THE COMPUTATIONAL NANOMATERIALS LABORATORY
Principal Investigator
Luis Alberto Ruiz Pestana
Assistant Professor, Dr Reza and Georgianna Khatib Endowed Chair
Civil and Architectural Engineering
University of Miami
Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (2009)
Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2015)
Northwestern University
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Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2019)
Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Current Members
Geng Yuan
Ph.D. Student
(co-advised with Prof. James Englehardt)
B.S. Environmental Engineering
China University of Mining and Technology, China, 2016
M.S. Earth and Environmental Engineering
Columbia University, 2018
Hobbies
music, painting
Subhashree Panda
Ph.D. Student
(co-advised with Prof. Prannoy Suraneni)
B.S. Civil Engineering
College of Engineering and Technology, Odisha, India, 2018
M.S. Structural Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology, India, 2020
Hobbies
cooking, baking, painting
Mingyue Wu
Ph.D. Student
B.S. Geology
Xi'an Shiyou University,
China, 2018
M.S. Marine Geosciences,
RSMAS, University of Miami, 2020
Hobbies
painting, baking
Meili Liu
Postdoctoral Associate
B.S. Chemistry (2016)
Hunan Normal University, China
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (2021)
Beijing Normal University, China
Visiting Scholar, Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Hobbies
tennis, hiking, reading
Akhilesh Verma
Postdoctoral Associate
M.S. Physics (2014)
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Ph.D. Physics (2020)
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Postdoc, Mathematics (2020-2022)
University of Warwick, Coventry, England
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Former Members
Swathi Shantharaju
Ph.D. Student
(co-advised with Prof. Prannoy Suraneni)
B.E. Civil Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, 2015
M.S. Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, 2017
Hobbies
hiking, traveling, music, painting
Kara Samuel
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Miami
Class 2023
Hobbies
tennis, piano, cooking,
snowboarding, working out
Hari Dave
Undergraduate Researcher
IIT Gandhinagar
Class of 2022
Hobbies
table-tennis, singing, painting
Hanna Campos
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Miami
Class of 2023
Hobbies
upcycling, photography, working out,
hiking, cooking
Alex Scaff
Undergraduate Researcher
University of Washington in St. Louis
Class 2025
Hobbies
soccer, basketball, video editing, kayaking
Chaitanya Guntoorkar
Undergraduate Researcher
IIT Gandhinagar
Class of 2023
Hobbies
swimming, international affairs, crime novels, and anime
Harsh Dudhatra
Undergraduate Researcher
IIT Gandhinagar
Class of 2023
Hobbies
leather ball cricket, chess, puzzles, and swimming