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
PhD Students
Brian Howell
After receiving his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Brian worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 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
Omar Betancourt
Omar is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering co-advised by Prof. Kosa Goucher-Lambert. 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
Shao-Yi Yu
Shao-Yi received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2021. Her research interest has been focusing on applying numerical modeling and machine learning to design and manufacturing problems. Read More
Mostafa Sedky
Mostafa is a MS/PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in design and a minor in Physics from the American University in Cairo (AUC). Read More
Tommy Hosmer
Tommy Hosmer is a PhD student in mechanical engineering advised by Prof. Tarek Zohdi (ME). Read More