Select the tabs below to view the alumni from each time period, or search for alumni by surname. Underlined items are linked to another file or page.

Of the 326 Mechanical Engineering PhD graduates from 1986-2023:

  • 203 (62%) hold advanced positions in industry
  • 73 (22%) are professors and in academia
  • 50 (16%) newer alumni are postdoctoral fellows.

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UPDATED OCTOBER 25, 2023

Note:  Alumni who graduated in 2021 and later will be added soon to the lists below.

PhD Alumni: Surname

Dr. Jake Abbott – 2005
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
Virtual Fixtures for Bilateral Telemanipulation

Dr. M. Kendal Ackerman – 2016
Adjunct Professor, Brown Mackie College
Design and Calibration of Robotic Systems with Applications in Cooperative Repair and Ultrasound Calibration

Dr. Aditya Aiyer – 2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Princeton University
Studying the Evolution of Polydisperse Droplet Size Distributions Using Large Eddy Simulations

Dr. Farshid Alambeigi – 2019
Assistant Professor – University of Texas, Austin
Dexterity and Autonomy in Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics Interventions

Dr. Leen Alawieh – 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Multiscale Modeling of Reactive Ni/Al Nanolaminates

Dr. Jalil Alidoost – 2021
Experimental Characterization of Elastic Stiffness and Delamination Toughness in Commercial Thermal Barrier Coating Systems

Dr. Umang Anand – 2002
Director of R&D, Boston Scientific, Minneapolis MN
Prevention of Nozzle Wear in Abrasive Water Suspension Jets (AWS) Using Porous Lubricated Nozzles

Dr. William Anderson – 2012
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas
A Dynamic Surface Drag Model for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary-Layer Flow Over Fractal-Like Roughness

Dr. Mustafa “Mert” Ankarali – 2016
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University
Variability, Symmetry, and Dynamics in Human Rhythmic Motor Control

Dr. Shawn Aram – 2012
Computational Scientist – US Navy, Bethesda MD
A Computational Study of Synthetic-Jet Based Separation Control

Dr. Ralf Bachmeyer – 2001
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Advances in Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling and Control of Marine Thruster: Theory and Experiment

Dr. Kunlun Bai – 2014
Research Scientist at KLA-Tencor, Milpitas CA
Turbulent Flows Generated by Multi-Scale Structures – From a Fractal Tree to a Fractal Canopy

Dr. Faris Afif Bandak – 1993
Nanodislocation Structures Generated in Shocked Crystals

Dr. Ehsan Basafa – 2014
Senior Software Engineer, Auris Health, San Francisco CA
Computer-Assisted Femoral Augmentation For Osteoporotic Hip Fracture Prevention

Dr. Luca Bertuccioli – 2000
Principal Technologist, E4tech, Lausanne, Switzerland
A Study of the Coastal Ocean Bottom Boundary Layer Using a Submersible PrVT System

Dr. Etienne Besnoin – 2002
Project Leader, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Luxembourg
Numerical Study of Thermoacoustic Heat Exchangers

Dr. Akanksha Bhargava – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Thermal Signatures of Skin Lesions Using Computation Thermal Modeling and Medical Infrared Imaging

Dr. Amy Blank – 2013
Senior Robotics Engineer, Barrett Technology, Inc., Boston MA
Proprioceptive Motion Feedback and User-Selectable Impedance Systems for Upper-Limb Prosthesis Control

Dr. Jonathan Bohren – 2017
Senior Robotics Engineer – Honeybee Robotics – Brooklyn NY
Intent-Recognition-Based Traded Control for Telerobotic Assembly Over High-Latency Telemetry

Dr. Lorenzo Botto – 2010
Lecturer in Simulation and Modeling, Queen Mary University, London UK
Numerical Simulation of Finite-Size Particles

Dr. Joel Bretheim – 2018
HPC Scientist – General Dynamics Information Technology, Vicksburg MS
Numerical Simulations of the Restricted Nonlinear System

Dr. Cody Brownell – 2008
Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD
Quantitative Imaging of Multi-species Fluid Mixing in Turbulent Flows

Dr. Devin Burns – 2013
Force Balance Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA
Processing and Characterization of Ni-base Superalloy Micro-components and Films for MEMS Applications

Dr. Daniel Butler, Jr. – 2009
Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria VA
Microsample Testing of Alloys Proposed for High Temperature Gas Turbine Applications

Dr. Cynthia Byer – 2014
Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria VA
The Deformation Mechanisms and Size Effects of Single-Crystal Magnesium

Dr. Hongei Cai – 1997
Micromechanical Modeling of Deformation, Fracture and Growth in Structural and Biological Materials

Dr. Alfredo Celedon – 2010
CEO at Scanogen, Inc., Baltmore MD
Single Molecule Torque Measurement

Dr. Stefano Cerutti – 1999
Flight Product Line Architect, Lockheed Martin, Orlando FL
Statistics of Filtered Turbulence: Experiments and Direct Numerical Simulation

Dr. Subhendu Chakraborty – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Development of a Self-consistent Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Model to Study the Brittle and Ductile Fracture in Metallic Material

Dr. Howard Chen – 1989
Stability Conditions for Steady Shearing: Stability Conditions for Simple Shear under Mixed Thermal Boundary Conditions

Dr. Huang Chen – 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Elucidating the Onset of Stall and Cavitation Breakdown in Axial Turbomachines and Applications of Casing Treatments to Alleviate Them

Dr. Jun Chen – 2005
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Experimental Study of Turbulence Under Planar Straining and Destraining, and Elimination of the Peak Locking Error in PIV Analysis Using the Correlation Mapping Method

Dr. Michelle Chen – 2019
Mechanical Engineering Associate – Exponent, Boston MA
Mechanochemistry of Collagen Network Remodeling in the Sclera

Dr. Qiaoning Chen – 2004
Research Professional – Washington DC area
Helical and Rotating Turbulence in Three Dimensions

Dr. Xuemei Chen – 2003
Damping Process in the Oscillations of Gas Bubbles in Tubes and Numerical Simulations of Bubble Removal by a Submerged Needle

Dr. Tze-Yuan Cheng – 2015
Computer Vision Engineer, Proprio Vision, Seattle WA
Improving Quantitative Infrared Imaging for Medical Diagnostic Applications

Dr. Stuart Chester – 2006
System Engineer, Northrop Grumman, Columbia MD
On Dynamic Modeling for Multiscale Turbulence Problems

Dr. Ikbal Choudhury – 2021
Mechano-Biological Fluid Pumps

Dr. Yi-Chih Chow – 2005
Assistant Professor, National Ocean University, Taiwan
PIV Measurements of Flow Structure and Turbulence in a Rotor Wake within a Multistage Turbomachine

Dr. Shigan Chu – 2018
Research Scientist – Facebook – Seattle WA
Mass Transfer from Bubbles and Drops Suspended in a Liquid Flow

Dr. Shilong Chu – 1996
Knowcean Consulting, Inc., Potomac MD
The Effect of Blade-tongue Interactions on Noise Generation in A Centrifugal Pump

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Congdon – 2021
Multi-Scale Thermal and Structural Characterization of Carbon Foam for the Parker Solar Probe Thermal Protection System

Dr. Kevin Connington – 2010
Teaching Assistant Professor – Stevens Institute of Technology
Particle Simulations Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

Dr. Baptiste Coudrillier – 2014
Senior Associate, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Menlo Park CA
Biomechanical Properties and Microstructure of the Normal and Glaucoma Human Sclera

Dr. Mark da Silva – 1995
R&D Director – Knowles Corporation, Chicago IL
On the Finite Viscoplastic Deformations of Porous Metals

Dr. Amy Dagro – 2019
Biomedical Engineer – US Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen MD
The Mechanical Properties of Glial Cells

Dr. Suman Dasgupta – 2016
Process Engineer – Intel, Hillsboro OR
Tailoring the Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystaline Thin Films with Alloying and Heat Treatments

Dr. Edward Davis – 1999
Measurement and Kinematic Modeling of the Human Tongue

Dr. Joshua Davis – 2018
Vice President of Platform – READY Robotics, Baltimore MD
Conformal Additive Manufacturing and Cooperative Robotic Repair and Diagnosis

Dr. Alican Demir – 2015
Principal Engineer, Clear Guide Medical, Baltimore MD
Bio-Inspired Antennal Tactile Sensing

Dr. Neha Dixit – 2016
Sructural Engineering Lead – Google, Mountain View CA
A Mechanism Based Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of Pure Magnesium

Dr. Ronald Rong Dong – 1994
Enterprise Architect – Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington DC
The Effect of Volute Geometry on the Flow Structure, Pressure Fluctuation and Noise in a Centrifugal Pump

Dr. Ramani Duraiswami – 1991
Professor, Department of Computer Science and UMIACS – University of Maryland, College Park
I. Effective Equations for Sound Propagation in Fogs. II. Orthogonal Mapping in Two Dimensions

Dr. David Eastman – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore MD
Microscale Testing and Characterization Techniques for Benchmarking Crystal Plasticity Models

Dr. Imme Ebert-Uphoff – 1998
Machine Learning Lead – Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Co
On the Development of Discretely-Actuated Hybird-Serial-Parallel Manipulators

Dr. Charles El Mir – 2018
Assistant Professor – St. Louis University, Madrid, Spain
The Multiscale Mechanics of Surface Modification Processes on Asteroids

Dr. Parastou Eslami – 2017
Instructor of Radiology – Harvard University, Boston MA
Quantification of Coronary Flow Velocity Via Contrast Dispersion Patterns: Insights From Computational Modeling and Computed Tomography Experiments

Dr. Lichen Fang – 2020
Product Design Engineer, Apple, Cupertino CA
Characterization and Optimization of Geometrical Accuracy and Mechanical Properties of Specimens Prepared by Fused Filament Fabrication

Dr. Amirhossein Farvardin – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
A Multi-Physics Planning Paradigm for Robot Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Ruqiang Feng – 1993
Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Lubricant Rheology at High Shear Rates

Dr. Gregory Fischer – 2009
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Enabling Technologies for MRI Guided Interventional Procedures

Dr. Adam Fournier – 2015
Senior Engineer, US Army Test and Evaluation Command, White Marsh MD
An Experimental Model for Traumatic Axonal Injury Based on Cytoskeletal Evolution

Dr. Peter Friedman – 2002
Principal Consultant – Rimkus Consulting Group, Newport News VA
Flow Structure, Droplet Formation and Dispersion When an Interface Separating Immiscible Fluids is Impinged with a Vertical Negatively Buoyant Jet

Dr. Thomas Chung-Yee Fu – 1993
Program Manager – Office of Naval Research
Particle Displacement Velocimetry

Dr. Sridhar Ganapathy – 1996
Educator and Founder of Ace Creative Learning Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dr. Xu Geng – 2006
Some Applications of Gas and Vapor Bubbles

Dr. Daniel Gianola – 2007
Professor, Materials – UC Santa Barbara
Deformation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Aluminum Thin Films: An Experimental Investigation

Dr. Tricia Gibo – 2014
Senior Human Factors Specialist, UL, Utrecht, Netherlands
Control and Learning of Dynamics in Human Movement

Dr. Michael Glynn – 2003
MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Cambridge MA
Numerical Investigations of Failure in EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coating Systems

Dr. Berk Gonenc – 2017
Senior Research Engineer, Verb Surgical, Mountain View CA
Force-Sensing-Based Multi-Platform Robotic Assistance for Vitreoretinal Surgery

Dr. Balaji Gopalan – 2010
Senior Research Engineer – Saint-Gobain Northboro R&D Center, Pittsburgh PA
Turbulent Dispersion of Slightly Buoyant Oil Droplets and Turbulent Breakup of Crude Oil Droplets Mixed with Dispersants

Dr. Shridhar Gopalan – 1999
R&D Manager, Bowles Fluidics, Westminster MD
The Flow Structure in the Near Field of Jets and Its Effect on Cavitation Inception

Dr. Jason Graham – 2014
Senior Systems and Software Engineer – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
Turbulence Simulations: Multiscale Modeling and Data-Intensive Computing Methodologies

Dr. David Grow – 2011
Associate Professor at New Mexico Technical University
Technical Project Manager – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Socorro NM
Robotic Assistance for Rehabilitation of Coordination Deficits

