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
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)