Graduate Students

Dion Antao

M.S. Student

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start date: December 2007

Project: Characterisation of Atmospheric Pressure DC Negative Corona Discharge

Krishna Arjunan

Ph.D. Student

School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems

Start date: July 2006

Project: Water Sterilization using a Pulsed Spark Plasma Discharge

Halim Ayan

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: September 2005

Project: Biomedical Applications of Non-thermal Plasmas 

Moogega Cooper

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: August 2006

Project: Decontamination of Spacecraft Material from Extremophile Microorganisms

http://www.moogega.com/

Danil Dobrynin

Ph.D. Student

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start date: April 2007

Projects: Studying of mechanisms of plasma sterilization

              Elimination of Anthrax Spores using Dielectric Barrier Discharge Treatment

              Living Tissue Sterilization by the Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma

Tanvir Farouk

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: January 2005

Project: Atmospheric pressure micro plasma discharges

Greg Fridman

Ph.D. Candidate

School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems

http://www.gregfridman.com/

Mike Gallagher

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: September 2004

Project: Plasma Assisted Fuel Conversion and Hydrogen Production

Kirill Gutsol

Ph.D. Student

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start date: January 2008

Project: Modeling of Plasma in Reverse Vortex

Sameer Kalghatgi

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Start Date: June 2006

Projects: Interaction of non-thermal dielectric barrier discharge plasma with living cells

              Toxicity analysis of Non-thermal plasma treatment of living tissue

              Plasma induced apoptosis in cancer cells

              Stimulation of wound healing by non-thermal plasma

Thomas Nunnally

Ph.D. Student

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: October 2007

Project: Hydrogen Sulfide Dissociation

Sin Park

Ph.D. Student

School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems

Start date: January 2008

Project: Air Sterilization by Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma

David Staack

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: Fall 2004

Projects: Thin film deposition with atmospheric pressure plasmas
              Atmospheric pressure micro plasma discharges
              Stability and scaling of high density plasmas
              Plasma diagnostics and spectroscopy
              Nanoscale corona discharges in liquids

Aarthi Sundar

Ph.D. Student

College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Start Date: March 2007

Project: Sterilization of Pipette Tips using the Dielectric Barrier Discharge

             Air Sterilization using the Dielectric Barrier Discharge

Nachiket Vaze

Ph.D. Candidate

School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems

Start Date: April 2006

Project: Sterilization of Airflow using Non-Thermal Plasma
             Investigating the Effect of Plasma on The Bacterial Cell using methods of                Molecular Biology

Siddharth Vyas

Ph.D. student

College of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Start Date: January 2007

Projects: Plasma cleaning of pipette tips and plasma treatment of polymers

Yong Yang

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: August 2006

Project: Application of Electrical Field and Plasma for water treatment

Jacqueline Yim

Ph.D. Candidate

College of Engineering, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Start Date: October 2005

Project: Surface Treatments of Polymers Using Atmospheric Pulsed-DBD Plasma

Jinhan Zhu

M.S. Student

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start date: September 2007

Project: Development of non-equilibrium plasma-flame kinetic mechanism and Validation Using Gliding Arc Integrated with Counterflow Burner

Thomas Borawski

Robert Geiger

Undergraduate, Senior

College of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Start Date: March 2006

Project: Plasma Assisted Fuel Conversion and Waste Gas Treatment

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Haider Hasan

Undergraduate, Sophomore

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Ryan Robinson

Undergraduate, Sophomore

College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Start Date: July 2007

Projects: Air Sterilization By Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma,

              Large Planar Atmospheric Pressure Discharge Plasma System

Alyssa Wilson

Undergraduate, Senior

College of Arts and Sciences, Physics

Start Date: March 2007

Projects: Characterization of atmospheric pressure micro plasma discharges,

               Self-rotating dc atmospheric pressure discharges