Taher Saif, PI
Post doctoral Associate
Onur Aydin (Phd: 2021)
Living machines
PhD Students
Bashar Emon
Cancer tumor microenvironment
Md. Saddam Hossain Joy
Mechanics of neuro-muscular junctions
Umnia Doha
Mechanobiology of collective cell behavior
Ki Yun Lee
Biomechanics of exercise
Saeedur Rahman
Mind in vitro: computation with neurons
William Drennan
Mechanics of heart cells
wcd2@illinois.edu
Undergraduate research students
Reed Brockstein
Andrew Lin
Alumni
Post Doctoral Associates
Zhengwei Li
Post Doctoral Associate (2017-2019)
Research: Biohybrid machines
Jagannathan Rajagopalan
Post Doctoral Associate (2009-11)
Research: Plasticity of nano grained metals/biohybrid robotics
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Graduate students
Onur Aydin (Phd: 2021)
PhD topic: Living machines
Post doc at Saif lab
Mohamed Elhebeary (PhD: 2019)
PhD topic: Brittle to ductile transition in single crystal silicon
Senior Packaging R&D Engineer at Intel, Corporation, Chandler, Arizona, United States
Anthony Fan (PhD: 2018)
PhD topic: Neuromechanics
iPhone Product Design at Apple
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Dr Samantha Knoll (PhD 2016)
PhD topic: Cell-light interaction
Customer Experience Lead, New Business Models
Bayer, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Brian Williams (PhD 2016)
PhD topic: Biological machines
Equipment Intelligence engineer at Lam Research
Portland, Oregon, United States
Dr Muhammad Yakut Ali (PhD 2015)
PhD topic: Cell Mechanics
Engineering Manager in Wafer Assembly Technology Development, Intel Corporation, Oregon, USA
Dr Sandeep Anand (PhD 2015)
PhD topic: Biological machines
Intel Corporation
Ali Tofangchi (PhD: 2015)
PhD topic: Neuromechanics
SPD-Lou Auto Robotics Rsch Ins, J.B. Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucy
Xin Tang (PhD: 2013)
PhD topic: Mechanics of cancer cells
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Dr Wylie Ahmed (PhD 2012)
PhD topic: Neuromechanics
Department of Physics
California State University, Fullerton, California
Wonmo Kang (PhD 2012)
PhD topic: Nanomechanics of single crystal silicon
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Jagannathan Rajagopalan (PhD 2009)
PhD topic: Plasticity of nano grained metals
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Shengyuan Yang (PhD 2007)
PhD topic: Mechanics of single living cells
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, United States
Jonh Han (PhD 2007)
PhD topic: Mechanics of MEMS
Senior Engineer at Owens Corning
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Sathyanarayan Mani (PhD 2006)
PhD topic: MEMS
Director of Engineering at Applied Materials
Fremont, California, United States
Deepti Tiwari (MS 2005)
MS topic: Internal Friction of Resonant Micro Beams
Mark Meinhart (MS 2004)
MS topic: Mechanics of MEMS
Ford Motor Company
Marc Sulfridge (PhD 2003)
PhD topic: Mechanics of MEMS
Member of Technical Staff at ON Semiconductor
Boise, Idaho, United States
Erdem Alaca (PhD 2003)
PhD topic: Nanomechanics
Mechanical Engineering
Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Aman Haque (PhD 2002)
PhD topic: Nanomechanics of thin metal films
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Zayd Leseman (MS 2000)
MS topic: MEMS
Department of Mechanical Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia