Team
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PI
PI: Horea Ilies
Professor and Director, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut
Director, DREAM Research Center
Current Students and Postdocs
Alumni
Mohammad M. Behzadi, PhD 2025
More: Google X, The Moonshot Factory
Kyle Vu, MS 2024
More: Pratt and Whitney
Meysam Chorsi, PhD 2023
More: postdoc at Stanford University; co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian
Jiangce Chen, PhD 2023
More: Research Engineer at New York University
Caitlyn Mundrane, MS 2021
More: co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian
Radu Corcodel, PhD 2019
More: Principal Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.
Arun Malla, MS 2019
More: co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian, now PhD student at Virgina Tech.
Sam Soifer, MS 2019
More: Pratt and Whitney
Winson Ye, CS undergraduate, 2019
More: Payscale.
Reed Williams, PhD, 2017
More: Research Scientist, Siemens.
Morad Behandish, PhD, 2016
More: Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut.
Pouya Tavousi, PhD 2016
More: co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian; Senior Research Scientist, University of Connecticut.
Xiaojun Zhao MS, 2015
More: Data Scientist, Snowflake.
Denis Dorozhkin (postdoc),
More: Faculty at Georgia Tech.
William Pratt, undergraduate student 2013
More: Pratt and Whitney.
Hima Khoshreza, MS 2013
More: co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian; General Electric.
Ata Eftekharian, PhD 2011
More: UT Austin.
Zahra Shahbazi, PhD 2011
More: Associate dean & Professor at Fairfield University.
Kail Frank, MS June 2009
More: Head of Smart Manufacturing, Bystronic, Switzerland.
Matthew Kozacheck, high school student 2006.
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Jesse Parker, MS 2007
More: co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian
Peter Bohnenkamp, MS 2007
More: co-advised with Prof. K. Kazerounian