Dr. Jingkai Guo – 2018
Modeling the Mechanical Behavior of Soft Active Materials

Dr. Lin Guo – 2016
Algorithm Expert – Alibaba Group, Beijing, China
Boundary Conditions and Multi-Scale Modeling for Micro and Nano Flows

Dr. Netta Gurari – 2011
Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Characterization of Human Perception Using Haptic Systems and Implications for Upper-Limb Prosthetics

Dr. Kevin Hallinan – 1988
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – University of Dayton, OH
Effects of Buoyancy on Heat Transfer in Vertical, Uniformly Heated Channels

Dr. Ismail Hameduddin – 2018
Technical Advisor (Patents) – Norton Rose Fulbright, Vancouver, BC Canada
Tracking Viscoelastic Turbulence

Dr. David Kyonghun Han – 1997
Shape Decomposition Technique in Electrical Impedance Tomography

Dr. Yue Hao – 2003
Scientist – Lawrence Livermore Ntional Laboratory
Numerical Studies of Gas and Vapor Bubble Phenomena

Dr. Zachary Harris – 2019
Senior Navigation Algorithms Staff Engineer – Draper, Denver CO
Model-Based Cooperative Acoustic Navigation and Parameter Identification for Underactuated Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Whitney Allen Hastings – 2011
Patenting Manager at National Institutes of Health
Statistical and Dynamical Analysis of RNA Structures and Complexes with Applications to Nanodevice Design

Dr. Rajeev Hatwar – 2017
Research Scientist II – DoD Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, Frederick MD
Applications of Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis in Bio-Medicine

Dr. Xingchi He – 2016
Robotics Lead – Essential Machines, Inc., San Francisco CA
Force Sensing Augmented Robotic Assistance for Retinal Microsurgery

Dr. David Hess – 1991
Group Leader – Department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Bethesda, MD
An Experimental Investigation of a Compliant Surface Beneath a Turbulent Boundary Layer

Dr. Darren Hitt – 1998
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Vermont
Topics in Microfluid Mechanics

Dr. Yi-Ping Ho – 2008
Assistant Professor, Electronic Engineering – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Single Molecule Biosensing with Quantum Dots for Nanomedicine in Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Dr. Jiarong Hong – 2012
Associate Professor at University of Minnesota
Experimental Investigations of Turbulence Structure over Rough Walls and Grazing Behavior of Calanoid Copepods on Toxic Dinoflagellate Diets

Dr. Guangli Hu – 2013
Associate Director, Engineering – Merck, New York NY
The Failure of Brittle Materials under Dynamic Multiaxial Loading

Dr. Emily (Huskins) Retzlaff – 2013
Associate Professor, US Naval Academy
The Thermo-Mechanical Response of UFG Aluminum at Dynamic Strain Rates

Dr. Ahmed Hussein – 2016
Senior Fluid Dynamics Engineer – Canon Nanotechnologies, Austin TX
Dislocation Microstructure and Surface Roughness Evolution in Single and Multi-Phase Microcrystals

Dr. Kamili Jackson – 2003
Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
The Mechanical Properties of 3C Thin-Film Silicon Carbide

Dr. Piyush Jain – 2007
CEO and Founder – Simpalm, Washington DC
Microscale Characterization of Coatings for a High Strength High Conductivity Alloy

Dr. Ravikrishnan Jayakumar – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
State Estimation in Complex Biological Systems

Dr. Dexin Jia – 2002
Director, Mechanical Engineering – Sierra Nevada / Waveband Corporation
The Mechanical Behavior of Nanostructured Materials

Dr. Wenyi Jiang – 1997
Mechanics Modeling of Bending, Buckling, and Heat-Transfer of Orthotropic Plates in Structual and Electronic Applications

Dr. Quan Jiao – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – Harvard University, Cambridge MA
In situ micro-mechanical characterization and multi-scale modeling of thermos-mechanical properties of micro-architectured tungsten coating

Dr. Perry Johnson – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Velocity Gradients Along Particle Trajectories in Turbulence

Dr. Pranav Joshi – 2014
Assistant Professor – Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
The Effect of Mean and Fluctuating Pressure Gradients on Boundary Layer Turbulence

Dr. Changhan Jun – 2018
Senior Robotics Engineer – US Medical Innovations, LLC, Washington DC
Development of Medical Devices and Image-guided Robots for Needle Based Interventions

Dr. Vinutha Kallem – 2008
Senior Technical Product Manager – Cruise Automation, San Francisco CA
Vision-Based Control on Lie Groups with Application to Needle Steering

Dr. Georgios Kaloutsakis – 2011
Deputy CEO – Hersonissos Group Hotels, Basel, Switzerland
Hierarchical Self-Replication

Dr. Vinod Kamath – 1992
STSM, Lenovo – Raleigh, NC
A Numerical Study of Nonlinear Gas Bubble Oscillations

Dr. Sri Kamal Kandala – 2017
Associate – McKinsey and Company, Houston TX
Simulation Based Strategies for Clinical Translation of Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia

Dr. Vignesh Kannan – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Twinning and the Dynamic Behavior of Magnesium and its Alloys

Dr. Eric Kang – 2002
Senior Aerospace Scientist, Metacomp Technologies, Los Angeles CA
Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Grooved Channel

Dr. Qinjun Kang -2004
Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, NM
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Flow in Porous Media

Dr. Aniruddha Kaushik – 2020
Senior Consultant – Guidehouse, New York NY
Development of Droplet-Based Microfluidic Platforms Towards Accelerating Clinical Diagnoses of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Byeol “Star” Kim – 2021
Associate Management Consultant – McKinsey and Company, Miami FL
Advances in Diagnosis and Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease Through Novel Virtual Reality Systems for Design, Simulation, and Planning Methods

Dr. Chunwoo Kim – 2015
Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Image Guided Robots for Urology

Dr. Dong Hyuk Kim – 1988
Computational Analysis of Pressure Wave Propagation in a Bubbly Liquid

Dr. Jin Seob Kim – 2006
Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering
A Group Theoretic and Statistical Mechanical Treatment of Chainlike Structures

Dr. Moon Ki Kim – 2004
Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Elastic Network Models of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Dr. James Kinsey – 2007
Chief Robotics Officer, Humatics Corp. – Boston MA
Advances in Precision Navigation of Oceanographic Submersibles

Dr. Bernard Koehr – 2003
An Experimental Study of the Mechanism of Air Entrainment by Planar Liquid Jets at a Free Surface

Dr. Reuben Kraft – 2008
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Penn State University, University Park PA
Computational Modeling of Damage in Brittle Materials

Dr. Axel Krieger – 2009
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Robotic Intervention

Dr. Michael Kutzer – 2013
Associate Professor – United States Naval Academy
Advancements in Cooperative Robotics

Dr. David LaVan – 1998
Project Leader, Mechanical Engineer – NIST
Local Behavior of Weld Metal Based on Microtensile and Microstructural Observations

Dr. Ganhui Lan – 2008
Assistant Professor – George Washington University
A Treatise on Theoretical and Computational Mechanobiology in Myosin Motors and Bacterial Cell Division

Dr. Steven Lavenstein – 2019
Research Scientist – Intelligent Automation, Rockville MD
Micro-Scale Fatigue Mechanisms in Metals: An In Situ High Frequency Experimental Approach

Dr. Philip LeDuc – 1999
William J. Brown Professor – Carnegie Mellon University
Experimental Investigations of Molecular and Cellular Issues in Biomechanics and Bioengineering

Dr. Joo-Lin Lee – 1986
Research Fellow – Korea Aerospace Resarch Institute
A Study of Short Fatigue Crack Behavor in Notched 2024-T3 Aluminum Specimens

Dr. Jusuk Lee – 2009
Senior Engineer – Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea
Identifying Feedback Control Strategies of Running Cockroaches and Humans

Dr. Kiju Lee – 2009
Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
Robots that Duplicate Themselves: Theoretical Principles and Experiments

Dr. Sangyoon Lee – 2003
Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Korea
Pose Analysis in Image Registration and Protein Statistics

Dr. Andrew Lennon – 1999
Applied Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
High-Rate Deformation Mechanisms and Adiabatic Shear Localization in a BCC Metal

Dr. Adriano Lezzi – 1991
Full Professor, Univesity of Brescia, Milan, Italy
Topics in Free Surface Flows

Dr. Cheng Li – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher – US Department of Energy – National Energy Technical Laboratory, Morgantown, WV
Dispersion of Oil Spills by Breaking Waves

Dr. Guoan Li – 1993
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Constitutive Models for Ductile Solids Reinforced by Spheroidal Inclusions

Dr. Keyu Li – 1994
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University, Michigan
Viscoplastic Behavior of Notch Roots at High Temperature

Dr. Yi Li – 2007
Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield
Lagrangian Evolution of Small Scales in Turbulence: Intermittency and Large-Eddy Simulation Modeling

Dr. Yuanchao Li – 2018
Research Scientist – UTRC – Shanghai, China
Effects of Tip Gap Sizes and Operating Conditions on the Flow Structures and the Complex Turbulence in the Tip Region of an Axial Compressor Rotor

Dr. Sunghwan Lim – 2019
Image-Guided Robotic Interventions for Core Needle Biopsy

Dr. Zhong Lin – 1996
Micromechanics Studies of Deformation and Failure in Advanced Composite Materials

Dr. Hangjian Ling – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford
Experimental Investigation of Friction Drag Reduction in Turbulent Boundary Layer by Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces

Dr. Yik Tung Tracy Ling – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Princeton University, Princeton NJ
The Effect of Microstructure on the Pressure-Induced Mechanical Responses at the Optic Nerve Head

Dr. Chang Liu – 2021
Feedback Interconnection Based Input-Output Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Frequency Response in Wall-Bounded Shear Flows

Dr. Jiayu Liu – 2019
Senior R&D Engineer at Becton Dickinson – Franklin Lakes NH
Mechanics-Based Design of Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Structures and Devices

Dr. Jin Liu – 2009
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University
Multi-scale Simulation on Micro/nano Flows and Granular Flows

Dr. Shewen Liu – 1998
Manager, Offshore Structure, ABS Corporate Technology, Houston TX
Experimental Study of Subgrid-Scale Stresses and Models Using Particle Image Velocimetry Data

Dr. Shuya “Joshua” Liu – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Robotic Implant Modification for Neuroplastic Surgery

Dr. Zan Liu – 2008
Senior Project Manager, Airside Products at Johnson Controls, Waynesboro PA
Experimental Study of the Effects or a Nonuniform Electric Field on Bubble Detachment and Heat Transfer in Nucleate Pool Boiling

Dr. Simon Lockyer-Bratton – 2017
Engineering Associate – Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
Experimental Measurements of Thermal Barrier Coating Interfacial Fracture Toughness as a Function of Mode-Mix

Dr. Min Lu – 1998
Deformation Properties of the Single-Phase Intermetallic Alloy Ti-51Al-2Mn at Elevated Temperatures

Dr. Nan Qian Lu – 1991
Bubble Clouds as Sources and Scatterers of Underwater Sound

Dr. Xiaozhen Lu – 2006
Lead Engineer, GE – Greenville SC
Numerical Simulation and Axial Stability Analysis of Vertical Slug Flow

Dr. Luksa Luznik – 2006
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy
Turbulence Characteristics of a Tidally Driven Bottom Boundary Layer of the Coastal Ocean

Dr. Luoning Ma – 2020
Experimental Characterization of Deformation Mechanisms in Mg and the Effect of Alloying on Ductility

Dr. Qianli Ma – 2017
Automated Driving Engineering – Motion Planning, Delphi – Pittsburgh PA
Probabilistic Calibration and Catheter Tracking with Robotic Systems

Dr. Fatma Madouh – 2018
Teaching Professor – University of Kuwait
The Influence of Anisotropy and Heterogeneity on the Mechanics of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Dr. Manu Madhav – 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins Mind-Brian Institute
Nonlinear Features of Sensory Interference and their Behavioral Relevance in Weakly Electric Fish

Dr. Debjoy Mallick – 2019
Mechanical Engineer – US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen MD
Shock-Induced Failure of Protection Materials using Laser-Driven Micro-Flyers

Dr. John Mansfield, Jr. – 1998
A Dynamic Lagrangian Large Eddy Simulation Scheme for the Vorticity Transport Equation

Dr. Panadda “Nim” Marayong – 2008
Associate Professor at California State University – Long Beach
Motion Control Methods for Human-machine Cooperative Systems

