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Abdelshafy, Mohammad (Yasser)
PhD Student I Advisor: Douglas H. Kelley
- Office Location
- 112 Hopeman
Abdolrahim, Niaz
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 404 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7817
- niaz@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiscale Modeling of Materials; Nanoporous Materials; Nanowires; Thin Films; Atomistic Simulations
Acharya, Nitish
PhD Student I Advisors: Hussein Aluie and Jessica Shang
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman
Aluie, Hussein
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 406 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7170
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Turbulence; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Compressible Flows; Magnetohydrodynamics; Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Ambat, Manfred Virgil
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Dustin Froula
Askari, Hesam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 223 Hopeman
- askari@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mechanics of Solids and soft matter; Granular systems; Stocahstic response ; Manufacturing techniques
Athauda, Anushika
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Condensed matter physics; Novel materials; Superconductivity; Single crystal and powder diffraction; Synthesizing polycrystalline samples; Neutron diffraction; X-Ray diffraction
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Baltazar, Joshua
PhD Student I Advisor: Sean Regan
- Office Location
- LLE
Betti, Riccardo
Robert L. McCrory Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Chief Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Director, Fusion Science Center of Extreme States of Matter and Fast Ignition
- Office Location
- 212 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1198
Interests: Thermonuclear plasmas; Controlled thermonuclear fusion; Magnetic and inertial confinement fusion; High-energy-density physics
Bommidi, Dinesh
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Andrea Pickel
- Office Location
- 405 Hopeman
Bordoloi, Arjyama
PhD Student I Advisor: Sobhit Singh
- Office Location
- 327 Hopeman
Boster, Kimberly
Assistant Professor (Research) Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: glymphatic transport; cerebral fluid mechanics; phase change heat transfer; image processing and computer vision
Burnham-Fay, Ethan
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Engineer, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 2213 LLE
Burns, Stephen J.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 212 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4082
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fracture Mechanics Applied to Grinding; Polishing, Adhesion and Slitting; Deformation Kinetics; Thermodynamic Energy Balances in Linear Systems
C
Cao, Shihui
Postdoctoral Associate | Chuang Ren
- Office Location
- 405A Hopeman
Cappelletti, John
PhD Student I Advisor: Suxing Hu
Carr, John (Brennen)
Postdoctoral Associate I Jessica Shang
- Office Location
- 330 Hopeman
Chang, Chris
PhD Student | Advisor: Varchas Gopalaswamy
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman
Interests: Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)
Chitaphong, Kaleb
Senior Staff Accountant
- Office Location
- 235 Hopeman
Churnetski, Kristen
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Sean Regan
Clark, Robert
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 214 Hopeman
- rclark@rochester.edu
Interests: Dynamic systems; Measurement and control; Single-molecule mechanics; Bio-nano-manufacturing; Scaffolds for tissue engineering
Clark, Alfred, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4078
Interests: Astrophysical fluid dynamics; Oxygen transport; Disease transmission and epidemics
Collins, Gilbert 'Rip'
Tracy Hyde Harris Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Physics
Associate Director of Science, Technology and Academics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Director, Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP)
NSF Physics Frontier Center
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0255
Interests: Laboratory Astrophysics; High Pressure/High Energy Density Physics; Condensed Matter; Planetary Science; Plasma Physics ; Thermonuclear Fusion
Cracium, Trajen
MS Student
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Damm, Eric
PhD Student I Advisor: Thomas Howard
- Office Location
- Gavett
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Motion planning and control for high-speed, off-road, autonomous ground robots
Davies, Jonathan
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Interests: Laser-produced plasmas; Magnetic fields; Fusion; Plasma diagnostics
Dey, Aditya
PhD Student I Advisor: Hesam Askari
- Office Location
- 126 Hopeman
Dias, Ranga
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 220 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4112
- rdias@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: High Temperature superconductivity; Quantum phase transitions; Dynamic response of solids; Novel material synthesis; High pressure NV optical magnetometry; High energy density physics
Dissanayake, Sachith
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 304 Hopeman
Interests: Condensed matter physics; Quantum materials; Superconductivity; Superconductors; Frustrated magnets; Multiferroics; Spin, lattice, and orbital degrees of freedom of novel quantum phases; Neutron scattering; X-diffraction
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Ejaz, Rahman
PhD Student I Advisor: Riccardo Betti
- Office Location
- LLE
Ellis, Jonathan D.
Associate Professor (Visiting Research) Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Instrumentation; Metrology; Optical Interferometry; Precision Engineering; Machine Design
Evans, Eugene
Postdoctoral Associate | Adam Sefkow
- Office Location
- 323 Hopeman
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Farmakis, Pericles
he/him/his
PhD Student I Advisors: Riccardo Betti & Petros Tzeferacos
- Office Location
- LLE
Interests: ICF target design and optimization; Integrated implosion modeling; Laboratory astrophysics
Funkenbusch, Paul D.
