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91蜜桃阁 Associates (Post-doctoral Fellow)

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Graduate 91蜜桃阁 Assistants

We are currently looking for Graduate 91蜜桃阁 Assistant.听For more information, please visit the Opportunities page.

Yichen Dong听(08/2019-笔谤别蝉苍迟)

Ph.D. student, Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics Program鈥�.
- M.S. (2023), Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 91蜜桃阁 at 91蜜桃阁.
- B.S. (2017-2018), Exchange Strudent Program: Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 91蜜桃阁 at 91蜜桃阁.
- B.S. (2017), Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China.

Co-advising CEAE GAANN Fellows

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Marguerite Lorenzo (08/2025-Present)

CEAE GAANN Fellow, Co-Advisors: Prof. Aditi Bhaskar and Prof. Abbie Liel
Ph.D. student, Hydrology, Water Resources & Environmental Fluid Mechanics Program.
- B.S. (2022), Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca.

Undergraduate 91蜜桃阁 Assistants

We are currently looking for undergraduate research assistants. For more information, please听visit the .

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91蜜桃阁 Affiliates (External Collaborators)

Michael Pilosov, Ph.D. (03/2024-Present)

91蜜桃阁 Affiliates
- Senior Architect, Machine Learning听(2019-Present), Slalom Build, Denver, CO.
- Ph.D. (2020), Applied Mathematics, 91蜜桃阁 at Denver. 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Student Achievements

Yichen Dong (Ph.D. student, 08/2019-Presnt)
- was awarded the 18th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18)Travel Award by USACM in 2025.
- was awarded the 91蜜桃阁 Graduate School Domestic Travel Grant in 2025.
Ronald Bailie (M.S., 08/2023-05/2025)
- was awarded CEAE's Chinn-Carswell Fellowship in Fall 2023.
Peter Schaefferkoetter (Ph.D.,听08/2017-05/2024)
- 鈥嬧赌�was awarded Naval 91蜜桃阁 Enterprise Internship Program (NERIP) by the U.S. Department of Navy for his 10 weeks summer internship at the U.S. Naval 91蜜桃阁 Laboratory in 2018.
- was awaded听Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 91蜜桃阁 at 91蜜桃阁 in 2024.
Ashkan Almasi听(Ph.D.,听01/2016-12/2019)
- 鈥嬧赌�was awarded the 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM2018) Travel Award by USACM in 2018.
- was awarded the 91蜜桃阁 Graduate School Domestic Travel Grant in 2019.
Andrew Beel听(B.S./M.S., 01/2015-05/2019)
- was awarded Naval 91蜜桃阁 Enterprise Internship Program (NERIP) by the U.S. Department of Navy for his 10 weeks summer internship at the U.S. Naval 91蜜桃阁 Laboratory in 2016-2018.
- was awarded NSF Graduate 91蜜桃阁 Fellowship in 2019.
- was awarded Outstanding Graduate for 91蜜桃阁 (CEAE Dept.) in 2019.

Visiting Scholars

Byoung-Il Kim (1year, 2022), Associate Professor,听School of Architecture, Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Korea.
Jae-Hyuk Choi (1 year, 2021),听Director/Auditor, Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea Goverment, Korea.
Hong-Hyun Kim听(Spring 2听weeks, 2020), M.S. Student, School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
Tae-Yeon Kim (Summer 4 weeks, 2015), Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Former Group Members

听	Owen Harper (Fall 2025) M.S. student (with M.S. Thesis), Geotechnical Engineering & Geomechanics Program
听	Vadim Uzdensky (Fall 2025-Present) BAM student (with M.S. Thesis), Co-Advisor: Prof. Mija Hubler
听	Jennifer Nicholas (Fall 2025) CEAE GAANN Fellow, Co-Advisor: Prof. Shideh Dashti
	Peter Schaefferkoetter, Ph.D. (01/2025-06/2025) 91蜜桃阁 Associates Lecturer (Spring, 2025), CVEN 3161 Mechanics of Materials 1
	Ronald Bailie (08/2023-05/2025) M.S. (2025), Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics Program鈥�. M.S. Thesis: Continuum Point Cloud Particle Lattice Model (CP2L) for Dynamic Loading. []
	Peter Schaefferkoetter (08/2017-05/2024) M.S. (2019),听Ph.D. (2024),听Engineering Science Program. Ph.D. Thesis:听Continuum Point Method for Large Deformations and Its Verification. []
	Sang-Il听Park听(12/2018-02/2022) 91蜜桃阁 Associate
	Ashkan Almasi听(01/2016-12/2019) Ph.D. (2019),听Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics Program鈥�. Ph.D. Thesis:听Strong Form-Based Collocation Method and its Applications: Microstructure Evolution, Contact Mechanics, and Frictional Crack.
	Andrew Beel听(01/2015-05/2019) Accelerated B.S. and M.S. (2019),听Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics Program鈥�. M.S. Thesis:听Strong Form Meshfree Collocation Method for Higher Order and Nonlinear PDEs in Engineering Applications. []
	Qianyu Fan听(09/2016-05/2017) M.S. (2017),听Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics Program鈥�. M.S. Report:听The Influences of Model's Dimensions using听Displacement-controlled Method and Load-controlled Method on Load-deflection Curves and Average Stress-strain Curves.
	Khac ChiHoang听 (02/2015-01/2016) 91蜜桃阁 Associate
	Yao Fu听(09/2013-03/2016) 91蜜桃阁 Associate Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2013-07/2014): University听of South Carolina, Columbia
	Iman Asareh听(08/2011-08/2014) Ph.D. (2018), Civil Engineering, University听of South Carolina, Columbia Ph.D. Thesis:听Computations of the Dynamic Fracture of Plane Structures by the Extended Finite Element Method. 听[]