Dr. Marco Marchioro – 1999
Chief Analytics Officer – #HotTab, Hanoi and Singapore, CEO Quant Island
Numerical Closure of Averaged Equations for Disperse Two-Phase Flows

Dr. Steven Marra – 2001
Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Johns Hopkins University
Mechanical Properties, Characterization and Modeling of Active Polymer Gels

Dr. Stephen C. Martin – 2011
Technical Lead, US Navy Space and Naval Warfare System Center – Pacific, San Diego CA
Advances in Six Degree of Freedom Dynamics and Control of Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Luis “Tony” Martinez – 2017
Research Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado
Large Eddy Simulations and Theoretical Analysis of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics Using an Actuator Line Model

Dr. Ashik Ullah Mohammad Masuk – 2020
Process Engineer – Intel, Hillsboro OR
Deformation and Breakup of Finite-sized Bubbles in Intense Turbulence

Dr. Christopher “Topher” McFarland – 2014
Amazon Prime Air Research
Adaptive Identification and Control for Underwater Vehicles: Theory and Comparative Experimental Evaluations

Dr. Karthik Menon – 2021
Dissecting the Flow Physics of Aeroelastic Oscillations and Vortex-Dominated Flows: Computational and Data-Driven Methods

Dr. Jessica Meulbroek-Fick – 2011
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Platteville
The Failure and Fragmentation of Ductile Materials

Dr. Dan Midgett – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore MD
Measuring the Full-Field Inflation Response of the Optic Nerve Head

Dr. Benjamin Minnick – 2022
Mechanical Engineer, Maneuvering and Control – Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD), Carderock MD
A Restricted Nonlinear Approach to Momentum and Scalar Mixing in Wall-Turbulence

Dr. Subhransu Mishra – 2019
Autonomous Operations and System Integration of Low-cost Robotic Vehicles with Applications to Small Ground Vehicles and Nanosatellites

Dr. Sarthak Misra – 2010
Associate Professor at University of Twente, the Netherlands
Realistic Tool-Tissue Interaction Models for Surgical Simulation and Planning

Dr. Keizo Miyahara – 2003
Associate Professor, Center for International Education and Exchange, Osaka University, Japan
A General Kinematic Synthesis Method for Discretely Actuated Robotic Manipulators

Dr. Matthew Moses – 2012
Research Engineering and Independent Consultant
Universal Constructors, Self-Replicating Machines, and Cyclic Fabrication Systems

Dr. Yvonne Chu Moussy – 1999
Faculty, Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland
Theoretical Analysis of Convective Flow in Hollow Fiber Modules: Application to Bioartificial Kidney and High Pressue Ultrafiltration of Blood

Dr. Barbara Murienne – 2016
Mechanical Engineer – Veldana Medical, Morges, Switzerland
Glycosaminoglycan Contribution to the Structure-Mechanical Properties of the Posterior Sclera

Dr. Ryan Murphy – 2015
Staff Robotics Software Engineer – Auris Surgical Robotics, Mountain View CA
Analysis and Control of a Variable-Curvature Continuum Manipulator for the Treatment of Osteolysis

Dr. Aditya Nayak – 2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering – Florida Atlantic University
Flow and Turbulence Over a Rippled Seabed and Biophysical Interactions in the Inner Part of the Coastal Bottom Boundary Layer

Dr. Xiaobo Nie – 2004
Manager / Prinicipal Scientist – Ingrain, Inc., Houston TX
Simulation of Granular Flow and Micro-Flow

Dr. John O’Neil – 1997
Engineer, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
Subgrid Scale Stresses and Their Modeling in the Turbulent Plane Wake

Dr. H. Giray Oral – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University and NIST, Baltimore MD
A Characterization of Network Performance: The Role of Communication Directionality and System Heterogeneity

Dr. Ratan Othayoth – 2021
Kinetic energy fluctuation-driven locomotor transitions on potential energy landscapes of beam obstacle traversal and ground self-righting

Dr. Santosh Paidi – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Molecular Analysis of Cancer Progression With Label-Free Raman Spectroscopy

Dr. Bhasker Paliwal – 2008
Faculty, Mechanical Engineering – Georgia Tech – Lorraine
The Failure of Brittle Materials Under Overall Compression: Effects ot Loading Rate and Detect Distribution

Dr. Deng Pan – 2003
Mechanical Properties of Diffusion Aluminide Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coatings

Dr. Wooram Park – 2008
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering – University of Texas at Dallas
Inverse Problems in Structural Biology and Flexible Needle Steering

Dr. Jason Parker – 2021
Research Mechanical Engineer – US Army Natick Soldier Research, Grafton MA
Effect of Microstructure on the Dynamic Behavior of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE)

Dr. Alexandru Patriciu – 2005
Scientist – R&D in Medical Robotics, Philips – Cambridge, MA
Robot Control in Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

Dr. Lin Pei – 2007
Software Development Engineer, Amazon – Seattle WA
Numerical Model for Contact Between Fractal Rough Surfaces

Dr. Müge Pirtini Çetingül – 2011
Lead System Designer, GE Healthcare – Milwaukee WI
Using High Resolution Infrared Imaging to Detect Melanoma and Dysplastic Nevi

Dr. Edward Pogozelski – 1997
Associate Professor, Physics – SUNY Geneseo
Experimental Investigation of: A) The Flow a Surface Piercing Blunt Body, and B) The Near Field Behavior of The Tip Vortex Behind an Elliptic Foil

Dr. Timothy Premack – 1995
Senior PLM Consultant, PROSTEP, Inc – Detroit MI
A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Crack Tip Fields in Impact Loaded Three Point Bend Specimens

Dr. Bing Ran – 1993
Pressure Fluctuation Measurements and Their Effect on Cavitation Inception Within Water Jets

Dr. Saikiran Rapaka – 2010
Senior Staff Scientist, Siemens Healthineers – Princeton NJ
Fluid flow and transport phenomena during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide

Dr. Kristopher Reynolds – 2018
Mechanical Engineer – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab – Columbia MD
Convolution, Rotation, and Data Fusion with Orthogonal Expansions

Dr. Yo-Rhin Rhim – 2009
Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
The Structural and Property Evolution of Cellulose During Carbonization

Dr. Aaron Rips – 2019
Mechanical Engineer – NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Harnessing Flow-Induced Flutter of Flapping Flags for Heat Transfer, Mixing, and Energy Harvesting

Dr. Cameron Riviere – 1996
Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute – Carnegie Mellon University
Adaptive Suppression of Tremor for Improved Human-Machine Control

Dr. Francesco Rizzi – 2012
R&D Computer Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA
Uncertainty Quantification in Molecular Dynamics

Dr. Gregory Rodebaugh – 2011
Large Eddy Simulation of Variable Density Jets: Investigation of Numerical, Resolution, and Subgrid-Scale Model Effects on Predictive Quality

Dr. Carlos Rosales – 2007
Professor – Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
On Three-Dimensional Synthetic Turbulence

Dr. Eatai Roth – 2013
Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems at Indiana University, Bloomington
Task-level Models for Image Stabilization Behaviors in Animals

Dr. Gary Roth – 1999
Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Developments in Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Their Application to the Measurement of the Flow Structure and Turbulence within a Ship Bow Wave

Dr. Neil Rothman – 1994
Program Coordinator and Professor of Biomedical Engineering – Stevenson University
Indentation of Finite Thickness Hyperelastic Materials: A Parametric Investigation with Implications for Myocardium

Dr. Jaydeep Roy – 2002
Executive Senior Director, Abbott Point of Care – New York City
Force Controlled Robots: Design, Analysis, Control, and Applications

Dr. Jasim Sadique – 2017
Research Engineer with Convergent Science – Madison, WI
Turbulent Flows over Macro-Scale Roughness Elements – From Biofouling Barnacles to Urban Canopies

Dr. Ashwanth Salibindla – 2020
Etch Process Engineer – Intel, Hillsboro OR
Interfacial Momentum and Mass Transfer in Two-Phase Flows

Dr. Kaushik Sampath – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher – Naval Research Laboratory
Applying Optical and Acoustic Diagnostic Tools to Probe Turbomachinery Wakes, Cardiac Flows and Multi-Phase Media

Dr. Kausik Sarkar – 1994
Professor, George Washington University
Effective Boundary Conditions for Rough Surfaces and Acoustics of Oceanic Bubbles

Dr. James Starape – 1993
Senior Research Engineer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron OH
Interactions and Collisions of Bubbles in Thermocapillary Motion

Dr. Brian Schuster – 2008
Engineer at US Army Research Laboratory
Micro-Pillar Compression of Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Metals

Dr. Adam Schuyler – 2009
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biophysics – University of Connecticut
Computational Mechanics of Macromolecules and Nanotubes

Dr. Alberto Scotti – 1998
Professor,  Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,Arizona State University 
On Scale-Invariance Based Models of Hydrodynamic Turbulence

Dr. Shahin Sefati – 2015
Senior Researcher, Comcast – Washington DC Metro Area
Modeling Complex Biological and Mechanical Movements: Applications to Animal Locomotion and Gesture Classification in Robotic Surgery

Dr. Shahriar Sefati – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
A Dexterous Surgical Robotic System for Autonomous Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic Interventions

Dr. Carl Shapiro – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University- Baltimore MD
Large-eddy Simulations, Wake Models, and Control: Power Grid Frequency Support with Wind Farms

Dr. John Sharon – 2012
Staff Research Scientist, United Technologies – East Hartford CT
Experimental Characterization of Stress Driven Grain Boundary Migration in Nanocrystalline Thin Films

Dr. Jian Sheng – 2007
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Development and Applications of Film-Based and Digital Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry for Both Large and Small Scale Flow Measurements

Dr. Xiyan Shi – 1997
Senior Network Engineer, Verizon – Ashburn VA
Numerical Study of Shear-Induced heating in High-Speed Nozzle Flows

Dr. Fangwei Si – 2016
Assistant Professor of Physics – Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh PA
Organization of Bacterial Cell Division Ring, and Bacterial Morphology and Growth Under Mechanical Compression

Dr. Adam Sierakowski – 2016
Assistant Research Scientist – JHU Mechanical Engineering and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Numerical Simulation of Disperse Particle Flow on a Graphics Processing Unit

Dr. Manish Sinha – 2000
Founder and CEO of Skrilo, Ltd.
Rotor-Stator Interactions, Turbulence Modeling and Rotating Stall in a Centrifugal Pump with Diffuser Vanes

Dr. Aris Skliros – 2007
Quant Researcher, World Quant LLC
Statistical Analysis on Crystallographic Motion Groups with Applications to Polymer Theory

Dr. David Smallwood – 2003
Principal Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Oceanic and Naval Systems, Annapolis MD
Advances in Dynamical Modeling and Control of Underwater Robotic Vehicles

Dr. Murray Snyder – 2007
Permanent Military Professor – United States Naval Academy
Analysis of the Behavior of Bubbles and Droplets in Isotropic Turbulence

Dr. Yuan Song – 1996
Vehicle Engineer- Chery Motors
The Micromechanics of Fracture and Creep of Metal and Ceramic Matrix Composites

Dr. Francesco Soranna – 2008
Aerospace Engineer – NASCAR CFD Support at Corvid Technologies – Charlotte NC
Experimental Study of Complex Flow and Turbulence Structure Around a Turbomachine Rotor Blade Operating Behind a Row of Inlet Guide Vanes

Dr. Andrew Spielvogel – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University – Mechanical Engineering – Baltimore MD
Online Inertial Measurement Unit Sensor Bias and Attitude Estimation for the Calibration and Improved Performance of Attitude and Heading Reference Systems

Dr. Paul Stankiewicz – 2021
Senior Engineer – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
Path Planning and Performance Evaluation Strategies for Marine Robotics Systems

Dr. Alejandro Stark Quiroz – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Advancing Cancer Screening for Early Detection through the use of Magnetofluidic Processing for Methylation Analysis

Dr. David Stein – 2002
Head of Strategy and Innovation – SIEMENS Healthineers
Design of a Spherical Stepper Motor System

Dr. Olivia Sun – 2008
Research Engineer at Institute for Defense Analyses – Alexandria VA
Analysis of Subgrid-scale Modeling Approaches for Large-eddy Simulation of Turbulent Mixing in Spatially Developing Round Jets

Dr. Xiangyu “Alex” Sun – 2020
Granular Flow of an Advanced Ceramic Under Extreme Multi-Axial Loading

