Members

Director

Antonios Kontsos, PhD Professor & Director of TAMG
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
3141 Chestnut St., AEL 172 A Philadelphia, PA, 1910
4, antonios.kontsos@drexel.eduCV

PhD Students

Vignesh Perumal

Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Computational Mechanics, Fracture and Damage, Additive Manufacturing.

Emine Tekerek

Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Experimental Mechanics, Additive Manufacturing

Sarah Malik

Ph.D. Student
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Internet of Things, Digital Twins, Intelligent Systems

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Toby Sullivan

Undergraduate Student
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Mechanical Systems Engineering for Automated Resuscitators, Complex Mechanical System Assemblies for Additive Manufacturing

Alumni

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Sara Schlenker

Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Damage prediction, Strain localization theories, Finite Element Modeling

Mohammadreza Bahadori

Ph.D. Candidate (Graduated 2022)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Computational Mechanics, Composites

Pablo Huang, PhD

Research Fellow, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Adjunct Faculty, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

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Melvin Mathew

Ph.D. Candidate (Graduated 2020)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Digital Image Correlation, Experimental Mechanics

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Krzysztof Mazur

B.S./M.S. Student (Graduated 2019)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Pattern Recognition for Acoustic Emission Signals, In-situ Testing, Digital Image Correlation, Smart Textiles

Rami Carmi

Ph.D Candidate (Graduated 2019)
Currently a research scientist, Materials Division, NRCN (Nuclear Research Center Negev) – Beer Sheva, Israel

Research Areas: failure analysis of engineering components ,Acoustic Emission, signal processing, clustering algorithms

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Shane Esola

Ph.D. Candidate (Graduated 2019)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Waves In Solids; Signal Processing; Composite Systems; Impact Mechanics; Non-Destructive Test and Evaluation (NDT/E); Damage Indicators; Ballistic Testing

Alex Foley

B.S. Student (Graduated), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Software Engineering for Drones in Structural Health Monitoring

Research Areas: Systems Engineering for Drones in Structural Health Monitoring
 
 

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Mira Shehu, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Fracture Mechanics

Brian Wisner, PhD       

Ph.D Candidate (Graduated 2017 – Currently Assistant Professor at Ohio University
Dept. of M
echanical Engineering              

Research Areas: Damage Precursors, Microstructure-sensitive fatigue, Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures

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Daniel Christe

B.S./M.S. Student (Graduated 2018)
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering / Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

 Research Areas: Functional Fabrics, Engineering Education,  STEAM Learning eXperiences

Matthew Brown

B.S./M.S. Student (Graduated 2018)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Digital Image Correlation, Multi-Agent System Automation

Brian Tindall

B.S./M.S. Student (Graduated)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Structural Health Monitoring using Drones

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Dani Liu

Ph.D. Candidate (Graduated 2018)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Direct Numerical Simulation, Multi-scale Analysis, Homogenization Methods, Functional Fabrics, Micromechanics

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Mustafa Oncul

M.S. Student (Graduated 2017)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Testing and Characterization of Functional Fabrics

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Andy Mo

B.S./M.S. Graduate (Graduated 2017)
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Digital Image Correlation

Nestor Castaneda (Currently working at Terrafugia)

M.S Student (Graduated 2015)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Non-Destructive Testing, Digital Image Correlation, 3D Composites, Finite Element Analysis

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Andrew Ellenberg, PhD (Currently  working at Lockheed Martin)

Ph.D Candidate (Graduated 2017)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Unmanned Aerial Systems, Crack Identification, Infrastructure Inspection

 Konstantinos Baxevanakis, PhD (Currently Assistant Professor at Loughborough University, UK)

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas:  Fracture Mechanics, Micromechanics, Crystal Plasticity, Generalized Continuum Theories, Contact Mechanics

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Kavan Hazeli, PhD (Currently Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama Huntsville)

Ph.D Candidate (Graduated 2014)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Deformation, In situ deformation monitoring at grain scale, Nanomechanics, Mechanics of microstructure, Fatigue

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Prashanth Abraham Vanniamparambil, PhD (Currently Research Scientist at Corning Glass)

Ph.D Candidate (Graduated 2014)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Structural Health Monitoring, Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, Damage and Fracture Mechanisms

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Selin Sahici (Currently Project Manager at Holtec International)

B.S./M.S. Student (Graduated)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Finite Elements Method, Fracture Mechanics, Digital Image Correlation

Aditi Ramadurgakar (Currently Graduate Student at The University of Texas at Dallas)

B.S. Student (Graduated)
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Research Areas: Multispectral Imaging, Infrared Thermography, Patterning, Digital Image Correlation, Engineering Education

Jefferson A. Cuadra, PhD 

Ph.D Candidate (Graduated 2015)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: Fatigue life prediction and Data-driven modeling, Computational fracture mechanics, micromechanics and damage mechanics for Polymer Composites


Michael Cabal (Currently Product Engineer at PCC Structurals)

M.S. Student (Graduated 2015)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Research Areas: In situ deformation monitoring at grain scale, Microstructural mechanics, Fatigue