49 faculty and 12 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University.
- Lawrence Bonassar, Professor h-index 74
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Biomedical Engineering Polymers and Soft Matter Rapid Prototyping Mechanics of Biological Materials Bioengineering Molecular and Cellular Engineering Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Molecular Biotechnolog
Notable: “Rapid 3D printing of anatomically accurate and mechanically heterogeneous aortic valve hydrogel scaffolds” (2012) · 683 citations
- Robert F. Shepherd, Director of Graduate Studies & John F. Carr Professor h-index 62
Ed on developing polymeric and colloidal suspensions as ‘inks’ for 3D printers. He also fabricated microfluidic devices to synthesize single micron to millimeter scale parts (e.g., glass and silicon microgears). Concurrently to
Notable: “Multigait soft robot” (2011) · 2,066 citations
- Rebecca J. Barthelmie, Professor h-index 62
Professor Barthelmie’s research is focused on wind energy resources and wind turbine wakes within and downwind of large wind farms both on- and offshore. In Denmark, she ran the offshore wind energy network and she was involved in the
Notable: “Analytical modelling of wind speed deficit in large offshore wind farms” (2006) · 931 citations
- Jian-Xun Wang, Associate Professor h-index 56
Dr. Wang’s research focuses on computational science and engineering, leveraging the synergy of advanced AI/ML, heterogeneous data, numerical techniques, and high-performance GPU computing. His work emphasizes the deep integration of AI/ML
Notable: “The first data release (DR1) of the LAMOST regular survey” (2015) · 855 citations
- K. Max Zhang, Irving Porter Church Professor h-index 51
Focus on energy and the environment, driven by societal impact. He studies the interactions between energy and environmental systems using numerical models and experimental techniques, in the context of air pollution, renewable energy, and
Notable: “Highly Photoluminescent Carbon Dots for Multicolor Patterning, Sensors, and Bioimaging” (2013) · 3,687 citations
- Mahdi Hasani, Assistant Research Professor h-index 44
Ed on developing polymeric biomaterials for immunoengineering and regenerative medicine. His work at UCLA resulted in over 12 U.S. patents, several of which are licensed. Dr. Hasani is a co-founder and board member of three biotech and biop
Notable: “An engineered cell-laden adhesive hydrogel promotes craniofacial bone tissue regeneration in rats” (2020) · 332 citations
- Mark Campbell, John A. Mellowes '60 Professor h-index 41
Control and autonomy for robotics, aircraft and spacecraft. Research areas include machine learning, perception and sensor fusion; optimization and learning based control and planning; decentralized/distributed estimation and control across
Notable: “Pseudo-LiDAR From Visual Depth Estimation: Bridging the Gap in 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving” (2019) · 1,160 citations
- Alan Taylor Zehnder, Senior Associate Dean & Professor h-index 38
Zehnder’s research focuses on the fracture of nanoscale systems, nonlinear dynamics of nanomechanical oscillators, damage tolerance of polymers and matrix composites. Nanoscale systems show surprising effects due to their small size
Notable: “On the temperature distribution at the vicinity of dynamically propagating cracks in 4340 steel” (1991) · 168 citations
- Lenan Zhang, Assistant Professor h-index 37
Research activities at Energy Research Laboratory (ERL) combine the fundamental understanding of transport phenomena with the development of advanced metrology tools to create innovative solutions to energy sustainability. At a fundamental
Notable: “Ultrahigh-efficiency desalination via a thermally-localized multistage solar still” (2020) · 527 citations
- Olivier Desjardins, Professor h-index 34
Dr. Desjardins’ research focuses on large-scale numerical modeling of turbulent reacting multiphase flows with industrial application. Using world-class parallel computers, his group develops numerical methods and models to investigat
- Jingjie Yeo, Assistant Professor h-index 32
Jingjie Yeo’s research focuses on interdisciplinary studies of material and biological phenomena by advancing multiscale, multi-physics computational methods and simulations. He aims to characterize and predict the mechanical, chemical, opt
Notable: “Paraffin-enabled graphene transfer” (2019) · 279 citations
- Hadas Kress-Gazit, Associate Dean & Senior Endowed Professor h-index 30
Es on formal methods for robotics and automation and more specifically on synthesis for robotics – automatically creating verifiable robot controllers for complex high-level tasks. Her group explores different types of robotic systems
Notable: “Temporal-Logic-Based Reactive Mission and Motion Planning” (2009) · 756 citations
- Meredith Silberstein, Professor h-index 30
Meredith Silberstein’s Mechanics for Materials Design (MMD) Lab is devoted to using mechanical experiments and modeling methods in material design, with particular focus on multifunctional, active, and polymeric materials. Computation
Notable: “A 90nm high volume manufacturing logic technology featuring novel 45nm gate length strained silicon CMOS transistors” (2004) · 561 citations