Dr. Jackrit Suthakorn – 2003
Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University – Bangkok, Thailand
Paradigms for Service Robotics

Dr. John Swensen – 2012
Assistant Professor, Washington State University
Torsional Dynamics and Rotational Estimation of Tip-Steerable Needles

Dr. Siddharth Talapatra – 2012
Research Group Lead at HTRI – Navasota TX
Applying Digital Holography to Investigate Turbulent Flow Structures in a Roughness Sublayer, Bio-Physical Interactions in the Ocean, and Grazing Behavior of Copecods

Dr. David Tan – 2015
Engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, U.S.Navy – Carderock MD
Common Features in the Structure of Tip Leakage Flows

Dr. Bo Tao – 2001
Development of Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry and Its Application in Three-Dimensional Velocity Measurements and Modeling of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flows

Dr. Jiaxiang “Jimmy” Tao – 2018
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Studying Cell Size Homeostasis From a Continuum Mechanics Approach

Dr. Monica Thacker Hinds – 1999
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering – Oregon Health and Science University
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Dr. Robert Thompson – 2011
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Experimental Techniques for the Characterization and Development of Thermal Barrier Coating Bond Coat Alloys

Dr. Adrien Thormann – 2016
Corporate Technical Lead (Computational Fluid Dynamics teams) – Groupe Renault – Paris
Wind Tunnel Studies of Decay and Spatial Diffusion of Turbulence

Dr. Ta-Wei David Ting – 2000
Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Blood Flow in the Human Root of Aorta and Left Coronary Artery

Dr. Andrew Tonge – 2015
Mechanical Engineer – US Army Research Laboratory – Aberdeen MD
A Unified Framework, Which Uses Multi-Scale Microstructure Information for Modeling Dynamic Failure in Brittle Materials

Dr. Theresa Koys Tonge – 2015
Research Scientist – WL Gore and Associates, Inc., Industrial Products Division
Micro-Mechanical Approaches for the Hierarchical Modeling of Soft Biological Tissues

Dr. Robert Tregoning – 1992
Senior Technical Advisor – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Washington DC
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Dr. Giancarlo Troni – 2014
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Dr. Gianna Valentino – 2019
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Experimental Characterization and Synthesis of Nanotwinned Ni-Mo-W Alloys

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Experimental Characterization and Processing of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

Dr. Vijay Vedula – 2015
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Image Based Computational Modeling of Intracardiac Flows

Dr. Claire VerHulst – 2016
Assistant Director – Engineering Innovation, Johns Hopkins University
Large Eddy Simulation and Analysis of Kinetic Energy Entrainment in Large Wind Farms

Dr. Lawton Verner – 2009
Manager – Systems Analysis at Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale CA
Sensor/Actuator Asymmetries in Telemanipulators

Dr. Janelle Vorreiter – 2005
Senior Thermal Engineer – Orbital ATK, Beltsville MD
Analytical and Numerical Investigations of Bubble Behavior in Electric Fields

Dr. Minping Wan – 2009
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
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Dr. Jin Wang – 2019
Mechanical Engineer – MathWorks, Wayland MA
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Dr. Kuo-Chiang Wang – 1990
An Experimental Study of Notch Constraints in Low Cycle Fatigue

Dr. Mengze Wang – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Data Assimilation in Wall Turbulence

Dr. Qi Wang – 2020
Scalar-source Identification and Optimal Sensor Placement in Turbulent Channel Flow

Dr. Yayun Wang – 2018
Software Developer – Amazon – Seattle WA
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Dr. Yunfeng Wang – 2002
Professor, Mechanical Engineering – The College of New Jersey
Application of Diffusion Processes in Robotics, Optical Communications, and Polymer Science

Dr. Zheliang Wang – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Texas – Austin, Austin TX
The Toughness and Residual Stresses of Polymers Produced by Fused Filament Fabrication

Dr. Derek Warner – 2007
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering – Cornell University
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Dr. Masao Watanabe – 1995
Professor, Mechanical and Space Engineering – Hokkaido University, Japan
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Dr. George Weber – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Civil and Systems Engineering – Baltimore MD
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Dr. Robert Webster – 2008
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Vanderbilt
Design and Mechanics of Continuum Robots for Surgery

Dr. Sarah Webster – 2011
Senior Research Scientist and Engineer – University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
Decentralized Single-Beacon Acoustic Navigation: Combined Communication and Navigation for Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Thomas Wedlick – 2013
Managing Engineer, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates – Menlo Park, CA
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Dr. Martin Wetzel – 1999
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Experimental Investigation of a Single Plate Thermoacoustic Refrigerator

Dr. Justin Wilkerson – 2015
Assistant Professor – University of Texas, San Antonio
Multiscale Mechanics of Failure in Extreme Environments

Dr. Stephen Wilkerson – 1990
Research Scientist – US Army Research Laboratory
A Boundary Integral Approach to Three-Dimensional Underwater Explosion Bubble Dynamics

Dr. Daniel Willen – 2018
Multidisciplinary Sensors and Systems Analyst – MITRE Corporation – Boston MA
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Dr. Cyril Williams – 2013
Engineer at US Army Research Laboratory – Aberdeen, MD
The Effects of Microstructural Evolution on the Spall Response of 1100 Aluminum

Dr. Kevin Wolfe – 2013
Research Engineer – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Probabilistic Modeling, Lie Groups, and Design: Applications in Biomolecular Modeling and Advances in Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots

Dr. Kristofer Womack – 2021
Staff Mechanical Engineer – Northrup Grumman – Annapolis MD
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Dr. Aniruddha Worlikar – 1998
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Numerical Simulation of Thermoacoustic Refrigerators

Dr. Rika Wright Carlsen – 2012
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Robert Morris University
A Computational Model for Traumatic Brain Injury Based on an Axonal Injury Criterion

Dr. Huixuan Wu – 2012
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, School of Engineering – Aerospace Engineering
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Dr. Xiaoyi Wu – 2003
Associate Professor – Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering – University of Arizona
The Dynamic Growth of a Void in a Viscoplastic Material

Dr. Xiaongjun Wu – 2003
Senior Research Scientist – Dynaflow, Inc. – Washington DC
Flow Structures, Mixing and Droplet Production in a Fuel-Water Stratified Shear Layer

Dr. Rui Xiao – 2015
Associate Professor at Hohai University – Nanjing, China
Thermomechanics of Amorphous Polymers and its Application to Shape Memory

Dr. Zuoli Xiao – 2009
Associate Professor, College of Engineering at Peking University, Beijing, China
Multi-scale Dynamics and Subgrid-scale Modeling of Turbulence in Two and Three Dimensions

Dr. Qian Xue – 2012
Research Assistant Professor, University of Maine
Computational Modeling and Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction During Phonation in Healthy and Diseased Larynges

Dr. Xinzhi Xue – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Washington – Spokane WA
Experimental Study of Multiphase Turbulent Buoyant Jets and the Formation of Compound Droplets

Dr. Sunil Yadav – 1997
SVP and Portfolio Manager, MFA Financial, New York City
An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Dynamic Deformations in Metal-Matrix and Tungsten-Based Composites

Dr. Tomonori Yamamoto – 2011
R&D Manager, EndoMaster Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Applying Tissue Models in Teleoperated Robot-Assisted Surgery

Dr. Yan Yan – 2014
Senior Data Scientist, Amperity, Seattle WA
Geometric Motion Planning Methods for Robotics and Biological Crystallography

Dr. Binze Yang – 2006
Senior Software Developer, Bloomberg – New York City
Numerical Studies of Single Gas and Vapor Bubble Flows

Dr. Che-Hua Yang – 1992
Professor, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Measurements and Predictions of Cyclic Biaxial Elastoplastic Behavior at Notch Roots

Dr. Xiang Yang – 2016
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Modeling Drag Forces and Velocity Fluctuation Statistics in Wall-Bounded Flows at High Reynolds Numbers

Dr. Hsin-Chih “Tim” Yeh – 2008
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Development of New Bioanalysis Techniques Based on Confocal Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology for Nucleic Acid Research

Dr. Florence (Flori) Yellin – 2020
R&D Engineer – Kitware – Arlington VA
Detection and Classification of Blood Cells in Lens-Free Holographic Images

Dr. Zhizhong Yin – 2005
CEO, Euveda Biosciences
Microbubbles and Their Microfluidic Applications

Dr. Osman Yoğurtçu – 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher at Johns Hopkins University – Biophysics
Computational Mechanobiology of Filamentous Proteins: Alpha-Helical Coiled Coils and F-Actin

Dr. Jiho You – 2020
Mechanical Engineer – Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea
Effect of Free-Stream Turbulence on Turbulent Boundary Layers

Dr. Bin Yuan – 1997
Mechanical Engineer 5, am Research – Fremont CA
Mechanical Testing of Microsamples from Weldments and MEMS Materials

Dr. He Yuan – 1997
Senior Solution Architect, Zurich North America, Baltimore MD
Some Problems in the Mechanics of Gas Bubbles in Liquids

Dr. Hao Zeng – 1995
Experimental and Numerical Studies of Elastoplastic and Creep Behavior at Notch Roots

Dr. Jun Zeng – 1999
Principal Staff Researcher, HP Labs – San Francisco CA
Development of a Three-Dimensional Boundary Integral Method and Its Application to Bubble Formation from Submerged Orifices

Dr. Binwei Zhang – 2016
Reliability Scientist – Corning – Painted Post NY
Experimental Characterization of Thermal Barrier Coatings Using Micro-scale Bending Techniques

Dr. Cao Zhang – 2017
Project Engineer – Simerics, Inc. – Novi MI
Experimental Investigation of Compliant Wall Surface Deformation in a Turbulent Channel Flow using Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry and Mach-Zehnder Interferometry

Dr. Chao Zhang – 2015
Software Developer – Convergient Science – Baltimore MD
Mechanisms for Aerodynamic Force Generation and Flight Stability for Insects

Dr. Chi Zhang – 2019
Harnessing Label-Free Raman Spectroscopy for Metastatic Cancer Diagnosis and Biologic Development

Dr. Duan Zhong Zhang – 1994
Ensemble Phase Averaged Equations for Multiphase Flows

Dr. Haitao Zhang – 2005
Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Schlumberger – Sugar Land TX
Fabrication, High-Strain-Rate Constitutive Behavior and Dynamic Failure of MMCs

Dr. Quan Zhang – 2008
Senior Engineer – Cristal USA – Washington DC

Dr. Yongwei Zhang – 1997
Chief Operating Officer, Complete Genomics, Inc. – San Francisco CA
An Experimental and Analytical Study of Lubricants under EHD Conditions

Dr. Huqing Zhao – 1999
Fracture and Fatigue Analysis of Functionally Graded and Homogeneous Materials Using Singular Integral Equation Approach

Dr. Meng Zhao – 2019
Mechanism-based Understanding of the Plastic Deformation of a Magnesium Alloy Under Multiaxial Loading

Dr. Lingxiao Zheng – 2013
Technical Specialist – Dassault Systems – Simulia Corporation, Detroit, MI
An Integrated Numerical-Experimental Study of the Aerodynamics of Flapping Flight in Insects

Dr. Gedi Zhou – 2020
Research Scientist – Facebook – New York NY
Applications of the Physalis Method to Resolved Particle Simulation

Dr. Yu Zhou – 2004
Stochastic Modeling and Inverse Problems in Robotics and Bimolecular Mechanics

Dr. Zhuoyu Zhou – 2018
Project Engineer – Simerics, Inc. – Novi MI
Swimming Without a Spine: Hydrodynamics and Swimming Performance of Some Marine Invertebrates

Dr. Chi Zhu – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – University of California – Berkeley
High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of the Coupled Flow-Acoustic Physics of Heart Murmurs

Dr. Weihong Zhu – 2006
PIV Measurements of Flow Structure and Turbulence Within and Above a Corn Canopy and a Wind Tunnel Model Canopy

Dr. Marcus Zupan – 2001
Associate Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Microsample Characterization of the Tension and Compression Mechanical Properties of Single Crystalline Gamma-TiAl

 

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Dr. Howard Chen – 1989
Stability Conditions for Steady Shearing: Stability Conditions for Simple Shear under Mixed Thermal Boundary Conditions

Dr. Kevin Hallinan – 1988
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – University of Dayton, OH
Effects of Buoyancy on Heat Transfer in Vertical, Uniformly Heated Channels

