Principal Investigator
Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Physics
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, Mechanical Engineering
Kelsey Snapp [ksnapp (at) bu (dot) edu]
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
Kelsey seeks to accelerate the development of advanced mechanical structures and manufacturing techniques by combining automation, machine learning, and additive manufacturing throughout the research, design, and validation process.
Yihong Xu [yihongxu (at) bu (dot) edu]
PhD Student, Physics
PAST MEMBERS
DOCTORAL
2023 - Verda Saygin, PhD Mechanica 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: Postdoctoral Researcher 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