- Matthew Peter Miller, Willis H. Carrier Professor h-index 28
Crystal stress measurements, microplasticity, fatigue crack initiation, high temperature behavior of superalloys, mechanical behavior of silicon, design and implementation of new in situ experiments with synchrotron x-rays, multisca
Notable: “The evidence regarding the drugs used for ventricular rate control.” (2000) · 137 citations
- Mason Peck, Stephen J. Fujikawa '77 Professor h-index 28
My long-term research objectives focus on what I see as the next frontiers in space-system design: spacecraft that exploit physics, particularly rigid and flexible dynamics at many length scales, to achieve innovative and surprising mission
Notable: “Historical Review of Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators” (2003) · 331 citations
- Atieh Moridi, Associate Professor h-index 20
Moridi’s research interests lie in the areas of advanced materials and manufacturing. She exploits the intrinsic properties (i.e., rapid solidification, melt pool dynamic, intrinsic heat treatment) as well as flexibility of additive manufac
Notable: “Cold spray coating: review of material systems and future perspectives” (2014) · 733 citations
- Perrine Pepiot, Associate Professor h-index 20
Dr. Pepiot is interested in the production and utilization of renewable liquid transportation fuels from a modeling perspective. Her current work aims at gaining a better understanding of the biomass thermochemical conversion processes such
Notable: “A chemical mechanism for low to high temperature oxidation of n-dodecane as a component of transportation fuel surrogates” (2013) · 225 citations
- Gregory Falco, Assistant Professor h-index 18
The Aerospace ADVERSARY breaks things in order to redefine how they work. We take big risks and fail fast. We are interested in pioneering new space architectures that will guide the aerospace sector towards fundamentally new space technolo
Notable: “Six Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenges” (2023) · 453 citations
- Gregory Paul Bewley, Associate Professor h-index 16
Greg Bewley’s work focuses on turbulence, both its intrinsic properties and its role in various environmental settings. In clouds, turbulence causes droplets to collide. In superfluid helium, it causes quantized vortices to reconnect.
- Fabien Royer, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Ed on ultra-lightweight shell structures, their instabilities, and their application to very large space solar power spacecraft. He also worked on the AAReST (Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope) small satellite mission
Notable: “A flexible phased array system with low areal mass density” (2019) · 88 citations
- Rajesh Bhaskaran, Teaching Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Hands-On CFD Educational Interface for Engineering Courses and Laboratories” (2006) · 55 citations
- Elaine Petro, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Space Science and Engineering Select Publications Petro, E. and Sedwick, R. “ Effects of Water-Vapor Propellant on Electrodeless Thruster Performance, ” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Articles in Advance (2017). Petro, E. and
Notable: “Multiscale modeling of electrospray ion emission” (2022) · 51 citations
- Hadas Ritz, Teaching Professor h-index 7
Mastery based grading, standards based grading, active learning, authentic assessment. Teaching Interests Solid mechanics, engineering mathematics, introduction to mechanical engineering, and other undergraduate courses in mechanical engine
Notable: “Sensitivity to grain discretization of the simulated crystal stress distributions in FCC polycrystals” (2008) · 40 citations
- Keith Evan Green, Jean and Douglas McLean Professor h-index 7
Green founded the field of architectural robotics, designing physical environments that act, think, and grow with their inhabitants. These environments support and augment us as we work, play, learn, roam, discover, create, connect, heal, a
Notable: “Forward kinematic model for continuum robotic surfaces” (2012) · 16 citations
- John Richard Callister, Senior Lecturer h-index 6
Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics Teaching Interests Automotive engineering Select Publications Timmons, Michael B., Rhett L. Weiss, Daniel P. Loucks, John R. Callister, James E. Timmons. 2013. The Entrepreneurial Engineer. Cambridge. Calliste
Notable: “Aerodynamic Noise of Ground Vehicles” (1991) · 29 citations
- Andrew van Paridon, Senior Lecturer & Research Associate h-index 3
In thermal management, in particular with regards to satellites and their propulsion systems. In his previous position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford University, Dr. van Paridon investigated thermal management in civil turbomach
Notable: “Kalman Filter Development for Real Time Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Disc Temperature Model” (2016) · 7 citations
- Amira Abdel-Rahman, Assistant Professor (Starting July 2026)
Architectural technology Structures in architecture Sustainability Robotics Computational design Programmable matter Swarm robotics Metamaterial Material programming Select Publications Abdel-Rahman, Amira, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jen
