Group members

Principal investigator: 

Dr. Yao Fu, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Aug. 2013)  Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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Graduate students:

Kevin Sangoi, PhD student, 2022-present

Kevin’s research topic is to evaluate the microstructural features on the corrosion-related properties of 316L stainless steels using molecular dynamic simulations and experimental tools.

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Christian Matthew, PhD student, 2021-present

Christian’s research is on simulating the environment-assisted cracking properties of conventional and advanced manufactured alloys.

Mahdi Nadimi, PhD student, 2023-present

Mahdi’s research is on understanding the processing-microstructures/defects-corrosion performance of advanced manufactured alloys.

Emmanuel Adu-Gyamfi , PhD student, 2023-present

Mohammad Salah, MS student, 2023-current

Undergraduate students:

Lila Hutchison, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Matthew Vorster, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Matthew Cheung, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Cora Meno, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Lucy Waite, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Gone but not forgotten:

Mochine Harrach, (PhD student), Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2021-2023

Mengze Ma (PhD student), Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2017-2021

Balachander Gnanasekaran (PhD student), Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2018-2021

Karlee Birchfield (undergraduate researcher), Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2019-2020

Huu Tri Nguyen (undergraduate researcher), Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2021

David Krok (undergraduate researcher), Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2017-2018

Kanyinsola Oladejo-Lawal (undergraduate researcher), Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2019-2020

Mikele Boyd (undergraduate researcher),  Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2019-2020

Zhimiao Li (Visiting scholar), Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2017-2018