Group in January 2025


Prof. Ryan C. Hurley

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering (Secondary),
Civil and Systems Engineering (Secondary)
Deputy Director and Faculty Fellow, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

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Zhifei Deng

Postdoctoral Researcher in HEMI, March 2024 – Present

Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2025


Kwangmin Lee

Ph.D. Student, 2020 – Present

B.S. Sogang University, 2016

M.S. Sogang University, 2018


Sohanjit Ghosh

Ph.D. Student, 2021 – Present

B.S. Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, 2019

M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2021


Subham Bose

Ph.D. Student, 2021 – Present (joined Hurley Group in 2023)

M.Tech. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2021

B.S. Jadavpur University, 2018


Shachi Singh

Ph.D. Student, 2023 – Present

B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, 2022


Former students

Brett Kuwik (Ph.D. student, 2019 – January 2024) – Now at Merck, Philadelphia, PA

Adyota Gupta (Ph.D. student, 2018 – March 2024) – Now an Associate at Exponent, Menlo Park, CA

Siddhartha Pattisapu (MSE Student, 2022 – 2023) – Now at Tesla, Grand Rapids, MI

Ye Tian (Postdoc, 2022 – 2023) – Now Scientist at Liaoning Academy of Materials, China

Ghassan Shahin (Postdoc, 2020 – 2022) – Now a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL, Switzerland

Chongpu Zhai (Postdoc, 2018 – 2021) – Now Assistant Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Arthur Ding (M.S., 2018 – 2020) – Now an Engineer at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD

Ziheng Wang (M.S., 2019 – 2021) – Now Ph.D. student at Purdue University

Surya Kolluri (M.S., 2020 – 2022) – Now Ph.D. student at Brown University

Jacob Kim (2020 – 2022) – Now undergrad at JHU

Joanne Li (High School REAP Student, Summer 2023)

Phoebe Dainer (High School REAP Student, Summer 2022)

Nahuel Albayrak (High School REAP Student, Summer 2021, 2020) – Now Undergrad at JHU

Trevor Sumlin (UNC Undergraduate Researcher through NSERC Program, Summer 2023)

Luke Moon (JHU and REU Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2023 – Fall 2023)

Jabiri Lawrence (JHU and REU Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2023 – Fall 2023)

Sean Enright (JHU Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)

Maximilian Garcia (Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021 – Spring 2022, MSEE Intern)

Maxim Daud (JHU Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2019 – Summer 2022)

Samuel Budoff (West Point Undergraduate Research through NSERC Program, Summer 2022)

Aiden Looney (West Point Undergraduate Research through NSERC Program, Summer 2022)