Dr. Dong Hyuk Kim – 1988
Computational Analysis of Pressure Wave Propagation in a Bubbly Liquid

Dr. Joo-Lin Lee – 1986
Research Fellow – Korea Aerospace Resarch Institute
A Study of Short Fatigue Crack Behavor in Notched 2024-T3 Aluminum Specimens

Dr. Kuo-Chiang Wang – 1990
An Experimental Study of Notch Constraints in Low Cycle Fatigue

Dr. Stephen Wilkerson – 1990
Research Scientist – US Army Research Laboratory
A Boundary Integral Approach to Three-Dimensional Underwater Explosion Bubble Dynamics

Dr. Faris Afif Bandak – 1993
Nanodislocation Structures Generated in Shocked Crystals

Dr. Mark da Silva – 1995
R&D Director – Knowles Corporation, Chicago IL
On the Finite Viscoplastic Deformations of Porous Metals

Dr. Ronald Rong Dong – 1994
Enterprise Architect – Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington DC
The Effect of Volute Geometry on the Flow Structure, Pressure Fluctuation and Noise in a Centrifugal Pump

Dr. Ramani Duraiswami – 1991
Professor, Department of Computer Science and UMIACS – University of Maryland, College Park
I. Effective Equations for Sound Propagation in Fogs. II. Orthogonal Mapping in Two Dimensions

Dr. Ruqiang Feng – 1993
Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Lubricant Rheology at High Shear Rates

Dr. Thomas Chung-Yee Fu – 1993
Program Manager – Office of Naval Research
Particle Displacement Velocimetry

Dr. David Hess – 1991
Group Leader – Department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Bethesda, MD
An Experimental Investigation of a Compliant Surface Beneath a Turbulent Boundary Layer

Dr. Vinod Kamath – 1992
STSM, Lenovo – Raleigh, NC
A Numerical Study of Nonlinear Gas Bubble Oscillations

Dr. Adriano Lezzi – 1991
Full Professor, Univesity of Brescia, Milan, Italy
Topics in Free Surface Flows

Dr. Guoan Li – 1993
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Constitutive Models for Ductile Solids Reinforced by Spheroidal Inclusions

Dr. Keyu Li – 1994
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University, Michigan
Viscoplastic Behavior of Notch Roots at High Temperature

Dr. Nan Qian Lu – 1991
Bubble Clouds as Sources and Scatterers of Underwater Sound

Dr. Timothy Premack – 1995
Senior PLM Consultant, PROSTEP, Inc – Detroit MI
A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Crack Tip Fields in Impact Loaded Three Point Bend Specimens

Dr. Bing Ran – 1993
Pressure Fluctuation Measurements and Their Effect on Cavitation Inception Within Water Jets

Dr. Neil Rothman – 1994
Program Coordinator and Professor of Biomedical Engineering – Stevenson University
Indentation of Finite Thickness Hyperelastic Materials: A Parametric Investigation with Implications for Myocardium

Dr. Kausik Sarkar – 1994
Professor, George Washington University
Effective Boundary Conditions for Rough Surfaces and Acoustics of Oceanic Bubbles

Dr. James Starape – 1993
Senior Research Engineer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron OH
Interactions and Collisions of Bubbles in Thermocapillary Motion

Dr. Robert Tregoning – 1992
Senior Technical Advisor – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Washington DC
The Influence of Geometrical Constraint on Cyclic, Elastoplastic, Notch Root Behavior and Fatigue Microcrack Initiation

Dr. Masao Watanabe – 1995
Professor, Mechanical and Space Engineering – Hokkaido University, Japan
Topics in Bubbly Liquid Flows and Cavitation

Dr. Che-Hua Yang – 1992
Professor, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Measurements and Predictions of Cyclic Biaxial Elastoplastic Behavior at Notch Roots

Dr. Hao Zeng – 1995
Experimental and Numerical Studies of Elastoplastic and Creep Behavior at Notch Roots

Dr. Duan Zhong Zhang – 1994
Ensemble Phase Averaged Equations for Multiphase Flows

Dr. Hongei Cai – 1997
Micromechanical Modeling of Deformation, Fracture and Growth in Structural and Biological

Dr. Stefano Cerutti – 1999
Flight Product Line Architect, Lockheed Martin, Orlando FL
Statistics of Filtered Turbulence: Experiments and Direct Numerical Simulation

Dr. Shilong Chu – 1996
Knowcean Consulting, Inc., Potomac MD
The Effect of Blade-tongue Interactions on Noise Generation in A Centrifugal Pump

Dr. Edward Davis – 1999
Measurement and Kinematic Modeling of the Human Tongue

Dr. Imme Ebert-Uphoff – 1998
Machine Learning Lead – Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Co
On the Development of Discretely-Actuated Hybird-Serial-Parallel Manipulators

Dr. Sridhar Ganapathy – 1996
Interactions between Bubbles and Vortex Structures

Dr. Shridhar Gopalan – 1999
R&D Manager, Bowles Fluidics, Westminster MD
The Flow Structure in the Near Field of Jets and Its Effect on Cavitation Inception

Dr. David Kyonghun Han – 1997
Shape Decomposition Technique in Electrical Impedance Tomography

Dr. Darren Hitt – 1998
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Vermont
Topics in Microfluid Mechanics

Dr. Wenyi Jiang – 1997
Mechanics Modeling of Bending, Buckling, and Heat-Transfer of Orthotropic Plates in Structual and Electronic Applications

Dr. David LaVan – 1998
Project Leader, Mechanical Engineer – NIST
Local Behavior of Weld Metal Based on Microtensile and Microstructural Observations

Dr. Philip LeDuc – 1999
William J. Brown Professor – Carnegie Mellon University
Experimental Investigations of Molecular and Cellular Issues in Biomechanics and Bioengineering

Dr. Andrew Lennon – 1999
Applied Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
High-Rate Deformation Mechanisms and Adiabatic Shear Localization in a BCC Metal

Dr. Zhong Lin – 1996
Micromechanics Studies of Deformation and Failure in Advanced Composite Materials

Dr. Shewen Liu – 1998
Manager, Offshore Structure, ABS Corporate Technology, Houston TX
Experimental Study of Subgrid-Scale Stresses and Models Using Particle Image Velocimetry Data

Dr. Min Lu – 1998
Deformation Properties of the Single-Phase Intermetallic Alloy Ti-51Al-2Mn at Elevated Temperatures

Dr. John Mansfield, Jr. – 1998
A Dynamic Lagrangian Large Eddy Simulation Scheme for the Vorticity Transport Equation

Dr. Marco Marchioro – 1999
Chief Analytics Officer – #HotTab, Hanoi and Singapore, CEO Quant Island
Numerical Closure of Averaged Equations for Disperse Two-Phase Flows

Dr. Yvonne Chu Moussy – 1999
Faculty, Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland
Theoretical Analysis of Convective Flow in Hollow Fiber Modules: Application to Bioartificial Kidney and High Pressue Ultrafiltration of Blood

Dr. John O’Neil – 1997
Engineer, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
Subgrid Scale Stresses and Their Modeling in the Turbulent Plane Wake

Dr. Edward Pogozelski – 1997
Associate Professor, Physics – SUNY Geneseo
Experimental Investigation of: A) The Flow a Surface Piercing Blunt Body, and B) The Near Field Behavior of The Tip Vortex Behind an Elliptic Foil

Dr. Cameron Riviere – 1996
Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute – Carnegie Mellon University
Adaptive Suppression of Tremor for Improved Human-Machine Control Materials

Dr. Gary Roth – 1999
Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Developments in Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Their Application to the Measurement of the Flow Structure and Turbulence within a Ship Bow Wave

Dr. Alberto Scotti – 1998
Professor, Department of Marine Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
On Scale-Invariance Based Models of Hydrodynamic Turbulence

Dr. Xiyan Shi – 1997
Senior Network Engineer, Verizon – Ashburn VA
Numerical Study of Shear-Induced heating in High-Speed Nozzle Flows

Dr. Manish Sinha – 2000
Founder and CEO of Skrilo, Ltd.
Rotor-Stator Interactions, Turbulence Modeling and Rotating Stall in a Centrifugal Pump with Diffuser Vanes

Dr. Yuan Song – 1996
The Micromechanics of Fracture and Creep of Metal and Ceramic Matrix Composites

Dr. Ta-Wei David Ting – 2000
Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Blood Flow in the Human Root of Aorta and Left Coronary Artery

Dr. Monica Thacker Hinds – 1999
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering – Oregon Health and Science University
An in vitro Study on the Effects of E-Selectin Surface Coating and Flow Conditions on /Monocytic Cell Adhesion to a Three-Dimensional Perfusion Model

Dr. Martin Wetzel – 1999
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Dr. Aniruddha Worlikar – 1998
Program Director, Predictive Customer Intelligence – IBM, Raleigh-Durham, NC
Numerical Simulation of Thermoacoustic Refrigerators

Dr. Sunil Yadav – 1997
SVP and Portfolio Manager, MFA Financial, New York City
An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Dynamic Deformations in Metal-Matrix and Tungsten-Based Composites

Dr. Bin Yuan – 1997
Mechanical Engineer 5, am Research – Fremont CA
Mechanical Testing of Microsamples from Weldments and MEMS Materials

Dr. He Yuan – 1997
Senior Solution Architect, Zurich North America, Baltimore MD
Some Problems in the Mechanics of Gas Bubbles in Liquids

Dr. Jun Zeng – 1999
Principal Staff Researcher, HP Labs – San Francisco CA
Development of a Three-Dimensional Boundary Integral Method and Its Application to Bubble Formation from Submerged Orifices

Dr. Yongwei Zhang – 1997
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Dr. Huqing Zhao – 1999
Fracture and Fatigue Analysis of Functionally Graded and Homogeneous Materials Using Singular Integral Equation Approach

Dr. Jake Abbott – 2005
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
Virtual Fixtures for Bilateral Telemanipulation

Dr. Umang Anand – 2002
Director of R&D, Boston Scientific, Minneapolis MN
Prevention of Nozzle Wear in Abrasive Water Suspension Jets (AWS) Using Porous Lubricated Nozzles

Dr. Ralf Bachmeyer – 2001
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Advances in Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling and Control of Marine Thruster: Theory and Experiment

Dr. Luca Bertuccioli – 2000
Principal Technologist, E4tech, Lausanne, Switzerland
A Study of the Coastal Ocean Bottom Boundary Layer Using a Submersible PrVT System

Dr. Etienne Besnoin – 2002
Project Leader, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Luxembourg
Numerical Study of Thermoacoustic Heat Exchangers

Dr. Jun Chen – 2005
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Experimental Study of Turbulence Under Planar Straining and Destraining, and Elimination of the Peak Locking Error in PIV Analysis Using the Correlation Mapping Method

Dr. Qiaoning Chen – 2004
Research Professional – Washington DC area
Helical and Rotating Turbulence in Three Dimensions

Dr. Xuemei Chen – 2003
Damping Process in the Oscillations of Gas Bubbles in Tubes and Numerical Simulations of Bubble Removal by a Submerged Needle

Dr. Yi-Chih Chow – 2005
Assistant Professor, National Ocean University, Taiwan
PIV Measurements of Flow Structure and Turbulence in a Rotor Wake within a Multistage Turbomachine

Dr. Peter Friedman – 2002
Principal Consultant – Rimkus Consulting Group, Newport News VA
Flow Structure, Droplet Formation and Dispersion When an Interface Separating Immiscible Fluids is Impinged with a Vertical Negatively Buoyant Jet

Dr. Michael Glynn – 2003
MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Cambridge MA
Numerical Investigations of Failure in EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coating Systems

Dr. Yue Hao – 2003
Scientist – Lawrence Livermore Ntional Laboratory
Numerical Studies of Gas and Vapor Bubble Phenomena

Dr. Kamili Jackson – 2003
Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
The Mechanical Properties of 3C Thin-Film Silicon Carbide

Dr. Dexin Jia – 2002
Director, Mechanical Engineering – Sierra Nevada / Waveband Corporation
The Mechanical Behavior of Nanostructured Materials

Dr. Eric Kang – 2002
Senior Aerospace Scientist, Metacomp Technologies, Los Angeles CA
Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Grooved Channel

Dr. Qinjun Kang -2004
Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, NM
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Flow in Porous Media

