News
Awards, publications, and milestones from our group and its members.
Awards & Honors
2026 路 Dr. Maryam Shakiba receives the Smead Aerospace Faculty Performance Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty.
2025 路 Marwa Yacouti receives the AIAA John Leland Atwood Graduate Award.
2025 路 Marwa Yacouti receives the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) Conference Travel Award.
2025 路 Santiago Jimenez Marin receives a CU 扒哥吃瓜 Graduate School Travel Grant and an NSF Student Travel Award for the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics.
2024 路 Marwa Yacouti named a Caltech Trailblazing Young Researcher and receives the IEEE Women in Services Computing (WISC) scholarship award.
2024 路 Santiago Jimenez Marin receives NSF Student Travel Awards for the U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics and the American Society for Composites 39th Technical Conference.
Research & Media
May 2026 路 The whole group presented their work at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference in 扒哥吃瓜.
2026 路 New paper: 鈥淎ging-invariant fractocohesive length in thermally aged elastomers,鈥 Extreme Mechanics Letters.
2026 路 New paper: 鈥淧redicting stress and damage in carbon fiber-reinforced composites using a Composite U-Net surrogate model,鈥 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.
2025 路 Our work on thermo-oxidative aging of polyimide films is featured on .
2025 路 New paper: 鈥淧redicting the mechanical response of shape-memory zirconia-reinforced metal-matrix composites using FEA and deep learning,鈥 Composite Structures.