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