Lab Members

Lab Director

Photograph of Julian Norato

Prof. Julián Norato

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

Current Students

Photo of Prabin Pradhananga, PhD student Prabin Pradhananga
Ph.D. Student
Sy Nguyen-Van
Ph.D. Student
 
Tuan Nguyen
Ph.D. Student
Nicolás Cuevas-Carvajal
Ph.D. Student
Photo of Andrew Crouch Andrew Crouch
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Prof. Anna Tarakanova)
Kazuya Urata
Ph.D. Student
Photo of Juan Mongua Juan Mongua
Undergraduate Researcher

Alumni

Hongye Gu
Ph.D., 2025
Benjamin Chassé
M.S., 2025
Justin Guilfoyle
M.S., 2025
Patricio Mir-Salomon
B.S., 2025
Lela Romeo
B.S., 2025
David Cohen
Ph.D., 2025
Muhammad Safdar
B.S., 2024
Dr. Navid Changizi
Postdoctoral Scholar, 2023

 

ME sophomore Amelia Geist Amelia Geist
B.S., 2023
Hollis Smith
Ph.D., 2022

 

This is a photo of student Daniel Simmons Daniel Simmons
B.S., 2022
Hesaneh Kazemi
Ph.D., 2020
Matthew Zujewski
B.S., 2020
BSc graduate Arthur Vitkovskis Arthur Vitkovskis
B.S., 2020
 Shanglong Zhang
Ph.D., 2019
Pauline Menoret
M.S., 2019
Manal_cropped Manal Tahhan
M.Sc., 2019
This is a photograph of Master's student Jeffrey Roberge Jeffrey Roberge
M.S., 2016

Visiting Scholars


 Group Pictures

Photo of group gathering on August, 2025

From left-bottom corner clockwise: Prabin, Kazuya, Julián, David, Tony, Dhaval, Ben, Nicolás, Hesaneh, Hongye, and Sy (August 2025)

Photo of gathering of research group in May 2024

From closest person, clockwise: David, Lela, Hongye, Muhammad, Sy, Prabin, Andrew, Tony, Nicolás, and Julián (May 2024)

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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