Principal Investigator

Leifur Thor Leifsson

Leifur is an Associate Professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University where he leads the CODE Lab. His contact information can be found here.

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PhD Students

Pavankumar Koratikere
PhD student

Pavan's research is focused on efficient global optimization with neural network models and sequential sampling.

Abhijnan Dikshit
PhD student

Abhijnan's research is focused on adaptive nonintrusive reduced order modeling.

Masters Students

Garrett Malmborg
MSAA student

Garrett's research is focused on multidisciplinary analysis and design optimization of hypersonic vehicles.

Spencer Jones
MSAA student

Spencer's research is focused on multidisciplinary analysis and design optimization of hypersonic vehicles.

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Undergraduate Students

Ian Laudo
BSAAE student

Ian's research is focused on trajectory analysis of hypersonic vehicles.

Sota Yanagisawa
BSAAE student

Sota's research is focused on avian-inspired flapping-wing vehicles.

Milan Edward Rahmani
BSAAE student

Milan's research is focused on avian-inspired flapping-wing vehicles.

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Alumni 

Joseph Galkowski (MSAA May 2024)
Taeho Jeong (MSAA May 2024, now a PhD student at Purdue University)
Siddhesh Naidu (MSAA May 2024)
Triston Kosloske (MSAA May 2023, now at Belcan, Cincinnati, OH)
Tarith Samson (MSAA May 2023)

Alumni at Iowa State University

Nazareen Sikkandar Basha (PhD May 2024, now at Boston Metal, Boston, MA)
Jethro Nagawkar (PhD December 2022, now at Envision Energy, Boulder, CO)
Vishal Raul (PhD May 2021, now at General Motors, Detroit, MI)
Marc Brittain (PhD May 2021, now at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, MD)
Xiaosong Du (PhD May 2019, now an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO)
Andrew Thelen (PhD December 2019, MS May 2016, now at NASA Langley's Aeroelasticity Branch)
Anshul Chandel (MS December 2018, now at 12 Bridges, Boston, MA)
Ryan Zher (MS May 2017)
Alexander Peters (MS May 2017, now at Boeing, St. Louis, MO)
Anand Amrit (PhD December 2018, MS May 2016, now at Axiom Space, Houston, Texas)
Jie Ren (MS May 2016, now at Honeywell Aerospace, Shanghai, China)