My work with undergraduates has focused on coordinating programs for students to explore the connections between math, physics, and engineering through summer research. To achieve this goal, I have facilitating the following programs and research projects:
Hofstra Advanced Summer Program in Research (ASPiRe), Summer 2022
Mentored three Hofstra engineering undergraduate students as they completed research projects in the area of engineering mechanics.
Research project and team members
Self-corrected Buckling in Helical Structures
Jeffrey Schreck, Luke Figliozzi, Stefan Wharwood-Oprisan
Cornell Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR), Summer 2020
Coordinated an eight-week summer research program for undergraduate students in applied mathematics. Mentored eleven students as they completed research projects that focused on mechanics and manipulation of active structures.
Research projects and team members
Motion primitives for stable manipulation of elastic rods with gravity
Michelle Zhou, Nancy Ma
Bifurcations of twisted anisotropic rings and Mobius bands
Jason Jabbour, Wenzhong Wang
Clustering behavior of interacting particles on a deformable ring
Hy Dang, Luis Mantilla, Sophia Zhang
Optimality properties of helical extrema on six-dimensional Lie groups
Bilge Koksal, Cassie Kong, Luis Soldevilla, Tony Qing
Cornell Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU), Summer 2019
Coordinated an eight-week NSF-funded summer research program for undergraduate students in applied mathematics. Mentored six students as they completed research projects in the area of mechanics, control, robotics, and dynamics.
Research projects and team members
Tension induced instabilities of twisted helical springs and Slinkys (Featured in article on Cornell Research website)
Joyce Chew
Equilibrium and stability of a family of closed intrinsically curved elastic rods
Nachuan Yang
Stable and collision-free manipulation of elastic rods with gravity
Devora Chait, Erica Ward
Optimal collective motion of multi-agent systems
April Roszkowski, Nicholas Tapp-Hughes
Other Undergraduate Research Programs
Mentored three Cornell engineering undergraduate students as they completed research projects in the areas of mechanics, robotics, and control.
Research projects and team members
Optimal collective motion of multi-agent systems
Kyle Fitzgerald
Networks of beams on elastic foundations
Grant Logan
Bifurcations of a bead on a flexible rotating hoop
Javier Diaz