Matthew Daly

Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering

Training
Postdoc, Northwestern University (2017-2018)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto (2017)
M.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo (2012)
B.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo (2009)

Email: mattdaly@uic.edu

Links: CV, Google scholar, Researchgate

Short Bio: Matt is originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has worked in a variety of academic and industrial settings over his career and also spent a couple of years living in Germany during his undergraduate studies. His research interests include the mechanics of nanostructured materials, advanced materials and microstructure design, in situ characterization techniques, physical metallurgy and atomistic modeling.

Junaid Ahmed

PhD Student in Materials Engineering

Junaid Ahmed is originally from Sadiq Abad, Punjab, Pakistan and received his B.Sc. degree in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan. Afterword, he joined Mechanical Engineering department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia and received his M.Sc. degree in 2016. Under the supervision of Dr. Ihsan ul Haq Toor, he worked on the development and characterization of nano-structured stainless steels by powder metallurgy followed by spark plasma sintering. In November 2016, he joined University of Hafr al Batin, Saudi Arabia as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering department. Junaid joined the AMML in January 2019 to begin his Ph.D. studies.

Ritesh Jagatramka

PhD Student in Materials Engineering

Ritesh Jagatramka received his Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. For his Bachelors’ work, he completed a project designing a mast of an indoor airship in collaboration with IIT, Bombay. Due to interest in the field of energy technology, a part of his work was on designing a solar concentrated sterling engine which made him realize the need for energy storage systems is paramount. He began his graduate career as a Masters’ student at UIC under the supervision of Dr. Indacochea. Given his high interest in the field of energy storage, he accepted a project on improving the efficiency of lithium-oxygen batteries in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory. He joined the AMML for his PhD studies in January 2019.

Novin Rasouli

PhD Student in Materials Engineering

Novin received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from the University of Tehran. For his Bachelor’s work, he completed a project on the Synthesis of Gelatin Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery. In his Master’s studies, he specialized in the field of Characterization and Selection of Engineering Materials. His master’s thesis was a project on Grain Boundary Engineering to overcome embrittlement. Novin joined the AMML in August 2022.

Amir Shirsalimian

PhD Student in Civil Engineering

Amir Shirsalimian received his bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Fall of 2022. During his undergraduate studies, he participated in research at the Advanced Materials and Microstructure lab, where he took on projects in defect metallurgy and computational materials science.  Through this journey in undergraduate research, he learned several foundational research skills, setting himself up to excel as he pursues his doctorate with the group. His future goals include leveraging his research skills to work at a space exploration company and help make humanity interplanetary.

Lu Yingjie

MS Student in Materials Engineering

Lu Yingjie is a Master’s student in Materials Engineering, who plans to graduate in the summer of 2023. She received her B.E in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. She is learning about deformation mechanisms and characterization of microstructures of metallic materials. She aims to pursue a career in materials design in the future. Yingjie joined AMML in January 2022.

Chheng Lang Ngov

MS Student in Materials Engineering

Chheng is a Master’s student in Material Engineering, expect to graduate in May 2024. She received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University. She is interested in learning about advanced materials, the structures, the properties and how they influence the development of materials. My goal is to use these skills in process improvement and process engineering in material design.

Alejandro Lara

MS Student in Materials Engineering

Alejandro is a Master’s student in Materials Engineering, expected to graduate in May 2023. He received his B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018. He credits his job as an application engineer in surface finishing for developing an interest in materials. He is interested in material wear and protection, processing and manufacturing, and biomaterials. Currently with the group he is learning about creep deformation and testing.

Juan Alanis

BS Student in Mechanical Engineering

Juan Alanis is an undergraduate Mechanical Engineer major at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is expected to graduate by May 2024. He grew up mainly in Chicago in a neighborhood called Rogers Park but has recently moved to Niles. Additionally, he has expressed his strong interest to pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.