Stanford
MECON 2024

Program Highlights

Oral Presentations

 

Morning 1st session (9:00 - 10:30)

  1. Ben Alessio (Prof. Ching-Yao Lai)
    • Title: "Complex granular rheologies from microfluctuations"
  2. Stanley Wang (Prof. Mark Cutkosky)
    • Title: "ReachBot Lite: A Miniature Robotic Platform with Exceptional Reach for Lunar Application"
  3. Savannah Cofer (Prof. Sean Follmer)
    • Title: "A flat-foldable, transformable metamaterial from octahedral origami unit cells"
  4. Sophie Leanza (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • Title: "Elephant Trunk Inspired Multimodal Deformations and Movements of Soft Robotic Arms"
  5. Gowri Subedar (Prof. Michaëlle N. Mayalu)
    • Title: "Modeling 'Gut-Skin' Axis in the Immunopathogenesis of Psoriasis"
  6. Benyamin Krisna (Prof. Matthias Ihme)
    • Title: "Effects of turbulence on the generation of indirect noise in an advanced gas-turbine combustor"

Morning 2nd session (10:45 - 12:00)

  1. Raj Paul (Prof. Sindy Tang)
    • Title: "Role of cytoskeletal mechanics in wound resistance in the giant ciliate protozoa Stentor coeruleus"
  2. Shuai Wu (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • Title: "Magnetic milli-spinner for robotic interventional surgery"
  3. Giannka Picache (Prof. Mark Cutkosky)
    • Title: "Drag Reduction and Stability Analysis of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish Mounts"
  4. Jay Sim (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • Title: "Magneto-Mechanical Bilayer Metasurface with Global Area-Preserving Density Tunability for Acoustic Wave Regulation"
  5. Salvador Gomez (Prof. Parviz Moin)
    • Title: "Resolvent Amplification of Large Scale Structures in Adverse Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layers"

 

Afternoon session (14:30 - 17:00)

  1. Jianyu Wang (Prof. Parviz Moin & Prof. Catherine Gorle)
    • Title: "Application of an Immersed Boundary Method to Generate Boundary Layer Turbulence and Non-uniform Wind Fields"
  2. Yilong Chang (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • Title: "Mechanical Clot Debulking through Integrated Compression and Shear"
  3. Xintong Xu (Prof. Arun Majumdar)
    • Title: "Revealing fluidic transport under extreme confinement at the nanoscale"
  4. Kuan Liu (Prof. Reinhold H. Dauskardt)
    • Title: "Predictive Mechanics and Photochemical Degradation Kinetics Modeling for Polymeric Encapsulants"
  5. Paul de La Sayette (Prof. Kenneth Salisbury)
    • Title: "Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration: Achieving Compliance through Variable Impedance Actuators in Lightweight Cable-Driven Robots"
  6. Lu Lu (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • Title: "Multiple Equilibrium States of a Curved-Sided Hexagram: Elastic Stability and State Transitions"

Poster Presentations

 

