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.
Currently Associate Project Manager (R&D) at ULC Technologies
John Park
MS 2020, Thesis: Nanoscale fracture in amorphous silica analyzed by reactive molecular dynamics
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.
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.
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.
Currently Machine Shop Instructor at Stony Brook University.
Jamshid Ochilov
MS 2023, Thesis: Impact Damage Modeling of Woven Composite Laminates.
Currently PhD student at University of Minnesota.
Sanket Wardhekar
MS 2024, Thesis: Microplane Constitutive Model for Tensile and Compressive Damage in Brittle Polymers
Continuing PhD student
Thomas Piccolo
MS 2025, Thesis: Finite Element Modeling of Abdominal Cavity to Enable Improved Hernia Treatments.
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.
Currently Structural Engineer at Northrop Grumman.
Zongyan Zhang
MS 2018, Project: Numerical analysis of the biaxial flexure test for composites.
Currently Grounds Engineer at Delta Airlines.
Kevin Gonzalez
MS 2018, Project: Experimental characterization of strength scaling in PDMS.
Currently at Cemtrex Inc.
Daniel Deland
MS 2018, Project: Biaxial flexural strength testing of fiber reinforced composites.
Currently Program Manager at Telephonics.
Eric Yurman
MS 2019, Project: Electrical properties of carbon fiber composites as structural capacitance and effect of biaxial damage.
Anar Nurizada
MS 2020, Project: Characterization and size effect analysis of anisotropy and quasibrittleness in 3D printed parts.
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.
Currently Engineer at Boeing
Felix Liu
MS 2022, Project: Characterization of the mechanical properties of woven composites with focus on biaxial flexure testing.
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.
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.
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.
Currently Field Service Engineer at Siemens.
BS 2020, Project: Characterization of size effect in the strength of sandstone rocks.
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.
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.
Currently System specialist at Resensys
Michael Borynski
BS 2024, Project: Fabrication of epoxy/CNT nanocomposites.
Thomas Londono
BS 2024, Project: Fabrication of epoxy/CNT nanocomposites
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.
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