Seminar Series
MAE's Seminar Series is proud to host speakers who are at the top of their fields and conducting cutting-edge research in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Spring 2022 Seminars
February 10 - Dr. Ellen M. Arruda
Engineering Leadership Series
Professor, Tim Manganello/BorgWarner Department Chair, University of Michigan, University of Michigan
February 15 - Dr. Liu Qiong
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 17 - Dr. Shaoting Lin
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 22 - Dr. Ehsan Dehghan Niri
Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University
February 24 - Dr. Gina Olson
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
March 3 - Dr. Deekshitha Jetta
Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Medicine, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
March 8 - Dr. Mohsen Taheri Andani
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 10 - Dr. Hantang Qin
Assistant Professor, Departmental of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University
March 17 - Dr. Massimiliano Vasile
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde
March 31 - Dr. Rudraprasad Bhattacharyya
Senior Engineer, Applied Science Practice, Thornton Tomasetti
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
April 21 - Dr. Federico Rossi
Robotics Technologist, Robotics Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
April 28 - Dr. Craig Snoeyink
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
May 12 - Dr. Deborah D.L. Chung
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
Fall 2022
Fall 2021 Seminars
September 23 - Dr. Deborah D.L. Chung
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
October 7 - Dr. Ryan Caverly
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
October 14 - Dr. Andrew Antony
Senior Process Modeling Engineer, Corning Incorporated
October 21 - Dr. Eleonora Tubaldi
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
October 28 - Dr. Tamy Guimarães
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Novmeber 4 - Dr. Umberto Villa
Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St Louis
Novmeber 11 - Dr. Ryan M. Paul
R&D Associate, Carbon and Composites Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Novmeber 18 - Dr. Francine Battaglia
MAE LEADERSHIP SEMINAR SERIES DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
Professor and Department Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director, Advanced Simulations for Computing Energy Transport (ASCENT) Laboratory, SUNY at Buffalo
December 2 - Dr. Pania Newell
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
December 9 - Dr. Francis D. Lagor
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
Spring 2021
February 4 - Professor John Linck
Associate Director of Carbon R&D, Collins Aerospace and Adjunct Professor, Carbon Research and Development, Colorado State University Pueblo
March 11 - Dr. Hao Sun
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
March 25 - Dr. Ashok Gopalarathnam
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University
April 1 - Dr. Huazhen Fang
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas
April 8 - Dr. Jian-Xun Wang
Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Notre Dame
April 22 - Dr. Alireza Tabarraei
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
April 29 - Beiwen Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University
May 6 - Dr. Shashi Poddar
Senior Scientist, Optical Devices and Systems, CSIR - Central Scientific Instruments Organization
Fall 2020
October 1 - Ernesto Augusto Bueno da Fonseca Lima
Research Associate, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
October 15 - Hao Su
Irwin Zahn Endowed Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, City University of New York
October 22 - Prashant K. Jha
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
October 29 - Deborah Chung
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
November 12 - Ke Du
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering , Rochester Institute of Technology
November 19 - Boyi Hu
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
December 3 - Kaiyan Yu
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University
December 10 - Jongmin Shim
Associate Professor, Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
Spring 2020
February 6 - Aswin Gnanaskandan
Research Scientist, Dynaflow Inc.
February 13 - Dr. Sangwoo Shin
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa
February 20 - Dr. Christopher McComb
Assistant Professor of Engineering Design, School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs, The Pennsylvania State University
February 21 - Dr. Ryan St. Pierre
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
February 27 - Dr. SeungYeon Kang
Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut
February 28 - Dr. Vahid Keshavarzzadeh
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
March 5 - Dr. Jun Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo
March 10 - Dr. Paul Reverdy
Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona
March 12 - Dr. Elham Mirkoohi
PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2019 Seminars
Fall 2019 Seminars
September 12 - Dr. Steffen Leonhardt
Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
September 19 - Dr. Ankit Srivastava
Associate Professor (Ph.D.), Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Chicago
September 26- Dr. Eric Loth
Engineering Leadership Series
Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
October 3 - Dr. Michael Plesniak
Engineering Leadership Series
Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University
October 10 - Dr. Xin Yong
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University
October 17 - Dr. Raymond Kach
Product Development Engineer, Ford Motor Company, Powertrain Applications
October 24 - Dr. Jeff Eldredge
Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
October 31 - Dr. Inanc Senocak
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh
November 1 - Dr. Shiming Lei
Postdoc, Princeton University
November 7 - Dr. Diego Donzis
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
November 8 - Dr. Zijian Hong
Postdoc Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
November 14 - Dr. Sri Saripalli
