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Executive Members

President

Yueyi (Diana) Sun

Yueyi Sun graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2016 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She is a doctoral student in Dr. Alexander Alexeev’s complex fluids modeling and simulation group in GT. She has been a big fan of Formula 1 (especially for team Ferrari) for 16 years. She enjoys many types of workouts such as running, kickboxing, weight training, and hiking… She loves cooking, baking, and tasting different foods worldwide. She joined MEGA board in 2017, first as secretary and then as VP, and now as President of MEGA! During her term, she would like to improve the environment of GT ME department, to be more active and inclusive! Not only among students, but also between faculties and students! If you want to be involved in MEGA and student leadership, please don’t hesitate to contact her: ysun340@nullgatech.edu.

Internal Vice President
Prachi Sahoo
External Vice President
Timothy Chen
Hello, I am Prachi. I am from Dubai, UAE. I graduated with a B.S in ME from GT in 2018 before starting my PhD focused on Safe Intermittent Reinforcement Learning with Dr. Kyriakos Vamvoudakis. In my free time I enjoy doing Pilates, running, cooking healthy versions of guilty meals, wine tastings, and drinking an obscene amount of craft coffee. Two truths and a lie:
1. I can make sourdough bread from scratch and feed my starter “yeast pet” regularly to keep it alive.
2. I do not know how to drive and will probably never learn because I envision myself becoming a New Yorker someday so why bother?
3. I have never been to a Christmas party.
Answer in person in our next MEGA event, and hopefully we will become friends!
Timothy Chen graduated from North Carolina State University in May 2019 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He is a third year Ph.D. student investigating high-capacity materials for lithium-ion batteries. In his free time, Timothy enjoys ice skating, volunteering, and hiking with friends.
Vice President of Communications
Tiffany Tsui
Social Chair
Connor Armstrong
Tiffany Tsui is a Medical Physics doctoral student in Dr. Niu’s research group. She graduated from University of Tennessee with a B.S. major in Nuclear Engineering and minor in Chemistry. Tiffany enjoys traveling, boxing, swimming, and spending quality time with her Maltipoo fur child. Connor Armstrong is a Ph.D. student in professor Jerry Qi’s group focusing on additive manufacturing of smart materials as well as bioinspired autonomously shape changing structures. It is his goal to bring together the MEGA community through a number of social events big and small.
Vice President of Finance
Maria Sattar
Vice President of Recruitment
Gian Rivera Crespo
Maria Sattar is first year Fulbright Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering student at Georgia Tech. Currently, working on Thermoelectric generators to address the energy challenges. She graduated as an Energy Systems Engineer from US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Energy, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Maria admires the nature, love to walk and play bowling ball. She is a curious reader and writer. Gian C. Rivera Crespo graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in May 2019 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and from Georgia Tech in 2021 with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He is a third year doctoral student in David Ku’s Thrombosis and Medical Device research group studying the fluid mechanics of hemorrhagic injuries, and the mechanisms through which they stop bleeding. Gian enjoys cheese, looking at maps, and 80’s dark wave.

 

 

 

 

 

Past board members:

Andrew Schulz

Chang Heyon (Sam) Lim

President 2020-2021

Andrew Schulz graduate from Oklahoma State University in May 2018 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. He is a first year doctoral student studying the mechanical properties of  Elephant Trunks in the Hu Biolocomotion Lab. Andrew enjoys volunteering at the Zoo Atlanta as well as cooking and baking.

External VP 2020-2021

Chang Hyeon (Sam) Lim is a Ph.D student studying supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle under Dr. Ranjan. He earned his BS degree in mechanical engineering in May 2017 at Georgia Tech. Other than MEGA, he’s also actively involved with Atlanta Community Consulting. During his free time, he likes to work out, go hiking, and travel around different parts of Georgia.

Xiaoshu Liu
Jason Hirschey

VP of Finance 2020-2021

Xiaoshu Liu came from Beijing, China. After receiving his M.S. in ME from GT-Stuttgart program in 2017, he joined Dr. Kok-Meng Lee’s lab and focuses on sensing and control of spherical motor. His top 3 favorite American dishes are hamburger, cheese burger, and double burger.

VP of Communications 2020-2021

Jason Hirschey is a PhD student under Dr. Samuel Graham. His newest hobby is sewing! Ask him about it!

Ammar Osman
Stephen Johnston

Social chair 2020-2021

I am a Fulbright grantee from Egypt, currently doing my MSc in mechanical engineering. My research area is thermal management of power electronics. I love people and appreciate beauty in the little things. Come and talk to me!

Stephen Johnston is a doctoral student studying thermally driven convection in Georgia Tech’s Shock Tube and Advanced Mixing Lab. Stephen is an avid disc golfer and also enjoys playing a variety of table-top games.
Brian Fuchs
Nitish Kumar 
Brian Fuchs is a third-year Doctoral student working on Nonlinear Ultrasonic Inspection in nuclear reactor components under Dr. Larry Jacob. He graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Materials Engineering in 2015. In his free time, Brian enjoys volunteering at the Georgia Aquarium and fishing. Nitish Kumar received the B.Tech. degree in aerospace engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 2012, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 2015. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at the Georgia Tech. His current research focuses on electron and thermal transport in carbon nanotube network thin-film transistors and Ga2O3 devices.

 

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