Gared Colton
Member since 2024
Gared is a PhD student in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Solar FTL. He obtained his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech with a thesis on simulated solid oxide fuel cell/gas turbine cogeneration systems. His current research focuses on the development and characterization of materials for solar-driven syngas production.
Jennifer Devapriyam
Member since 2024
Jennifer is a PhD student in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Solar FTL. She graduated with her MS in Mechanical Engineering from Andong National University where she was a Graduate Research Assistant in the Gas Dynamics Lab. She is working in under the guidance of Dr. Peter Loutzenhiser, and she is collaborating with the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory as a part of the NASA’s CLEVER Project.
Shaspreet Kaur
Member since 2020
Shaspreet is a PhD student in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2019. She is bonded and sponsored by an oil and gas company from Malaysia, Petronas, to pursue her graduate studies in Georgia Tech. Prior to Georgia Tech, she interned with Viscosity Oil Company in Chicago, where she gained valuable knowledge in Supply Chain Management.
Yuming Sun
Member since 2023
Yuming is a PhD student in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering co-advised by Dr. Peter Loutzenhiser and Dr. Devesh Ranjan. She received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. She earned her MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2020. Prior to joining Solar FTL, she was a graduate researcher at Cornell University in the Energy and the Environment Research Lab and the Bio-inspired Fluid Lab. Her current research is focused on studying particle properties and granular flows at elevated temperature for solar thermal energy storage integrated into particle-based concentrated solar power applications.
Andrew Vanderwege
Member since 2025
Andrew is a PhD student in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Solar FTL. He obtained his BS in Environmental Engineering from Syracuse University in 2025 where he conducted research in the Combustion & Energy Research Laboratory (COMER), primarily working with gel-polymer electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. His current research is focused on producing syngas using concentrated solar in collaboration with NREL.