Mahmood Mamivand, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Boise State University, USA
Dr. Mahmood Mamivand is an assistant professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Department. He joined Boise State University in August 2017. He also serves as an adjunct professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
The ultimate goal of Dr. Mamivand’s research is to accelerate the process of materials design and discovery through developing multiscale multiphysics models. Specifically, Dr. Mamivand and his team are developing mesoscale models for materials phase transformation, nanoparticles growth, and materials performance in extreme environments.
Prior to Boise State University, Dr. Mamivand was a postdoctoral associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Mamivand received his PhD and MSc from Mississippi State University and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively.
Niaz Abdolrahim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Rochester, USA
Dr. Niaz Abdolrahim joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester in July 2015 as assistant professor. She recently completed her postdoctoral appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where she investigated the computational modeling of interface structure and interface-defect interactions in metallic films.
Abdolrahim is experienced in solid mechanics, continuum mechanics, plasticity, crystal plasticity, finite element methods (FEM), molecular dynamics simulations, Monte Carlo methods, nanoscale metallic composites, thin films, nanoporous materials, multiscale modeling of materials, computational solid mechanics, and mathematical modeling.
Abdolrahim received her PhD and MSc in mechanical engineering from Washington State University and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. Her research was on the multiscale modeling of dislocation mechanisms in nanoscale metals, with scales ranging from the atomistic, to crystal plasticity, to the continuum level via molecular dynamic simulations.
Zahra Abbasi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky, USA
Dr. Abbasi received her Ph.D. and MSc from the the University of Kentucky and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. Her research area is focused on Controls and Dynamics with with more than ten years of different professional experiences as a design engineer, supervising engineer, lecturer, and researcher in the industry and academia. Her Specialties include Linear/nonlinear control (PID, LQR, LQE, LQG, Kalman filter, state estimator/observer, Lyapunov based control design, Backstepping, Sliding-mode control), Optimal control including Lagrange multiplier method, Robust control, Multi-agent systems, Kinematics/dynamics modeling, Algorithm implementation, simulation and debugging and Numerical Analysis
