Faculty

Dimitris C. Lagoudas

Interim Department Head, Aerospace Engineering
University Distinguished Professor
Robert C. “Bud” Hagner Chair of Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Joint faculty appointment: Materials Science & Engineering
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Postdoctoral Researchers

Adrien Cassagne

Research: Complex ThermoMechanical Loading in High Temperature SMAs via Experimental and Computational approaches, modeling of Superelasticity via a crystal plasticity approach
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Graduate Students

Andreas Lianos

Industrial & Systems Engineering Ph.D. Program
Founder of AcousteX
Research: Advanced manufacturing, in-process monitoring, materials characterization, signal processing, data analysis
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Haoyi Tian

Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
Research: Modeling of SMA aerospace structures, data-driven constitutive modeling of SMAs
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Rawad Yazbeck

Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
Research: Modeling and analysis of tunable, adaptive wave propagation in periodic nonlinear structures for advanced deployable space structures
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Jaybelle Pranada

Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D. Program
Research: Coupled electro-chemo-mechanical-thermal model for organic-based electrodes for structural batteries
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Cesar Metlich

Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Program
Research: Damage mechanisms in lithium ion batteries and carbon fiber structural batteries, multiphysics modeling of advanced energy storage devices
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Tom Ralph

Aerospace Engineering M.S. Program
Research: Mesoscale modeling of inelastic behavior in high entropy alloys
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James Sattler

Aerospace Engineering M.S. Program
Research: Modeling and optimization of adaptive structures designed to survive supersonic flow fields and affect the near field shock structure of corresponding shockwaves; design of HTSMA torque tube actuation system for structural morphing
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Garrett Stevenson

Aerospace Engineering M.S. Program
Research: Space applications of deployable and adaptable structures with emphasis on passive thermal management systems based on SMA radiators
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Undergraduate Students

Landon Riley

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research: Design and modeling of additively manufactured porous structures for use in structural battery electrolytes
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Jakob Cook

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research: Design and analysis of high temperature SMA structures

Enrique Chacon

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research: Experimental Analysis of lightweight deployable structures for space applications

Fabio Soria

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research: Design and testing of deployable structures using SMAs

Githin Johny

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research: Automated deployment of deployable structures through actuation of SMAs

Alumni

Postdoctoral:

Tianyang Zhou
Manish Vasoya
Jobin Joy
Anargyros Karakalas
Behrouz Haghgouyan
Sameer Jape
Alexandros Solomou
Edwin Peraza Hernandez
Majid Tabesh
Theocharis Baxevanis
Parikshith Kumar
Kaushik Das
Yves Chemisky
George Chatzigeorgiou
Hongxing Zheng
Gary Seidel

Peter Popov
Yordanos Bisrat
Pavlin Entchev
Michael Newman
Kayleen Helms
Li-Jian Rong
Glenn Viktor Webb
Carlos Yapura
Margarita Evard
Alexander Bekker
Zhonghe Bo
Declan Hughes
Shouze Xu
Zhonghai Ding
Abhijit Bhattacharyya
James G. Boyd

Doctoral:

Adrien Cassagne
Dimitris Loufakis
Tianyang Zhou
Ralston Fernandes
Jobin Joy
Paraskevi Flouda
Behrouz Haghgouyan
Mahdi Mohajeri
Lei Xu
Francis Phillips
Edwin A. Peraza Hernandez
Sameer Jape
Rob Wheeler
Hieu Truong
Majid Tabesh
Babatunde Agboola
Frank Gardea
Brian Lester
Krishnendu Haldar
Brent Volk

Darren Hartl
Amnaya Awasthi
Piyush Thakre
Parikshith Krishna Kumar
Olivier Walter Bertacchini
Bong Taek Oh
Luciano Machado
Gary Seidel
Bjoern Kiefer
Peter Popov
Hyoung Yoll Jun
Pavlin B. Entchev
P. K. Imbrie
David Miller
Abu Bakar Siddiq Qidwai
Glenn Viktor Webb
Gongming Xu
Zhonghe Bo
Ahmed M. Saleh
ChienMing Huang

Master’s:

Alejandro Ian Martinez
Hrishikesh Padalia
Basak Abut
Greg Wilson
Daniel Martin
Ralston Fernandes
John Rohmer
Robert Saunders
Stephen Cornell
Austin Cox
Antonino Parrinello
Stephen Oehler
Chris Calhoun
Frank Gardea
Francis Phillips
Justin Schick
Brent Volk
Ryan Sager
Erin Bishop
Daniel Ayewah
Parikshith Kumar
Pravin Peddiraju
Rajagopal Seshadri Pachella
Luke Penrod

Jae Sang Lee
Bryan Nelson
Eric Vandygriff
Raghavendran Mani
Mughees Khan
Justin Strelec
John J. Mayes
Olivier Goddard
Mohammad Ahsan Khan
Kristi Shryock
Mayur Govind Kulkarni
Juan C. Jimenez-Victory
Luke Garner
Kai Wang
Robertus Triharjanto
Matthew D. McNeese
Brett J. deBlonk
Xinzheng Ma
Muhammad A. Qidwai
Stephen D. Howard
David A. Miller
Jamie Pfaeffle
Andres C. Gavazzi