Faculty
Meredith N. Silberstein
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CV
meredith.silberstein@cornell.edu; 607-255-5063; 281 Kimball Hall
Postdoctoral Researchers
Nikola Bosnjak
PhD in Mechanical Engineering from NJIT
focus area: soft matter electrochemistry and mechanics
nikola.bosnjak@cornell.edu
PhD Students
Hongyi Cai
BE in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering from Zhejiang University
graduate field: Materials Science and Engineering
focus area: electric-field regulated polymers
hc953@cornell.edu
Srikar Srivasta
BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan
graduate field: Mechanical Engineering
focus area: mechanical metamaterials
sms722@cornell.edu
Max Tepermeister
BS in Mechanical Engineering from Harvey Mudd College
graduate field: Mechanical Engineering
focus area: polymer multiphysics
mt845@cornell.edu
Zhongtong Wang
MS in Solid Mechanics from Xi’an Jiaotong University
graduate field: Mechanical Engineering
focus area: polymer multiphysics
zw582@cornell.edu
Steven J. Yang
BS in Biological Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
graduate field: Mechanical Engineering
focus area: polymers
sjy32@cornell.edu
Xinyue Joy Zhang
MS in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Pennsylvania
graduate field: Materials Science and Engineering
focus area: antifouling polymers
xz557@cornell.edu
Undergraduate and Masters Students
Tianke Chen
MS candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
focus area: polymers with dynamic bonding
Tiffany Chui
BS candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
focus area: 3d printed metamaterials
Jinyue Dai
MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering
focus area: ionic devices
Rahul Ghosh
MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering
focus area: polymer matrix composites
Shreyasvi Gowda
BS candidate in Mechanical Engineering
focus area: composites
Alan Zoubi
BS candidate in Engineering
focus area: design of testing stages, polymer chain mechanics
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 (Cummins Inc)
Suwon Bae. PhD Mechanical Engineering ’19 (Brookhaven National Lab)
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)
Mechanics for Material Design 