Associate Professor, Co-Director Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS), Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
November 21 - Dr. Wenlong Zhang
Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering, The Polytechnic School Arizona State University
December 5 - Dr. Hussein Aluie
James P. Wilmot Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester
Summer 2019 Seminars
Summer 2019 Seminars
July 22 - Dr. Abigail Juhl
Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (PhD, BS) Air Force Research Laboratory
August 13 - Dr. Seong Jin Kim
Senior Research Scientist
Computational Science Research Center
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea
Spring 2019 Seminars
Spring 2019 Seminars
February 14 - Dr. Margarete Jadamec
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., M.S., B.S.), Geology Department; Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering Program, University at Buffalo
February 21 - Dr. Melissa Green
Assistant Professor (Ph.D.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
March 7 - Dr. Vincent Tutino
Research Assistant Professor (Ph.D.), Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo
March 14 - Dr. Lucy T. Zhang
Associate Professor (Ph.D., M.S., B.S.), Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
March 28 - Dr. Scott Dawson
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., M.A., B.Eng.), Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
April 4 - Dr. Gregg Abate
Unsteady Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flow Program Overview
April 11 - Dr. Azim Eskandarian
Engineering Leadership Series
Professor (DSC., M.S., B.S.), Department Head, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech University
April 18 - Dr. David Bevly
Professor (Ph.D., M.S., B.S), Mechanical Engineering Department, Auburn University
April 25 - Dr. Chi-Chin Wu
Material Engineer, Energetic Materials Science Branch, Lethality Division, US Army Research Laboratory
May 2 - Dr. Robert Gao
Engineering Leadership Series
Professor (Ph.D., M.S., B.S.), Department Chair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
May 9 - Dr. Maurizio Porfiri
Professor (Ph.D.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
Fall 2018 Seminars
September 20 - Norman Wereley
Engineering Leadership Series
Minta Martin Professor and Department Chair, Aerospace Engineering, Director, Composites Research Laboratory (CORE), University of Maryland
September 27 - Maziar Hemati
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
October 11 - Robert W. Carpick
Engineering Leadership Series
John Henry Towne Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics (MEAM) University of Pennsylvania
October 25 - Haibo Dong
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
November 1 - Andres Tovar
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
November 8 - Alice White
Engineering Leadership Series
Professor (ME, MSE, BME), Chair, Mechanical Engineering Department, Boston University
December 6 - Ella Atkins
Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan
Spring 2018 Seminars
Spring 2018 Seminar Series
January 25 - Dr. Animesh Chakravarthy
Associate Professor, Departments of Aerospace Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University
January 29 - Dr. Yujiang (Mike) Xiang
Assistant Professor, Departments of Mechanical, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
February 5 - Dr. Sara Moghtadernejad
Postdoctoral Associate and Material Characterization Area Manager, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
February 6 - Dr. Danial Faghihi
Research Associate, Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, The University of Texas at Austin
February 8 - Dr. Alexandre Noll Marques
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 9 - Dr. Kyle J. DeMars
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
February 12 - Dr. Nikhil Chandra Admal
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles
February 13 - Dr. Debanjan Mukherjee
American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
February 15 - Dr. Jiyeon Kang
Postdoctoral Researcher, Rehabilitation Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Michigan
February 19 - Dr. Yanfei Xu
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 20 - Dr. James M. Chen
Assistant Professor & Steve Hsu Keystone Research Faculty Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University
February 22 - Dr. Shahriyar Keshavarz
Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology
March 1 - Dr. Christopher A. Mattson
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University
March 12 - Dr. Eleonora Botta
Postdoctoral Researcher, GlobVision, Montreal, Canada
March 13 - Dr. Luciano Castillo
Kenninger Professor in Renewable Energy and Power Systems in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
March 15 - Captain John K. Reilley, USN
Assistant Professor, Strategic Leadership Department, National Defense University’s Eisenhower School
April 2 - Dr. Tomasz (Tom) Drozda
Aerospace Research Scientist, Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch, NASA Langley Research Center
May 3 - Dr. Ramakrishna Tipireddy
Scientist, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
May 17 - Dr. Raymond Brennan
Materials Engineer, US Army Research Laboratory, Weapons and Materials Research Directorate
Fall 2017 Seminars
Fall 2017 Seminar Series
September 14 - Dr. Timothy Simpson
Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing; The Pennsylvania State University
September 28 - Dr. Xiaoli Bai
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
October 5 - Dr. Joseph Koo
Senior Research Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute Center for Nano and Molecular Science & Technology, Austin, TX
October 12 - Dr. Deborah Chung
Professor, The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
October 19 - Dr. Hyunmin Cheong
Senior Research Scientist, Computational Science Research Group, Toronto, ONT
October 26 - Dr. Wentao Fu
Senior Additive Manufacturing Research Engineer, Siemens Energy, Inc.
November 16 - Dr. Stefano Gonella
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering; University of Minnesota
November 30 - Dr. Silvia Ferrari
Professor; Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY