Current & Former Students

Current Students

  • Devki Desai, September 2021-
  • Wen Zhou, September 2020-
  • Wei-Hsiu Hu, September 2019-
  • Mengjun Hou, September 2019-
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Outreach Activities

Summer Engineering Exploration (SEE) Camp

ACE-MRL members Ravi Ranade, Lena Soler Ayoroa, Daniel Soltan and Motohiro Ohno hosted a lab tour for high school students on June 27th, 2013. Ravi Ranade conducted a material testing demonstration in the ACE-MRL laboratory for the camp participants.

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Science Society visit from Bates Elementary Bridge Program

ACE-MRL member Ravi Ranade conducted a lab tour and laboratory demonstration for the Science Society consisting of school students of Bates Elementary Bridge Program on June 25th, 2013.

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Girls in Science and Engineering (GISE) @ UM:Summer Day Camp

ACE-MRL members Devki Desai and Emily Herbert are working with a team of around 10 engineering students to retrofit a historic Ann Arbor home to achieve the water petal of the Living Building Challenge. By designing a rainwater catchment, storage and purification system as well as considering permeable pavement and bioswales, the group hopes to create an integrated, sustainable site-house water management system.

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Lab member extracurricular projects

  • Living Building Challenge: Making an Ann Arbor House Net-Zero Water

ACE-MRL members Devki Desai and Emily Herbert are working with a team of around 10 engineering students to retrofit a historic Ann Arbor home to achieve the water petal of the Living Building Challenge. By designing a rainwater catchment, storage and purification system as well as considering permeable pavement and bioswales, the group hopes to create an integrated, sustainable site-house water management system.

This project was featured on TV20 Detroit News at 10.

Find out more here: Zero water consumption: U-M students to retrofit historic home.
Contact: [email protected]


Awards and Recognitions in 2012-2013

  • Ravi Ranade, “Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research”

Engineering Graduate Symposium 2013

  • Qian Zhang, “Ductile Spray-applied Fire-resistive Material For Enhanced Fire Safety of Steel Structures” (Poster).
  • Lena Soler Ayoroa, “Development of ECC Slurry for Levee Cut-off Wall Applications” (Poster).

Engineering Graduate Symposium 2012

  • Ravi Ranade, “Concrete for a Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure” (Poster), selected as Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research
  • Devki Desai, “Development of thermally adaptive ECC panels for passive building envelope heat storage” (Poster), selected as Technical Session Award in Civil and Environemental Engineering
  • Motohiro Ohno, “Development of green and durable fiber reinforced geopolymer for truly sustainable infrastructure applications” (Poster), selected as Technical Session Award in Civil and Environemental Engineering

Former Students of ACE – MRL

  • Jubilee Adeoye, 2019
  • Man Tung Lai, 2017.
  • Kevin Shen, 2016.
  • Taeho Kim, 2016.
  • Motohiro Ohno, PhD, 2017, Research Associate, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Daniel Soltan, PhD, 2017. Manager, External Innovation & Partnerships, WestRock Company, Atlanta, GA
  • Emily Herbert, PhD, 2016. Test Engineer, Hilti Entwicklunsgesellschaft mbH, Germany
  • Qingxu Jin, MS, 2016, PhD, 2019 (GTech), Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, MI.
  • Qian Zhang, PhD, 2015, , Assistant Professor, Florida State University, FL.
  • Devki Desai, MS, 2014, Project Engineer, HOK, New York.
  • Lena Ayoroa, MS, 2014, Project Manager, Gardiner & Theobald Inc., New York, NY.
  • Ravi Ranade, PhD, 2014, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
  • Mo Li, PhD, 2009, Associate Professor, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA.
  • En-hua Yang, PhD, 2007, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. (Photo)
  • Alissa Kendall, PhD, 2007, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis (Photo
  • Shunzhi Qian, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.
  • Michael David Lepech, PhD, 2006, Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University (Photo
  • Shuxin Wang, PhD, 2005 (Photo), Vice President, MSEALS & TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD, Ningbo, China.
  • Joe Seidel, MS, 2004
  • Gregor Fischer, PhD, 2002, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark (Photo
  • Cynthia Wu, PhD, 2001 (Photo
  • Hyun-Joon Kong, PhD, 2001, Robert W. Schaefer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Photo)
  • Hui Wang, PhD, 2001
  • P. Kim, PhD, 1999, Project Manager, Transtec Inc., TX., USA (Photo)
  • T. Kanda, PhD, 1998, Chief Research Engineer, Kajima Technical Research Institute, Japan(Photo)
  • T. Matsumoto, PhD, 1998, Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Hokkaido University (Photo)
  • J. Zhang, PhD, 1997, Research Engineer, Ford Motors, Dearborn, MI., USA
  • A. Wong, MS, Consulting Engineer, Scott Wilson(Hong Kong) Ltd.
  • K. Obla, PhD, 1997, Vice President, Technical Services, National Ready Mix Concrete Association, USA
  • Yun Mook Lim, PhD, 1996, Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Photo)
  • D. Foremsky, MS, Engineer, Baker Corporation, Pa., USA
  • D. Mishra, PhD, 1995, Director – KMBB College of Engg and Tech, India (Photo)
  • Y. Chan, PhD, 1994, Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. (Photo)
  • M. Maalej, PhD, 1994, Vice Dean and Professor, University of Sharjah, UAE (Photo)

Former Students of Professor Victor C. Li (Graduated from M.I.T.)

  • O.M.L. Reyes, PhD, 1990, Lawerence Livermore Laboratory, USA
  • C.K.Y. Leung, 1990, PhD, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Y. Kaneko, 1990, PhD, Professor, Dept of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (Photo)
  • J. Huang, PhD, 1990, (deceased, former faculty member at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Y.J. Wang, PhD, 1989, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Photo)
  • N. Fares, PhD, 1987, Imagineering LLC (Photo)
  • S. Ho, MS, 1987, Manager, Chase Manhatten Bank, Hong Kong
  • M. Chan, PhD, 1986, Civil engineering and Development Dept., The Gov. of the Hong Kong SAR
  • R. Ward, MS, 1985, Cygna Consulting Engineers, USA
  • C.M. Chan, PhD, 1984, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong