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

MEMBERS

Faculty
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Visiting Scholars
Past Members

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 2011 Elected SPIE Senior Member 2011 Henry and Susan Samueli Teaching Award from UCLA MAE Dept. 2009 JQSRT Young Scientist Award in Radiative Transfer 2008 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer from ASME 2005 Northrup Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award from UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science 2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2003 UCLA Faculty Development Award

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