GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Christopher Chaplin - Biomechanics of Blood Flow During Stroke
• Tobias Harrison-Noonan
• Shashank Nawathe - Micromechanics of the Proximal Femur and Damage Progression in Hip Fractures
• Arnav Sanyal - Multiaxial Failure Criterion of Trabecular Bone

STAFF

• Open (Staff Research Engineer & Lab Manager)
• Bonnie Kirk (Administratitve Specialist)

UNDERGRADUATES

• Hosna Akhlaghpour
• Suraj Bhogal
• Walter Caliboso
• Kevin Chow
• Maxwell Davis
• Amanda Eng
• Akash Jain
• Derek Lew
• Kevin Ma
• Ronald Miller
• Brian Pugh
• Sarah Tanaka
• Ivana Yi

VISITING SCHOLARS

• Heather Doyle - Visiting Student Researcher; National University of Ireland; Ireland
• Haisheng Yang - Visiting Student Researcher; Shenzhen University; China

ALUMNI

• Bethany Baumbach (staff research engineer & lab/project manager) - Micromechanics of Trabecular Bone
• Harun H. Bayraktar - High-Resolution Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Human Trabecular Bone
• Grant Bevill - High-resolution nonlinear finite element analysis of human trabecular bone
• Joe Catanese - Failure mechanisms and constitutive modeling of cortical bone
• Wes Chang - Failure mechanisms in trabecular bone; constitutive modeling of cells
• Sabrina Cheng
• John Christensen - Voxel-based QCT modeling of individual Vertebra
• Paul Crawford
• Ryan Doan
• Sarah Easley - Multiaxial Failure of Bone
• Senthil Eswaran - Micro-mechanics of the Vertebral Body
• Bryan Fan - Voxel-based QCT modeling of human vertebrae
• Aaron Fields - High-Resolution Finite Element Analysis of the Vertebral Body
• Keith Fong - Measurement of Anisotropic Permeability in Trabecular Bone
• Julia Fox - Proximal Femur Biomechanics
• Tiffany Grant - FEM Analysis of Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty
• Atul Gupta (staff research engineer & computational manager) - Finite Element Models of Femurs and Vertebral Bodies
• Shilpa Gupta - Finite Element Models of Femurs and Vertebral Bodies
• Sean Haddock - Biological response of bone cells to mechanical loading
• Christopher Hernandez (post-doc) - Micromechanics of Trabecular Bone
• Elizabeth Hsiao - Biomechanics of falling
• Paul Hwu
• Erika Iverson - Effects of Age on the Biochemistry and Mechanical Properties of Bone Collagen
• Mike Jaasma - Osteoblast Mechanical Behavior
• Welsey Jackson - Cellular Culture and Cytoskeletal Structure of Osteoblasts
• Michael Jekir - Staff Research Engineer & Lab Manager
• Fjola Johannesdottir - Visiting Scholar, Icelandic Heart Association, Iceland
• Galateia Kazakia - Bone Tissue Engineering, Flow Perfusion, 3 Dimensional Fluorescence Imaging.
• Doron Klepach - Constitutive Modeling of Human Trabecular Bone
• Steve Klisch - Biomechanics of the intervertebral body and disk
• David Kopperdahl - Mechanical properties of human vertebral trabecular bone; structural effects of damaged bone tissue on whole bone behavior
• Jason Lee
• George Lu
• Elise Morgan - Trabecular Bone Mechanics and the Design of a Novel Bone Substitute
• Grayson Morris
• Michael Moyles
• Eric Nauman - Fluid mechanics of bone; cell mechanics and bone remodeling
• Ramford Ng - Developing an End-Cap Testing Technique for Cortical Bone
• Glen Niebur - Massively parallel computational methods and three-dimensional finite-element alaysis of trabecular bone.
• Bill Palm - Design and Analysis of Interbody Spinal Hardware
• Jon Pearlman - Finite Element Modeling of the Human Vertebral Body
• Javier Martinez Reina (Associate Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, Spain)
• Kurt Risic - Development of an Apparatus to Simultaneously Apply Substrate Deformation and Fluid Shear Stress to an Adherent Cell Population
• Alissa Romens - Micromechanics of the Proximal Femur
• Thanos Rossopoulos
• Robyn Shaffer
• Ragu Sivarajan
• Carolyn Sparrey - Biomechanics of Traumatic Spinal Chord Injury
• Josuke Tanaka
• Xiang Wang (Staff Research Engineer) - Voxel-based QCT modeling of human vertebrae
• Eric Wong (staff research engineer & lab manager) - Mechanical Testing of Trabecular Bone
• Jesse Woo - Mechanical Testing of Trabecular Bone
• Oscar Yeh - Micro-Mechanical Modeling of Trabecular Bone and Constitutive Modeling of Trabecular Failure
• Denny Yu
• Jonathan Yuen - Analysis of Trabecular Tissue Properties Using Micro-FEA
• Simon Xu

PAST UNDERGRADUATES

• David Barone
• Andrew Baik
• Gabby Blumenkrantz
• Andy Burghardt
• Deva Chan
• Jokay Chan
• Michael Chang
• Hunter Chen
• Ting-Ting Chen
• Kirby Chiang
• Bryan Choi
• May Chu
• Emily Clowes
• Farhad Farahmand
• Mike Feldstein
• Raul Felix-Gamboa
• Eunice Fu
• Shail Gala
• Paul Hoffman
• Ron Kwon
• Brandon Laws
• Gideon Lee
• Ken Loo
• Jehnan Liu
• George Lu
• Prem Nagarathnam
• Sanjay Nagarkar
• Jacob Pollock
• Quoc Quach
• Thanos Rossopoulos
• Sebastian Ruf
• Sanaz Saatchi
• Sue Sadaghiani
• Dmitriy Shindich
• Mandeep Singh
• CJ Slyfield
• Joanna So
• Raymond Tang
• Joyce Tang
• Tom Tischner
• David Torello
• Jay Wang
• Margaretha Winata
• John Wong
• Sam Wu
• Denny Yu
• Cecile Zhou

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