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Members of the Baskar Group.
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PhD (34)
- 2026 Vishal Muralidharan
- 2026 Therin Young (co-advised with Arti Singh) → EquiFax
- 2026 Ankush Mishra (co-advised with Adarsh Krishnamurthy) → Argonne National Lab
- 2026 Anirudha Powadi → Corteva
- 2025 Nirmal Baishnab → Musco Lighting
- 2025 Chih-Hsuan (Bella) Yang → Argonne National Lab
- 2025 Cheng-Hau Yang (co-advised with Adarsh Krishnamurthy) → Argonne National Lab
- 2024 Ali Rabeh (co-advised with Jonghyun Lee) → Applied Materials
- 2023 Kumar Saurabh (co-advised with Adarsh Krishnamurthy) → NASA
- 2022 Koushik Nagasubramanian (co-advised with Soumik Sarkar) → Bayer
- 2022 Biswajit Khara → Brown University
- 2021 Sungu Kim (co-advised with Robbyn Anand) → Professor, Mississippi State University
- 2021 Sivaranjani Devarakonda (co-advised with Pranav Shotriya) → Corning Inc
- 2021 Makrand Khanwale (co-advised with James Rossmanith) → Professor, TU Munich
- 2021 Boshun Gao → Caterpillar China
- 2020 Vahid Mirnezami → Bayer
- 2020 Travis Ramsey → UAE Oil Fund
- 2020 Ramin Noruzi → John Deere Company
- 2020 Niraj Kunwar (co-advised with Kristen Cetin) → ORNL
- 2019 Himanshu Sharma → PNNL
- 2019 Aditya Kommasojula → MathWorks
- 2018 Songzhe Xu (co-advised with Ming-Chen Hsu) → Shanghai Jiaotong University
- 2018 Joshua Mineroff (co-advised with Adarsh Krishnamurthy) → Domino Data Lab
- 2018 Balaji Pokuri → Target Research Labs
- 2017 Spencer Pfeifer → Caterpillar Inc
- 2017 Daniel Stoecklein → Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
- 2017 Adedotun Akintayo (co-advised with Soumik Sarkar) → Intel Corp
- 2016 Ryan Gebhart (co-advised with Sumit Chaudhary) → Micron Technology
- 2016 Minhua Long (co-advised with Ross Morrow) → Post-doc, Stanford University
- 2016 Anthony Fontanini → NREL
- 2014 Yu Xie → Microsoft
- 2013 Sai Kiranmayee Samudrala → Delta Airlines
- 2013 Qiang Guo (co-advised with Jonathan Wickert) → Avalion Wind Energy
- 2013 Hari Krishna Kodali → Siemens
MS (18)
- 2026 Ritwesh Kumar (co-advised with Adarsh Krishnamurthy)
- 2025 Elvis Kimara (co-advised with Aditya Balu)
- 2024 Devesh Lohia → Corteva
- 2024 Daeun (Sarah) Kim → World Bank
- 2021 Kendrick Tan → A-STAR HPC Center
- 2020 Sangeet Balakrishnan → PhD, U Maryland
- 2019 Badrinath Balasubramaniam → ISU Foundation
- 2018 Alec Lofquist → Affirm Inc
- 2016 Vikas Chawla (co-advised with Soumik Sarkar) → Twilio
- 2016 Nigel Lee → Baylor College of Medicine
- 2016 Kahnietta Pr'Out → Northrop Grumman
- 2016 Hsiang (Marcus) Naik → Trakomatic
- 2016 Hiep Tran → Turner Construction
- 2014 Saisree Parvathaneni → Unknown
- 2014 Lucas Mutti → Transsolar
- 2012 Robert Jaeger → MathWorks
- 2011 Sameer Jape (co-advised with Jonathan Wickert) → PhD, Texas A&M
- 2011 David Busch → Faculty, Iowa Central Community College
Former Postdocs (8)
- 2025-2026 Raghu Nandan Pratoori (co-advised with Abhay Ramachandra)
- 2022-2024 Xiaokai Huo (co-advised with Hailiang Liu)
- 2013-2021 David Ackerman → Raytheon
- 2018-2019 Ananth Tennati → Researcher, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
- 2013-2018 Pengfei Du → Faculty, Qingdao University of Technology
- 2012-2015 Mirka Deza → Assistant Teaching Professor, Iowa State
- 2013-2014 Robert Dyja → Faculty, Czestochowa University of Technology
- 2009-2014 Olga Wodo → Faculty, University at Buffalo