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Faculty

Meredith N. Silberstein
Associate 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

Robert Wagner
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from CU Boulder
focus area: polymer composites, dynamic bonding, living materials
rjw276@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

Max Tepermeister
BS in Mechanical Engineering from Harvey Mudd College
graduate field: Mechanical Engineering
focus area: polymer multiphysics
mt845@cornell.edu

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

Undergraduate and Masters Students

Tianke Chen
MS candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
focus area: polymers with dynamic bonding

Jinyue Dai
MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering
focus area: ionic devices

Rahul Ghosh
MS candidate in Mechanical Engineering
focus area: polymer matrix composites

Bex Pendrak
BS in Mechanical Engineering (now graduated!)
focus area: plant mechanics

Alan Zoubi
BS candidate in Mechanical 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 (DJI)

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)

Srikar Srivatsa. MS Mechanical Engineering ’22 (Boeing)

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

Nikola Bosnjak. Postdoc ’22 (Nike)