We use mechanics to understand physical phenomena ranging across materials, geophysics, and biology.

June 2024

Congratulations to Shoham for his paper Nonuniqueness in Defining the Polarization: Nonlocal Surface Charges and the Electrostatic, Energetic, and Transport Perspectives that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

February 2024

Congratulations to Sulagna for defending her thesis on Data-Driven Inverse Design of Optical Metamaterials and starting as a Research Scientist at Meta!

Congratulations to Pratik for his paper Statistical field theory of polarizable polymer chains with nonlocal dipolar interactions that will appear in Physical Review E!

January 2024

Congratulations to Sulagna for receiving the Bushnell Doctoral Fellowship for 2023 – 2024!

November 2023

Congratulations to Maryam and Balaji for being selected as finalists for the ASTM M.R. Mitchell Student Presentation Forum on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics!

October 2023

Congratulations to Kevin for his paper A Dimensionally-Reduced Nonlinear Elasticity Model for Liquid Crystal Elastomer Strips with Transverse Curvature that will appear in Soft Matter!

Congratulations to Gökçen for receiving the Fan Favorite Prize at the 2023 YinzOR Conference Poster Competition!

September 2023

Congratulations to Janel for defending her thesis on Phase-Field Modeling of Defect Dynamics: Interplay between Inertia and Viscous Stress, and starting her postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory!

Congratulations to Sulagna for her paper Physics-informed machine learning for inverse design of optical metamaterials that will appear in Advanced Photonics Research!

July 2023

Congratulations to Kiana for defending her thesis on Multiscale Models of Growth: Microstructure Evolution & Mechanics of Surface Growth, and starting her postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology!

Congratulations to Kevin for defending his thesis on Interpretable Dimension Reduction Procedures for Dynamical Systems, and starting at Army Research Lab as a federal researcher!

Congratulations to Janel, Mina, and Patrick for their paper Deformation Decomposition versus Energy Decomposition for Chemo- and Poro- Mechanics, in collaboration with Mehrdad Massoudi, Santosh Narasimhachary, Kai Kadau, and George Gazonas, that will appear in Journal of Applied Mechanics!

May 2023

Congratulations to Mina for receiving the Mao Yisheng Oustanding Dissertation Award for 2023!

April 2023

Congratulations to Kiana for receiving the MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence!

Congratulations to Gökçen for receiving the Center for Machine Learning and Health Fellowship!

Congratulations to Pratik for his paper Statistical Field Theory for Nonlinear Elasticity of Polymer Networks with Excluded Volume Interactions, in collaboration with Timothy Breitzman and Carmel Majidi, that will appear in Physical Review E!

February 2023

Congratulations to Janel for being invited to participate in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences Rising Stars workshop!

Congratulations to Janel for receiving the CIT Smith Fellowship!

November 2022

Congratulations to Mina for her paper High-dimensional Nonlinear Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Fields from Pressure Data, in collaboration with Mehrdad Massoudi, that will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (special issue on data science)!

October 2022

Congratulations to Aziz for his paper An Optimized Species-Conserving Monte Carlo Method with Potential Applicability to High Entropy Alloys, in collaboration with Matt Grasinger, that will appear in Computational Materials Science!

September 2022

Congratulations to Janel, Kiana, and Maryam for being invited to participate in the 2022 Rising Stars workshop!

Congratulations to Daniel for receiving the Carnegie Mellon TCS Presidential Fellowship!

June 2022

Congratulations to Maryam for her paper Phase-Field Finite Deformation Fracture with an Effective Energy for Regularized Crack Face Contact, in collaboration with Vaibhav Agrawal and Carlos Mora-Corral, that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

Congratulations to Kshiteej for his paper Multiband Homogenization of Metamaterials in Real-Space: Higher-Order Nonlocal Models and Scattering at External Surfaces, in collaboration with Tim Breitzman, that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

May 2022

Congratulations to Mina for defending her thesis on Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Properties Using an Energy-based Poromechanics Model, and starting her postdoc at California Institute of Technology!

Congratulations to 2020, 2021, and 2022 graduates from our research group!

March 2022

Congratulations to Jason Marshall for receiving the Recent Alumni Achievement Award from CMU!

Congratulations to Jade and Kiana for their paper Comparison of simulated and measured grain volume changes during grain growth, in collaboration with Aditi Bhattacharya, David Kinderlehrer, Bob Suter, and Greg Rohrer, that will appear in Physical Review Materials!

February 2022

Congratulations to Kiana for receiving the Bushnell Doctoral Fellowship for 2022 – 2023!

