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  • October 24, 2025

Previous Students

Proshat Mehdizad, PhD, PE
Former Graduate Research Assistant, GT Cryo Lab
GWW School of Mechanical Engineering
PhD Topic: CFD-Assisted and Micromanufacturing-Based Bottom-Up Design and Development of Smart Regenerators for Large Cryocoolers
Email: pm5@gatech.edu
Ali Ghavami Ali Ghavami, PhD
Research Engineer, GT Cryo Lab
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Cryogenics, Design and Analysis of Cryocoolers
Email: ali.ghavami@gatech.edu
More information here.
Alana Homa, MS
PhD Student, GT Cryo Lab
Research Assistant, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering
Tentative PhD Topic: Micromanufacturing-Based Bottom-Up Design and Development of Smart Regenerators for Large Cryocoolers
Email: ahoma3@gatech.edu
More Information can be found here.
Michael R Baldwin, PhD
R&D Fluid/Thermal Analyst, Liquid Propulsion Systems
R&D NASA Marshal Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
MS Thesis: Relative Permeability and Passability for Two-Phase Flow in Packed Porous Beds
PhD Topic: Flow and Phase Change Phenomena of Cryogens and Cryogenic Fuels
Email: michael.r.baldwin@nasa.gov
Tao Fang, PhD
R&D Director, Carver Labs
PhD Topic: The Effects Of Tilt Angle On Acoustic-Stirling (Pulse Tube) Cryocoolers
Email: t@carverlabs.us
More Information can be found here.
Veera Manek, PhD
Yield Engineer, Automatic Defects Classification (ADC) using machine learning techniques, Intel Corporation.
PhD Topic: Distillation assisted purification, transport and delivery of liquefied natural gas
MS Thesis: Reduced basis model for multi-injector liquid propellant rocket engine using LES turbulent combustion
Email: veera.manek@intel.com
More Information can be found here.
Matthew Drake Perrella, PhD
Associate in the Mechanical Engineering Practice, Exponent
PhD Topic: Periodic Flow Hydrodynamic Resistance Parameters for Various Regenerator filler Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures
Email: mperrella@exponent.com
More Information can be found here.
Mihir G. Pathak, PhD.
Investment Management, McKinsey & Company – MIO Partners
PhD Topic:
Periodic Flow Physics in Porous Media of Regenerative Cryocoolers
MS Thesis:
Thermal Dispersion and Convective Heat Transfer during Laminar Pulsating Flow in Porous Media
Email: 
mihir_pathak@mckinsey.com 
or mihir_pathak@miopartners.com 
More Information can be found here.
Thomas I. Mulcahey, PhD
Manager, Advanced Development, CSA Medical, Inc.
PhD Topic:Convective Instability of Oscillatory Flow in Pulse Tube Cryocoolers due to Asymmetric Gravitational Body Force
MS Thesis:
Autonomous cricket biosensors for acoustic localization
Email: 
TMulcahey@csamedical.com
More Information can be found here.
Evan C. Landrum, MS
Thermal Designer Engineer, Transitions & Casings Group, Gas Turbine Engineering, Siemens
MS Thesis: Anisotropic Parameters of Mesh Fillers Relevant to Miniature Cryocoolers
Email: evan.landrum@siemens.com
More Information can be found here.
Brian K. Stewart, MS
Project Manager, Langley Research Center, NASA
MS Thesis: Development of a Thin Film Evaporative Cooling
System for a High Energy Thulium: Lutetium Lithium
Fluoride Solid-State Laser Oscillator Crystal
Email: brian.k.stewart@nasa.gov
Will M. Clearman , MS
Ship Signature Engineer, Center Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare
MS Thesis: Measurement and Correlation of Directional Permeability and Forchheimer’s Coefficient of Micro Porous Structures Used in Pulse-Tube Cryocoolers
Email: william.clearman@navy.mil
More Information can be found here.
Theodore J. Conrad, PhD
Sr. Principal Cryocooler Engineer at FLIR Systems
PhD Topic: Miniaturized Pulse Tube Refrigerators
Email: ted.conrad@flir.com
Jeff Cha, PhD
Instrument Cryogenic Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PhD Topic: Hydrodynamic Parameters of Micro Porous Media for Steady and Oscillatory Flow: Application to Cryocooler Regenerators
MS Thesis: CFD Simulation of Multi-dimensional Effects in Inertance Tube Pulse Tube Cryocoolers
Email: JCha@jpl.nasa.gov
More Information can be found here.
Muhammad Akbar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Tennessee State University
PhD Topic:
Transport Phenomena in Complex Two and Three-Phase Flow Systems Application: CFD techniques in microchannel and minichannels, aerosol transport, gas-pulp-water three phase flow.
MS Thesis:
Turbulent Dispersed Particulate Flow in a Zigzag Channel
Email: 
makbar@tnstate.edu
More Information can be found here.
Jeremy P. Harvey, PhD
Porous Media Engineer, Oil Field Services, Schulmberger
PhD Topic:
Oscillatory Compressible Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous Media & Application to Cryocooler Regenerators
MS Thesis:
Parametric Study of Cryocooler Regenerator Performance
Email: jeremy.p.harvey@gmail.com

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