49 faculty and 12 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University.
- Jian-Xun Wang, Associate Professor h-index 235
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
- Z. Jane Wang, Professor h-index 156
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
- K. Max Zhang, Irving Porter Church Professor h-index 68
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
- Zhiting Tian, Professor & Sesquicentennial Fellow h-index 64
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
- 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
- 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
- Marjolein van der Meulen, Swanson Professor & Associate Vice Provost h-index 56
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
- Brian Kirby, Meinig Family Professor h-index 55
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
- David Erickson, Director & Sibley College Professor h-index 53
- Douglas MacMartin, Associate Professor h-index 51
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
- 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
- Keith Evan Green, Jean and Douglas McLean Professor h-index 40
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
- 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
- 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
- C. Thomas Avedisian, Professor h-index 37
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
- 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
- Dmitry Savransky, Associate Professor & Associate DGS h-index 31
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Nelly Andarawis-Puri, Professor h-index 25
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
- 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
- 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
- Sadaf Sobhani, Assistant Professor h-index 12
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
- 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
- Anastasia Bizyaeva, Assistant Professor h-index 9
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
- 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
- Cara M. Nunez, Assistant Professor h-index 8
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Atieh Moridi, Associate Professor
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
- Gregory Paul Bewley, Associate Professor
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.
- 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.
- Lawrence Bonassar, Professor
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
- Mark Campbell, John A. Mellowes '60 Professor
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
- 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
- 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
- Rajesh Bhaskaran, Teaching Professor
- 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
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 2026-07-01.