Lab Members

Lab Director

Prof. Julián Norato

Castleman Professor in Engineering Innovation
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Director, DREAM Center
School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering

Current Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Navid Changizi

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Penn State University, 2020


Current Students

Hongye Gu

PhD Candidate

David Cohen

PhD Candidate

 

Photo of Prabin Pradhananga, PhD student Prabin Pradhananga
PhD Student

Sy Nguyen-Van
PhD Student

 

Tuan Nguyen
PhD Student
Nicolás Cuevas-Carvajal
PhD Student
Benjamin Chasse
Accelerated Master’s Student
Muhammad Safdar
Undergraduate Researcher 

Alumni

ME sophomore Amelia Geist Amelia Geist
B.Sc., 2023
Mechanical Engineer at Pratt & Whitney
Hollis Smith

Ph, 2022

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Air Force Research Laboratory

AIAA 2023 Jefferson Goblet Student Paper Award, 2022 NRC Research Associateship Fellow

 

This is a photo of student Daniel Simmons Daniel Simmons
B.Sc., 2022
Robotics Graduate Student at University of Michigan
Hesaneh Kazemi

PhD, 2020

Software developer, Rapid Liquid Print

General Electric Graduate Fellowship, 2019

Winner of Best Presenter Award in NSF Poster Competition @ ASME IMECE 2019

 Shanglong Zhang

PhD, 2019

R&D Applications Developer at Dassault Systèmes

2018 Intern Award at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park

Pauline Menoret

M.Sc., 2019

Software Engineer at Anduril Industries

Winner of Poster Competition at 2018 Simulia East RUM

Manal_cropped Manal Tahhan

M.Sc., 2019

System Test Engineer at iRobot

This is a photograph of Master's student Jeffrey Roberge Jeffrey Roberge

M.Sc., 2016

Pratt & Whitney

Matthew Zujewski

B.Sc., 2020

Software Engineer at BAE Systems

BSc graduate Arthur Vitkovskis Arthur Vitkovskis

B.Sc., 2020

Electronics Product Engineer at Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company


Visiting Scholars


 Group Pictures

Hongye, Julián and Prabin (Denmark, June 2023)

 

Group gathering at Camille’s

Left to right: Navid, Yelin, Hongye, Julián, David, Prabin, and Sy (November, 2022)

 

This is a photo of the structural optimization team meeting during the pandemic

An online team meeting during the pandemic.

Left column, top to bottom: Hesaneh, Hongye, and Hollis

Right column, top to bottom: Justin, David and Matthew

Tiny inset: Julián (May 2020)


Back row: Samuel, Hollis, Matthew, and Shanglong

Front row: Manal, Pauline, Hesaneh and Julián (September 2017)


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Shanglong, Manal, Julián, Hesaneh, and Jeff (December 2015)


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