Dr. Moon Ki Kim – 2004
Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Elastic Network Models of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Dr. Bernard Koehr – 2003
An Experimental Study of the Mechanism of Air Entrainment by Planar Liquid Jets at a Free Surface

Dr. Sangyoon Lee – 2003
Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Korea
Pose Analysis in Image Registration and Protein Statistics

Dr. Steven Marra – 2001
Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Johns Hopkins University
Mechanical Properties, Characterization and Modeling of Active Polymer Gels

Dr. Keizo Miyahara – 2003
Associate Professor, Center for International Education and Exchange, Osaka University, Japan
A General Kinematic Synthesis Method for Discretely Actuated Robotic Manipulators

Dr. Xiaobo Nie – 2004
Manager / Prinicipal Scientist – Ingrain, Inc., Houston TX
Simulation of Granular Flow and Micro-Flow

Dr. Deng Pan – 2003
Mechanical Properties of Diffusion Aluminide Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coatings

Dr. Alexandru Patriciu – 2005
Scientist – R&D in Medical Robotics, Philips – Cambridge, MA
Robot Control in Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

Dr. Jaydeep Roy – 2002
Executive Senior Director, Abbott Point of Care – New York City
Force Controlled Robots: Design, Analysis, Control, and Applications

Dr. David Smallwood – 2003
Principal Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Oceanic and Naval Systems, Annapolis MD
Advances in Dynamical Modeling and Control of Underwater Robotic Vehicles

Dr. David Stein – 2002
Head of Strategy and Innovation – SIEMENS Healthineers
Design of a Spherical Stepper Motor System

Dr. Jackrit Suthakorn – 2003
Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University – Bangkok, Thailand
Paradigms for Service Robotics

Dr. Bo Tao – 2001
Development of Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry and Its Application in Three-Dimensional Velocity Measurements and Modeling of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flows

Dr. Janelle Vorreiter – 2005
Senior Thermal Engineer – Orbital ATK, Beltsville MD
Analytical and Numerical Investigations of Bubble Behavior in Electric Fields

Dr. Yunfeng Wang – 2002
Professor, Mechanical Engineering – The College of New Jersey
Application of Diffusion Processes in Robotics, Optical Communications, and Polymer Science

Dr. Xiaoyi Wu – 2003
Associate Professor – Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering – University of Arizona
The Dynamic Growth of a Void in a Viscoplastic Material

Dr. Xiaongjun Wu – 2003
Senior Research Scientist – Dynaflow, Inc. – Washington DC
Flow Structures, Mixing and Droplet Production in a Fuel-Water Stratified Shear Layer

Dr. Zhizhong Yin – 2005
CEO, Euveda Biosciences
Microbubbles and Their Microfluidic Applications

Dr. Haitao Zhang – 2005
Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Schlumberger – Sugar Land TX
Fabrication, High-Strain-Rate Constitutive Behavior and Dynamic Failure of MMCs

Dr. Yu Zhou – 2004
Stochastic Modeling and Inverse Problems in Robotics and Bimolecular Mechanics

Dr. Marcus Zupan – 2001
Associate Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Microsample Characterization of the Tension and Compression Mechanical Properties of Single Crystalline Gamma-TiAl

Dr. Lorenzo Botto – 2010
Lecturer in Simulation and Modeling, Queen Mary University, London UK
Numerical Simulation of Finite-Size Particles

Dr. Cody Brownell – 2008
Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD
Quantitative Imaging of Multi-species Fluid Mixing in Turbulent Flows

Dr. Daniel Butler, Jr. – 2009
Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria VA
Microsample Testing of Alloys Proposed for High Temperature Gas Turbine Applications

Dr. Alfredo Celedon – 2010
CEO at Scanogen, Inc., Baltmore MD
Single Molecule Torque Measurement

Dr. Stuart Chester – 2006
System Engineer, Northrop Grumman, Columbia MD
On Dynamic Modeling for Multiscale Turbulence Problems

Dr. Kevin Connington – 2010
Teaching Assistant Professor – Stevens Institute of Technology
Particle Simulations Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

Dr. Gregory Fischer – 2009
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Enabling Technologies for MRI Guided Interventional Procedures

Dr. Xu Geng – 2006
Some Applications of Gas and Vapor Bubbles

Dr. Daniel Gianola – 2007
Professor, Materials – UC Santa Barbara
Deformation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Aluminum Thin Films: An Experimental Investigation

Dr. Balaji Gopalan – 2010
Senior Research Engineer – Saint-Gobain Northboro R&D Center, Pittsburgh PA
Turbulent Dispersion of Slightly Buoyant Oil Droplets and Turbulent Breakup of Crude Oil Droplets Mixed with Dispersants

Dr. Yi-Ping Ho – 2008
Assistant Professor, Electronic Engineering – Chinese University of Hong Kong
Single Molecule Biosensing with Quantum Dots for Nanomedicine in Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Dr. Piyush Jain – 2007
CEO and Founder – Simpalm, Washington DC
Microscale Characterization of Coatings for a High Strength High Conductivity Alloy

Dr. Vinutha Kallem – 2008
Senior Technical Product Manager – Cruise Automation, San Francisco CA
Vision-Based Control on Lie Groups with Application to Needle Steering

Dr. Jin Seob Kim – 2006
Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering
A Group Theoretic and Statistical Mechanical Treatment of Chainlike Structures

Dr. Ganhui Lan – 2008
Assistant Professor – George Washington University
A Treatise on Theoretical and Computational Mechanobiology in Myosin Motors and Bacterial Cell Division

Dr. James Kinsey – 2007
Chief Robotics Officer, Humatics Corp. – Boston MA
Advances in Precision Navigation of Oceanographic Submersibles

Dr. Reuben Kraft – 2008
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering – Penn State University
Computational Modeling of Damage in Brittle Materials

Dr. Axel Krieger – 2009
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Robotic Intervention

Dr. Jusuk Lee – 2009
Senior Engineer – Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea
Identifying Feedback Control Strategies of Running Cockroaches and Humans

Dr. Kiju Lee – 2009
Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
Robots that Duplicate Themselves: Theoretical Principles and Experiments

Dr. Yi Li – 2007
Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield
Lagrangian Evolution of Small Scales in Turbulence: Intermittency and Large-Eddy Simulation Modeling

Dr. Jin Liu – 2009
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University
Multi-scale Simulation on Micro/nano Flows and Granular Flows

Dr. Zan Liu – 2008
Senior Project Manager, Airside Products at Johnson Controls, Waynesboro PA
Experimental Study of the Effects or a Nonuniform Electric Field on Bubble Detachment and Heat Transfer in Nucleate Pool Boiling

Dr. Xiaozhen Lu – 2006
Lead Engineer, GE – Greenville SC
Numerical Simulation and Axial Stability Analysis of Vertical Slug Flow

Dr. Luksa Luznik – 2006
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy Turbulence Characteristics of a Tidally Driven Bottom Boundary Layer of the Coastal Ocean

Dr. Panadda “Nim” Marayong – 2008
Associate Professor at California State University – Long Beach
Motion Control Methods for Human-machine Cooperative Systems

Dr. Sarthak Misra – 2010
Associate Professor at University of Twente, the Netherlands
Realistic Tool-Tissue Interaction Models for Surgical Simulation and Planning

Dr. Bhasker Paliwal – 2008
Faculty, Mechanical Engineering – Georgia Tech – Lorraine
The Failure of Brittle Materials Under Overall Compression: Effects ot Loading Rate and Detect Distribution

Dr. Wooram Park – 2008
Inverse Problems in Structural Biology and Flexible Needle Steering
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering – University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Lin Pei – 2007
Software Development Engineer, Amazon – Seattle WAA Numerical Model for Contact Between Fractal Rough Surfaces

Dr. Saikiran Rapaka – 2010
Senior Staff Scientist, Siemens Healthineers – Princeton NJ
Fluid flow and transport phenomena during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide

Dr. Yo-Rhin Rhim – 2009
Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
The Structural and Property Evolution of Cellulose During Carbonization

Dr. Carlos Rosales – 2007
Professor – Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
On Three-Dimensional Synthetic Turbulence

Dr. Brian Schuster – 2008
Engineer at US Army Research Laboratory Micro-Pillar Compression of Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Metals

Dr. Adam Schuyler – 2009
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biophysics – University of Connecticut
Computational Mechanics of Macromolecules and Nanotubes

Dr. Jian Sheng – 2007
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Development and Applications of Film-Based and Digital Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry for Both Large and Small Scale Flow Measurements

Dr. Aris Skliros – 2007
Quant Researcher, World Quant LLC
Statistical Analysis on Crystallographic Motion Groups with Applications to Polymer Theory

Dr. Murray Snyder – 2007
Permanent Military Professor – United States Naval Academy
Analysis of the Behavior of Bubbles and Droplets in Isotropic Turbulence

Dr. Francesco Soranna – 2008
Aerorspace Engineer – NASCAR CFD Support at Corvid Technologies – Charlotte NC
Experimental Study of Complex Flow and Turbulence Structure Around a Turbomachine Rotor Blade Operating Behind a Row of Inlet Guide Vanes

Dr. Olivia Sun – 2008
Research Engineer at Institute for Defense Analyses – Alexandria VA
Analysis of Subgrid-scale Modeling Approaches for Large-eddy Simulation of Turbulent Mixing in Spatially Developing Round Jets

Dr. Lawton Verner – 2009
Manager – Systems Analysis at Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale CA
Sensor/Actuator Asymmetries in Telemanipulators

Dr. Minping Wan – 2009
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
On the Lagrangian Study of the Turbulent Energy and Circulation Cascades

Dr. Derek Warner – 2007
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering – Cornell University
Uncovering Deformation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Metals through Simulations

Dr. Robert Webster – 2008
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Vanderbilt
Design and Mechanics of Continuum Robots for Surgery

Dr. Zuoli Xiao – 2009
Associate Professor, College of Engineering at Peking University, Beijing, China
Multi-scale Dynamics and Subgrid-scale Modeling of Turbulence in Two and Three Dimensions

Dr. Binze Yang – 2006
Senior Software Developer, Bloomberg – New York City
Numerical Studies of Single Gas and Vapor Bubble Flows

Dr. Hsin-Chih “Tim” Yeh – 2008
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Development of New Bioanalysis Techniques Based on Confocal Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology for Nucleic Acid Research

Dr. Quan Zhang – 2008
Senior Engineer – Cristal USA – Washington DC

Dr. Weihong Zhu – 2006
PIV Measurements of Flow Structure and Turbulence Within and Above a Corn Canopy and a Wind Tunnel Model Canopy

Dr. William Anderson – 2012
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas
A Dynamic Surface Drag Model for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary-Layer Flow Over Fractal-Like Roughness

Dr. Shawn Aram – 2012
Computational Scientist – US Navy, Bethesda MD
A Computational Study of Synthetic-Jet Based Separation Control

Dr. Leen Alawieh – 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Multiscale Modeling of Reactive Ni/Al Nanolaminates

Dr. Amy Blank – 2013
Senior Robotics Engineer, Barrett Technology, Inc., Boston MA
Proprioceptive Motion Feedback and User-Selectable Impedance Systems for Upper-Limb Prosthesis Control

Dr. Kunlun Bai – 2014
Research Scientist at KLA-Tencor, Milpitas CA
Turbulent Flows Generated by Multi-Scale Structures – From a Fractal Tree to a Fractal Canopy

Dr. Ehsan Basafa – 2014
Senior Software Engineer, Auris Health, San Francisco CA
Computer-Assisted Femoral Augmentation For Osteoporotic Hip Fracture Prevention

Dr. Devin Burns – 2013
Force Balance Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA
Processing and Characterization of Ni-base Superalloy Micro-components and Films for MEMS Applications

Dr. Cynthia Byer – 2014
Research Staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria VA
The Deformation Mechanisms and Size Effects of Single-Crystal Magnesium

Dr. Baptiste Coudrillier – 2014
Senior Associate, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Menlo Park CA
Biomechanical Properties and Microstructure of the Normal and Glaucoma Human Sclera

Dr. Tze-Yuan Cheng – 2015
Computer Vision Engineer, Proprio Vision, Seattle WA
Improving Quantitative Infrared Imaging for Medical Diagnostic Applications

Dr. Alican Demir – 2015
Principal Engineer, Clear Guide Medical, Baltimore MD
Bio-Inspired Antennal Tactile Sensing

