Tianyu was born in a small city in Central China. He grew up near the Yangtze river but never learned to swim. Tianyu obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China. He joined the Ertekin Group as a Ph.D....
Tawfiq was born in Chattogram, Bangladesh. He completed his undergraduate in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Then he came to the US for his pursuit of science and started gus Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at...
Rees was born in Hong Kong before moving to Connecticut at age 6. He received his BS with honors in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University in 2020 after barely passing his final exam on wines. He thinks materials science is pretty hard, so he...
Kelly was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she lived until 11 before moving to Korea. She graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Sogang University. Before graduate school, she did a variety of work including interpretation services for an Indian...
Jiaxing came from the coastal areas of China. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics from Hohai University, followed by a master’s degree in the same major from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her master’s research was about nano-mechanics in 2D...