Principal Investigator
Richard D. James
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Office: 119A Akerman Hall
Phone: 612-625-0706
Email: [email protected]
Postdoctoral Scholars
Georgios Grekas
Email: [email protected]
Graduate Students
Shivam Sharma
Email: [email protected]
Anjanroop Singh
Email: [email protected]
Huan Liu
Email: [email protected]
Ashutosh Pandey
Email: [email protected]
Kalpesh Jaykar
Email: [email protected]
Ankit Kumar
Email: [email protected]
Kevin Sheehan
Email: [email protected]
Interns, Undergraduates and High School Students
Frank Yu
Undergraduate student at Georgia Tech
Rishabh Agrawal
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Mariana Verdugo
Engineering Physics, UC Berkeley
Arun Soor
St John's College, Oxford
Joseph Moynihan
Undergraduate student at University of Minnesota
Current and Former Visitors
Prashanth Velvaluri
2019
University of Kiel
Anna Zanzottera
2011
Plitecnico di Milano
Nadège Zarrouati
2008
École Polytechnique
Photo Gallery
Alumni
Shoham Sen, Postdoc, 2023
Postdoc, University of Houston
Patricia Pop-Ghe, Postdoc, 2023
Electric Hydrogen in Natick, Massachusetts
Gunjan Pahlani, Ph.D., 2022
Packaging R&D Engineer, Intel Corporation
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Postdoc, 2021
Assistant Professor, Materials Department, UCSB
Hanlin Gu, Ph.D., 2021
Boya Postdoc Fellow, Peking University
Fan Feng, Ph.D., 2019
Assistant Professor, Peking University
Ashley Bucsek, Postdoc, 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Paul Plucinsky, Postdoc, 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
Saurav Aryan, M.S., 2018
Research Engineer: Robotics, Machine Learning
Vivekanand Dabade, Ph.D., 2017
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Henrik van Lengerich, Postdoc, 2014
Senior Research Engineer, 3M
Xian Chen, Ph.D., 2013
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, HKUST
Yintao Song, Ph.D., 2013
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Savant Labs
Amartya Banerjee, Ph.D., 2013
Co-advised with Ryan S. Elliott
Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA
Kanwal Bhatti, Postdoc, 2013
GE Global Research
Woo Kyun Kim, Postdoc, shared with E. Tadmor, 2013
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati
Yera Hakobyan, Postdoc, shared with E. Tadmor, 2013
Vijay Srivastava, Postdoc, 2012
Materials Scientist, GE Global Research Center
Shankar Krishnan, Ph.D., 2012
COMSOL
Ajeet Kumar, Postdoc, 2012
shared with E. Tadmor
Associate Professor, Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Indian
Ganesh Bora, M.S., 2010
Co-advised with T. Shield
Productivity Process Leader, Ingersoll Rand
Yaniv Ganor, Postdoc, 2010
Swedesh K. Srivastava, Ph.D., 2008
Stealth mode startup, Sangam Ventures, Multiple Hardware Start-ups
Zhiyong Zhang, Ph.D., 2007
Materials Scientist, Medtronics, Plymouth, Minnesota
Kaushik Dayal, Postdoc, 2007
shared with R. Elliott
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, CMU
John Messier, M.S., 2006
previously Scientist, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota; now, co- founder, North Loop BrewCo
Liping Liu, Ph.D., 2006
Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, Rutgers University
Wayne Falk, Ph.D., 2004
currently Medtronic
Jun Cui, Ph.D., 2002
formerly Senior Scientist, Energy Materials Group, PNNL; now Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State
William Sheridan, M.S., 2001
Structural Dynamics Division, Boeing
Raffaella Rizzoni, Postdoc, 2001
Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Ferrara
Robert Tickle, Ph.D., 2000
running start-up company on computer aided machining, Minneapolis
Kevin Hane, Postdoc, 1999
Assistant Professor, University of Akron
Gustavo Gioia, Postdoc, 1997
Professor, Continuum Physics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Jian Li, Postdoc, 1996
Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Bo Li, M.S., 1995
Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCSD
Paolo Aquilar, M.S., 1995
formerly President, Kinematix
Shad T. Jeseritz, M.S., 1995
Senior Director of Engineering, Seagate
Narendra Simha, Ph.D., 1994
Co-advised with L. Truskinovsky
Senior Principal Scientist, Medtronic Corportation
Brian Berg, Ph.D., 1993
Scientist, Boston Scientific
Chunhwa Chu, Ph.D., 1993
currently Developmental Math Specialist/Learning Services Support Program Coordinator, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
Antonio DeSimone, Ph.D., 1992
Professor, S.I.S.S.A., Trieste, Italy
Kaushik Bhattacharya, Ph.D., 1992
Howell N. Tyson, Sr. Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science and Vice Provost for Research, Caltech
Xiaoping Liu, Ph.D., 1989
formerly Assistant Professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, University of St. Thomas
currently doing US–China joint business ventures
Holl Chung, M.Sc., Brown University, 1985
at last contact, in shape-memory industry in Connecticut
Oscar Bruno, Postdoc
Professor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
Nikan Firoozye, Postdoc
S. C. Bernstein
Tatiana Wilenski, Postdoc
Hungyu Tsai, Postdoc
MetLife
Guiseppe Puglisi, Postdoc
Universit`a di Bari
Qi Pan, Postdoc
Micron Corp.
