Team

We aim to provide a community for our lab members to reach their full potential as researchers, in the hopes that they will go on and continue doing amazing things. Towards that goal, here are several things that we hope are self-evident but we will list them anyway, 

1) each person should feel ownership towards their respective project(s),
2) there is full transparency and openness within the group,
3) critique ideas, but never critique people, and
4) have some fun, this is the best job in the world after all

Principal investigator

Tian “Tim” Chen
Principal investigator
CV, Google Scholar
N207, Eng. Bldg. 1
tianchen@uh.edu
(713) 743-2548

PhD students

Master’s students

Hedda Grelz
Mech & Aero
hagrelz@cougarnet.uh.edu

Lindsay Underwood
Mech & Aero
ljunderw@CougarNet.uh.edu

Bradley Cline
Mech & Aero
bscline@cougarnet.uh.edu

Undergraduate students

Anand Nachimuthu
Mech & Aero
anachim2@cougarnet.uh.edu

Erick Guevara
Mech & Aero
eguevar9@cougarnet.uh.edu

Katlinh Nguyen
Mech & Aero
knguy249@CougarNet.uh.edu

Alumni

At the University of Houston

  1. Haley Clausen, (2025), current position: B.Sc. at Texas A&M
  2. Max Song, (2025), current position: B.Sc. at UT Austin
  3. Kelvin Shum, (2025), current position: B.Sc. at UT Austin
  4. Nour Mnejja, (2025), current position: PhD at UH
  5. Charles Ortiz, (2025)
  6. Pan Liu, (2024)
  7. Catherine Bai, (2025), current position: B.Sc. at UPenn
  8. Jacob Tang, (2024), current position: B.Sc. at USC
  9. Andrew Martinez, (2023), current position: B.Sc. at USC
  10. William Moeller, (2023), current position: B.Sc. at UVA
  11. N. Adab, (2023)
  12. Nicolas Betancourt, (2022)
  13. T. Tran, (2022)
  14. A. Shariff, (2022)
  15. T. Nguyen, (2022)
  16. T. Sommer, (2022)
  17. K. Nguyen, (2021)

At ETH and EPFL

  1. A. Gautier, (2020)
  2. M. Schnaubelt, (2020)
  3. R. Ebrahimi, (2019)
  4. Lukas Ulrich, (2018)
  5. C. Volk, (2018)
  6. Mattis Koh, (2018)
  7. M. Mueller, (2018)
  8. J. Freitag, (2017)
  9. D. Fritzsche, (2017)
  10. J. Sesseg, (2017)
  11. Cosima Du Pasquier, (2017), current position: Postdoc at Stanford
  12. R. Felber, (2017)
  13. M. Wagner, (2016)
  14. Jane Liu, (2016)
  15. Lucas Zimmermann, (2015)