Director
Antonios Kontsos, PhD Professor & Director of TAMG
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
3141 Chestnut St., AEL 172 A Philadelphia, PA, 19104, antonios.kontsos@drexel.edu | CV
PhD Students
Vignesh Perumal
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Research Areas: Computational Mechanics, Fracture and Damage, Additive Manufacturing.
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
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
Melvin Mathew
Ph.D. Candidate (Graduated 2020)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Research Areas: Digital Image Correlation, Experimental Mechanics
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
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
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 Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Damage Precursors, Microstructure-sensitive fatigue, Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures
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
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
Mustafa Oncul
M.S. Student (Graduated 2017)
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Research Areas: Testing and Characterization of Functional Fabrics
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
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
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
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
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