Dr. Adam Fournier – 2015
Senior Engineer, US Army Test and Evaluation Command, White Marsh MD
An Experimental Model for Traumatic Axonal Injury Based on Cytoskeletal Evolution

Dr. Tricia Gibo – 2014
Senior Human Factors Specialist, UL, Utrecht, Netherlands
Control and Learning of Dynamics in Human Movement

Dr. Jason Graham – 2014
Senior Systems and Software Engineer – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
Turbulence Simulations: Multiscale Modeling and Data-Intensive Computing Methodologies

Dr. David Grow – 2011
Associate Professor at New Mexico Technical University
Technical Project Manager – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Socorro NM
Robotic Assistance for Rehabilitation of Coordination Deficits

Dr. Netta Gurari – 2011
Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Characterization of Human Perception Using Haptic Systems and Implications for Upper-Limb Prosthetics

Dr. Whitney Allen Hastings – 2011
Patenting Manager at National Institutes of Health
Statistical and Dynamical Analysis of RNA Structures and Complexes with Applications to Nanodevice Design

Dr. Jiarong Hong – 2012
Associate Professor at University of Minnesota
Experimental Investigations of Turbulence Structure over Rough Walls and Grazing Behavior of Calanoid Copepods on Toxic Dinoflagellate Diets

Dr. Guangli Hu – 2013
Associate Director, Engineering – Merck, New York NY
The Failure of Brittle Materials under Dynamic Multiaxial Loading

Dr. Emily (Huskins) Retzlaff – 2013
Associate Professor, US Naval Academy
The Thermo-Mechanical Response of UFG Aluminum at Dynamic Strain Rates

Dr. Pranav Joshi – 2014
Assistant Professor – Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
The Effect of Mean and Fluctuating Pressure Gradients on Boundary Layer Turbulence

Dr. Georgios Kaloutsakis – 2011
Deputy CEO – Hersonissos Group Hotels, Basel, Switzerland
Hierarchical Self-Replication

Dr. Chunwoo Kim – 2015
Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Image Guided Robots for Urology

Dr. Michael Kutzer – 2013
Associate Professor – United States Naval Academy
Advancements in Cooperative Robotics

Dr. Manu Madhav – 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins Mind-Brian Institute
Nonlinear Features of Sensory Interference and their Behavioral Relevance in Weakly Electric Fish

Dr. Stephen C. Martin – 2011
Technical Lead, US Navy Space and Naval Warfare System Center – Pacific, San Diego CA
Advances in Six Degree of Freedom Dynamics and Control of Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Christopher “Topher” McFarland – 2014
Amazon Prime Air Research
Adaptive Identification and Control for Underwater Vehicles: Theory and Comparative Experimental Evaluations

Dr. Jessica Meulbroek-Fick – 2011
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Platteville
The Failure and Fragmentation of Ductile Materials

Dr. Matthew Moses – 2012
Research Engineering and Independent Consultant
Universal Constructors, Self-Replicating Machines, and Cyclic Fabrication Systems

Dr. Ryan Murphy – 2015
Staff Robotics Software Engineer – Auris Surgical Robotics, Mountain View CA
Analysis and Control of a Variable-Curvature Continuum Manipulator for the Treatment of Osteolysis

Dr. Aditya Nayak – 2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering – Florida Atlantic University
Flow and Turbulence Over a Rippled Seabed and Biophysical Interactions in the Inner Part of the Coastal Bottom Boundary Layer

Dr. Müge Pirtini Çetingül – 2011
Lead System Designer, GE Healthcare – Milwaukee WI
Using High Resolution Infrared Imaging to Detect Melanoma and Dysplastic Nevi

Dr. Francesco Rizzi – 2013
R&D Computer Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA
Uncertainty Quantification in Molecular Dynamics

Dr. Gregory Rodebaugh – 2011
Large Eddy Simulation of Variable Density Jets: Investigation of Numerical, Resolution, and Subgrid-Scale Model Effects on Predictive Quality

Dr. Eatai Roth – 2013
Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems at Indiana University, Bloomington
Task-level Models for Image Stabilization Behaviors in Animals

Dr. Shahin Sefati – 2015
Senior Researcher, Comcast – Washington DC Metro Area
Modeling Complex Biological and Mechanical Movements: Applications to Animal Locomotion and Gesture Classification in Robotic Surgery

Dr. John Sharon – 2012
Staff Research Scientist, United Technologies – East Hartford CT
Experimental Characterization of Stress Driven Grain Boundary Migration in Nanocrystalline Thin Films

Dr. John Swensen – 2012
Assistant Professor, Washington State University
Torsional Dynamics and Rotational Estimation of Tip-Steerable Needles

Dr. Siddharth Talapatra – 2012
Research Group Lead at HTRI – Navasota TX
Applying Digital Holography to Investigate Turbulent Flow Structures in a Roughness Sublayer, Bio-Physical Interactions in the Ocean, and Grazing Behavior of Copecods

Dr. David Tan – 2015
Engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, U.S.Navy – Carderock MD
Common Features in the Structure of Tip Leakage Flows

Dr. Robert Thompson – 2011
Engineer – Northrop Grumman, Baltimore MD
Experimental Techniques for the Characterization and Development of Thermal Barrier Coating Bond Coat Alloys

Dr. Andrew Tonge – 2015
Mechanical Engineer – US Army Research Laboratory – Aberdeen MD
A Unified Framework, Which Uses Multi-Scale Microstructure Information for Modeling Dynamic Failure in Brittle Materials

Dr. Theresa Koys Tonge – 2015
Research Scientist – WL Gore and Associates, Inc., Industrial Products Division
Micro-Mechanical Approaches for the Hierarchical Modeling of Soft Biological Tissues

Dr. Giancarlo Troni – 2014
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Advances in Precision Navigation of Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Vijay Vedula – 2015
Postdoctoral Researcher – Stanford
Image Based Computational Modeling of Intracardiac Flows

Dr. Sarah Webster – 2011
Senior Research Scientist and Engineer – University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
Decentralized Single-Beacon Acoustic Navigation: Combined Communication and Navigation for Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Thomas Wedlick – 2013
Managing Engineer, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates – Menlo Park, CA
Robotics Needle Insertion – Modeling and Novel Insertion Techniques

Dr. Justin Wilkerson – 2015
Assistant Professor – University of Texas, San Antonio
Multiscale Mechanics of Failure in Extreme Environments

Dr. Cyril Williams – 2013
Engineer at US Army Research Laboratory – Aberdeen, MD
The Effects of Microstructural Evolution on the Spall Response of 1100 Aluminum

Dr. Kevin Wolfe – 2013
Research Engineer – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Probabilistic Modeling, Lie Groups, and Design: Applications in Biomolecular Modeling and Advances in Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots

Dr. Rika Wright Carlsen – 2012
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Robert Morris University
A Computational Model for Traumatic Brain Injury Based on an Axonal Injury Criterion

Dr. Huixuan Wu – 2012
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, School of Engineering – Aerospace Engineering
Flow Structures and Associated Turbulence in the Tip Region of an Axial Waterjet Pump Rotor

Dr. Rui Xiao – 2015
Associate Professor at Hohai University – Nanjing, China
Thermomechanics of Amorphous Polymers and its Application to Shape Memory

Dr. Qian Xue – 2012
Research Assistant Professor, University of Maine
Computational Modeling and Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction During Phonation in Healthy and Diseased Larynges

Dr. Tomonori Yamamoto – 2011
R&D Manager, EndoMaster Pte. Ltd., Singapore
Applying Tissue Models in Teleoperated Robot-Assisted Surgery

Dr. Yan Yan – 2014
Senior Data Scientist, Amperity, Seattle WA
Geometric Motion Planning Methods for Robotics and Biological Crystallography

Dr. Osman Yoğurtçu – 2014
Postdoctoral Researcher at Johns Hopkins University – Biophysics
Computational Mechanobiology of Filamentous Proteins: Alpha-Helical Coiled Coils and F-Actin

Dr. Chao Zhang – 2015
Software Developer – Convergient Science – Baltimore MD
Mechanisms for Aerodynamic Force Generation and Flight Stability for Insects

Dr. Lingxiao Zheng – 2013
Technical Specialist – Dassault Systems – Simulia Corporation, Detroit, MI
An Integrated Numerical-Experimental Study of the Aerodynamics of Flapping Flight in Insects

Dr. M. Kendal Ackerman – 2016
Adjunct Professor, Brown Mackie College
Design and Calibration of Robotic Systems with Applications in Cooperative Repair and Ultrasound Calibration

Dr. Aditya Aiyer – 2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Princeton University
Studying the Evolution of Polydisperse Droplet Size Distributions Using Large Eddy Simulations

Dr. Farshid Alambeigi – 2019
Assistant Professor – University of Texas, Austin
Dexterity and Autonomy in Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics Interventions

Dr. Mustafa “Mert” Ankarali – 2016
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University
Variability, Symmetry, and Dynamics in Human Rhythmic Motor Control

Dr. Akanksha Bhargava – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Thermal Signatures of Skin Lesions Using Computation Thermal Modeling and Medical Infrared Imaging

Dr. Jonathan Bohren – 2017
Research Scientist – US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
Intent-Recognition-Based Traded Control for Telerobotic Assembly Over High-Latency Telemetry

Dr. Joel Bretheim – 2018
HPC Scientist – General Dynamics Information Technology, Vicksburg MS
Numerical Simulations of the Restricted Nonlinear System

Dr. Subhendu Chakraborty – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Development of a Self-consistent Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Model to Study the Brittle and Ductile Fracture in Metallic Material

Dr. Huang Chen – 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Elucidating the Onset of Stall and Cavitation Breakdown in Axial Turbomachines and Applications of Casing Treatments to Alleviate Them

Dr. Michelle Chen – 2019
Mechanical Engineering Associate – Exponent, Boston MA
Mechanochemistry of Collagen Network Remodeling in the Sclera

Dr. Shigan Chu – 2018
Research Scientist – Facebook – Seattle WA
Mass Transfer from Bubbles and Drops Suspended in a Liquid Flow

Dr. Amy Dagro – 2019
Biomedical Engineer – US Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen MD
The Mechanical Properties of Glial Cells

Dr. Suman Dasgupta – 2016
Process Engineer – Intel, Hillsboro OR
Tailoring the Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystaline Thin Films with Alloying and Heat Treatments

Dr. Joshua Davis – 2018
Vice President of Platform – READY Robotics, Baltimore MD
Conformal Additive Manufacturing and Cooperative Robotic Repair and Diagnosis

Dr. Neha Dixit – 2016
Sructural Engineering Lead – Google, Mountain View CA
A Mechanism Based Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of Pure Magnesium

Dr. David Eastman – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore MD
Microscale Testing and Characterization Techniques for Benchmarking Crystal Plasticity Models

Dr. Charles El Mir – 2018
Assistant Professor – St. Louis University, Madrid, Spain
The Multiscale Mechanics of Surface Modification Processes on Asteroids

Dr. Parastou Eslami – 2017
Instructor of Radiology – Harvard University, Boston MA
Quantification of Coronary Flow Velocity Via Contrast Dispersion Patterns: Insights From Computational Modeling and Computed Tomography Experiments

Dr. Berk Gonenc – 2017
Senior Research Engineer, Verb Surgical, Mountain View CA
Force-Sensing-Based Multi-Platform Robotic Assistance for Vitreoretinal Surgery

Dr. Lichen Fang – 2020
Product Design Engineer, Apple, Cupertino CA
Characterization and Optimization of Geometrical Accuracy and Mechanical Properties of Specimens Prepared by Fused Filament Fabrication

Dr. Amirhossein Farvardin – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
A Multi-Physics Planning Paradigm for Robot Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Jingkai Guo – 2018
Modeling the Mechanical Behavior of Soft Active Materials

Dr. Lin Guo – 2016
Algorithm Expert – Alibaba Group, Beijing, China
Boundary Conditions and Multi-Scale Modeling for Micro and Nano Flows

Dr. Ismail Hameduddin – 2018
Technical Advisor (Patents) – Norton Rose Fulbright, Vancouver, BC Canada
Tracking Viscoelastic Turbulence

Dr. Zachary Harris – 2019
Senior Navigation Algorithms Staff Engineer – Draper, Denver CO
Model-Based Cooperative Acoustic Navigation and Parameter Identification for Underactuated Underwater Vehicles

