Group Alumni
PhD Students
Jing Xue
PhD 2021, Thesis: Multiscale Constitutive Modeling of Compressive Fracture and Size Effect in Composite
Materials
Currently Applications Development Engineer at KLA-Tencor.
Taufiq Abdullah
PhD 2023, Thesis: Regularized continuum damage models for dynamic fracture of brittle materials and
woven composites
Currently Senior Engineer at Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc (HATCI)
Sanket Wardhekar
PhD 2026, Thesis: Multiaxial Fracture Behavior of Brittle Polymers: Characterization and Microplane Constitutive Modeling
Currently Staff Simulation Engineer at Ping Corporation
MS Thesis Students
Mersim Redzematovic
MS 2020, Thesis: Micromechanics of the Mooney-Rivlin constants for soft polymer graphene sandwich nanocomposites (related publication)
Currently Associate Project Manager (R&D) at ULC Technologies
John Park
MS 2020, Thesis: Nanoscale fracture in amorphous silica analyzed by reactive molecular dynamics (related publication)
Currently, PhD student at Stony Brook University
Yu Foong Lam
MS 2021, Thesis: Penetration and branching of dynamic cracks at material interfaces analyzed via a strain-rate dependent continuum damage model (related publication)
Currently Mechanical Design Engineer at Apple.
Garret Smith
MS 2021, Thesis: Microplane Constitutive Model for the Damage Behavior of Polymers and Extension to their Nanocomposites (related publication)
Currently Process Engineer at AMES Goldsmith.
Leana Grotz
MS 2023, Thesis: Experimental Characterization of Failure Behavior of Woven Composites under On-axis and Off-axis Compression (related publication)
Currently Machine Shop Instructor at Stony Brook University.
Jamshid Ochilov
MS 2023, Thesis: Impact Damage Modeling of Woven Composite Laminates (related publication)
Currently PhD student at University of Minnesota.
Sanket Wardhekar
MS 2024, Thesis: Microplane Constitutive Model for Tensile and Compressive Damage in Brittle Polymers (related publication)
Continuing PhD student
Thomas Piccolo
MS 2025, Thesis: Finite Element Modeling of Abdominal Cavity to Enable Improved Hernia Treatments (related publication)
Currently Assistant Engineer for the NYS Department of Transportation
MS Project Students
Andy Chu
MS 2017, Project: Numerical analysis of size effect in the strength of soft elastomers using cohesive elements (related publication).
Currently Structural Engineer at Northrop Grumman.
Zongyan Zhang
MS 2018, Project: Numerical analysis of the biaxial flexure test for composites (related publication).
Currently Grounds Engineer at Delta Airlines.
Kevin Gonzalez
MS 2018, Project: Experimental characterization of strength scaling in PDMS (related publication)
Currently at Cemtrex Inc.
Daniel Deland
MS 2018, Project: Biaxial flexural strength testing of fiber reinforced composites (related publication).
Currently Program Manager at Telephonics.
Eric Yurman
MS 2019, Project: Electrical properties of carbon fiber composites as structural capacitance (related publication).
Anar Nurizada
MS 2020, Project: Characterization and size effect analysis of anisotropy and quasibrittleness in 3D printed parts (related publication).
Currently PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University.
Jose C. Arango
MS 2022, Project: Effect of processing parameters on dispersion of helical CNTs in epoxy nanocomposites (related publication).
Currently Engineer at Boeing
Felix Liu
MS 2022, Project: Characterization of the mechanical properties of woven composites with focus on biaxial flexure testing (related publications here and here).
Currently Mechanical Engineer at US Army Test and Evaluation Command.
Malik John
MS 2023, Project: Investigation of Mode II Intralaminar Failure and Size Effect in Woven Composites (related publications here and here).
Currently Project Manager at Turner Construction Company
Cassandra Laguatan
MS 2026, Project: Size effect and probabilistic distributions of biaxial flexural strength of epoxy discs
Currently Mechanical Design Engineer at aRobotics Company
Sudipto Mazumder
MS 2026, Project: Computational modeling of abdominal hernias
Currently Engineer at General Dynamics
Visiting Researchers
Qiana Felician
Project: ML-based approaches to predict out of plane composite properties
Visiting from MIT
Undergraduate Researchers
Jose Menjivar
BS 2020, NASA LSAMP Fellow, Project: Effect of carbon nanotubes on adhesion between epoxy and aluminum (related publication).
Currently Engineer at Curtiss-Wright
Donald Leung
BS 2020, Project: Design of a fixture to conduct elliptical ring-on-ring flexure tests.
Currently Mechanical Engineer at 3rd Stone Design Inc.
Brian Roberts
BS 2021, Project: Design and fabrication of silicone molds for preparing fracture test specimens of epoxy nanocomposites.
Currently Manufacturing engr at Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp.
Devlin Donnelly
BS 2020, Project: Optical measurement of dynamic crack velocity in PDMS (related publication).
Currently Field Service Engineer at Siemens.
BS 2020, Project: Characterization of size effect in the strength of sandstone rocks (related publication).
Currently Doctoral student at UC Berkeley
BS 2021, Project: Literature review on size effects in composites.
Currently Graduate student at Georgia Tech.
Yanyan Cui
BS 2021, Project: Fabrication and characterization of carbon fiber woven composites (related publication).
Currently Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University
Nazid Qadir
BS 2022, Project: Testing the material properties of a 2D woven composite under bending.
Currently Mechanical Engineer at Veeco
Ephraim Bryski
BS 2022, Project: Molecular dynamics simulations on amorphous silica using ReaxFF/SiO (related publication).
Currently System specialist at Resensys
Michael Borynski
BS 2024, Project: Fabrication of epoxy/CNT nanocomposites (relevant publication).
Thomas Londono
BS 2024, Project: Fabrication of epoxy/CNT nanocomposites (relevant publication)
Currently Business Development Representative at Block Equity Group
Chae Rin Ryu
BS 2025, Project: PDMS specimen preparation for mechanical tests.
Currently Graduate Research Assistant at Physics of Failure Lab
Soroush Saririan
BS 2024, Project: Experimental characterization of compressive failure of CNT/epoxy nanocomposites (related publication).
Currently graduate student at University of Florida
Izabella Mra
BS 2025, Project: Fabrication of woven carbon fiber composites by wet lay-up technique for compression testing
Currently Product Engineer at Micro-coax
John Li
BS 2026, Project: Open hole compression testing of woven composites
Currently graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Joung
BS 2026, Project: Anisotropic mode II fracture toughness of 3D printed parts
Currently Engineer at Global Foundries