Associate Dean, Education and New Initiatives
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 222 Hopeman Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4074
Interests: Microstructure, properties, and processing of materials; Variability in materials and processing especially as related to biomaterials and mechanics; Experimental design/robust design
G
Gan, Yiming
PhD Student I Advisor: Douglas H. Kelley
- Office Location
- 112 Hopeman
Gans, Roger F.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Nonlinear dynamics; Stability and control; nonNewtonian fluid mechanics
Genberg, Victor L.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 309 Hopeman Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 235-7460
Interests: Finite element analysis; Optimum structural design using nonlinear programming; Structural analysis of precision optical structures; Integrated opto-mechanical analysis and design
Ginnane, Mary Kate
PhD Candidate I Advisors: Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg
- Office Location
- LLE
Glade, Rachel
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 206A Hutchison
- Telephone
- Office: (585) 273-4059
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Geomorphology; landscape evolution; sediment transport; fluids mechanics; granular physics; pattern formation
Goncharov, Valeri
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5877
Interests: Computational physics; Fluid mechanics; Partial differential equations with applications in fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamic instabilities; Plasma physics
Gracewski, Sheryl M.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 344 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Solid mechanics, more specifically in wave propagation and vibrations in elastic media; Bubble dynamics; Optics manufacturing and metrology
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Hadi Sichani, Pejman, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher | Turbulence and Complex Flow Group (Hussein Aluie)
Hess, Griffin
PhD Student | Advisor: Niaz Abdolrahim
- Office Location
- 125 Hopeman
Hetti, Migara
PhD Student I Advisor: Niaz Abdolrahim
- Office Location
- 123 Hopeman
Hu, Suxing
Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Group Leader, HEDP-Theory Group, LLE
- Office Location
- 210 Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3794
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Theoretical/Computational High-Energy-Density Physics; Inertial Confinement Fusion; Warm-/Hot-Dense Matter; Intense Laser-Matter Interactions; Ultrafast Dynamics; Attosecond Physics; Computational Atomic; Molecular; Optical Physics
K
Kelley, Douglas H.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 218 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing
Kharghani, Mehrnoush
PhD Student | Advisor: Hussein Aluie
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman
Khourshaei, Ali
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Niaz Abdolrahim
- Office Location
- 125 Hopeman
Kostick, Steven
he/him/his
PhD Student I Advisor: Wolfgang Theobald | OMEGA Experiments Group
Kurzer-Ogul, Kelin
PhD Student I Advisors: Hussein Aluie and Jessica Shang
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Lambropoulos, John
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Materials Science Graduate Recruiting Committee
- Office Location
- 216 Hopeman
Interests: Micromechanics; Mechanics & Materials Issues in Optics Manufacturing; Defect Generation During Crystal Growth
Lavell, Michael
he/him/his
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Adam Sefkow
- Office Location
- 322 Hopeman
Interests: Computational plasma physics; fusion modeling; high-performance computing
Lerner, Amy L.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
- Office Location
- 307 Goergen
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7847
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics; Biomechanics of bone growth and development; Medical image based modeling of knee mechanics
Li, James C. M.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science
- Office Location
- 221 Hopeman Hall
Interests: Materials science and micromechanics; Platinum nanowires and networks as fuel cell electrodes; Whisker growth from tin coatings; Nanocrystalline materials
Lin, Liying
MS Student
Lin, Wei-Ching
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PhD Student I Advisor: Jong-Hoon Nam
- Office Location
- 110 Hopeman
Liu, Yifan
MS Student
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Macic, Anes
PhD Student I Advisor: Jong-Hoon Nam
- Office Location
- 110 Hopeman
Martinez, Jordan
PhD Student | Advisor: Sean Regan
- Office Location
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Maximov, Andrei
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1440
Interests: Theoretical plasma physics; Inertial confinement fusion; High-energy-density physics
McBride, Raymond
PhD Student I Advisor: John Lambropoulos and Stavros Demos
- Office Location
- 123 Hopeman
McCrory, Robert L.
University Professor Emeritus
- Office Location
- 343 Hopeman
Interests: Theoretical Plasma and Laser Physics; Hydrodynamic stability; Thermal transport in laser-driven plasmas; Inertial confinement fusion
Moczulski, Kasper
PhD Student I Advisor: Petros Tzeferacos
- Office Location
- LLE
Mohammad, Ibrahim
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 417 Hopeman
Mohammadi, Pegah
PhD Student | Advisor: Sobhit Singh
- Office Location
- 327 Hopeman
Morris, Jill
Academics Operations Manager (Administrator)
- Office Location
- 234 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4048
Mostafa, Afnan
he/him/his
PhD Student | Advisor: Niaz Abdolrahim
- Office Location
- 125 Hopeman
Interests: Atomistic Simulations of Mo-based Nanocomposites and Graphene Derivatives
Muir, Christopher
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 407 Hopeman
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Nam, Jong Hoon
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 203 Hopeman Building
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4555
- nam@me.rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell and tissue mechanics
Nowak, Robert
PhD Student | Advisors: Rip Collins and Ryan Rygg
- Office Location
- 330 Hopeman
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Pagiazitis, Ioannis
he/him/his
PhD Student | Advisor: Suxing Hu
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman
Palastro, John
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Institute of Optics
Plasma Theory Group Leader and Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Interests: Laser matter interactions; nonlinear optics; plasma-based accelerators and radiation sources
Patel, Dhrumir
Postdoctoral Associate | Riccardo Betti
- Office Location
- LLE
Perucchio, Renato
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
- Office Location
- 236 and 415 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4071
- rlp@me.rochester.edu
Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity
Phillips, Cody C.
