Principal Investigator

Dr. Daning Huang

Dr. Daning Huang joined Penn State in 2019. He received his bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China in 2013 and earned his master’s and doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2014 and 2019, respectively.

• Email: daning_psu_edu
• Office: 235A Hammond
• Curriculum Vitae
• Per aspera ad astra.

Ph.D. Students

Aravinth Sadagopan

Mr. Aravinth Sadagopan received his B. Tech (Aerospace Engineering) in 2016 from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India and his Master’s degree in 2019 from Penn State with a “Distinguished Masters’ Thesis Award”. Now he is working on high-speed fluid-thermal-structural interaction problems with an emphasis on flow stability analysis.

• Email: azs381_psu_edu
• Office: 7 Hammond
• Dream is not what you see in sleep, it is something that does not let you sleep. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Yin Yu

Mr. Yin Yu received his dual bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2014, in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 2015, and earned his master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from U of M. in 2016. Now he is working on geometric deep learning for aerospace and generic engineering applications with an emphasis on dynamical system modeling.

• Email: yzy5368_psu_edu
• Office: 7 Hammond

Carlos Vargas Venegas

Mr. Carlos Vargas Venegas attended the University of Costa Rica in 2016 and later transferred to Penn State, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Math, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He is currently working on hypersonics and reduced-order modeling using an integrated optimal control and data-physics-infusion approach.

• Email: cvv5110_psu_edu
• Office: 7 Hammond

Master’s Student

Jiwoo Song

Mr. Jiwoo Song obtained a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Physics with Honors Thesis option at Penn State. He is now working on the multi-disciplinary modeling of aerial vehicles and modal analysis of high-dimensional dynamical systems using probability- and operator-theoretic methods.

• Email: jzs6565_psu_edu
• Office: 7 Hammond

Undergraduate Students

• Bayu Prasetyo (UG, MC-REU, 05/30/21-)
• Holly Mullin (UG, 08/30/23-)
• Jaisel Singh (UG, 09/30/23-)
• Wichayut Lertkittiamornkul (UG, 09/30/23-)
• Amr El Mantawi (UG, 09/30/23-)
• Ankur Ghorai (UG, 01/15/24-)
• Parker Smith (UG, 02/15/24-)

Alumni

• Gregory Macchio (UG with thesis, 09/30/19-07/15/21)
• Anthony Su (UG with thesis, 01/15/20-04/30/21)
• Xinpeng Zhao (UG, 01/15/20-12/15/21)
• Vincent Cao (UG, 04/30/21-12/15/21)
• John G. Biscanti (UG, 04/30/21-12/15/21)
• Ryan Banks Glenn (UG with thesis, 08/30/21-12/15/21)
• Steven Jay Davis (UG, 04/30/2021-12/15/21)
• Christopher Cosgrove (UG, 10/30/21-12/15/21)
• Edgar Ryan (UG, 10/30/22-12/15/23)
• Rowan Badler (UG, 12/15/22-12/15/23)
• Pingxu Hao (UG, 04/30/23-12/15/23)
• Yiran Li (UG, 04/30/23-12/15/23)

And we are always open to young bright minds!