- Anastasia Bizyaeva, Assistant Professor
Dr. Bizyaeva’s research program at Cornell explores mathematical connections between collectively intelligent behavior in biological and social systems, and the design of autonomous and artificially intelligent behaviors in engineered teams
- Brian Kirby, Meinig Family Professor
Multiphase and Granular Flows Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Microfluidics Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Molecular and Cellular Engineering Micro Nano System
- C. Thomas Avedisian, Professor
We are pursuing research that cuts across a variety of disciplines, including heat transfer and combustion. Problems are pursued from an experimental (as contrasted with a purely computational or theoretical) approach. Current projects incl
- Cara M. Nunez, Assistant Professor
Robotics, haptics, and human-centered design for medical applications, human-machine interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and STEM education, among others. Select Publications Cara M. Nunez's Google Scholar Duffield Engineeri
- David Erickson, Director & Sibley College Professor
- Dmitry Savransky, Associate Professor & Associate DGS
Professor Savransky’s research is comprised of a variety of problems related to the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets. These include investigations of advanced control and estimation for active wavefront control sys
- Douglas MacMartin, Associate Professor
Es on Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM, also known as climate engineering, solar geoengineering, or climate intervention), with the aim of helping to develop the knowledge base necessary to support informed future societal decisions in this
- Guy Hoffman, Associate Director & Associate Professor
Human-Robot Interaction
- Herbert Hui, Joseph C. Ford Professor
My current interest is in areas connecting mechanics and materials. In the past 10 years, I have focused my work in the areas of adhesion science, fracture mechanics and mechanics of soft matter. Recent research projects include bio-inspire
- Jake Welde, Assistant Professor
Robotics, geometric control theory, dynamical systems, symmetry-informed methods, geometric mechanics, aerial vehicles, structured machine learning, underactuated systems, mechanical design, embedded systems Service interests: K-12 STEM out
- James Lloyd, Professor
Extrasolar planets and the development astronomical instrumentation. Select Publications Faesi, Christopher M., Kevin R. Covey, Robert Gutermuth, Maria Morales–Calderón, John Stauffer, Peter Plavchan, Luisa Rebull, Inseok Song, J. P. Lloyd.
- Marjolein van der Meulen, Swanson Professor & Associate Vice Provost
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Computational Solid Mechanics Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Mechanics of Biological Materials Solid Mechanics Materials Design Bioengineering and Healthcare Advance
- Matt Ulinski, Director of M.Eng. Program
- Mostafa Hassani, Assistant Professor
Mostafa’s research interests lie at the intersection of solid mechanics, structural materials, and additive manufacturing. He uses in-situ approaches to understand deformation and failure of structural materials and their underlying physica
- Negin Majedi, Assistant Professor
Negin’s group focuses on understanding how tissue mechanics affect the body’s immune response to solid cancers. Her research leverages this knowledge to design tumor-responsive biomaterials and mimic lymph node mechanics to develop im
- Nelly Andarawis-Puri, Professor
Dr. Andarawis-Puri’s work in tendon research spans both basic science and translational applications. The general objective of her lab is to determine the structural and regulatory role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the tendon in the
- Nikolaos Bouklas, Associate Professor
Dr. Bouklas’ research focuses in the fields of theoretical and computational solid mechanics. Developing theoretical frameworks and advanced computational methods, he aims to improve the fundamental understanding of materials and stru
- Sadaf Sobhani, Assistant Professor
Dr. Sobhani’s research activities focus on thermal management and energy conversion with the goal of impacting innovations in high-efficiency, low-emission, and robust energy systems. Her work includes the computational and experimental inv
- Sam Otto, Assistant Professor
Recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence yield promising tools to efficiently model, forecast, and control high-dimensional nonlinear systems such as fluid flows using data collected from experiments and high-fidelity
- Steve Heim, Senior Research Associate Lecturer
- Z. Jane Wang, Professor
Physics, Neural Control, Evolution of Insect Flight I am fascinated by the physics of living organisms, with a focus on understanding insect flight. How does an insect fly, why does it fly so well, and how can we infer its ‘thoughts’ from i
- Zhiting Tian, Professor & Sesquicentennial Fellow
Micro/nanoscale heat transfer; thermal energy conversion and storage; thermal management; multiscale thermal transport in organic, inorganic, and hybrid materials; quantum computing; and biomedical engineering. Materials Design Energy and t
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.