Ruobing Bai

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

203 Snell Engineering Center, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115

Email: ru.bai@northeastern.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, 2018

Harvard University

Advisor: Zhigang Suo

B.S., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2012

Peking University

Advisor: Huiling Duan

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Jan 2021 – Now

Northeastern University, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Aug 2018 – Dec 2020

California Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering

Advisor: Kaushik Bhattacharya

Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2018 – Aug 2018

Graduate Research Assistant, Sept 2012 – May 2018

Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Advisor: Zhigang Suo

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Feb 2010 – Jun 2012

Peking University, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems

Advisor: Huiling Duan

PhD students

Rongyue Lin, Sep 2024 - Now

Co-advised with Prof. Juner Zhu

M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2024)

B.S., University of Science and Technology Beijing (2022)


Yichen Wan, Sep 2022 - Now

M.S., The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen (2022)

B.S., South China University of Technology (2020)


Zumrat Usmanova, Sep 2022 - Now

M.S., Istanbul Technical University (2021)

B.S., Istanbul Technical University (2019)


Qianfeng Yin, Sep 2021 - Now

M.S., Xi'an Jiaotong University (2021)

B.S., China University of Mining and Technology (2018)


Zhengxuan Wei, Jan 2021 - Now

M.S., Brown University (2020)

B.S., Beijing Jiaotong University (2018)

Undergraduate students

Jaesuh Lee, Jun 2024 - Now

Joseph Rossillo, Jan 2024 - Now

Kate Crabtree, Sep 2023 - Now

Umme Hani Bootwala, Oct 2023 - Now

Alumni

Jiahua He, Undergraduate, May 2023 - May 2024

Abigail Bemis, Undergraduate, Jan 2023 - May 2024

Nimit Chovatia, Master, May 2021 - May 2023

Peixun Wang, Master, Oct 2021 - May 2023