PhD Students
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Md. Takmil Sakir joined the group in January 2021. He is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering working on the multiscale computational mechanics of all-solid-state lithium batteries.
Wongelemengist Yilma Nadew joined the group in January 2023. He is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering working on data-driven constitutive modeling for materials. In April 2025, he received the best oral presentation award (engineering grad category) at the USU Student Research Symposium.
Nanang Mahardika joined the group in October 2021 as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering. He is a recipient of the USU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2024 Outstanding Engineering PhD Scholar of the year, and travel award from the 18th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics. He currently works on the mechanics of stimuli-responsive elastomers.
Undergraduate Students
Cristhian Nolasco joined the group in January 2025. He is a recipient of the Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellow working on battery materials modeling.
Alumni
Ryan Sticht, undergrad researcher, Feb. 2022-May 2023, Mechanics of electrode materials for Li-ion batteries.
Erica Francis, undergrad researcher, Jan 2023-May 2023, ab initio calculations of materials.
Sage Hill, undergrad researcher, Mar. 2023-May 2023, experimental synthesis of liquid crystal elastomers
Taylor Lyon, undergrad researcher, Aug. 2023-May 2024, ab initio calculations of energy storage materials
Jared Christofferson, undergrad researcher, EURF, Aug. 2024-May 2025, mechanics of elastomers
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