2021 Workshop Chairs

2021 Participants

• Aleksandra Kalinowska, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Area: Robotic Control
• Arina Korneva, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Area: Biomedical engineering, biomechanics
• Ashley Hartwell, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Area: Design optimization for sustainable construction
• Binyang Song, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, The Pennsylvania State University, Area: Data driven design
• Catie Cuan, Ph.D. Student / Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Area: Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• Cecile Chazot, Ph.D. Student, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Area: Manufacturing polymers & composites
• Cheng Zheng, Graduate Student, ME, MIT, Area: Computational microscopy and lithography. Optical system inverse design
• Claudia Brunner, PhD student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Area: Airfoil design for wind turbines
• Claudia Varela, Graduate Student, HST, MIT, Area: Medical Engineering, Medical Physics
• Cristina Martin-Linares, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Area: Physics Informed Machine learning, Mechanistic modeling, Reduced order modeling, Dynamical systems
• Cynthia Hajal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Area: Engineered microvascular brain-on-a-chip model for the study of tumor progression
• Drithi Shetty, Graduate Research Assistant (PhD), Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Area: Engineering Physics Computation
• Gina Olson, Post doc, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Area: Robotics, actuation, haptics
• Janelle Clark, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Area: Haptics and robotic control
• Khanh Tan, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Area: Bioengineering, microneedles for transdermal drug and vaccine delivery
• Manisha Singh, Post doc, Mechanical Engineering and IMES, MIT, Area: Biomedical engineering
• Melissa Boswell, Doctoral Student, Bioengineering, Stanford University, Area: Biomechanics
• Neda Karami Mohammadi, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Area: Wave Propagation in Soft Metamaterials, Applied Solid Mechanics, Dynamics, Vibrations and Control, Autonomous Mobile Robots and State Estimation
• Parinaz Fathi, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Area: Bioengineering
• Qing Zhang, Graduate student, MechE, MIT, Area: Thermal Fluids
• Samantha Webster, Graduate Student, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Area: Additive manufacturing, deposition
• Sarah Shelton, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Area: Biomedical engineering
• Si Xu, Graduate Student, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Area: Microrobotics, Sensing, actuation, and control of soft fluid-driven robots by liquid-elastomer composite sensors and dielectric elastomer actuators
• Stephanie Valencia-Valencia, PhD Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Area: Biomedical Engineering, Human Computer Interaction
• Susmita Sarkar, Graduate Student, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, Area: Batteries, electrochemistry
• Vani Sundaram, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Area: Biomechanics, Exoskeletons and Prostheses, System Dynamics, Controls, Soft Robotics, Bio-Inspired Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Embedded Sensing
• Verda Saygin, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Area: Controls, autonomy
• Xiao Ge, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Area: Design research/theory
• Xiaojia Wang, Graduate Student (Candidate), Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, Area: Ocean/Naval fluids
• Xinyue Liu, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Area: Soft machines
• Yilin Liu, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Area: solve biomedical problems in diagnostics, cryopreservation, and nanomedicine
• Yiwei Xia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Area: Dynamics and Topology of Nonlinear and Aperiodic Metastructures
• Yixiang Deng, Graduate Student, School of Engineering, Brown University, Area: biomedical engineering

2018 Workshop Chairs

2018 Participants

• Gizem Acar, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, gizem@umd.edu. Area: dynamics and vibrations with applications to robotic locomotion on granular media and wind turbines

• Surl-Hee (Shirley) Ahn, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC San Diego, s3ahn@ucsd.edu. Area: molecular dynamics, proteins, drugs

• Qifang Bao, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, qfbao@mit.edu. Area: product design for environmental impact

• Lili Cai, Postdoctoral Researcher, Material Science, Stanford University, lilicai@stanford.edu. Area: thermal / nanotech / energy

• Elizabeth DeBenedictis, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, elizabethdebenedictis2014@u.northwestern.edu. Area: biomaterials 

• Rebecca Fenton Friesen, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, RebeccaFentonFriesen2014@u.northwestern.edu. Area: haptics

• Zahra Ghasemi, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, zghasemi@umd.edu. Area: mathematical modeling for CV monitoring

• Maha Haji, Project Engineer, Mechanical Engineering, ATA Engineering, mhaji@mit.edu. Area: Design in water-energy-food nexus, renewable energy, sustainability

• Feng He, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, feng.he@utexas.edu. Area: phonon interactions, heat conversion

• Courtney Hollar, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho, holl0770@vandals.uidaho.edu. Area: nuclear fuel, thermoelectrics

• Meghan E. Huber, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, mehuber@mit.edu. Area: robot aided locomotion

• Hyun Jin Kim, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering and Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hkim257@illinois.edu. Area: clean energy / thermal science

• Jocelyn Kluger , Physical Modeling Library Developer, MathWorks, jociek@alum.mit.edu. Area: wind turbines, wave energy, physical modeling

• Annie Dian-Ru Li, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, drli@umich.edu. Area: Design and manufacturing of medical device

• Allison Mahvi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, mahvi@illinois.edu. Area: energy – organic thermoelectric

• Akanksha Menon, ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory akmenon@lbl.gov. Area: thermal systems/heat transfer (solar desalination, thermoelectrics, conducting polymers)

• Min-yeong Moon, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa, minyeong-moon@uiowa.edu. Area: design optimization, uncertainty quantification, and reliability analysis

• Aishwarya Pawar, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, arpawar@andrew.cmu.edu. Area: medical image analysis

• Andrea Pickel, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, apickel@berkeley.edu. Area: nanoscale heat transfer

• Yatian Qu, Scientist, Mechanical Engineering, Purigen Biosystems, yatianqu@alumni.stanford.edu. Area: microfluidics – medical and water treatment

• Shabnam Raayai-Ardakani, Postdoctoral Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, shraayai@mit.edu. Area: fluid & solid mechanics / Biomimetics

• Reshma R. Rao, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, reshmar@mit.edu. Area: sustainable energy

• Olivia Scheidler, PhD student, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, olivia.scheideler@gmail.com. Area: biomedical

• Samira Shiri, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, sshiri@bu.edu. Area: Interfacial fluid dynamics , heat and mass transfer , bioinspired materials

• Megan Tomko, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, megan.e.tomko@gmail.com. Area: makerspaces

• Valerie Troutman, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, vtrout@stanford.edu. Area: fluid mechanics, diver-operated imaging system

• Ana Villanueva, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, villana@purdue.edu. Area: augmented reality / biomechanics

• Julie Walker, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, juliewalker@stanford.edu. Area: haptics / human-robot interaction

• Guanjin Wang, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, gjwang@umd.edu. Area:leg locomotion on granular surfaces

• Katrina Wisdom, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, kmwisdom@seas.upenn.edu. Area: Mechanobiology, Biomechanics, Biomaterials, 3D Cell Culture

• Kirby Witte, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, kwitte@andrew.cmu.edu. Area: biomechanics, mechatronics and human-robot interaction

• Kelilah Wolkowicz, Postdoctoral Fellow, SEAS (Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering), Harvard University, kwolkowicz@seas.harvard.edu. Area: Robotic wheelchair design and development; Artificial Pancreas control and estimation algorithm development

• Xining Zang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Science, MIT, xzang@mit.edu. Area: Enery MEMS/Nano and natural carbonaceous materials

• Yangying Zhu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Science, Stanford University, zhuyy@stanford.edu. Area: thermal management of electronic devices