A-J

  • Anjini Chandra (Prof. Sanjiva Lele)
    • "Simulation and analysis of transcritical turbulent boundary layers with heat transfer"
  • Aditya Dutt (Prof. Monroe Kennedy III)
    • "Robot Manipulation for Fluid Detection and Pouring" 
  • Amitesh Jayaraman (Prof. Hai Wang)
    • "Collision enhancement in shocks and its implication on gas-phase detonations: a gas kinetic theory and molecular dynamics study" 
  • Annie Mascot (Prof. Mark Cutkosky)
    • "CERVA Tech: Cervical Evaluation and Robotic Visual Analysis Technology"
  • Aya Mouallem (Prof. Sheri Sheppard)
    • "An Accessible Electronics Simulator for Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) Students: Learnings from Co-Designing with the BLV Community" 
  • Brandon Lum (Prof. Wendy Gu)
    • "Additive Manufacturing of Topology Optimized Soft Magnets"
  • Catherine Xiang, Dani Algazi, and Sophia Taylor (Prof. Jeff Wood)
    • "Improving the Efficiency and Ergonomics of an Off-Road Wheelchair Attachment for Kyaro Assistive Tech" 
  • Chris Li (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Spin-induced Fluidic Actuation for Millirobot in Medical Treatments" 
  • Connor Yako (Prof. Ken Salisbury)
    • "Vertical Vibratory Transport of Grasped Parts Using Impacts" 
  • Dongjae Kong (Prof. Xiaolin Zheng)
    • "Rapid Room-Temperature Sulfidation of Commercial FeNiCo Alloy for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction" 
  • Dongwon Ka (Prof. Xiaolin Zheng)
    • "Mechanical and combustion properties of fluoroalkylsilane surface-functionalized Boron/HTPB composite" 
  • EmJ Rennich (Prof. Mark Cutkosky)
    • "Environmental Testing of Gecko-Inspired Directional Dry Adhesives for Space Applications" 
  • Federico Rios Tascon (Prof. Beverley McKeon)
    • "Turbulent Flow Models Using Fourier Neural Operators" 
  • Ghadi Nehme
    • "Sketch-to-CAD: Generating Computer Aided Design Models from Sketches"
  • Giannka Picache (Prof. Mark Cutkosky)
    • "Drag Reduction and Stability Analysis of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish Mounts" 
  • Gowri Subedar (Prof. Michaëlle N. Mayalu)
    • "Modeling 'Gut-Skin' Axis in the Immunopathogenesis of Psoriasis" 
  • Hang Song (Prof. Sanjiva K. Lele)
    • "High-Resolution Simulations of Compressible Turbulent Flows" 
  • Henry Collis (Prof. Ali Mani & Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino)
    • "Modeling and simulation of high-speed multiphase flow in a rocket combustor" 
  • Jay Sim (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Area-Preserving Magneto-Mechanical Bilayer Metasurface for Acoustic Wave Regulation"

K-Z

  • Kiran Hamkins (Prof. Xiaolin Zheng)
    • "Metal Supported Metal Oxide Catalysts for Hydrogen Peroxide Production" 
  • Kuan Liu (Prof. Reinhold H. Dauskardt)
    • "Predictive Mechanics and Photochemical Degradation Kinetics Modeling for Polymeric Encapsulants" 
  • Lu Lu (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Multiple Equilibrium States of a Curved-Sided Hexagram: Elastic Stability and State Transitions"
  • Miya Coimbra (Prof. Beverley McKeon)
    • "Characterizing Turbulence Regimes in Jezero Crater on Mars"
  • Myra Kurosu Jalil (Prof. Sindy Tang)
    • "Construction of a synthetic cell with a cytoskeleton using 2-photon polymerization and microfluidic methods"
  • Nick Montes (Prof. Hai Wang)
    • "Collision enhancement in shocks and its implication on gas-phase detonations: a gas kinetic theory and molecular dynamics study"
  • Nikolaos Kateris (Prof. Hai Wang)
    • "Theoretical themodynamic and kinetic analysis of alkali-sulfur batteries"
  • Paul de La Sayette (Prof. Kenneth Salisbury)
    • "Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration: Achieving Compliance through Variable Impedance Actuators in Lightweight Cable-Driven Robots"
  • Raj Paul (Prof. Sindy Tang)
    • "Role of cytoskeletal mechanics in wound resistance in the giant ciliate protozoa Stentor coeruleus"
  • Rosa Son (Prof. Sindy Tang)
    • "High-Throughput, Deterministic Microfluidic Trapping Array for Applications in Spatially-resolved Analysis of Tissue"
  • Ryan McAvoy (Prof. Christian Linder & Prof. Ellen Kuhl)
    • "Fiber-Reinforced Elastic Shells: A Direct Cosserat Approach"
  • Shuai Wu (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Magnetic milli-spinner for robotic interventional surgery"
  • Sophie Leanza (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Elephant Trunk Inspired Multimodal Deformations and Movements of Soft Robotic Arms"
  • Sophie Taylor (Prof. Brett Newman)
    • "Attachment Solution for Offroading Wheelchairs in Tanzania"
  • Steven Dai (Prof. Sanjiva K. Lele)
    • "Turbulent shear layers in a dense gas"
  • Sushruta Surappa
    • "Reconfigurable metasurfaces for acoustofluidics"
  • Xiao Yang (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Untethered amphibious soft robot enabled by liquid crystal elastomer-liquid metal composite"
  • Xinyi Liang (Prof. Mark Cutkosky & Prof. Alison Marsden)
    • "Supporting and Understanding the Pulmonary Circulation for Post-Fontan Patients with Electrohydraulic Technology"
  • Yilong Chang (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Milli-spinner thrombectomy"
  • Sarah Hwang (Prof. Renee Zhao)
    • "Rapid Reconfigurability of a Magneto-active Metamaterial"