Alexander Sappok is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory. He completed his PhD at the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory in 2009, where he also held the MIT Cummins Fellowship. His research at MIT has focused on diesel exhaust aftertreatment systems, combustion and emissions of gas to liquid and biodiesel fuels, and diesel engine lubricants. He has authored numerous technical papers spanning the range of his activities related to diesel engine research. He is a two-time recipient of the SAE Excellence in Oral Presentation Award, and received the SAE John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines in 2008.
Prior to MIT, Alexander Sappok’s research experience includes work at the National Gas Machinery Laboratory at Kansas State University and the Institute for Virtual Production at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition, his previous work experience includes work at as a mechanic at Autohouse Stuttgart, Inc., as well as interning at Accenture and U.S. Capital Acquisitions Inc. Alexander Sappok received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University in 2004, an S.M. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2006, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 2009. He is a member of SAE and ASME.