Dr. Cynthia Hipwell
Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr. '45 Chair II Professor
INVENT Lab Principal Investigator
Dr. Hipwell is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas (TAMEST). Her research interests include nanoscale energy transport and tribology of small-scale devices; surface physics in and sensors and actuators for haptic and human/machine interfaces; and innovation business processes, technology and technology platforms to speed the innovation process.
Dr. Chris Seets
Professor of Practice
INVENT Lab Associate Director
Dr. Seets is a Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering and a Texas A&M former student, receiving his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in ’91. Prior to joining the INVENT lab in 2020, he accumulated 22+ years of wafer fabrication experience in an industrial setting. In addition to building nano-scale devices, he is interested in helping others learn to manage, improve, and accelerate the innovation business process.
Dr. Heng Pan
Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor
Multiscale Manufacturing Lab Principal Investigator
Dr. Pan is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was an Associate Professor at Missouri S&T. He received his Ph.D at University of California - Berkeley. Dr. Pan’s research interests include additive manufacturing of electronics and energy devices, micro/nanomanufacturing, and semiconductor manufacturing. Dr. Pan’s awards include NSF CAREER Award and ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award.
Dr. Shoufeng Lan
Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor
LAN Lab Principal Investigator
Dr. Lan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Before joining the Texas A&M, he worked as a postdoc fellow advised by Prof. Xiang Zhang at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Lan’s research focuses on light-matter interactions in natural and engineered materials for bringing optical solutions to the real world. For his work, Dr. Lan has received multiple national and international awards.
Dr. Rebecca Friesen
Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor
Friesen Lab Principal Investigator
Dr. Friesen joined Texas A&M as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2022. Previously, she worked as a postdoc in the Cognitive Robotics Department at Delft University of Technology and received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the actuation and perception of broadband tactile cues for enhanced interactions with haptic displays and virtual reality. She is particularly interested in leveraging our understanding of human somatosensation for efficient haptic signal representation and design.
Dr. Aditya Kuchibhotla
TEES Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Kuchibhotla joined INVENT lab in 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2019 and his B.Tech. from National Institute of Technology, Warangal in 2013. Dr. Kuchibhotla’s research interests lie in the areas of Micro/Nano Heat Transfer, Thermal Energy Storage, and Thermo-fluidics, Thermoelectric and photonic systems.
Sitangshu Chatterjee
Ph.D. Student
Sitangshu joined INVENT Lab in 2018 after receiving his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering with a first-class distinction from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur. His undergraduate research focused on soft robotics and their application in biomimetic, surgical and rehabilitation devices. Sitangshu's current research focuses on tribology instrumentation and force microscopy in the piconewton scales.
Dakota Simpson
Undergraduate Researcher
Dakota joined INVENT Lab in 2020 as an Undergraduate Researcher. He is currently pursuing an Engineering degree at Texas A&M University. Dakota is currently on a team researching the application of tunable thermal materials.
Akash Anilkumar, MSc Student
Current position :
Mechanical Engineer at Lam Research
Sneha Sequeira, Undergraduate Researcher
Luke Batteas , UG Researcher
Current position:
PhD student at Northwestern
Bailee Johnson, Undergraduate Researcher
Dr. Yuan MA , Postdoctoral Researcher
Current position:
Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Xuezhi Ma, Postdoctoral Researcher
Current position :
Scientist at A*STAR
Xinyi Li , PhD Student
Current position:
Reliability Engineer at Apple
Dr. Ali Masoudi, Research Engineer III
Current position :
Senior R&D Engineer at Katz Water Technologies
Changhyun Choi , PhD Student
Current position:
Customer Account Technologist at Applied Materials
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Edward Swart, Undergraduate Researcher
Carla Bassil, Masters Student
Current position: PhD student at Univ. of California, Berkeley
Mr. Holly Frost
