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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: DOW SMART Scholarship)

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Claire Ticknor
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah

Simulation of failure in additively manufactured metal matrix composites (Funded by: NSF DMREF)

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Nathan Searle
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Utah

Simulating microstructurally small crack growth using a crystal plasticity FFT framework (Funded by: NSF GRFP, Naval Nuclear Lab)

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Olivia Draughn 
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University

Simulating effects of residual stress on micromechanical response using a crystal plasticity FFT framework (Funded by: DOE Rickover Fellowship)

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Ronald Santiago 
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Universidade de Brasilia

Predicting interactive effects of surface and sub-surface void defects on material failure (Funded by: UofU Vice President for Research)

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Jane Gutchess
B.A. Mathematics, Williams College

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Allie Richards

Interactive role of grain and void structures on fracture of AM metals (Funded by: NSF CAREER)

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Mira Terry

Characterizing fatigue failure in porous materials using a modified Void Descriptor Function (Funded by: UofU Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program)

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Name, Position in MMM Lab (subsequent employment). First-author publication(s).

• Vignesh Babu Rao, Ph.D. student (MomentM AI). npjCompMat2025, CMAME2025, EFM2024.
• Brian Phung, Ph.D. student (Sandia National Laboratories). FFEMS2023, CompMatSci2021, EFM2019.
• Karen DeMille, Ph.D. student (Air Force Research Laboratory). CompMatSci2023, CompMatSci2022, EFM2019
  
• Dillon Watring, Ph.D. student (NRC Postdoc at Naval Research Lab). ActaMat2021, AM2020, MatSciEngA2019
• Krishna Prasath Logakannan, Postdoctoral researcher (Univ. of Utah). CompPartA2025.
• Nadia Kouraytem, Postdoctoral researcher (Assistant Professor, Utah State University). JPhysMat2021, Mat&Design2020, AM2020, PRA2019
• Aowabin Rahman, Postdoctoral researcher (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). CST2021, Carbon2021
• Jake Hirst, M.S. student (bioMérieux). BiomechModelMechanobiol2025.
• Elliott Marsden, M.S. student (bioMérieux). (in preparation)
• Carter Cocke, M.S. student (Caltech, Ph.D. student). IJP2023, IMMI2021
• Quinn Johnson, M.S. student (Los Alamos National Laboratory). MaterialsCharacterization2023, MatSciEngA2022
• Junyan "Jimmy" He, M.S. student (University of Illinois, Ph.D. student). BiomechModelMechanobiol2020
• John Erickson, M.S. student (Sandia National Laboratories). IntJFract2020
• Carl Herriott, M.S. (Sandia National Laboratories). MSMSE2019, CompMatSci2020
• Kyle Pierson, M.S. (Nvidia). JOM2018, JOM2019
• Jayden Plumb, B.S. (Daly Lab at UCSB, Ph.D. student). MaterialsCharacterization2018

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Prof. John Allison - PRISMS Center, University of Michigan
Prof. Brittany Coats - Developmental Head Injury Biomechanics Lab
Prof. Michael Czabaj - Utah Composites Laboratory
Dr. Jacob Hochhalter - M' Lab
Dr. Peter Kenesei - Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Jonathan Lind - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Prof. Aida Nonn - Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
Dr. Jun-Sang Park - Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
Prof. Valerio Pascucci - Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Prof. Anthony Rollett - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Hemant Sharma - Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
Prof. Robert Suter - Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Joe Tucker - Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
Lisa Wiesent - Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg