People
Current Graduate Students
- Digambar Killedar
- Hossein Sharifi
- Muhammad Usman Khan
- Josiah Worch
- Trotter Roberts
- Korebami Adebajo
- Ryan Yount
- Malichi Flemming
- Mohsen Gol Zardian
- M. Asif Khan
- Nathaniel Cooper
- Christopher Heaps
- Drew Huebner
- Charles Buren
- Mateo Garcia-Sandoval
- Sydney Morris
Ph.D. Alumni
- Joud Satme — 2026
- Jarrett Peskar — 2026
- Emmanuel Ogunniyi — 2025
- Puja Chowdhury — 2024
- Yanzhou Fu — 2023
Master of Science Alumni
- Mumin Adhami — 2026
- Connor Madden — 2026
- George Anthony — 2025
- James Scheppegrell — 2025
- Dan Hancock — 2025
- Richard Hailey — 2024
- Braden Priddy — 2024
- Jacob Martin — 2023
- Mohamed Abdelwahab — 2023
- Jason Smith — 2023
- Claire Shubert — 2020
Undergraduate Researcher Alumni
The ARTS-Lab has mentored more than 100 undergraduate researchers through independent research projects, funded research opportunities, and collaborative engineering activities. Undergraduate students interested in joining the laboratory are encouraged to contact Dr. Downey. The individuals listed here are a selected group of former undergraduate researchers who published first-author papers based on research conducted in the lab and did not continue with the ARTS-Lab for graduate study.
- Mark Zheng — 2026
- Matthew Burnett — 2026
- Josh McGuire — 2026
- Winford Janvrin — 2025
- Daniel Coble — 2024
- Parker Huggins — 2024
- David Wamai — 2024
- Corinne Smith-Lewis — 2023
- Hung-Tien Huang — 2022
- Ish Singh — 2021
High School Researcher Alumni
The ARTS-Lab has mentored more than 25 high school students through hands-on engineering research activities. Summer research opportunities may be available for high school students in Columbia, South Carolina, and the surrounding Midlands region. Interested local students are encouraged to contact Dr. Downey.