Recent Ph.D. Graduates
- Mr. Ge Wang, “Particle Modeling of Dynamic Fragmentation,” at McGill, 2005.Current Position: Honda USA
- Mr. Xiangdong Du, “Scaling Laws in Thermomechanics and Permeability of Random Media,” at McGill, 2006. Current Position: Director at RWDI, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Ms. Zemfira F. Khisaeva, “Scaling Laws in Generalized Thermoelasticity and Finite Elasticity,” at McGill, 2007. Current Position: Vice President of Enterprise Strategy at Scotiabank, Canada
- Mr. Wei Li, “Scale Effects in Plasticity of Heterogeneous Materials,” at McGill, 2008. Current Position: Senior Stress Engineer at United Technologies Corp.
- Mr. Shivakumar I. Ranganathan, “Scale-Dependent Homogenization and Scaling Laws in Random Polycrystals,” 2008. Assoc. Prof. at Virginia Tech
- Ms. Ying Chen, “Biomechanical Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury by MRI-based Finite Element Modeling,” 2011. Current Position: Simulia/Abaqus
- Mr. Jun Li, “Fractals in Mechanics of Materials,” 2012. Current Position: Asst. Prof. at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Mr. Hady Joumaa, “Elastodynamics and Wave Propagation in Fractal Media,” 2012. Current Position: American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Mr. Ankit Saharan, “Models of Randomly Structured Functionally Graded Materials,” 2014. Current Position: EOS of North America
- Mr. Vinesh Nishawala, “Transient Wave Propagation on Random Fields with Fractal and Hurst Effects,” 2016. Current Position: Sandia National Laboratories
- Mr. Sohan Kale, “Avalanches, Percolation, and Stochastic Damage Evolution in Disordered Media,” 2016 Outstanding ME Dissertation Award Winner. Current Position: Barcelona Polytechnic University, Spain. From Aug. 2019: Asst. Prof. at Virginia Tech
- Mr. Jun Zhang, “Scale-Dependent Homogenization of Elastic-Viscoelastic Random Composites,” 2017. Current Position: Boehringer Phamaceutical, Germany
- Dansong Zhang, “Thermomechanics of Helical Strands and Helical-Fiber-Reinforced Rods,” 2019. Current Position: LinkedIn
- Bharath Raghavan, “Rheological properties, stochastic characteristics, and Second Law violations of atomic fluids in Couette flow,” Hassan Aref Memorial Award for TAM 2018, 2020
- Xian Zhang, “Hyperbolic and parabolic problems on random fields with fractal and Hurst effects,” August 2021
- Pouyan Karimi, “Scale effects in electromagnetic properties of composites,” Hassan Aref Memorial Award for TAM 2019; E.A. Reid Fellowship 2019 in ECE Dept., Sept. 2021
- Amirhossein Amiri-Hezaveh, “Convolutional Variational Principles,” Dec. 2021. Michael A. and E. Ann Sutton Graduate Student Award, given to an outstanding graduate student in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
Recent M.Sc. Graduates
- Mr. Hossein Rouzbeh Shahsavari, “Topics in Mechanics of Helices,” at McGill, 2004
- Mr. Zhaozhou Qiu, “Triangular Spring and Beam Lattice Models,” at McGill, 2004
- Mr. Jun Li, “Fractals in Elastic-Plastic Transitions of Random Heterogeneous Materials,” 2009
- Mr. Ankit Saharan, “Characterization of Functionally Graded Materials through Fractal Geometry,” 2010
- Mr. Mike Sena, “Mesoscale Random Fields of Stiffness for In-Plane Elasticity,” 2012
- Mr. Sohan Kale, “Fracture and Fractals in Elastic-Plastic-Brittle Materials,” 2012
- Mr. Dansong Zhang, “Statistics of Slip Avalanches in Sheared Amorphous Materials Based on Atomistic Simulation,” 2014
- Yao Xiao, “Correlation of Beam Vibration with Turbulent Wind Velocity Input”, ZJU-UIUC, 2018
- Jenna K. Leane, “Development of Head Coordinate System for Head Trauma FE Analysis Automated Loading”, UIUC, M.Sc., 2021
Current Students
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- Mr. Yaswanth Sai Jetti (Ph.D.)
- Mr. Junren Ran (Ph.D.)