TEAM

Principal Investigator

Atieh Moridi

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
Graduate Field Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Graduate Field Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Faculty Member, Cornell Energy Systems Institute (CESI)
Faculty Member, Cornell Center for Materials Research (CMMR)
Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Faculty Member, Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC) for Nanoscale Science
  • PostDoc, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
  • M.Sc and B.Sc, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University

Email: moridi@cornell.edu

  • TMS (The Mineral, Metals, and Materials Society) Young Innovator in The Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award, 2024
  • TMS (The Mineral, Metals, and Materials Society) Early Career Award, 2023
  • Aref and Manon Lahham Faculty Fellow, 2023
  • Department of Energy Early Career award, 2022.
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2022.
  • National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2021.
  • Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM 2D Scholars Award, 2022.
  • Schwartz research award in life sciences, 2021.
  • Intercampus (Cornell Weill Medicine and Ithaca campus) seed grant for biomedical research, 2020.
  • Presidential Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) Affinito-Stewart award, 2019.

Postdocs and Visting Scholars

Muhammad Akmal

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: High entropy alloys, DED printed Titanium alloys
Email: m.akmal@cornell.edu

Ahmad Zafari

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Visting Scholar

PhD Students

Adrita Dass

PhD Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: Operando additive manufacturing
Email: ad989@cornell.edu

Kaushalendra Singh

PhD Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: Operando characterization , drop-on-demand printing
Email: kks76@cornell.edu

Ashlee Gabourel

PhD Student
Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Refractory high-entropy alloys, machine learning 
Email: atg59@cornell.edu

Juan Antonio Vega Farje

PhD Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: Refractory high entropy alloys
Email: jv395@cornell.edu

Akula Sai Pratyush

PhD Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: Orthopedic metallic biomaterials
Email: sa2343@cornell.edu

Mahya Azizi

PhD Student
Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: High entropy alloys, operando characterization
Email: ma2239@cornell.edu

Masters Students

Tianyue Li

M.Eng. Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: tl874@cornell.edu

Undergraduate Students

Gregory Sharma

B.S. Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: gos9@cornell.edu

Alumni

PhD students 

Jenniffer Bustillos
Researcher at GE Aerospace
(Aug 2024)
Chenxi Tian (Toby)
Researcher at Intel
(Aug 2024)
Akane Wakai
Researcher at Seurat
(Aug 2024)

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.S. students

Hrithika Bandreddy
Materials Science & Engineering
Ajay Pillai
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Yuhui Li
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ruidong Wang
Material Science and Engineering
Shonak Bhattacharya
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rishi Munnangi
Material Science and Engineering
Poulomi Mukherjee
Material Science and Engineering
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

M.Eng students

Alejandro Wilcox
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Gabe Mitchell
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mark Tarazi
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Eugene Shin
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Yujiro Osawa
Materials Science and Engineering
Kenny Shaughnessy
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Talia Turnham
Computer Science
Vignesh Gnanasekaran
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Linxiao Mei
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Niharika Shukla
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
David Fares
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ini Adeleye
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B.S. students

Meiyang Wang (Samantha)
Materials Science and Engineering
Polina Ermoshkina
Materials Science Engineering, Physics
George Abbott
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Claire Matthews
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Andres Garcia
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Temesgen Worku
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Janice Wei
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Jamie Dawson
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Isaac Newcomb
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postdocs/ visiting student

Jinyeon Kim
PostDoc, Cornell University
PhD: Seoul National University, 2018
Shiseido Robinson
Future Leaders in Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) student
M.S. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
August Brueggemann
Visiting B. S.  Student
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Angelique Jan Miane
Visiting B.S. Student
Buffalo University, Buffalo, New York
Selina Kirubakar
Visiting M.Sc. Student
Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
Qi An
Visiting PhD Student
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Sohail Mohammed
Visiting Student
Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India