Research Group
Graduate Research Assistants – PhD
Ying Mu joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2018 to pursue her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Ying’s research is focused on blending processes between 1D nano-materials and polymers. Tel. 617-373-3733; Email: mu.yin@husky.neu.edu
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Kenneth Benson joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2018 to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Ken’s research is focused on blending processes between 1D nano-materials and polymers. Tel. 617-373-3733; Email: benson.k@husky.neu.edu
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Thomas ‘TJ’ Barrett joined the MINUS lab in Spring 2019 to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. TJ’s research is focused on modeling of structure-property mechanisms in polymer/nano-composite materials. Tel. 617-373-3733; Email: barrett.t@husky.neu.edu
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Yichen Deng joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2018 to pursue her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering with a focus in Molecular Modeling in the area of Materials Science. Tel. 617-373-3733; Email: deng.yi@husky.neu.edu
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Graduate Research Assistants – MS
Conor Doyle joined the MINUS lab in Summer 2019 to pursue his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Thermofluid Science. Email: doyle.con@husky.neu.edu
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Peter Kefallinos joined the MINUS lab in Spring 2019 to pursue his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Email: kefallinos.p@husky.neu.edu
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Past Group Members
Yiying Zhang joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2010 to pursue her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Yiying’s research is focused on understanding the formation of interphase polymer around nano-carbon fillers in the nano-composite system. Yiying obtained her B.S. degree in in 2007 in Mechanical Engineering at Tianjin University in China. She received her M.Sci. degree in 2010 in Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Yiying completed her dissertation in June 2014. Her Ph.D. topic was “A Systematic Study of the Process-Structure Relationship for Building Polymer Interphase Regions in Carbon Nanotube Composites”.
Dr. Yiying Zhang is currently working at Saint-Gobain Research North America.
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Kenan Song joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2010 to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Kenan’s research is focused on understanding the role of polymer interfacial reinforcement in low loaded (<1 wt%) nano-carbon fibers. Kenan obtained his B.S. degree in in 2010 in Engineering Mechanics at Northeastern University in Sheyang, China.
Kenan completed his dissertation in November 2014. His Ph.D. topic was “Customizing Fiber Spinning Approaches for Polymer/Nano-Carbon Composites”.
Dr. Kenan Song is currently an assistant professor with the Polytechnic School (TPS) and graduate faculty in areas of aerospace and mechancial engineering and materials dcience and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE), Arizona, USA Email: Email: Kenan.Song@asu.edu
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Jiangsha Meng joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2010 to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Jiangsha’s research is focused on coupling computational and experimental approaches to understand polymer conformer confinement at the interphase region surrounding nano-carbons. Jiangsha obtained his B.S. degree in in 2009 in Mechanical Engineering and Automation at Kuming University of Science and Technology in Kuming, Yunan, China.
Jiangsha completed his dissertation in May 2015. His Ph.D. topic was “A Study of the Polymer-CNT Composites Using Experimental and Computational Methods”.
Dr. Jiangsha Meng is currently working at MathWorks, Natick, MA.
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Emily Green joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2010 to pursue her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Emily’s research is focused on processing synthetic collagen and collagen/nano-carbon fibers with the goal of replicating native collagen morphological features. Emily obtained her B.S. degree in in 2008 in Chemistry and a B.S. degree in 2009 in Mechanical Engineering at Union College in Schenectady, NY, USA.
Emily completed her dissertation in July 2015. Her Ph.D. topic was “Collagen Fibril Assembly in the Presence of Carbon Nano-Fillers: A Fundamental Structure-Property Relationship Study”.
Dr. Emily Green is currently working at Saint-Gobain Research North America.
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Navid Tajaddod joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2012 to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Navid’s research is focused on hybrid polymer/carbon buckypapers. Navid obtained his B.S. degree in 2006 and M.S. degree in 2008 in Materials Science and Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.
Navid completed his dissertation in July 2017. His Ph.D. topic was “Improving Multi-Functional Properties in Polymer-Based Composites by Interfacial Enhancement”.
Dr. Navid Tajaddod is currently working at Intel Corp, Oregon, USA.
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Heng Li joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2012 to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Heng’s research is focused on hybrid polymer/carbon buckypapers. Heng obtained his B.Eng. degree in 2012 Polymer Science and Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology in China.
Heng completed his dissertation in November 2018. His Ph.D. topic was “Liquid-Solid Phase Separation Control of Polymer/Nano-Carbon Interaction and Blending for Composite Manufacturing”.
Dr. Heng Li is currently working at Unifi Manufacturing Inc., North Carolina, USA
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Aishah Ayaz joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2013 to pursue her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Aishah’s research is focused on process-strucutre relationships in high-concentration polymer/carbon nanotube fibers. Aishah obtained her B.S. degree in 2011 in Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland.
Aishah completed her MS degree in May 2016.
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Dilinazi Aishanjiang joined the MINUS lab in Fall 2013 to pursue her M.S. n Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Materials Science. Dilinazi’s research is focused on shear-flow spinning of synthetic collagen fibers. Dilinazi obtained her B.Eng. degree in 2012 Polymer Science and Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology in China.
Dilinazi completed her MS degree in May 2017.