People
My name is Leixin Ma. I will join ASU SEMTE (School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy) in August 2023. I am a postdoctoral fellow in Structures-Computer Interaction Lab at UCLA. I am adivsed by Prof. Khalid Jawed in the Department of UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Prof. Vwani Roychowdhury in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I obtained my PhD degree in the department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT where I work in Prof. J. Kim Vandiver's SHEAR7 group. I collaborated closely with towing tank group at MIT directed by Prof. Michael Triantafyllou. I obtained my bachelor's degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I worked in Prof. Shixiao Fu's marine hydroelasticity group and collaborated with Prof. Torgeir Moan at NTNU on the hydrodynamics analysis of large-scale aquaculture systems. More details can be found in my CV.
I am also currently an associate editor in Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, and the topic organizer of Digitalization, AI/ML, Digital Twins session at OMAE 2023 (42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering).
Postdoc
Graduate Students
Alejandra Hernandez Escobar
PhD Spring 2024
Kangzheng Liu
PhD Fall 2024
Vivian Oletty
PhD Fall 2024
TBD
Master Fall 2024
TBD
Master Fall 2024
Undergraduate students
Tristan Rodriguez
NSF REU, ASU FURI
Devansh Nathiley
DOE competition
Garrett Combes
DOE competition, ASU FURI
Research interns/ Visiting students
Alumni
Kaushik Shankar
Master Fall 2023-Spring 2024
Sri Ratna Kumar
Master Fall 2023-Spring 2024
Students mentored prior to ASU
Mr. Engin Taze, Visiting student at UCLA Sep 21- Sep 22. Now PhD student at University of New Hampshire.
Best Master Thesis award in the EMship program, Europe
Mr. Zecheng Jiang, Master student at Harbin Institute of Technology. Now PhD student at Harbin Institute of Technology.
Publication: Gao, Y., Jiang, Z.#, Ma L. *, Fu, S., He, G., Shi, C. 2022. "Numerical study of vortex-induced vibrations of a circular cylinder at different incidence angles''. Ocean Engineering, 259, 111858. [DOI]
Ms. Mrunmayi Mungekar, PhD student at UCLA
Publication: Mungekar M.#, Ma L. , Jawed M.K., Vwani Roychowdhury. 2023. "Design of bistable soft deployable structures via a Kirigami-inspired planar fabrication approach''. Accepted by Advanced Materials Technologies. [DOI]
Mr. Yongkyu Lee, PhD student at UCLA
Publication: Lee Y.#, Ma L. , Jawed M.K. "Deep spring: inverse design of suspended elastic rods using neural networks''. Submitted to International Journal of Solids and Structures.
Collaborators
Dr. Simona Aracri, Researcher at National Research Council of Italy - CNR
Prof. Dixia Fan, Assitant Professor at Westlake University
Prof. Shixiao Fu, Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Mengmeng Zhang, Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Ruosi Zha, Assistant Professor at Zhongshan University
Prof. Torgeir Moan, Professor at NTNU
Prof. Michael Triantafyllou, Professor at MIT