Current Members

Name Project E-mail
Bhavjit Kailey Manufacturing processes for lightweight drones bhavjit.kailey at mail.utoronto.ca
Angela Huang Multidisciplinary optimization of wheels and brakes angelaj.huang at mail.utoronto.ca
Zijing Wan Estimating mass for landing gear conceptual design zijing.wan at mail.utoronto.ca
Andrew Cross Kinematic optimization of landing gear a.cross at mail.utoronto.ca
Qiping Zhao Pre-processing for efficient topology optimization qiping.zhao at mail.utoronto.ca
Zehua Wu Optimization of 3D printed material on composites zehua.wu at mail.utoronto.ca
Bingjie Niu Efficient representations of complex fibre composites bingjie.niu at mail.utoronto.ca

Completed Theses

Name Thesis
Andrew Ellis, MASc Integrating Dynamics into Landing Gear Multidisciplinary Optimization
Linxi Gary Li, MASc Efficient Robust Structural Topology Optimization Under Material Uncertainties
Calvin Moes, PhD On the Manufacturing, Characterization, and Optimization of Melt-stretched Honeycombs
Steven Chung, PhD Topology optimization of hybrid microtrusses
Dan Pepler, PhD Modelling Additively Manufactured Material for Applications in Topology Optimization
Nick Ewaschuk, MASc Hybrid Nanometal Morphing Structures
Ying Kei Samuel Cheung, MASc Fatigue Life Prediction via Strain Energy Density and Digital Image Correlation
Katherine Daley, MASc Performance Of Nanocrystalline Coatings Under Combined Impact and Fatigue Loads
Bharat Bhaga, PhD Compressive Instabilities in Metal-Coated Polymer Microtrusses
Qian Zhang, PhD Efficient and High Fidelity Finite Element Models for Fibre Composites
Marina Toropova, PhD Bimaterial Lattices With Anisotropic Thermal Expansion
Ante Lausic, PhD Manufacturing Optimal Nanocrystalline Microtruss Materials
Jialian Wu, MASc Topology Optimization Studies for Light Weight Acoustic Panels
Jaehoon Won, MASc Wave Propagation Behaviour in Symmetric and Non-Symmetric Three-Dimensional Lattice Structures for Tailoring the Band Gaps
David Platt, MASc Tailoring the bending stiffness of elastomeric dual-matrix composites
Dane Haystead, MASc Determining the Optimal Orientation of Orthotropic Material for Maximizing Frequency Bandgaps
Bryan Wright, MASc Validation of Point and Pressure Loading Models for Simply Supported Composite Sandwich Beams
Richard Lee, MASc Tailoring the Acoustic Properties of Truss-Core Sandwich Structure
Collins Ogundipe, MASc Modeling Damage and Damage Evolution in Periodic Cellular Sandwich Panels
John Chu, MASc Topics in Designing Low Thermal Expansion Lattices at the Microscale

Former Members

Name Current Position
Andrew Ellis Software Engineer, Tesla
Linxi Gary Li Graduate Student, Stanford University
Calvin Moes Cofounder and CEODeepwater Robotics
Steven Chung
Dan Pepler Software Engineer, Pratt & Whitney Canada
Nicholas Ewaschuk Control System Analyst, Pratt & Whitney Canada
Adele Crete-Laurence Systems Engineer, Bombardier
Yudi Sun Software Engineer, Meta
Samuel Cheung Vehicle Engineer, Toronto Transit Commission
Katherine Daley Engineer, OSI Maritime Systems
Qian Zhang Data Scientist, Rogers Communications
Bharat Bhaga Specialist in Structural Analysis, Airbus Atlantic
Kelvin Szu-Liang Wu Member, Korean Armed Forces
Isobel Lees Software Developer, Kepler Communications
Marina Toropova Engineer, MT MEDI
Jialian Wu Cofounder and CEO, Infera AI
Bennett Leong Engineer, International Test Pilots School
Jaehoon Won Manager, Hanwha Aerospace
David Platt Senior Engineer, MANNARINO
Hares Ahmadi Consultant, Synpulse Management Consulting
Claire Jacob Mechanical Design Engineer, FFT
Kevin Jen Management Consultant, ZS
Jin Zhu Engineer, CFD Research Corporation
Marco Luersen Professor, Federal University of Technology - Parana
Sheerin Khameneh Graduate Student, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Ross Harnden Project Manager, CorPower Ocean
Bryan Wright Engineer, Canadian Forces
Dane Haystead Mechanical AMTS, COMDEV
Jonathan Harris Senior Structural Engineer, SpaceX
Maria Sakovsky Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
Daria Burot Undergraduate Student, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Richard Lee Senior Engineer, General Dynamics Land Systems Canada
Collins Ogundipe Analyst, Worley Parsons
Khadine Singh Quantitative UX Researcher, Google
John Chu Senior Engineer, Entuitive
Edgar Franco Scientist, CIDESI, Queretaro, Mexico
Manan Arya Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
Jonathan Ng Engineer, Messier-Dowty
Shixiang Gu Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
John Hwang Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego