Mahbub Islam is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Wayne State University. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2016. His Ph.D. research was on interfacial chemistries and material properties of Li-based rechargeable batteries. He developed eReaxFF simulation method to account for explicit electronic degrees of freedom within classical reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for describing REDOX reactions. Next, he joined as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Purdue University in 2016, where he worked on molecular level investigation of physics and chemistry of energetic materials under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. Previously, he completed his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He joined Wayne State in the Fall of 2019 and leads the Atomic-scale Predictive Simulation and Modeling (aPriSM) Lab.

Email: gy5553 (at) wayne (dot) edu

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Rafiuzzaman Pritom is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University. He started his PhD study at Wayne State University in Fall 2023. Before joining aPriSM Lab, he worked as an Engineer at Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology. During his undergraduate studies, he focused his research on the analysis of inverse kinematics and trajectory planning for multiple robotic arms with various degrees of freedom .

Satheesh M is an incoming PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering from the CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI) in India. His primary interests are in electrochemical energy storage and conversion, including rechargeable batteries and electrocatalysts for water splitting. He aims to make significant contributions to the field of electrochemistry. During his undergraduate studies, he worked on advanced electrochemical methods, specifically Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization, to develop effective water desalination techniques.

Yousif Kandelchy is an upcoming third-year student currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Yousif has had an interest in batteries and MD since arriving at Wayne State University" .

Mark Kafana is majoring Mechanical engineering, He loves to spend time doing personal research and biking. He also loves technology and can spend all day looking at new gadgets. And he is a coordinator for the campus activities team!

Rahul Jayan completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2024.
Thesis Title: First-principles investigation of interfacial chemistries in room-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries.
Current Position: Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL)

Md Shahriar Nahian graduated with an MS in Mechanical Engineering from aPriSM Lab in Summer 2023 semester. Currently he is a Ph.D. Student at Texas A & M University.
Thesis title: "Understanding the Graphitizability of heavy-end aromatic feedstocks at the molecular level " .