Year: 2025
Lasantha Weerasekara and Galen Han join Thevamaran Lab
Welcome to Lasantha Weerasekara and Galen Han who joined our Lab in Fall 2025. Lasantha will be pursing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering while Galen will be pursuing undergraduate research as a freshmen in Engineering …
Professor Thevamaran gives a Mechanical and Mechatronics departmental seminar at the University of Auckland New Zealand
Professor Thevamaran gave a departmental seminar titled, “Embedded material intelligence: From impact mitigation to tailored wave dynamics by engineered dissipation” at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.
Congratulations to Bhanugoban Maheswaran for being selected to participate in the 3M RISE symposium
3M RISE introduces emerging science and engineering graduate talent to the wide range of rewarding careers in research and development at one of the world’s most recognized innovation companies, 3M. Congratulations, Bhanu!
Congratulations to Bhanugoban Maheswaran and Yasara Dharmadasa for receiving SES Travel Awards
Congratulations to our PhD student Bhanugoban Maheswaran and Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Yasara Dharmadasa for receiving SES Travel Awards to present their work at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of Engineering Science.
Our latest Nature Communications Paper: New design framework makes it easier to create custom shock-absorbing materials
Professor Thevamaran gives an Invited talk at Symposium V of the Singaporean Materials Research Society Conference (ICMAT 2025)
Grace Heinrich joins our team as Research Specialist
Welcome to Grace Heinrich, who has joined our team as research specialist. She will spearhead efforts on the accelerated development and deployment of carbon nanotube based helmet liners for traumatic brain injury prevention.
Our study has been featured as the cover of July issue of the Experimental Mechanics
Congratulations to our former Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Jizhe Cai and collaborators for our paper entitled, “Overcoming Dynamic Stiffness-Damping Trade-off with Structural Gradients in 3D Printed Elastomeric Gyroid Lattices” being featured as the cover of …
Professor Thevamaran named 2025 Springer/Nature Young Investigator Lecturer by the Society for Experimental Mechanics
Prof. Thevamaran has been selected as the 2025 Springer/Nature Young Investigator Lecturer by the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). He gave the opening lecture on the June 2nd and received the award from the SEM …