Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Gökçin Çınar

Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Postdocs

Junhwi Park

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

PhD Students

Emma Cassidy

PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant

Maxfield Arnson

PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant

Miranda Stockhausen

PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant

Nattanan Wongprapinkul

PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant (co-advised)

Triết Hồ

PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant

Master’s Students

Barath G.R.

Research Assistant

Dillon Agrawal

Research Assistant

Yihan Lei

Research Assistant

Undergraduate Students

Conan Lee

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Alumni

PhD Students

Paul Mokotoff UM, PhD 2026 Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Victoria

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Swapnil Jagtap UM, 2023-2024 Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Manchester

Master's Students

Ian Strehle UM, 2025-2026
Cristina Erskine UM, 2024-2026
Yipeng Liu UM, 2024-2026
Alexandra Strehlow UM, 2023-2024
Huseyin Acar UM, 2023-2024
Yi-Chih Arenas Wang UM, 2023-2024
Yilin Deng UM, 2022-2024
Aidan Clawson UM, 2022-2023
Alexander Kryuchkov UM, 2022-2023
Janki Patel UM, 2022-2023
Kriti Rathi UM, 2022-2023
Michael Tsai UM, 2022-2023

Undergraduates

Margaret Strand UM, 2025
Nikolas Economos UM, 2025
Ian Kim UM, 2024-2026
Lauren Abravanel UM, 2024-2026
Marcellin Barbeau UM, 2024
Naol Gina University of the District of Columbia Community College, 2024
Neha Dwibhashyam UM, 2024
Joaquin Rey UM, 2023-2024
Maria Reitz UM, 2023-2024
Rawan Aljaber UM, 2023-2024
Nawa Khailany UM, 2022-2024
Jayda Shine Spelman College, 2023
Santiago Garcia Lavanchy UM, 2022-2023

Photo Gallery

IDEAS Lab throughout the years. Click on the photos for names and years.

IDEAS Lab, November 2022. Left to right: Michael Tsai, Alexander Kryuchkov, Paul Mokotoff, Gökçin Çınar, Maxfield Arnson, Aidan Clawson, Yilin Deng, Kriti Rathi.

IDEAS Lab, November 2023. Left to right, front row: Emma Smith, Joaquin Rey, Rawan Aljaber, Nawa Khalainy. Left to right, back row: Yi-Chih Wang, Nattanan Wongprapinkul, Hüseyin Acar, Paul Mokotoff, Gökçin Çınar, Maxfield Arnson, Yilin Deng, Swapnil Jagtap.

IDEAS Lab, October 2024. Left to right, front row: Ian Kim, Paul Mokotoff, Emma Smith, Gökçin Çınar, Miranda Stockhausen, Swapnil Jagtap, Lauren Abravanel. Left to right, back row: Arenas Wang, Hüseyin Acar, Marcellin Barbeau, Maxfield Arnson, Nattanan Wongprapinkul, Yipeng Liu.

IDEAS Lab, October 2025. Left to right, front row: Barath G.R., Emma Cassidy, Paul Mokotoff, Gökçin Çınar, Triết Hồ, Miranda Stockhausen. Left to right, back row: Nattanan Wongprapinkul, Yipeng Liu, Malek Soueidan, Maxfield Arnson, Yihan Lei, Dillon Agrawal.