Congratulations to Pratik for defending his thesis on Statistical Field Theory for Polymer Networks and Electro-mechanical Polymers: Accounting for Nonlocal Interactions, and starting his postdoc at University of Houston!

December 2021

Congratulations to Mina for her paper on an energetic formulation of large-deformation poroelasticity, in collaboration with Mehrdad Massoudi, Matteo Pozzi, and Noel Walkington, that will appear in International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics!

Congratulations to Ankit for defending his thesis on Elucidating the Origin of Heterogeneous Stresses in Granular and Microstructured Materials Using Data Science Methods, and starting his postdoc at Sandia!

November 2021

Congratulations to Janel for her paper on the importance of viscous stresses in phase-field modeling of defect dynamics, in collaboration with Vaibhav Agrawal, Tim Breitzman, and George Gazonas, that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

October 2021

Congratulations to Kshiteej for defending his thesis on Multiband Homogenization for Electronic Structure and Mechanical Metamaterials, and starting his postdoc at University of Utah!

Congratulations to Ankit for his paper on applying machine learning to understand peak stress concentrations in heterogeneous media, in collaboration with Haeyoung Noh, that will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids!

Congratulations to Kiana for her paper on using the method of characteristics for surface growth with stress, in collaboration with Noel Walkington, that will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids!

Congratulations to Matt for his paper on the statistical mechanics of electromechanical polymers, in collaboration with Gal deBotton and Prashant Purohit, that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

September 2021

Congratulations to Maryam for receiving the Steinbrenner Doctoral Fellowship and named the Dunlap Awardee for 2021 – 2022!

Congratulations to Mina for receiving the Dowd Doctoral Fellowship for 2021 – 2022!

August 2021

Congratulations to Jade for her paper on dislocation dynamics, with LANL, UCSB, and Clemson collaborators, that will appear in Computational Materials Science!

July 2021

Congratulations to Kiana for being invited to participate in the MIT Rising Stars workshop!

June 2021

Congratulations to Shoham for defending his thesis on Nonlocal Dipolar Interactions in Complex Geometries for Quantum Embedding, and starting his postdoc at University of Minnesota!

May 2021

Congratulations to Janel, Kevin, and Kiana for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2021!

Congratulations to Kiana for her paper on the mechanics of surface growth with stress, in collaboration with Noel Walkington, that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

April 2021

Congratulations to Matt for his paper on the nonlinear statistical electromechanics of electromechanically-coupled polymers, in collaboration with Carmel Majidi, that will appear in Physical Review E!

March 2021

Congratulations to Jade for defending her thesis on Computational Methods for Structure-Property Relations in Heterogeneous Materials, and starting her postdoc at Los Alamos!

November 2020

Congratulations to Mahnoush for her paper on high-torque actuators using instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers, in collaboration with M. Ravi Shankar's lab at Pitt, that will appear in Soft Matter!

October 2020

Congratulations to Mina for being invited to participate in the Rising Stars workshop!

Congratulations to Matt for being invited to participate in the Soft Matter for All workshop!

September 2020

Congratulations to Matt for his paper on architected  electromechanical elastomers, that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

July 2020

Congratulations to Pratik for his paper on liquid metal elastomer composites, in collaboration with Carmel Majidi's lab, that will appear in Soft Matter and featured on the cover!

May 2020

Congratulations to Matt for his paper on the statistical mechanics of electromechanically-coupled polymers that will appear in Soft Matter and featured on the cover!

April 2020

Congratulations to Kevin for receiving the DOD SMART fellowship!

Congratulations to Mahnoush for her paper on the mechanobiology of cell membranes, with Pitt and Trento collaborators, that will appear in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids!

Congratulations to Pratik for being a finalist in the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Poster Competition 2020!

February 2020

Congratulations to Kshiteej and Jade for receiving SIAM travel awards to present their work at the SIAM Annual Meeting 2020!

Congratulations to Jade for her paper on applying the Recursive Projection Method to elasticity, with AFRL collaborators, that will appear in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering!

Congratulations to Jade for being invited to participate in the AWM Workshop on Mathematics of Materials at the SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting!

January 2020

Congratulations to Mahnoush for being invited to participate in the MIT Rising Stars workshop!

Welcome to Janel, Kiana, and Sulagna, who have recently joined us!

November 2019

Congratulations to Pratik and Shoham for receiving GSA travel awards to present their work at APS Annual Meeting!

September 2019

Congratulations to Matt for defending his thesis on Multiscale Modeling and Theoretical Design of Dielectric Elastomers, and starting his postdoc at AFRL & University of Minnesota!

August 2019

Congratulations to Jade for her paper on dislocation dynamics in BCC crystals, with LANL and UCSB collaborators, that will appear in Computational Materials Science!