Principal Investigator
Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering MechanicsAffiliated Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Abadi is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech. She received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Prior to joining Michigan Tech, she was a NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Organ Design and Engineering Training (ODET) program in the Center for Nanomedicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2016-2017) and AAUW Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Biomaterials Innovations Research Center at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (2015-2016). She is a recipient of the 2017 Scientist Development Grant from American Heart Association and a 2021 recipient of the Research Excellence Fund from Michigan Tech Office of the Vice President for Research.
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Ph.D. Students
Akash Gawde
Akash Gawde started as a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering from Fall 2023. Prior to that, he received an M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Michigan Tech University. He joined Abadi Lab in Spring 2022 as a M.S. student researcher. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Mumbai. Akash is interested in composite materials and is co-advised by Dr. Trisha Sain.
Zohreh Salimi
Zohreh Salimi is a Ph.D. student working jointly with Dr. Abadi and Dr. Yap (Physics). She holds a M.S. degree from the Science and Research University in Tehran, Iran and joined Abadi lab in 2023. She is working on the physics, mechanics, and biological applications of novel nanomaterials.
Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars
Michael J. Hill (2017-2019)
Ph.D. Students
Roya Bagheri (2020-2023; last known position: Postdoc, UCLA)
Masoud Kasraie (2019-2022; last known position: Materials engineer, Volvo)
M.S. Students
Pranav Sathaye (2023-2024)
Akash Gawde (2022-2023)
Christiana Strong (2021)
Aparna Chandra (2020-2021)
Saurabh Karanke (2020-2021)
Onkar Prakash Salukhe (2020)
Grace Billman-Benveniste (2019)
Undergraduate Students
Neva Manas (2021-2022)
Alicia Ball (2017-2020)
Dominika Bobik (2020)
Daniel Woodall (2018-2019)
Josh Loiselle (2017-2018)
High School Interns
Korey Deans (Summer 2019)
Davaughn Smith (Summer 2018)