lattanzi – Materials Science, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Ph.D. 2014)
Currently: Employed at DePuy Synthes, CH.

Thevamaran Ramathasan – Mechanical Engineering, Caltech (Ph.D. 2014)
Currently: Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

Andrea Leonard – Applied Mechanics, Caltech (Ph.D. 2013)
Currently: Post doctoral scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Feng Li – Aeronautics, Post doctoral scholar (Caltech 2012-2013)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the South China University of Technology, China

Eleftherios Gdoutos – Aeronautics, Caltech (Ph.D. 2013)
Currently: Research scientist in Pellegrino group, Caltech, CA USA

Ivan Szelengowicz – Aeronautics, Caltech (Ph.D. 2013)
Currently: Software developer at SERJ Solutions, Los Angeles, USA

Carly Michelle Donahue – Aeronautics, Post Doctoral Scholar (Caltech 2012-2013)
Currently: Senior scientist (ETH Zurich)

Georgios Gantzounis – Aeronautics, Post Doctoral Scholar
Currently: Monk, Holy Monastery of Transfiguration in Kamena Bourla, Greece

Jordan Robert Raney – Materials Science, Caltech (Ph.D. 2012)
Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsilvania, USA

Georgios Theocharis – Aeronautics, Post Doctoral Scholar
Currently: Researcher at CNRS, France

Devvrath Khatri – Aeronautics, Graduate Student (Ph.D. 2011)
Currently: Employed at Hydra Electric, Burbank, CA

Nicholas Boechler – Aeronautics, Graduate Student (Ph.D. 2011)
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego

Jinkyu Yang – Aeronautics, Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle

Stephane Griffiths – Aeronautics, Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Researcher at ISAE (School of Aeronautics and Space), Toulouse, FR

Alessandro Spadoni – Aeronautics, Postdoctoral Scholar

Abha Misra – Aeronautics, Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Elijah Sansom – Aeronautics, Post Doctoral Scholar (2007)

Mason Porter – Applied and Computational Mathematics, Postdoctoral Scholar (2007)
Currently: Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Luigi de Nardo – Visiting Scholar, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy

Stephane Job – Visiting Scholar, Supmeca, Paris, France