Principal Investigator

 

Xin Ning, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 08/2018 – Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 08/2015 – 08/2018 (advisor: Professor John A. Rogers)

Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 06/2015 – 08/2015, (advisor: Professor Sergio Pellegrino)

Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 06/2015, (advisor: Professor Sergio Pellegrino)

M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 06/2010

B.Eng., Aircraft Design and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 07/2009

 

Selected Honors and Awards
  1. ONR Young Investigator Award, U.S. Office of Naval Research, 2022: a highly competitive and popular early-career award program where prior academic achievement and potential for significant scientific breakthrough are key elements of the evaluation criteria.
  2. Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019: in recognition of young faculty in theoretical and applied mechanics areas.
  3. Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research Program Mentor Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016: awarded to a mentor for supervising an ISUR undergraduate scholar.
  4. William F. Ballhaus Prize, California Institute of Technology, 2015: awarded for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in Aeronautics.
  5. Dow-Resnick Fellowship, Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech, 2012: awarded to outstanding graduate student researchers with projects that chart new paths in renewable energy and sustainability science.
  6. Charles D. Babcock Memorial Award, California Institute of Technology, 2012: awarded to the graduate student whose achievements in teaching have made a significant contribution to the Aeronautics program.
  7. Rolf D. Buhler Memorial Award, California Institute of Technology, 2010: awarded to a student in the Aeronautics Master’s Program whose academic performance was exemplary and who shows high potential for future achievements at Caltech.
  8. Homer Stewart Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2009: awarded to a student in the Aeronautics program to provide full financial support.
  9. Honeywell Innovators Scholarship, Honeywell International, Inc., 2008: a worldwide scholarship and internship awarded to talented students with strong engineering and technology backgrounds.

Graduate Students 

Yao Yao (Ph.D. student)

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, B.S. in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

     M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University

Mitansh Doshi (Ph.D. student)

M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University

Nikhil Ashok (Ph.D. student)

M.Eng. in Automotive Engineering, University of Michigan 

Sepideh Ebad Sichani (Ph.D. student)

M.S. in Building and Architectural Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy 

Former Group Members

Postdoc:

Guanghui Li (2019-2020). Current position: faculty at Nankai University, China.

Graduates:

Samuel Schulman (M.S. in Aerospace, 2021). Current position: work for U.S. government.