Maerin Tijssens, Postdoc
TNO Madymo, Delft
Marcel Arndt, Postdoc
shared with M. Luskin and E. Tadmor
Soren Flexner, Postdoc
shared with C. Palmstrøm
Collaborators
Harry Atwater
Photonic martensites (AuCuZn)
Institute: Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech
Pavel Belik
Institute: Mathematics and Statistics, Augsburg University
Kaushik Bhattacharya
MURI: Materials on the Brink - Unprecedented Transforming Material
Institute: Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech
Kaushik Dayal
Institute: Civil and Environmental Engineering, CMU
Irene Fonseca
PIRE: Science at the Triple Point Between Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials Science
Institute: Mathematical Science, CMU
Marc de Graef
MURI: Managing the Mosaic of Microstructures
Institute: Materials Science and Engineering, CMU
David Kinderlehrer
Institute: Mathematical Science, CMU
Chris Leighton
New Energy Technology for the Direction Conversion of Heat to Electricity
Institute: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
Mitchell Luskin
FRG: Modeling and Computation of Objective Structures in Materials Science and Biology
PIRE: Science at the Triple Point Between Mathematics, Mechanics and Materials Science
Predictive Simulation and Design of Materials by Quasicontinuum and Accelerated Dynamics Methods
Institute: Mathematics, U Minnesota
Christopher Palmstrøm (Chris)
Fast Switching films (TiNiAu)
Institute: Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials, UCSB
Karin Rabe
Institute: Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers
G. Jeffery Snyder (Jeff)
Sb2Te3/PbTe Thermoelectrics
MURI: Materials on the Brink - Unprecedented Transforming Material
Institute: Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech
Ellad Tadmor
FRG: Modeling and Computation of Objective Structures in Materials Science and Biology
Predictive Simulation and Design of Materials by Quasicontinuum and Accelerated Dynamics Methods
Institute: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, U Minnesota
Ichiro Takeuchi
Institute: Materials Science and Engineering, U Maryland
Jian-Ping Wang
ARPA-E: Synthesis and Phase Stabilization of Body Center Tetragonal (BCT) Metastable FeN Anisotropic Nanocomposite Magnet - A Path to Fabricate Rare Earth Free Magnets
Institute: Electrical and Computer Engineering, U Minnesota
Manfred Wuttig
Institute: Materials Science and Engineering, U Maryland
International Collaborations
John M. Ball
Institute: School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
Paulo Biscari
Institute: Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Xian Sherry Chen
Institute: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gero Friesecke
Institute: Center for Mathematics, TU Munich, German
Ole Martin Løvvik
Institute: University of Oslo and SINTEF
Stefan Müller
Institute: Center for Mathematics, U Bonn, Germany
Eckhard Quandt
Institute: Inorganic Functional Materials, University of Kiel, Germany
Raffaella Rizzoni
Institute: Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli studi di Ferrara, Italy
Dominique Schryvers (Nick)
Electron Microscopy on obervation of interfaces in super compatible materials
Institute: EMAT, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Hanus Seiner
Institute: Institute of Thermomechanics, Prague, Czech Repbulic