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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
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
- Office Location
- 215 Hopeman
- 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
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Senior 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
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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

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

Chang, Chris
PhD Student | Advisor: Varchas Gopalaswamy
- Office Location
- LLE
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
D

Damm, Eric
PhD Candidate 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

Dwyer, Robert Harrison
PhD Student | Sean Regan
- Office Location
- LLE
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Ejaz, Rahman
PhD Candidate 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
Interests: Microstructure, properties, and processing of materials; Variability in materials and processing especially as related to biomaterials and mechanics; Experimental design/robust design
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Gan, Yiming
Postdoctoral Associate 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

Gindling, Nicole
MS Student

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

Gomez, Sebastian
PhD Student
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman

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

Gopalaswamy, Varchas
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 1609 Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
Interests: Thermonuclear plasmas; Controlled thermonuclear fusion; Inertial confinement fusion; High-energy-density physics; Machine Learning

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
H

Hadi Sichani, Pejman, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher | Turbulence and Complex Flow Group (Hussein Aluie)

Hajizadeh, Pouria
PhD Student | Hesam Askari

Harmatz-Kean, Kiera
Postdoctoral Associate | Jessica Shang
- Office Location
- 330 Hopeman
- TBD

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

Kalabandi, Shruti
PhD Student

Kalantar, Na’im
PhD Student
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman
Kelley, Douglas H.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Senior 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

Khadka, Biraj
PhD Student
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman

Kharghani, Mehrnoush
PhD Student | Advisor: Hussein Aluie
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman
Kostick, Steven
he/him/his
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Wolfgang Theobald | OMEGA Experiments Group

Kriegsman, Samantha
Mechanical Engineering Lab Specialist
- Office Location
- 123 Hopeman

Kurzer-Ogul, Kelin
PhD Candidate 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

Lee, Choongheon
Assistant Professor of Research
- Office Location
- 404 Hopeman
Interests: Peripheral vestibular function assessment; Inner ear drug delivery and pharmacokinetics; Pharmacological targets for hearing and balance disorders

Lee, Mokin
PhD Student

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, Wei-Ching
Ask me my pronouns
PhD Student I Advisor: Jong-Hoon Nam
- Office Location
- 110 Hopeman

Lin, Junyi
PhD Student

Liyanaarachchi, Supun
PhD Student | Jaime Cardenas

Lupica-Tondo, Santino
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)

McBride, Raymond
PhD Student I Advisor: John Lambropoulos and Stavros Demos
- Office Location
- LLE

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

McPoyle, Shawn
PhD Student
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman

Medina, Daniel
PhD Student
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman

Moczulski, Kassie
PhD Student I Advisor: Petros Tzeferacos
- Office Location
- LLE

Mohammad, Ibrahim
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 304 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
- LLE
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Pagiazitis, Ioannis
he/him/his
PhD Student | Advisor: Suxing Hu
- Office Location
- LLE
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 Program Administrator
- Office Location
- 235 Hopeman

Pickel, Andrea
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Materials Science
Assistant Professor, Institute of Optics
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 and super-resolution 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
Q

Quirk, Keelin
she/her/hers
PhD Student | Advisor: Doug Kelley
- Office Location
- 110 Hopeman
R

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
S

Samad, Abdus
PhD Student I Advisor: Hussein Aluie
- Office Location
- 410 Hopeman

Samassi, Nacere Mohamed
MS Student

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
Staff 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

Sharma, Bhupendra
PhD Student | Andrea Pickel

Shokrian, Mohammad
Postdoctoral Associate 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

Summers, Athena
she/her/hers
PhD Student I Advisor: Professor Douglas H. Kelley
- Office Location
- 112 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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Vaezi, Mohammad
PhD Student | Doug H. Kelley
- Office Location
- 110 Hopeman

Vaidyanathan, Sandhya
PhD Student | Jessica Shang
- Office Location
- 335 Hopeman
Interests: Bio-inspired hydrodynamic sensing; experimental fluid dynamics; fluid-structure interaction
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Wagner, Kevin
Information Analyst
- Office Location
- 340 Hopeman

West-Abdallah, Imani
PhD Student | Adam Sefkow

Wilson, Kae-Lynn
Undergraduate Coordinator
- Office Location
- 233 Hopeman
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Xu, Jing (Jane)
PhD Candidate I Advisor: John Lambropoulos
Y

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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Zang, Wenjie
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 305 Hopeman
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nano-scale heterogeneous catalysts; Advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy; Clean energy and sustainability; Energy storage devices; Machine learning for materials science

Zeraatkardevin, Amir
PhD Student | Douglas H. Kelley

Zhang, Yu (Victor)
PhD Candidate I Advisor: Jonathan Davies
- Office Location
- LLE
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Laboratory astrophysics; Collisionless shocks; Numerical simulations