Meet the Team

Great minds pushing the boundaries and redefining the frontiers of granular micromechanics.

Principal Investigators

Current Students

Alumni

PhD Students

  • Lance A. Roberts, PhD, PE, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • Anry Arzuman, PhD

  • Mark Johnson, PhD

  • Fred Reynolds, PhD

  • Orestes Marangos, PhD, Expert Scientist, Cyprus University of Technology

  • Shiping Huang, PhD, Professor, South China University of Technology

  • Miriam Beatriz Lusk, PhD

  • Ranganathan Parthasarathy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Tennessee State University

  • Viraj Singh, PhD, Electronics Modeling Domain Lead/Manager, SLB

  • Payam Poorsolhjouy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Rızacan Sarıkaya, PhD, Associate Professor, Trine University

  • Michele de Angelo, PhD, Associate Professor, Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila

  • Nima Nejadsadeghi, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Tokyo Electron America

  • Priya Tripathi, PhD

  • Mohammad Abu-Haifa, PhD, PE, Project Engineer, Marcon Forensics

  • Ali Bakhtiari, PhD, Project Engineer, Thornton Tomasetti

  • Sumana Bhattacharya, PhD, Transportation Engineer (Civil), CalTrans

Post-doctoral Associates

  • Sungwon Park, PhD, Project Engineer, HNTB

  • Mohammad Abu-Haifa, PhD, PE, Project Engineer, Marcon Forensics

Visiting Scholars

  • Yang Yang, PhD, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

  • Yu Zhou, PhD, University of Science and Technology, Beijing

  • Zhengfa Chen, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Shandong University of Technology

  • Guifeng Liu, PhD. Assoc. Prof. Shandong University of Technology

  • Haipeng Jia, PhD, Prof. Hebei University of Technology

  • Yuanwu Zhou, PhD, Prof. Guangxi University of Science and Technology

  • Changwen Ye, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Chengdu University Technology,

  • Haipeng Jia, PhD, Prof. Hebei University of Technology

  • Shiping Huang, PhD, Asst. Prof. South China University of Technology

  • Ruohong Zhao, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Guangzhou University

  • An Xu, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Guangzhou University

  • Yu Feng Su, PhD, National Taiwan University, Project Engineer, Chiawang Structural Engineering