People

Yaofa Li

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Yaofa Li is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanial & Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. He is the director of the M-LEFT.

Rafid Musabbir Rahman

PhD Student

Rafid joined the M-LEFT Lab in Fall 2021. He completed his BS from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). His research focuses on mineral dissolution of porous media coupled with single and multiphase flow. The research is motivated by CO₂ sequestration and petroleum engineering. Read more about Rafid's resarch here.  

Arpan Ghimire Bohara

PhD Student

Arpan joined the M-LEFT Lab in Fall 2022 from Nepal. Her research focuses on the design and characterization of novel pulsating heat pipes motivated by electronics cooling in outer space applications. 

Nishagar Raventhiran

PhD Student 

Nishagar joined the M-LEFT in Fall 2019 as a Master student. Prior to that, Nishagar obtained his B.S. from Montana State University in Spring 2019. Nishagar was then re-enrolled as a PhD student in Spring 2023. His research focuses on pressure sensor development and the characterization of pore-scale pressure during multiphase flow in porous media. Read more about Nishagar's research here.

Zeeshan Ahmad Khan

PhD Student

Zeeshan joined the M-LEFT Lab in Spring 2023 from Pakistan. His research focuses on multiphase flow and evaporative heat transfer motivated by thermal management of electronics. 

Md Ahsan Habib 

MS Student 

Ahsan joinedM-LEFT in Summer 2022. He started as a MS student at Montana State University in Fall 2021. Ahsan obtained his B.S. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2019. His research focuses on drying and evaporation and multiphase flow dynamics within porous media. His research is central to applications such as soil drying and CO₂ sequstration. 

MS Student

Mahedi joined M-LEFT in Spring 2023. He obtained his BS from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). Mahedi's current research focuses on the characterization of heat transfer mechanisms in porous materials with applications in thermal protection systems on reentry vehicles. 

Diego Armstrong

Undergraduate Student

Diego is a Mechanical Engineering Senior and joined M-LEFT in the Fall of 2021. He has a passion for fluid sciences and has fabricated micromodels with dual porosity media with M-LEFT. He will also be analyszing multiphase flow in the porous micromodels with Ashan. Diego is a winner for the MONT Empower Scholarship. 

Mykola Stone (Kole)

Undergraduate Student

Kole is a Mechanical Engineering Senior and joined M-LEFT in the Fall of 2022. Kole's research focuses on photomanipulation of droplets in porous microfluidic systems employing microfluidics and 3D printing. Kole recently won the MSU Undergraduate Scholars Program award. 

Garrett Kennedy

Undergraduate Student

Garrett joined the M-LEFT in Summer of 2022. He began as an undergraduate student in MSU in the Fall of 2020 and majors in Mechanical Engineering. Garrett's research is to study the fluid mechanics of oil droplet deformation and breakup in water using 3D printed microchannels. Prior to this, Garrett teamed up with Kadir to design and build the microcutter.

Carson Kocmick

Undergraduate Student

Carson joined the M-LEFT in Summer of 2022. He began as an undergraduate student in MSU in the Fall of 2020 and has since then studied Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering program. This lab experience will help him prepare for different challenges in the engineering field and has given a different perspective on engineering as well. Carson is currently working with Rafid on multiphase flow and mineral dissolution in porous micromodels.

Matt Netley

Undergraduate Student

I began my undergraduate studies at MSU in the fall of 2019. I am currently a senior in mechanical engineering, minoring in Aerospace. My experience in this lab is to help me prepare for my career, and gauge my interest in graduate studies in the future.

My current project involves exploring molecular tagging techniques to capture fluid flow velocity in two dimensions.

Kadir Kanik

Undergraduate Student

Kadir is senior in Mechanical Engineering. He joined M-LEFT in the fall of 2022. Currently, Kadir is taking the lead to design and build a microfluidic cutter, which will be used for the fabrication of microchannels in our lab. 

Razin Sazzad Molla

MS Student

Razin joined the M-LEFT in Fall 2019 as the first student in the M-LEFT, and graduate in Fall 2022 with a Master degree. Razin's research focused on the characterization of capillary pressure and corner flows in porous media. His work is featured in a couple of papers and more to come. Read more about Razin's resarch here.   

DeAnna Reynolds-Singleton

Undergraduate Student

DeAnna worked in the M-LEFT from Spring 2021 until she graduated in Fall 2022. She started as an undergraduate student at Mississippi State University, Bagley School of Engineering. She then transferred to Montana State in Fall of 2018. DeAnna did some nice work and contributed greatly to our droplet manipulation project. 

Irais Guymon

Undergraduate Student

Irais worked in the M-LEFT from Summer 2022 to Fall 2022 when she graduated. Irais started the oil droplet deformation research in our lab, which now is taken over by Garrett. Irais won the MONT Empower Scholarship for her research at M-LEFT. Irais is taking a new job in Oklahoma.

Kshithij Nandishwara (KS)

Undergraduate Student

KS worked in the M-LEFT from Fall 2021 to Spring 2022 when he graduated. KS did some nice work to numerically model the pressure sensor that was built by Nishagar. His work is now published in Lab on a Chip. Great achievement for an undergraduate researcher. 

Elliott Niemur

Undergraduate Student

Elliott worked in the M-LEFT from Spring 2021 to Spring 2022. Elliott helped a great deal with the lab development by building a dust free room. Elliott also helped Rafid develop the necessary methods for calcite sample preparation.