Meet the Team
Dy D. Le
IMMS Director
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Summary of Expertise: Structures, Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) and condition-based monitoring, intelligent sensing, fatigue and damage tolerance, fracture mechanics, materials state awareness, and artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data analytics
Satya Atluri
Chief Scientist
Presidential Chair & University Distinguished Professor
CARES Director
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Summary of Expertise: Computational science and engineering at length scales of nano-to-macro, materials/solid/structural mechanics, failure prevention, and health management
Tommy Dang
Assistant Professor
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Summary of Expertise: Virtual and augmented reality, dynamic network visualization, and visual features and automatic visualizations.
Weicheng Pei
Visiting Scholar
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Summary of Expertise: Aerodynamics, structural and multi-body dynamics, computational mechanics, parallel computing
Maryam Tabatabaei
Postdoc
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Summary of Expertise: Thin films and nanotechnology, nano-biomaterials, nano/micro-scale modeling of defects in ultra-small objects, cellular structure and nonlinear deformation in solid mechanics
Dimitri Volchenkov
Assistant Professor
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Summary of Expertise: Applied mathematician working in the field of data analysis, stochastic non-linear dynamics, complexity and uncertainty in real-world systems.
Guannan Wang
Postdoc
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Summary of Expertise: Structural dynamics, computational Mechanics, numerical methods, nonlinear dynamics, asymptotic methods, orbital mechanics, relative spacecraft dynamics
Xuechuan Wang
Visiting Scholar
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Summary of Expertise: Trefftz & Voronoi cell FEM, mircomechanics; Composite materials; Homogenization; Multiscale modeling; Viscoelasticity; Optimization; Sensor & "IoT" technology, Partical-interaction composite beams
Affiliated Researchers
Yeo Changdong
Associate Professor
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Phase transition and oxidation of carbon products under dynamic contact. Integrated research on mechanics and magnetic/electrical performance of materials. Atomic-scale & continuum scale simulation of thermomechanical material behavior. Surface coatings: corrosion and wear inhibitor under extreme environments. Dynamic adhesion mechanics of thin films.
Zhangxi Lin
Associate Professor
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Summary of Expertise: Big data, automated data and text mining, bioinformatics, genomics, knowledge base systems, decision support systems, business intelligence and analytics, statistics
Sunanda Mitra
Horn Professor
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Summary of Expertise: Nonlinear System Control Methods and Algorithm Design: Robust Control, Adaptive Control, Neural Networks, Boundary Control of Systems Modeled by PDEs, Real-time Optimization Using Extremum Seeking
J. W. Wright Regents Chair in Mechanical Engineering and Professor
Assistant ProfessorInstitute for Materials, Manufacturing, and Sustainment
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