Laurent Pilon's Research Group
University of California, Los Angeles

MEMBERS

 

 

Lab Member's Awards and Honors


Faculty


Prof. Laurent Pilon
Education
  • PhD Mechanical Engineering - Purdue University, Indiana, 2002
  • MS Applied Physics - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, 1997
  • BS Applied Physics - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, 1997
Honors and Awards

Graduate Students


Ri-Liang Heng

   

BSME, Nanyang Technological University, 2010

 

 

Anna D'Entremont, PhD Student

Yury Chudnovsky, MS Student

BSME, Clemson University, 2010

2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

BSME, UCLA, 2010

Anna studies thermal management of electrochemical energy storage systems.

Ian McKinley , PhD Student

Razmig Kandilian, PhD Student

BSME, Columbia University, 2010

 

Clean Green IGERT Fellowship

BSME, UCLA, 2009

Outstanding BSME Award

Clean Green IGERT Fellowship

Ian is investigating waste heat energy harvesting using pyroelectric materials.

Razmig is investigating biofuel production and carbon dioxide capture using microalgae.

Joseph Attia, PhD student

Felix Lee, MS student

BSME, Caltech, 2006

MSME, UCLA, 2008

Dale H. Austin Scholarship, Warren G. Koerner Scholarship in Engineering, Gates Millenium Scholar

BSME, UCLA, 2009

 

2010-2012 MAE Departmental Graduate Fellowship

Joseph investigates the dynamic, stability, and transport properties of aqueous foams.

Felix performs experimental and analytical studies on pyroelectric waste heat energy harvesting.

David Wirth, MS student

Angel Aleman, PhD Student

BSME ad MSME expected in 2012 through the MAE Scholar Program

2010 ROTC Scholarship from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Educational Foundation.

BSME, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2004

MSME, UCLA, 2007

2004-2009 GAANN Fellowship

 

Angel synthesize electrochemical energy storage systems from electrodes to devices. He is co-advised with Prof. Bruce Dunn from UCLA MSE.

Hainan Wang, PhD student

Jin Fang, PhD student

MSME, Notre Dame University, 2008

BSME, University of Science and Technology of China, 2006

MSME, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2008

BSME, Tsinghua University, , Beijing, China, 2006

Hainan studies transport phenomena in mesoporous thin films used as electrodes for electrochemical energy storage systems.

Jin investigates both experimentally and theoretically thermal transport in nano-structures for various energy applications.

Euntaek Lee, PhD student

Kancy Lee, MS student

MSME KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, 2008

BSME UCLA, 2007

2009 Harry M. Showman Prize from UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Euntaek is developing three-dimensional computer codes for radiation transfer in complex systems using GPU computing.

Kancy investigates radiation characteristics of microfoams.


Undergraduate Students


Zachary Johnson

Gabriel Garcia

BSME Expected June 2012

BSME Expected June 2012

3rd Place in the 2010 UCLA RISE-UP poster competition.

Yi Huang

Aditya Chandramohan

BSME Expected June 2012
BSME Expected June 2012

Joshua Kim

Broc Chavez

BSAE Expected June 2012
BSME Expected June 2012

Visiting Scholars


Prof. Hong Qi

   

Harbin Institute of Technology, China


Past Members


Post-Doctoral and Visiting Scholars

Dr. Julian Vargheses

now at DS Spatial, Bloomfield, CO

Dr. Juan Yin

now at Solar Turbines, San Diego, CA

PhD, Texas A&M, 2009

MSAE, Aerospace Eng., Texas A&M, 2003

BSME, University of Kerala, 2000

PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2004

MSME, Tsinghua University, 2000

BSME, Tsinghua University, 1997


PhD students

Dr. Dmitry Yudovsky

now at the Beckman Laser Institute, UC Irvine, CA

 

BSME, UC San Diego, 2006

MSME, UCLA, 2008

PhD, UCLA, 2010

PhD Thesis: Spectroscopy of Multilayered Biological Tissues for Diabetes Care.

