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Faculty

Meredith N. Silberstein
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CV
meredith.silberstein@cornell.edu; 607-255-5063; 281 Kimball Hall

Postdoctoral Researchers

Si Chen
PhD in Engineering Mechanics from UT Austin
Engineered Living Materials Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
focus area: engineering plant mechanics and growth
sc2856@cornell.edu

Jaehee Lee
PhD in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST
focus area: continuum mechanics and soft matter
jl4796@cornell.edu

Dongxu Liu
PhD in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University
focus area: polymer multiphysics
dl2269@cornell.edu

PhD Students

Zachary Bernheimer
BS in Chemical Physics from Hendrix College
graduate field: Materials Science and Engineering
focus area: polymer chemistry and mechanics
zab23@cornell.edu

Ellen van Wijngaarden
BE in Mechanical Engineering from York University
graduate field: Mechanical Engineering
focus area: soft biological materials
ewv8@cornell.edu

Undergraduate and Masters Students

Eve Lesburg
BS ’24 in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University
degree program: Materials Science and Engineering MEng
focus area: engineering plant mechanics and growth
enl28@cornell.edu

Miranda (P.J.) Brunette
degree program: Materials Science and Engineering BS, class of ’26
focus area: bacterially manufactured and bacterial-based materials
mpb222@cornell.edu

Rishabh Dholakia
degree program: Mechanical Engineering BS, class of ’28
focus area: biohybrid robotics
rd625@cornell.edu

Daniel Wahab
degree program: Computer Science BS, class of ’25
focus area: biohybrid robotics
dow26@cornell.edu

Sean Zhen
degree program: Mechanical Engineering BS, class of ’26
focus area: biohybrid robotics
sz378@cornell.edu

Alumni

Jaewoo Kim. Postdoc ’15 (Korean Institute of Science and Technology)

Taisu Kumar. MEng Mechanical Engineering ’16 (Tesla Inc)

Meenakshi Sundaram Manivannan. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’17 (Intel Corp)

Naigeng Chen. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’18 (Apple Inc)

Zelin Linghu. MS Mechanical Engineering ’18 (DJI)

Suwon Bae. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’19 (Pusan National University)

Yuval Vidavsky. Postdoc ’19 (Soreq Nuclear Research Center)

Prathamesh Raiter. MS Materials Science and Engineering ’20 (TSMC)

William Nunez. MEng Mechanical Engineering ’20 (SpaceX)

Michael Buche. PhD Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ’21 (Sandia National Lab)

Srikar Srivatsa. MS Mechanical Engineering ’22 (Boeing)

Xinyue Joy Zhang. PhD Materials Science and Engineering ’22 (Meta)

Anabel Sattler. MEng Mechanical Engineering ’22 (SpaceX)

Nikola Bosnjak. Postdoc ’22 (Nike)

Tianke Chen. MS Materials Science and Engineering ’23 (Case Western University PhD Program)

Rahul Ghosh. MS Mechanical Engineering ’23 (Ansys)

Jinyue Dai. MS Mechanical Engineering ’23 (Northwestern University PhD Program)

Steven Yang. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’23 (Cornell University Ignite Postdoc Fellow)

Robert Wagner. Postdoc ’23 (Binghamton University)

Hannah Zolock. MEng Mechanical Engineering ’24 (SpaceX)

Zhongtong Wang. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’24 (Applied Materials)

Hongyi Cai. PhD Materials Science and Engineering ’25 (Eastman)

Max Tepermeister. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’25 (Caltech Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellowship)