Director
Ashley Spear
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Adjunct Professor, Kahlert School of Computing
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Cornell University
B.S. with Honors, Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Krishna Prasath Logakannan
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Process-structure-property relationships in metal laser powder bed fusion (Funded by: DOD)
Brian Phung
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
Integrating physics-based modeling with machine learning for metal AM applications (Funded by: DOD)
Ph.D. Students
Dongfang Zhao
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Denver
B.E. Polymer Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
3D polycrystal simulations of open-cell aluminum foams (Funded by: NSF DMREF)
Vignesh Babu Rao
B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, Anna University (Chennai, India)
Accelerating high-fidelity fracture simulations in 3D microstructures using machine learning (Funded by: NSF CAREER)
Laura Ziegler
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah
3D grain mapping using high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (Funded by: DOE NEUP)
Deep learning as a model to map sub-RVE response to bulk behavior (Funded by: INL)
Claire Ticknor
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
Simulation of failure in additively manufactured metal matrix composites (Funded by: NSF DMREF)
Nathan Searle
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah
High-fidelity simulation of polycrystalline materials (Funded by: NSF GRFP)