 

Dr. Ashcon Navid

Now at Intel Corp., Portland OR

Dr. Thomas Coquil

now at Photofuel, Paris, France

BSME, UCLA, 2006

MSME, UCLA, 2007

PhD, UCLA, 2010

PhD Thesis: Pyroelectric Energy Conversion for Waste Heat Harvesting

 

B.S. Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2008

M.S. Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2008

PhD, UCLA, 2010

PhD Thesis: Thermal and Optical Properties of Highly Ordered Mesoporous Materials for Energy Applications.

Dr. Kamal M. Katika

Now at Optiver, Chicago, IL

Dr. Halil Berberoglu

Now at UT, Austin

BSME, ITT Madras, 2002

MSME, UCLA, 2004

PhD UCLA, 2007

PhD Thesis: Transient Radiation Transport in Biological Tissues and Applications to Autofluorescence of Human Skin.

BSME, Purdue University, 2000

MSME, Purdue University, 2003

PhD, UCLA, 2008

PhD Thesis: Photobiological Hydrogen Production and Carbon Dioxide Mitigation.


MS students

Thomas Chin, MS student

 

BSME, UC San Diego 2009

MSME, UCLA 2011

 

Tzu-ying Tseng, MS

Now at Touchdown Technologies, Los Angeles, CA

Raylene Moreno, MS

Now at Parsons Brinckerhoff, Sacramento, CA

MSME UCLA, 2010

BSME, National Cheng Kung University 2009

MSME UCLA, 2011

BS Environmental Engineering, UCLA, 2010

Brian James

Now at Southern California, Edison

Pedro Gomez

now at Tensility International Corp., Valencia, CA

B.S. Material Science and Engineering, UC Irvine, 2008

MSME UCLA, 2010

BSME UC Berkeley, 2006

MSME UCLA, 2010

Hiep Nguyen

now at UltraCell Corporation, Livermore, CA.

Herman Wong

Now at Black & Decker, Foothill Ranch, CA

BSME, UC Berkeley, 2007

MSME, UCLA, 2009

MS Thesis: Pyroelectric Energy Converter Using Co-Polymer P(VDF-TrFE) and Olsen Cycle for Waste Heat Energy Harvesting.

BSME, UC Berkeley, 2008

MSME UCLA, 2010

Jennifer Blackwell

Now at Dexcom, Inc., San Diego, CA

Damien Vanderpool

Now at ATA Engineering, El Segundo, CA

BSBE, UC San Diego, 2005

MSME, UCLA, 2007

BSME, UCLA, 2006

MSME, UCLA, 2008

MS Thesis: Numerical and Experimental Study of a Pyroelectric Energy Converter for Harvesting Waste Heat.

Dr. Kamal M. Katika

Now at Optiver, Chicago, IL

Kyle Smith

Now at ATA Engineering, San Diego, CA

BSME, ITT Madras, 2002

MSME, UCLA, 2004

MS Thesis: Modified Method of Characteristics in Radiative Transfer.

MSME UCLA, 2006

BSME UCLA, 2005

Howard Tseng

now at the Jet Propulsion Lab

Matthew M. Braun

now at the Raytheon Company

MSME UCLA, 2005

BSCE UC Berkeley, 2004

BSME Clarkson University, 2003

MSME UCLA, 2004

MS Thesis: Effective Optical Properties of Nanoporous Thin-Film.


Undergraduate students
David Moreno Neal Hutchinson

BSME, UCLA 2012

BSAE, UCLA 2009

MSME, UCLA 2010

Saurabh Pillai Gbenga Elehinafe

BSME, UCLA 2009

MSME, UCLA 2010

BSME, UCLA 2008

Daniel Durbin Anna Garahan

BSME, UCLA 2008

BSAE, UCLA 2006

Ding Lai Henri Patricio

BSME, UCLA 2006

BSME, UCLA 2006

Natasha Barra Richard Yau

BSME, UCLA 2006

BSAE, UCLA 2006

MSE, Georgia Tech, 2008

Damien Vanderpool Vivien Leong

BSME, UCLA 2006

MSME, UCLA 2008

BSChE,UCLA 2005

Soojung (Claire) Hur Fritz Schrimerz

BSME, UCLA 2005

MSME, UCLA 2007

PhD, UCLA 2011

BSME, UCLA 2004

Jonathan Chang Lisa Ridderhof

BSME UCLA, 2004

BSME, UCLA 2004