Graduate Coordinator
- Office Location
- 235 Hopeman
Pickel, Andrea
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 219 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9142
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nanoscale heat transfer; luminescence nanothermometry; single-nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy; high-temperature thermal metrology; electrothermal measurements
Polsin, Danae
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 200A LLE
Interests: x-ray diffraction and crystallography; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion; high-energy-density physics
Pomerantz, Mike
Lecturer and Technical Associate
- Office Location
- 103 Hopeman
Pratt, Christine
Senior Technical Associate
- Office Location
- 115 Hopeman
Prideaux, Alexander
Technical Associate
- Office Location
- 120 Hopeman
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Quirk, Keelin
she/her/hers
PhD Student | Advisor: Doug Kelley
- Office Location
- 305 Hopeman
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Ranjan, Aditya
he/him/his
PhD Student | Advisor: Douglas Kelley
- Office Location
- 334 Hopeman
Regan, Sean
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Director, Experimental Division, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- LLE
Interests: Inertial Confinement Fusion; High Energy Density Physics; Novel Diagnostic Development; X-ray spectroscopy and imaging; Neutron and Charged Particle Spectroscopy and Imaging; 3-D Diagnostics
Remus, Anna
she/her/hers
PhD Student I Advisor: Renato Perucchio
- Office Location
- 409 Hopeman
Interests: nonlinear finite element analysis; structural assessment of heritage monuments; quasi-brittle material investigation; present case studies: Huaca de la Luna (Perú), Bonampak Temple (México)
Ren, Chuang
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 203A Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2048
Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; Plasma astrophysics; High performance computing
Ruby, JJ
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- jruby@astros.com
- Web Address
- Website
Rygg, J. Ryan
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Office Location
- 307 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 475-1549
Interests: Experimental high-energy-density physics; shock waves; inertial confinement fusion
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Samad, Abdus
PhD Student I Advisor: Hussein Aluie
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman
Sanders, Athan
she/her/hers
PhD Student I Advisor: Professor Douglas H. Kelley
- Office Location
- 112 Hopeman
Sefkow, Adam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 205 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4130
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Inertial confinement fusion; magneto-inertial fusion; high energy density physics; laser-plasma interaction; computational physics; magnetohydrodynamics; particle-in-cell simulations
Sexton, Andrew
PhD Student I Advisor: Adam Sefkow
Interests: High Performance Computing, heterogeneous hardware programming, and GPGPU Acceleration
Shahnazari, Ayoub
PhD Student I Advisor: Niaz Abdolrahim
- Office Location
- 329 Hopeman
Shang, Jessica
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 206 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2730
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics; biological fluid systems; fluid-structure interactions; vortex dynamics; HED hydrodynamics and transport
Shokrian, Mohammad
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Jong-Hoon Nam
- Office Location
- 110 Hopeman
Singh, Sobhit
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Novel quantum materials (bulk and 2D); Theoretical condensed matter physics; Density-functional theory; Polar metals; Ferroelectrics; Magnetism; Superconductivity; Topological phases of quantum matter
Slane, Laura
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 217 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6872
Interests: Soft tissue mechanics; Quantitative ultrasound; Orthopaedic biomechanics; Injury and rehabilitation; Scholarship of teaching and learning
Soltani Tehrani, Dina
PhD Student I Advisor: Hussein Aluie
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman
Storer, Benjamin, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher | Turbulence and Complex Flow Group (Hussein Aluie)
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman
Syeda, Afreen
PhD Student I Advisors: Hussein Aluie and Jessica Shang
- Office Location
- 403 Hopeman
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Theobald, Wolfgang
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- LLE
Interests: Inertial Confinement Fusion; Diagnostic Development for High Energy Density Physics; High-Intensity Short-Pulse Laser-Matter Interaction
Thomas, John H.
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 344 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4083
Interests: Astrophysical fluid dynamics; Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun and other stars; Fluid dynamics of the brain's waste-removal system
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Wagner, Kevin
Information Analyst
- Office Location
- 340 Hopeman
Wilson, Kae-Lynn
Undergraduate Coordinator
- Office Location
- 233 Hopeman
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Xu, Jing (Jane)
PhD Candidate I Advisor: John Lambropoulos
- Office Location
- 405A Hopeman
Xue, Siyu
she/her/hers
MS Student | Advisor: Hussein Aluie
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Yeo, Seungju (Jamie)
she/her/hers
PhD Student I Advisor: Hesam Askari
Interests: Dynamic Resistive Force Theory; Resistive Force Theory; Cohesive Granular Material Physics
Yin, Hao
PhD Student I Advisors: Hussein Aluie and Jessica Shang
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Zhang, Yu (Victor)
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Jonathan Davies
- Office Location
- LLE
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Laboratory astrophysics; Collisionless shocks; Numerical simulations
Zhang, Bingkuan
MS Student