Prospective students: Please email Dr. Benedict if you wish to join the lab.
Post-Doctoral Researchers
CTO, Harmony Aeronautics, College Station, TX
PhD Students
Hunter Denton
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2017
Email: hdenton17@tamu.edu
Jack Dooher
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2023
Email: jmdooher@tamu.edu
Amit Gadag
BTech, Mechanical Engineering, PES University, 2021
Email: amitggadag7599@tamu.edu
Sneha Jacob
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2023
Email: jacobsneha@tamu.edu
Joon Jo
Hongseok Kim
MS, Systems Engineering, AFIT, 2022
BS, Astronautical Engineering, ROKAF, 2008
Email: rutile56@tamu.edu
Miracle Nyancho
BASc, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, TAMU, 2023
Email: mnyancho1@tamu.edu
Bansi Patel
MS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2023
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Silver Oak College of Engineering and Technology, 2019
Farid Saemi
MS, Aerospace engineering, TAMU, 2020
BS, Aerospace engineering, TAMU, 2017
Research: eVTOL, electric powertrain applications, controls
Email: farid.saemi@tamu.edu
Vishnu Saj
MS, Computer Engineering, TAMU, 2024
BTech, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, 2018
Email: vishnu02saj@tamu.edu
Reuben-Wayne Stewart
BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Masters Students
Cayden Brown
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2023
Email: ccmb10515@tamu.edu
Dinsa Davis
Master Diploma in Product Design, Engineering Design, CADD International Dubai, 2022
BT, Mechanical Engineering, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, 2020
Email: dinsadavis@tamu.edu
Karanveer Dubey
BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Sardar Patel College of Engineering, 2021
Email: dubeykaranveer@tamu.edu
Joseph Heimerl
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2022
Email: jkheimerl@tamu.edu
Personal Website
Denisse Leines
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, 2021
Email: denisse.leines@tamu.edu
Jonathan Lephuoc
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2022
Email: Jonathanlep717@tamu.edu
Nandhi Manikandan
BTech, Aerospace Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 2020
Email: nandhinimanikandan@tamu.edu
Chenliang Zhang
BS, Aerospace Engineering, TAMU, 2022
Email: zcl1114@tamu.edu
Undergraduate Students
Raghav Bhatnagar
Email: raghav747@tamu.edu
Jericho Elegores
Email: jelegores@tamu.edu
Connor Elliott
Email: connorvelliott@tamu.edu
Personal Website
Akku Kumar
President, Texas A&M Vertical Flight Society
Email: akkumar03@tamu.edu
Personal Website
LinkedIn
Noah Vanous
Email: noahvanous@tamu.edu
Ian Voland
Email: ivoland@tamu.edu
Lulu (Annalaine) Whitson
Email: luluwhitson@tamu.edu
Vertical Flight Club Members
Garret Squires
Email: garrett.squires@tamu.edu
- Ilan Shmoysh
- Vivek Gaddam
- Lukas Spencer
- Kaitlan Muras
- Eliza Khan
- Benjamin Leger
- Timothy Kurtin
- Lorenzo Martinez
Aggies Vertical Flight
Design, Build, Vertical Flight team for Vertical Flight Society competition.
- Jonathan Lawler
- Amit Gadag
- Alec Estrada
- Gage Mahoney
- Jaden Behringer
- Vishruth Balaji
- Reshvar Kuppurangi
- Bennett Moorman
- Gustavo Biasotto
- Ani Vishnupriyan
- Derek Schirripa
- Kendall Neaves
Alumni
- Brett Himmelberg (BS, 2017) – Raytheon
- Carolyn Reed (MS, 2017) – JRC Integrated Systems
- Kanika Gakhar (BS, 2018) – SpaceX
- Sean McHugh (BS, 2018) – Lockheed Martin
- Joel White (BS, 2018) – Texas A&M University
- Adam Kellen (MS, 2019) – Southwest Research Institute
- James McElreath (BS, 2019) – Texas A&M University
- Atanu Halder (PhD, 2019) – Oklahoma State University Assistant Professor
- Chase Wiley (BS, 2020) – NAVAIR
- Bochan Lee (MS, 2018; PhD, 2021) – South Korean Navy
- Grant McCurdy (BS, 2021) – Army Futures Command
- Morgan Richter (BS, 2021) – Bell Flight
- Darragh Farrel (BS, 2021) – Bell Flight
- Moss Misiaszek (BS, 2021) – SpaceX
- Yunfeng “Oliver” Guo (BS, 2021)
- Kevin Ott (BS, 2021) – Lockheed Martin
- Nicolas Belgum (BS, 2021) – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
- Melanie Peavy (BS, 2022) – Bell Flight
- Abigail Rolen (BS, 2022) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Manuel DeLaRosa (BS, 2022) – Sparx Engineering
- Matthew Elmer (BS, 2022) – Texas A&M University
- Ramsay Ramsey (BS, 2020; MS, 2022) – Firefly Aerospace
- Tristan John White (BS, 2021; MS, 2022) – Spirit Aerosystems
- Carl Runco (BS, 2013, PhD, 2022) – Boeing
- Grant Erickson (BS, 2021; MS, 2022) – Lockheed Martin Space
- Jiaze Cai (BS, 2023) – UC Berkeley
- Owen Dunston (BS, 2023) – Jacobs Engineering