Our Team
KRISHNAN MAHESH
Principal Investigator & Director
Center for Naval Research & Education
Richard B. Couch Professor,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
STEVE CECCIO
Co-Principal Investigator
Center for Naval Research & Education
Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze
Professor of Engineering
Special Advisor for Strategic Initiatives
Offices of the Provost & the CFO
University of Michigan
PINGSHA DONG
Robert F. Beck Collegiate Professor of Engineering, Naval Architecture &
Marine Engineering
Materials
JON ESTRADA
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Soft Materials
JOAQUIM R.R.A. MARTINS
Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Multidisciplinary Optimization
MAX SHTEIN
Professor,
Materials Science & Engineering
Materials Science
DAVID DOWLING
ABS Professor & Chair,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Hydroacoustics
HARISH GANESH
Associate Research Scientist,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Biofouling
KAMAL SARABANDI
Fawwaz T. Ulaby Distinguished University Professor of EECS
Rufus S. Teesdale Endowed Professor of Engineering
Applied Electromagnetics
VENKAT VISWANATHAN
Associate Professor,
Aerospace Engineering
Energy Storage Modeling
KARTHIK DURAISAMY
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Director, Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering
Machine Learning & Data Assimilation
ERIC JOHNSEN
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Fluid Mechanics
ANCHAL SAREEN
Assistant Professor,
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Flow Control
LEI ZUO
Herbert C. Sadler Professor of Engineering , Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Wave Energy
Current Researchers
Mohamed A.S. Abdul-Kaiyoom
Teagan Fynan
Katarina Jevtic
Eva Ponterelli
Peter Susanto
Rodrigo Vilumbrales Garcia
Veer Agarwal
Divyanshu Gola
Bhumi Kumar
Daria Skalitzky
Andras Szabo
Sofie Vos
Mehedi Hasan Bappy
Manasa Gollapali
Andrew Li
Justin Song
Evan Teal
Zhigang Wei
Daniel Esterkin
Niloy Gupta
Kian Montazery
Ryan Strohman
Binh Truong
Gao Jun (Gary) Wu
Xianzhang Xu
Behzad Yektakhah
Administration
Kovida Rao
Center Administrator
Alumni
Amy Fahmy
Fall 2024 UG Student
Sunaad Gurajada
Fall 2024 UG Student
Seungnam Kim
CNRE Postdoc
Jackson Lewis
Summer 2024 UG Student
Megan Pribak
Fall 2024 UG Student
Vaibhav Ramaseshadri
Summer & Fall 2024
UG Student
Chelsea Sun
Fall 2024 & Winter 2025
UG Student
Jack Zaeske
Fall 2024 UG Student