Current Members
Principal Investigator
Research Themes
Modeling and Simulation of:
- Advanced manufacturing
- 3D printing systems
- multiphase/composite material behavior
- fire propagation and control with the Fire Research Group
- UAVs and swarms
- Biological systems
- Ballistic fabric shielding
- Advanced manufacturing of food with the Food Manufacturing Group
Methods of Analysis
- Discrete Element Methods
- Finite Element Methods
- Finite Difference Methods
- Computational Optics
- Machine-Learning Algorithms
- Agent-Based Methods
Visiting Scholars
MS/PhD Students

Nicolas Castrillon
Nicolas is an M.S./Ph.D. student interested in new technologies for advanced manufacturing, such as Additive Manufacturing. Read More

Zachary Yun
Zack is an M.S./Ph.D. student interested in optimization of advanced manufacturing processes through computational modeling combined with experiments.Read More

Roger Isied
Roger is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Read More

Brian Howell
After receiving his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Brian worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read More

Payton Goodrich
Payton Goodrich is a PhD student in mechanical engineering co-advised by Prof. Tarek Zohdi (ME) and Prof. Ana Arias (EECS).Read More

Omar Betancourt
Omar is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering co-advised by Prof. Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Read More

Emre Mengi
Emre is a Mechanical Engineering PhD student at UC Berkeley with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Science & Engineering from UC Davis. Read More

Maya Horii
Maya is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering co-advised by Professor Tarek Zohdi and Professor Grace Gu. Read More

Abdullah Alrashdan
Abdullah holds a B.S and M.S in Mechanical Engineering from LMU. While pursing his M.S degree, his research focused on Design for Additive Manufacturing Read More

Carla Becker
Carla is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering with an M.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College. Read More

Aidan Gould
Aidan is a MS/PhD student advised by Prof. Zohdi. He is interested in multiphysics simulation for aerospace applications. Read More