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Luis Dorfmann

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
308 Anderson Hall
200 College Avenue
Medford, MA 021555

Office: 617-627-6137

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David Kaplan

Biomedical Engineering, Soft Tissue Engineering

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Barry Trimmer

Department of Biology, Soft-Bodied Robots, Climbing Machines, Neural Controllers

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Touhid Ahamed

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nonlinear Magnetoelasticity and Electroelasticity, Modeling of Soft Materials

Education

Touhid received his undergraduate degree from the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology in Bangladesh in 2008 and worked as a university lecturer for 5 years. In the fall of 2013 he arrived at Tufts where he currently works towards his MS degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Research Interests

During his time at Tufts, Touhid has developed a broad field of interests in structural engineering, nonlinear solid mechanics and biological and mathematical sciences. While his curiosity in structural engineering developed over many years, his interest in continuum mechanical and modeling developed during the last 6 months. Specifically, Touhid is interested in mathematical and numerical formulations to model the mechanical response of nonlinear elastic materials capable of large deformations. Of special interest is the inelastic response to account of the changes in material properties.

Dong Han

Department of Mathematics

Modeling of Electromechanical Interactions

Education

Dong Han is enrolled as a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics at Tufts University. She recieved a BEng in Information Engineering from University of Hong Kong in 2009 and a MMath in Computer Science from University of Waterloo in 2011. Her Master's thesis focused on solving nonlinear partial differential equations in financial problems with multigrid methods.

Research Interests

Han's research interests are in scientific computation and computational mathematics. She is currently working on developing efficient numerical methods for electromechanical interactions modelling using finite element methods and multigrid solvers.

Wenjian Lin

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Material Characterization and Modeling

Education

Wenjian Lin received his BS in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 2007 and is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate for Structure Engineering in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts University.

Research Interests

Lin is interested in the mechanical behavior of soft tissues, in homogenization techniques and nonlinear finite element modeling. His research focuses on mathematical modeling of human aneurysm tissues.