Research Group Staff

Alaaeldin Dawood

CCRC Center Research Officer​

Jahirul Mazumder, Ph.D.

Research Engineer

Jose Maria Silva Corrugedo

Research Technician

Research Scientists

Deanna Lacoste

Research Scientist

John McIntosh

Research Scientist

Moez Ben Houidi, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Internal Combustion Research Engines, HCCI, PPC, Optical Diagnostic Techniques, Thermo-kinetic interaction, Combustion Propagation Regimes

Peng Liu, Ph.D.

Research Scientists

Research Interests: Laser Diagnostics, combustion chemistry, PAHs and soot formation

Sreenivasa Rao Gubba, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Thibault Guiberti, Ph.D. - HDR

Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests: Reactive flows, Turbulence, Hydrogen, Ammonia, Optical diagnostics, Chemiluminescence

Postdoctoral Fellows

Abdul Gani Abdul Jameel

Postdoctoral Fellow

Balaji Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D​

Carson Chu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Emre Cenker

Post-doctoral fellow ​

Guoqing Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jiyuan Fan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Krishna Sesha Giri

Post-Doctoral Fellow ​

Long Jiang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Shixing Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ammonia Combustion, Kinetic Modelling, Turbulent Burning Velocity, Optical diagnostics

Snehaunshu Chowdhury

Post-doctoral Fellow

Vallinayagam Raman

Post-doctoral fellow ​

Vanteru Mahendra Reddy

Post-doctoral Fellow

Wesley Boyette, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Student

Xin Jin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: CFD modeling, cryogenic CO2 capture, semiconductor growth in space

Xinyan Pei, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heavy Fuel Oil Combustion, Swirling Flame, High Pressure Auto-ignition, Hydrocarbon Fuel Thermal Stability, Supercritical Fluid, Coking and Deposition

Xuren Zhu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ying-Hao Liao, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

PhD Students

Abdulrahman A. Alkhateeb

​Ph.D. Student

Ahfaz Ahmed

Ph.D. Student​

Aibolat Dyuisenakhmetov

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Diesel Engines, Sprays, Turbochargers

Akhmad Faruq Alhikami

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Spray Ignition, Alternative Fuel Combustion, Optical diagnostics

Alfaisal Albalawi

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: High pressure combustion, Lifted flames, Autoignition, MILD Combustion

Alin Marius Iordache

MS/ Ph.D. Student

Ana Antunes

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Carbon capture, Air Pollution

Anthony Bennett

​Ph.D. Student

Bassam S. Aljohani

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Combustion Engines

Christopher Wagstaff

Ph.D. Student

Cristian Avila Jimenez

​Ph.D. Student

Farha Khan

Ph.D. Student

Francesco Di Sabatino

​Ph.D. Student

Hafiz Muhammad Fahid Amin

Ph.D. student ​

Joel Lisanti

Ph.D. student

Muhammad Waqas

Ph.D. Student ​

Myles Bohon

PhD student

Nicole Laws

MS | Ph.D. Student

Omar Alqahtani

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Energy, Thermal Systems

Omar Zaki Arab

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Laminar and Turbulent Flame Speed, High pressure combustion, Experimental Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Ossama Mannaa

PhD Students

Penghui Cheng

PhD Student

Raul Andres Serrano Bayona

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Autothermal Reforming, Experimental Set-up, Kinetic Modelling

Sally Homsy

Ph.D. student

Scott Steinmetz

Ph.D. Student ​

Sumit Maharjan

Ph.D. Student

Zepeng Li

Ph.D. student

Masters Students

Claudia Hernández

Master Student

Fayez Al-Enezi

MS Student

Ibrahim Alsheikh

MS Student

Madison Horne

MS | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: carbon capture technology

Mohamed Alshorafa

Master Student

Mohammad Qatomah

Master Student​​

Sajad Al Ali

MS Student

Visiting Students

Glenda Terán Cuadrado

Visiting MS Student

Research Interests: Clean Fuels, Ammonia cracking, Hydrogen