Principal Investigator
Lucas R. Meza
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email: lmeza(at)uw(dot)edu
Phone: (206) 543-5288
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2016)
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (2013)
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (2011)
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PhD Students
Andrea Exil
PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: aexil(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Engineering the Deformability and Recoverability
of Lightweight Nanoarchitectures
Zainab Patel
PhD Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering
Email: patelz(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Investigating Toughening Mechanisms in
Dense Nanoarchitected Materials
Abdulaziz Alrashed
PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: abal6078(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Understanding the effect of structural nano-heterogeneity and hierarchical architectures on material fracture
Amitha R Mulastham
PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: amitha19(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Nanoscale Tensegrity-Based Metamaterials
Kush Dwivedi
PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: Dwivedik(at)uw(dot)edu
Masters Students
René Arvizu
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: rene2a(at)uw(dot)edu
Onest Rexhepit
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: onestr(at)uw(dot)edu
Harsh Raje
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: harshr(at)uw(dot)edu
Undergraduate Students
Madeline Waite
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: waitemn(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Preparation of Nanocellular Foams for In-Situ Nanomechanical Testing
Kellan Yoshikawa
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: kyoshi2(at)uw(dot)edu
Paul Fallon
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: jpfallon(at)uw(dot)edu
Alex Cong
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: acong(at)uw(dot)edu
Past Students and Researchers
Nathan Shah
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: nns123(at)uw(dot)edu
Alison Clark
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: apple2(at)uw(dot)edu
Chester Wong
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: cwong97(at)uw(dot)edu
Kevin Nakahara
Harvey Mudd Undergraduate in Engineering
Project: Creating Nano-Interfaces to Promote Adhesion between Dissimilar Materials
Eb Isaacs
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: eisaacs(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Mitigating Hydrogen Embrittlement via Spacially Controlled Introduction of Micro and Nanovoids
Caelan Wisont
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: cwisont(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Design and Fabrication of a Nanoscale Tensegrity-Based Metamaterials
Robert Verdoes (Left)
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: verdorob(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Perfecting the Process Parameters for the Partial Pyrolysis of Photopolymers
Malay Patel
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: malayp(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Modeling of Biopsy Device for In-Situ Endoscopic Tissue Sampling
Sumedh Shahane
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: sshahane(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Modeling of a CFRP Support Tube to house the ATLAS Inner Detector
Kevin Nguyen
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: kln97(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Investigating Toughening Mechanisms in
Dense Nanoarchitected Materials
Nishita Anandan
Postdoctoral Researcher in Mechanical Engineering
Email: nish90(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Nano-architectured thermal barrier coating
Colin Wilson
MS Student in Mechanical Engineering
Email: colingw(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Modeling and Analysis of Spinodal materials
Tom Mikolyuk
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Email: tmikol(at)uw(dot)edu
Project: Compliant pre-stressed carbon fiber structures
Matt Leahy
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering
Blaze White
Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering