Contact me if you are interested in joining as a postdoc, graduate student, or undergraduate student, to do theory or experiment. See our research page for some indication of what we do, and contact me with information about your research interests.
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James Hanna
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St. (0312)
Reno, NV 89557-0312
PE 217     +1 775 784 6406
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Tega Oguns (01/22 - )
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering
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Sam Hutton (05/21 - , also 11/19-05/21 as B.S. in ME)
Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering
NV NASA Space Grant Fellow 2022-2023
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website
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Damián Gimeno Neira (08/22- , also 03/22 - 04/22 as visiting undergraduate intern from Engineering Physics at Usach)
M.S. student, Mechanical Engineering
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Travis Broughton (01/24 - )
Undergraduate researcher

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Gavin Fisher (02/23 - )
Undergraduate researcher

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Madison Shipp (06/22 - )
Undergraduate researcher

ALUMNI AND TRANSIENTS
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Eduardo Vitral (09/20 - 07/23)
Postdoc
next: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
website
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Abhinav Dehadrai (07/20 - 07/23)
Postdoc
next: Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence, Amrita University, Bengaluru
website
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Vitaliy Fedonyuk (07/20 - 07/21, co-advised by A G Nair)
Postdoc
next: postdoc at CMU Robotics Institute
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Tian Yu (07/15 - 01/20)
Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics (VT), Bifurcations, multi-stability, and localization in thin structures
website
next: postdoc at Princeton CEE
now: Assistant Professor, Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, SUSTech Research Scientist, KLA
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Harmeet Singh (08/14 - 12/18)
Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics (VT), Discontinuities, balance laws, and material momentum
website
next: postdoc at EPFL Mathematics
now: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar
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Gregory Turri (09/19 - 12/21)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Shape effects in the water impact of panels
next: Engineer, NevadaNano
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Harrison Wood (08/17 - 05/19, also 12/16-08/17 as B.S. in ESM)
M.S., Engineering Mechanics (VT), Bending and warpage of elastic plates
next: Manufacturing Engineer, Moog Inc.
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Brato Chakrabarti (08/13 - 05/15)
M.S., Engineering Mechanics (VT), Catenaries in viscous fluid
website
next: Ph.D. fellowship at UCSD MAE
soon: Reader, ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru
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Josh Rudfelt (01/23 - 9/23)
Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering

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Amber Robinson (01/23 - 5/23)
Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering

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Tyler Ewing (10/19 - 05/20)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
next: Manufacturing Engineer, Panasonic Energy of North America
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Sam Riddle (02/18 - 02/19)
Undergraduate, Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: summer at NIST Polymeric Materials Group
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Jack Gan (01/17 - 02/19)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering (VT)
next:
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Ishan Arora (07/18 - 12/18)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: ESM Rocketry
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Max Reynolds (06/18 - 12/18)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: ESM Rocketry
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Nick Corbin (01/16 - 01/2018)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: ESM Rocketry
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Doug Hartley (05/17 - 01/18)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering (VT)
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Rick Warner (01/14 - 06/16)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, B.A., Physics (VT)
next: Design Engineer, Scaled Composites
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Wes Royston (08/14 - 05/15)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: Nuclear Power School, Submarine Officer, U.S. Navy
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Denis Aliaj (01/14 - 07/14)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, Biological Sciences (VT)
next: Canon U.S. Life Sciences
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Jason Tran (09/13 - 06/14)
B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics (VT)
next: PhD fellowship at UT Austin AE+EM