Faculty
Jian Cao
Associate Professor
Email: jcao@northwestern.edu
Homepage: www.mech.northwestern.edu/fac/cao
Tel: (847) 467-1032
Fax: (847) 491-3915 du
Post-doctoral Fellows
Ying Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: yhuang@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Projects:
1. Tool wear of high strength stamping die
2. Deformation machining
3. Microforming simulation
Wonoh Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: wonoh-lee@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Projects:
1. Numerical analysis for double-dome
stretching tests of woven composites
2. Material constitutive modeling for
combined isotropic-kinematic hardening
3. Crystal plasticity
PhD Students
Michael Beltran
Graduate Student
Email: mbeltran@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Project:
1. Microchannel fabrication using incremental forming
Hang Cheng
Graduate Student
Email: shawn-cheng@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Project:
1. A post-process tool for detecting surface
distortion in stamping
Tiffany Davis
Graduate Student
Email: tiffany-davis@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Projects:
1. Surface texturing via micro-punching
2. Surface texturing via micro-indentation
3. Tribological characterization of textured surfaces
Numpon Mahayotsanun
Graduate Student
Email: numorm@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Projects:
1. Microforming
2. Draw-in Sensor
Rui Zhou
Graduate Student
Email: rzhou@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Project:
1. Fabrication of miniature fuel cell bipolar plates
Undergraduate Students
Ibrahim Khalid AlAli
Undergraduate Student
Email: sahouh@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Project:
1. Tribology
Kristi Bond
Undergraduate Student
Email: k-bond@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Project:
1. Microforming
Julia Padvoiskis
Undergraduate Student
Email: JuliaPadvoiskis2007@u.northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-1851
Project:
1. Composites
Visiting Scholars
Anupam Agrawal
Visiting Scholar (PhD student)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Email: anupamag@iitk.ac.in
Phone: 0091-9415540900
Homepage: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~anupamag
Project:
1. Investigation of incremental forming process
Dr. Yongjun Wang
Visiting Scholar (Professor)
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Email: wyongjun@nwpu.edu.cn
Phone: 86-29-8849-2843-2
Projects:
1. Strentch bending
2. Incremental forming
3. Intelligent control of sheet metal forming process
Graduated Students
Dr. Thaweepat Buranathiti
Lecturer
King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand
Email: thaweepat.bur@kmutt.ac.th
Phone: 66-02-470-8695 to 9 ext. 300
Fax: 66-02-427-9062
Dr. Brad Kinsey
Associate Professor
University of New Hampshire
Email: bkinsey@unh.edu
Phone: (603) 862-1811
Dr. Neil Krishnan
Development Engineer, Oil and Gas Products
Diamond Innovations
Email: neil.krishnan@diamondinnovations.com
Web: www.diamondinnovations.com
Phone: (614)438-2256
Fax: (614)438-2829
Dr. Shunping Li
Ford Motor Company
Email: sli20@ford.com
Phone: (603) 862-1811
Dr. Hongsheng Lu
Scientist
Livermore Software Tech. Corp.
Email: hslu@lstc.com
Web: www.lstc.com
Phone: (925) 449-2500 ext. 277
Dr. Xiongqi Peng
Professor
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi' an, China
Email: xqpeng@nwpu.edu.cn
Phone: 29-8849-4689
Dr. Kum Cheol Shin
Postdoctoral Fellow
KAIST
Email: kcshin@imhp.kaist.ac.kr
Phone: 82-42-869-3290
Nang Song
Software Programmer
Bloomberg L.P.
Website: www.bloomberg.com
Email: nsong@bloomberg.com
Phone: (212) 617-3969
Fax: (917)369-5477
Anthony Swanson
Consultant
Monitor Group
Email: a-swanson1@northwestern.edu
Phone: (312)604-3568
Vikram Viswanathan
Sr. Business Analysis
A.T. Kearney
Email: vikram.viswanathan@atkearney.com
Phone: (312) 223-7198
Fax: (312) 223-6200
Dr. Xi Wang
Sr. Software Engineer
Nicksun, Inc.
Email: xwa194@yahoo.com
Phone: (732) 821-9961 ext. 207
Dr. Pu Xue
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: p.xue@inet.polyu.edu.hk
Phone: (852) 276-6518
Dr. Hong Yao
Sr. Research Engineer, Product Applications Research
Mittal Steel USA
Website: http://automotive.mittalsteel.com
Email: hong.yao@mittalsteel.com
Phone: (219) 399-2761
