WPML alumni, Dr. Ganesh Patil (graduated in Aug 2023), has joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) as an assistant professor.
Ganesh worked on nonlinear phononic materials inspired by geomaterial microstructures during his …
Congratulations to Dr. Nusrat Salim for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation, “ Toward Understanding the Mechanics of Magnetoactive Elastomers (MAEs) and Binder Jet Printed Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) via Controlled Phases.” Nusrat is the seventh Ph.D. graduate from the WPML, …
Dr. Ramakrishnan will be wrapping up his 3 year tenure as a Postdoc in the WPM lab in August 2026 and joining the Mechanical Engineering department at IITGN as an Assistant Professor. His research as a PI will broadly focus …
WPML’s Ph.D. student Md Kamruzzaman passed his doctoral preliminary examination. Kamruzzaman’s Ph.D. research is focused on Modeling, Characterization, and Nonlinear Wave Propagation Study of Contact-Based Phononic Materials.”
Congratulations to Kamruzzaman!…
Nusrat was selected to participate in the prestigious WiscProf: Future Faculty in Engineering Workshop at University of Wisconsin–Madison, a competitive national program that prepares outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars for research-intensive faculty careers in engineering and interdisciplinary fields.
Congratulations …
Allison Rzepka, a Ph.D. candidate in our lab, recently published a journal paper in the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences and this work was featured in a MechSE news article! Her work introduces a novel class of energy absorbing composites …
This AFOSR-funded workshop was co-organized by Mostafa Nouh, Abby Juhl, Andres Goza, and the rest of the AFOSR MURI team (Saxton-Fox, Ansell, Raney, Bae, Park). The workshop brought together nearly 100 researchers from academia, DoD laboratories, UARCS, program officers from …
On December 6, 2025, Prof Matlack gave an invited talk at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) special session Fluid flow Induced Vibration and Noise, on the group’s collaborative work on “Fluid-metamaterial interaction: coupling phononic materials with unsteady aerodynamic flows”…
WPML’s Ph.D. student Allison Elise Rzepka passed her doctoral preliminary examination in September 2025. Her research focus is “Design and Characterization of Architected Granular Media for Energy Absorption Applications”, which introduces and characterizes a novel class of composite materials.
Congratulations …
WPML’s Ph.D. student Hyelim Do passed her doctoral preliminary examination. Hyelim’s Ph.D. research is focused on “Correlating Ultrasonic Responses with Microstructural Evolution in Conventionally Processed and Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel 316L”. Congratulations to Hyelim!…