Dr. Rajeev Hatwar – 2017
Research Scientist II – DoD Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, Frederick MD
Applications of Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis in Bio-Medicine

Dr. Xingchi He – 2016
Robotics Lead – Essential Machines, Inc., San Francisco CA
Force Sensing Augmented Robotic Assistance for Retinal Microsurgery

Dr. Ahmed Hussein – 2016
Senior Fluid Dynamics Engineer – Canon Nanotechnologies, Austin TX
Dislocation Microstructure and Surface Roughness Evolution in Single and Multi-Phase Microcrystals

Dr. Ravikrishnan Jayakumar – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
State Estimation in Complex Biological Systems

Dr. Quan Jiao – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – Harvard University, Cambridge MA
In situ micro-mechanical characterization and multi-scale modeling of thermos-mechanical properties of micro-architectured tungsten coating

Dr. Perry Johnson – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Velocity Gradients Along Particle Trajectories in Turbulence

Dr. Changhan Jun – 2018
Senior Robotics Engineer – US Medical Innovations, LLC, Washington DC
Development of Medical Devices and Image-guided Robots for Needle Based Interventions

Dr. Sri Kamal Kandala – 2017
Associate – McKinsey and Company, Houston TX
Simulation Based Strategies for Clinical Translation of Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia

Dr. Vignesh Kannan – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Twinning and the Dynamic Behavior of Magnesium and its Alloys

Dr. Aniruddha Kaushik – 2020
Senior Consultant – Guidehouse, New York NY
Development of Droplet-Based Microfluidic Platforms Towards Accelerating Clinical Diagnoses of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Steven Lavenstein – 2019
Research Scientist – Intelligent Automation, Rockville MD
Micro-Scale Fatigue Mechanisms in Metals: An In Situ High Frequency Experimental Approach

Dr. Cheng Li – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher – US Department of Energy – National Energy Technical Laboratory, Morgantown, WV
Dispersion of Oil Spills by Breaking Waves

Dr. Yuanchao Li – 2018
Research Scientist – UTRC – Shanghai, China
Effects of Tip Gap Sizes and Operating Conditions on the Flow Structures and the Complex Turbulence in the Tip Region of an Axial Compressor Rotor

Dr. Sunghwan Lim – 2019
Image-Guided Robotic Interventions for Core Needle Biopsy

Dr. Hangjian Ling – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford
Experimental Investigation of Friction Drag Reduction in Turbulent Boundary Layer by Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces

Dr. Jiayu Liu – 2019
Senior R&D Engineer at Becton Dickinson – Franklin Lakes NH
Mechanics-Based Design of Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Structures and Devices

Dr. Simon Lockyer-Bratton – 2017
Engineering Associate – Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
Experimental Measurements of Thermal Barrier Coating Interfacial Fracture Toughness as a Function of Mode-Mix

Dr. Luoning Ma – 2020
Experimental Characterization of Deformation Mechanisms in Mg and the Effect of Alloying on Ductility

Dr. Qianli Ma – 2017
Automated Driving Engineering – Motion Planning, Delphi – Pittsburgh PA
Probabilistic Calibration and Catheter Tracking with Robotic Systems

Dr. Fatma Madouh – 2018
Teaching Professor – University of Kuwait
The Influence of Anisotropy and Heterogeneity on the Mechanics of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Dr. Debjoy Mallick – 2019
Mechanical Engineer – US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen MD
Shock-Induced Failure of Protection Materials using Laser-Driven Micro-Flyers

Dr. Luis “Tony” Martinez – 2017
Research Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory – Denver CO
Large Eddy Simulations and Theoretical Analysis of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics Using an Actuator Line Model

Dr. Ashik Ullah Mohammad Masuk – 2020
Process Engineer – Intel, Hillsboro OR
Deformation and Breakup of Finite-sized Bubbles in Intense Turbulence

Dr. Dan Midgett – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore MD
Measuring the Full-Field Inflation Response of the Optic Nerve Head

Dr. Barbara Murienne – 2016
Mechanical Engineer – Veldana Medical, Morges, Switzerland
Glycosaminoglycan Contribution to the Structure-Mechanical Properties of the Posterior Sclera

Dr. Subhransu Mishra – 2019
Autonomous Operations and System Integration of Low-cost Robotic Vehicles with Applications to Small Ground Vehicles and Nanosatellites

Dr. H. Giray Oral – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University and NIST, Baltimore MD
A Characterization of Network Performance: The Role of Communication Directionality and System Heterogeneity

Dr. Santosh Paidi – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Molecular Analysis of Cancer Progression With Label-Free Raman Spectroscopy

Dr. Kristopher Reynolds – 2018
Mechanical Engineer – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab – Columbia MD
Convolution, Rotation, and Data Fusion with Orthogonal Expansions

Dr. Aaron Rips – 2019
Mechanical Engineer – NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Harnessing Flow-Induced Flutter of Flapping Flags for Heat Transfer, Mixing, and Energy Harvesting

Dr. Jasim Sadique – 2017
Research Engineer with Convergent Science – Madison, WI
Turbulent Flows over Macro-Scale Roughness Elements – From Biofouling Barnacles to Urban Canopies

Dr. Ashwanth Salibindla – 2020
Etch Process Engineer – Intel, Hillsboro OR
Interfacial Momentum and Mass Transfer in Two-Phase Flows

Dr. Kaushik Sampath – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher – Naval Research Laboratory
Applying Optical and Acoustic Diagnostic Tools to Probe Turbomachinery Wakes, Cardiac Flows and Multi-Phase Media

Dr. Ashwanth Salibindla
Interfacial Momentum and Mass Transfer in Two-Phase Flows

Dr. Shahriar Sefati – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
A Dexterous Surgical Robotic System for Autonomous Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic Interventions

Dr. Carl Shapiro – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University- Baltimore MD
Large-eddy Simulations, Wake Models, and Control: Power Grid Frequency Support with Wind Farms

Dr. Fangwei Si – 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher at UC San Diego
Organization of Bacterial Cell Division Ring, and Bacterial Morphology and Growth Under Mechanical Compression

Dr. Adam Sierakowski – 2016
Assistant Research Scientist – JHU Mechanical Engineering and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Numerical Simulation of Disperse Particle Flow on a Graphics Processing Unit

Dr. Andrew Spielvogel – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University – Mechanical Engineering – Baltimore MD
Online Inertial Measurement Unit Sensor Bias and Attitude Estimation for the Calibration and Improved Performance of Attitude and Heading Reference Systems

Dr. Xiangyu “Alex” Sun – 2020
Granular Flow of an Advanced Ceramic Under Extreme Multi-Axial Loading

Dr. Jiaxiang “Jimmy” Tao – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins Carnegie Institution – Embryology
Studying Cell Size Homeostasis From a Continuum Mechanics Approach

Dr. Adrien Thormann – 2016
Corporate Technical Lead (Computational Fluid Dynamics teams) – Groupe Renault – Paris
Wind Tunnel Studies of Decay and Spatial Diffusion of Turbulence

Dr. Claire VerHulst – 2016
Assistant Director – Engineering Innovation, Johns Hopkins University
Large Eddy Simulation and Analysis of Kinetic Energy Entrainment in Large Wind Farms

Dr. Gianna Valentino – 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Experimental Characterization and Synthesis of Nanotwinned Ni-Mo-W Alloys

Dr. Jin Wang – 2019
Mechanical Engineer – MathWorks, Wayland MA
Impact of Pressure on Deformation of a Compliant Wall in a Turbulent Boundary Layer

Dr. Qi Wang – 2020
Scalar-source Identification and Optimal Sensor Placement in Turbulent Channel Flow

Dr. Yayun Wang – 2018
Software Developer – Amazon – Seattle WA
Topics in Particle-Laden Flows

Dr. George Weber – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Civil and Systems Engineering – Baltimore MD
Parametrically Homogenized Crystal Plasticity Model for Nickel-Based Superalloys: Intragranular Microstructures to Polycrystalline Aggregates

Dr. Daniel Willen – 2018
Multidisciplinary Sensors and Systems Analyst – MITRE Corporation – Boston MA
Topics in Particle-Laden Flows

Dr. Xinzhi Xue – 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Washington – Spokane WA
Experimental Study of Multiphase Turbulent Buoyant Jets and the Formation of Compound Droplets

Dr. Xiang Yang – 2016
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Modeling Drag Forces and Velocity Fluctuation Statistics in Wall-Bounded Flows at High Reynolds Numbers

Dr. Florence (Flori) Yellin – 2020
R&D Engineer – Kitware – Arlington VA
Detection and Classification of Blood Cells in Lens-Free Holographic Images

Dr. Jiho You – 2020
Mechanical Engineer – Samsung Electronics, Seoul, South Korea
Effect of Free-Stream Turbulence on Turbulent Boundary Layers

Dr. Binwei Zhang – 2016
Reliability Scientist – Corning – Painted Post NY
Experimental Characterization of Thermal Barrier Coatings Using Micro-scale Bending Techniques

Dr. Cao Zhang – 2017
Project Engineer – Simerics, Inc. – Novi MI
Experimental Investigation of Compliant Wall Surface Deformation in a Turbulent Channel Flow using Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry and Mach-Zehnder Interferometry

Dr. Chi Zhang – 2019
Harnessing Label-Free Raman Spectroscopy for Metastatic Cancer Diagnosis and Biologic Development

Dr. Meng Zhao – 2019
Mechanism-based Understanding of the Plastic Deformation of a Magnesium Alloy Under Multiaxial Loading

Dr. Zhuoyu Zhou – 2018
Project Engineer – Simerics, Inc. – Novi MI
Swimming Without a Spine: Hydrodynamics and Swimming Performance of Some Marine Invertebrates

Dr. Chi Zhu – 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher – University of California – Berkeley
High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of the Coupled Flow-Acoustic Physics of Heart Murmurs

Dr. Jalil Alidoost – 2021
Experimental Characterization of Elastic Stiffness and Delamination Toughness in Commercial Thermal Barrier Coating Systems

Dr. Ikbal Choudhury – 2021
Mechano-Biological Fluid Pumps

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Congdon – 2021
Multi-Scale Thermal and Structural Characterization of Carbon Foam for the Parker Solar Probe Thermal Protection System

Dr. Byeol “Star” Kim – 2021
Associate Management Consultant – McKinsey and Company, Miami FL
Advances in Diagnosis and Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease Through Novel Virtual Reality Systems for Design, Simulation, and Planning Methods

Dr. Yik Tung Tracy Ling – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Princeton University, Princeton NJ
The Effect of Microstructure on the Pressure-Induced Mechanical Responses at the Optic Nerve Head

Dr. Chang Liu – 2021
Feedback Interconnection Based Input-Output Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Frequency Response in Wall-Bounded Shear Flows

Dr. Shuya “Joshua” Liu – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Robotic Implant Modification for Neuroplastic Surgery

Dr. Karthik Menon – 2021
Dissecting the Flow Physics of Aeroelastic Oscillations and Vortex-Dominated Flows: Computational and Data-Driven Methods

Dr. Benjamin Minnick – 2022
Mechanical Engineer, Maneuvering and Control – Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD), Carderock MD
A Restricted Nonlinear Approach to Momentum and Scalar Mixing in Wall-Turbulence

Dr. Ratan Othayoth – 2021
Kinetic energy fluctuation-driven locomotor transitions on potential energy landscapes of beam obstacle traversal and ground self-righting

Dr. Jason Parker – 2021
Research Mechanical Engineer – US Army Natick Soldier Research, Grafton MA
Effect of Microstructure on the Dynamic Behavior of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE)

Dr. Paul Stankiewicz – 2021
Senior Engineer – Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
Path Planning and Performance Evaluation Strategies for Marine Robotics Systems

Dr. Alejandro Stark Quiroz – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Advancing Cancer Screening for Early Detection through the use of Magnetofluidic Processing for Methylation Analysis

Dr. Matthew Vaughn – 2021
Experimental Characterization and Processing of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

Dr. Mengze Wang – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Data Assimilation in Wall Turbulence

Dr. Zheliang Wang – 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Texas – Austin, Austin TX
The Toughness and Residual Stresses of Polymers Produced by Fused Filament Fabrication

Dr. Kristofer Womack – 2021
Staff Mechanical Engineer – Northrup Grumman – Annapolis MD
An Experimental Study of Turbulent Boundary Layers Over Truncated Cone Roughness