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

1. Self-corrected Buckling in Helical Structures

1. • 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

1. Motion primitives for stable manipulation of elastic rods with gravity

1. • Michelle Zhou, Nancy Ma

2. Bifurcations of twisted anisotropic rings and Mobius bands

1. • Jason Jabbour, Wenzhong Wang

3. Clustering behavior of interacting particles on a deformable ring

1. • Hy Dang, Luis Mantilla, Sophia Zhang

4. Optimality properties of helical extrema on six-dimensional Lie groups

1. • 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

1. Tension induced instabilities of twisted helical springs and Slinkys (Featured in article on Cornell Research website)

1. • Joyce Chew 

2. Equilibrium and stability of a family of closed intrinsically curved elastic rods

1. • Nachuan Yang 

3. Stable and collision-free manipulation of elastic rods with gravity

1. • Devora Chait, Erica Ward 

4. Optimal collective motion of multi-agent systems

1. • 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

1. Optimal collective motion of multi-agent systems

1. • Kyle Fitzgerald 

2. Networks of beams on elastic foundations

1. • Grant Logan 

3. Bifurcations of a bead on a flexible rotating hoop

1. • Javier Diaz