Group Members

Dr. Alipour has has established and maintained an active research group, which currently includes one postdoctoral research associate, 8 graduate students, and 6 undergraduate students. She has successfully graduated 3 Ph.D. students and 9 M.Sc. students to date. She has also supervised more than 25 undergraduate students and two visiting graduate students.

Postdoctoral and Graduate Students

Undergraduate Researchers

Honors and Awards Received by Group Members

Postdoctoral and Graduate Students

Current

**Dr. Mohammad Jafari**
(Postdoctoral Associate)

**Smrithi Hareendran**
(Ph.D. Candidate)

**Alessandro Cancelli**
(Ph.D. Candidate)

Alumni

**Dr. Kanta Prajapat**
(Visiting Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur)

**Dr. Ameh Fioklou**
(Now Assistant Professor, Univ. of Hartford)

**Dr. Laura Micheli**
(Now Assistant Professor, Catholic Univ. of America)

**Dr. Zhen (Rose) Cui**
(Research Engineer)

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Undergraduate Researchers

Current

[6] Shantal Rincon	APEX-E Program
[5] Tiaunna Little	APEX-E Program
[4] Abigail Van Rheenen	Honors Student
[3] Paul Iman	Honors Student
[2] Michael Huntly	Honors Student
[1] Evan Braun	Research Assistant

Past

[23] Erik Zeller	Honors Student
[22] Chase White	Honors Student
[21] Grant Weis	Honors Student
[20] Rebecca Wilson	Honors Student
[19] Melani Carollo	Continued to Eriksson Engineering
[18] Saiji Li	Continue to M.Sc. at UC San Diego
[17] Sammy Hussain	Continued to Ph.D. at Harvard Univ.
[16] Kyle Hutchings	WESEP REU from Utah Valley University
[15] Glenna Lovig	Continued to M.Sc. at ISU
[14] Chao Ma	Continued to M.Eng. at ISU
[13] Colin Sullivan	Permasteel and M.Sc. at Univ. of Minnesota
[12] Shuang Li	Continued to M.Sc. at Virginia Tech
[11] Qui Qui	Continued to M.Sc. at ISU
[10] Jonathan Martin	Continued to M.Sc. at ISU
[9] Ryan McNerney	Honors college advisee with thesis, Continued to M.Sc. at UC Berkeley
[8] Nicholas Cameron	Honors college advisee with thesis
[7] John Jermyn	Honors college advisee with thesis, Continued to M.Sc. at UMass
[6] Mike McInnis	Honors college advisee with thesis
[5] Zachary Bemis	Honors college advisee with thesis, Continued to M.Sc. at UT Austin
[4] John Klinga	Honors college advisee with thesis, Continued to M.Sc. at UC Berkeley
[3] Kevin Norton	Summer REU, Continued to M.Sc. at UMass
[2] Richard Racz	Independent research study, Continued to M.Sc. at UMass
[1] Steven AuYeung	Independent research study, Continued to M.Sc. at ISU

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Honors and Awards

2019: Michael Huntley (Undergraduate advisee), Summer Research Grant, First-Year Honors Mentor Program

2019: Abigail Van Rheenen, Michael Huntley, and Paul Inman (Undergraduate advisees), Research Grant, First-Year Honors Mentor Program

2018: Laura Micheli (Ph.D. advisee), 1^st place in the 8^th CCEE Department’s Annual Poster Competition

2017: Alessandro Cancelli (Ph.D. advisee), 2^nd Place in the 7^th CCEE Department’s Annual Poster Competition

2017: Zhen (Rose) Cui (Ph.D. advisee), Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award

2017: Laura Micheli (Ph.D. advisee), Dean’s Scholar Award

2017: Ameh Fioklou (Ph.D. advisee), Graduate College Research Excellence Award

2016: Zhen (Rose) Cui (Ph.D. advisee), Graduate College Research Excellence Award

2016: Glenna Lovig (Undergraduate (and then M.S.) advisee), Fong Scholarship

2016: Chao Ma (Undergraduate advisee), Fong Scholarship

2016: Colin Sullivan (Undergraduate advisee), Fong Scholarship

2016: Colin Sullivan (Undergraduate advisee), MTC Undergraduate Research Scholarship

2015: Shuang Li (Undergraduate advisee), Fong Scholarship

2015: Ameh Fioklou (Ph.D. advisee), AGEP Fellowship

2015: Mark Furtado (M.S. advisee), National Science Foundation’s East Asia Summer Fellowship (NSF-EAPSI)

2013: Ryan McNerney (Undergraduate advisee), Commonwealth Honors College Research Assistant Fellowship