Our Team
KRISHNAN MAHESH
Principal Investigator & Director
Center for Naval Research & Education
Richard B. Couch Professor,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
STEVE CECCIO
Co-Principal Investigator
Center for Naval Research & Education
Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze
Professor of Engineering
Special Advisor for Strategic Initiatives
Offices of the Provost & the CFO
University of Michigan
PINGSHA DONG
Robert F. Beck Collegiate Professor of Engineering, Naval Architecture &
Marine Engineering
Materials
JON ESTRADA
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Soft Materials
JOAQUIM R.R.A. MARTINS
Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Multidisciplinary Optimization
MAX SHTEIN
Professor,
Materials Science & Engineering
Materials Science
DAVID DOWLING
ABS Professor & Chair,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Hydroacoustics
HARISH GANESH
Associate Research Scientist,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Biofouling
KAMAL SARABANDI
Fawwaz T. Ulaby Distinguished University Professor of EECS
Rufus S. Teesdale Endowed Professor of Engineering
Applied Electromagnetics
VENKAT VISWANATHAN
Associate Professor,
Aerospace Engineering
Energy Storage Modeling
KARTHIK DURAISAMY
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Director, Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering
Machine Learning & Data Assimilation
ERIC JOHNSEN
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Fluid Mechanics
ANCHAL SAREEN
Assistant Professor,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Flow Control
LEI ZUO
Herbert C. Sadler Professor of Engineering , Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Wave Energy
Administration
Katie Klink
CNRE Assistant Director
Current Researchers
Veer Agarwal
2025 Summer, 2025 Fall & 2026 Summer UG
Daniel Esterkin
PostDoc Researcher
Benson Jiang
2026 Summer UG
Victoria Long
2026 Summer UG
Tucker Patterson
2026 Summer UG
Oleksandr Sakhno
2026 Summer UG
Andras Szabo
PostDoc Researcher
Rodrigo Vilumbrales Garcia
PostDoc Researcher
Behzad Yektakhah
PostDoc Researcher
Mehedi Hasan Bappy
PostDoc Researcher
Jane Forman
2026 Summer UG
Ryan Kelly
PostDoc Researcher
Armita Marpu
2026 Summer UG
Eva Ponterelli
PostDoc Researcher
Wooyoung Song
2026 Summer UG
Jay Trombley
2026 Summer UG
Zhigang Wei
PostDoc Researcher
Benjamin Bishop
2026 Summer UG
Divyanshu Gola
PostDoc Researcher
Taemin Kim
2026 Summer UG
Kian Montazery
2025 Summer & 2025 Fall UG
Olivia Rollison
2026 Summer UG
Bryan Springer
2026 Summer UG
Binh Truong
PostDoc Researcher
Gao Jun (Gary) Wu
PostDoc Researcher
Bridget Dorman
2026 Summer UG
Niloy Gupta
PostDoc Researcher
Andrew Li
PostDoc Researcher
Maya Noren
2026 Summer UG
Mohamed Safawi
2026 Summer UG
Mateo Subieta Lazarte
2026 Summer UG
Gavin Verral
2026 Summer UG
Xianzhang Xu
PostDoc Researcher
Alumni
Mohamed A.S. Abdul-Kaiyoom
PostDoc Researcher
Sunaad Gurajada
2025 Summer UG
Bhumi Kumar
2025 Summer UG
Lokesh Silwal
PostDoc Researcher
Chelsea Sun
2024 Fall & 2025 Winter UG
Jack Zaeske
2024 Fall UG
Amy Fahmy
Katarina Jevtic
2025 Summer UG
Jackson Lewis
2025 Summer UG
Daria Skalitzky
2025 Summer UG
Peter Christian Susanto
2025 Summer UG
Teagan Fynan
2025 Summer UG
Stacey Jiang
2025 Summer UG
Megan Pribak
2024 Fall UG
Justin Song
2025 Summer UG
Evan Teal
2025 Summer UG
Manasa Gollapali
2025 Summer UG
Seungnam Kim
2025 Summer UG
Vaibhav Ramaseshadri
2024 Summer & Fall UG
Ryan Strohman
2025 Summer UG
Sofie Vos
2025 Summer UG