Keith A. Brown 

Principal Investigator

Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Materials Science & Engineering

Adedire Adesiji

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering



Dylan Balter

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering



Harley Quinn

PhD Student, Materials Science & Engineering



Greg Robben [grobben (at) bu (dot) edu]

MS Student, Materials Scienec & Engineering



Jiashuo Wang [jiashuow (at) bu (dot) edu]

PhD Student, Materials Science & Engineering 

Yihong Xu [yihongxu (at) bu (dot) edu]

PhD Student, Physics


PAST MEMBERS

DOCTORAL

2024 - Kelsey Snapp, PhD Mechanical Engineering
"Discovering Tough and Impact-Resistant Structures using a Self-Driving Lab"
Current Position: Mechanical Engineer at DEVCOM Soldier Center

2023 - Verda Saygin, PhD Mechanical Engineering
"Closed-Loop Nanopatterning and Characterization of Polymers with Scanning Probes"
Current Position: Bruker 

2022 - Abigail Rendos, PhD Materials Science and Engineering
"From Interparticle Interactions to Emergent Behavior of Smart Fluids"
Current  Position: Lithography Development Engineering at Intel 

2021 - Aldair Gongora, PhD Mechanical Engineering
"Accelerating Mechanical Design using Autonomous Experimentation"
Current Position: Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2020 - Nourin Alsharif, PhD Mechanical Engineering
"Interrogation of Nanostructured Soft Materials & Interfaces from Fundamental to Emergent Properties"
Current Position: IP Technology Specialist at Wolf Greenfield

2020 - Wenhan Cao, PhD Mechanical Engineering
"From Single Particle Polarization to Assembling and Imaging Hierarchical Materials"
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Shanghai Tech University

2018 - Le Li, PhD Mechanical Engineering
"Polymer Thin Films: Nanomechanics and Optomechanical Actuation"


MASTERS

2017 - Sen Wang, MS Materials Science & Engineering
"Patterning Porosity in Hydrogels by Arresting Phase Separation"

2016 - Nikolaos (Nick) Farmakidis, MS Mechanical Engineering
"Towards Closed-Loop Nanopatterning: Quantifying Ink Dynamics in Dip-Pen Nanolithography"
Currently a PhD student at Oxford


UNDERGRADUATE

2022 - Colton Thomasson, NSF REU from Concordia College [Current]

2022 - Sebastian Diaz, BS Mechanical Engineering [Current]

2022 - Helena Gill, BS Mechanical Engineering [Current]

2022 - Frans Luttmer, BS Mechanical Engineering [Current]

2022 - Emerson Detering, BS Mechanical Engineering [Current]

2022 - Abin George, BS Mechanical Engineering [Current]

2021 - Eva Langenbrunner, BS Mechanical Engineering

2021 - Sarai Aguirre, NSF REU from UC Davis

2021 - Ben Stern, Physics NSF REU from the College of Wooster 

2021 - Waleed Kahm, BS Mechanical Engineering

2021 - Shulan Holmes-Farley, BS Mechanical Engineering 

2020 - Thomas Tenzin, BS Physics

2020 - Stephanie Woodman, BS Mechanical Engineering
Currently a PhD Student at Yale

2019 - Alexis Davis, NSF REU from Norfolk State University

2019 - Lena Sabidussi, BS Mechanical Engineering
Currently a PhD Student at Princeton

2019 - Charlotte Cathcart, BS Mechanical Engineering
Currently a PhD Student at Princeton

2019 - Wyatt Perry, BS Mechanical Engineering

2019 - Chika Okoye, BS Mechanical Engineering

2018 - Gabriel Torres Rivera, NSF REU from University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Currently a PhD Student at Purdue

2018 - Lucas Soffer, BS Mechanical Engineering
Currently a MS student at Stanford

2017 - Deanyone Su, NSF REU from Carnegie Mellon University  

2017 - Brain Kim, BS Mechanical Engineering
Currently a PhD Student at CalTech

2017 - Katie Costello, BS Mechanical Engineering

2017 - Alexander Reever Stooss, BS Mechanical Engineering

2017 - Lucas Encarnacao, BS Mechanical Engineering

2017 - John Young, BS Mechanical Engineering

2017 - Carolyn Nguyen, BS Mechanical Engineering

2016 - Joshua Karlowicz, NSF REU from Eastern Arizona College

2016 - Anna Burkatovsky, BS Mechanical Engineering


Old Group Photos

Spring 2016

Winter 2015