Current Cornell Fracture Group Members

Derek Warner

Derek Warner

Director of the Cornell Fracture Group and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mingjie "James Zhao

Graduate Student

Grant West

Graduate Student

Bassel Khoury

Graduate Student

Swati Gupta

Graduate Student

Anthony R Ingraffea

Tony Ingraffea

Senior Technical Advisor & Founder

Paul "Wash" Wawrzynek

Paul "Wash" Wawrzynek

Former Research Associate & Technical Consultant

Bruce J Carter

Technical Consultant

Former students, staff, and visiting scholars

  • Terrence Moran, PhD 2022: Post Doctoral Research Associate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Wenjia Gu, PhD 2021: Amazon Lab126 
  • Alexander Niederwanger, visiting PhD student 2019: University of Innsbruck
  • Peipei Li, PhD 2018: Post Doctoral Research Associate at Brown University
  • Sepehr Saroukhani, PhD 2016: Keystone Strategy
  • Ranny Zhao, MS 2016: PhD student at University of Pennsylvania
  • Kelvin Leung, PhD 2015: Additive Manufacturing Engineer at Blue Origin
  • Geoff Bomarito, PhD 2014: Materials Research Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center
  • Rick Zamora, PhD 2014: Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ashley Spear, PhD 2014: Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Utah
  • Brett Davis, PhD 2014: Engineering Associate at Exponent
  • Al Cerrone, PhD 2014: Mechanical Engineer at GE
  • Kevin Muich, MS 2014: Structural Engineering at Dr J Engineering
  • Zhiliang Pan, Post Doctoral Researcher 2013: Post-Doctoral Scholar at UC Irvine
  • Arun K Nair, Post Doctoral Researcher 2011: Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas
  • Chandra Veer Singh, Post Doctoral Researcher 2011: Associate Professor at the University of Toronto
  • Linh Nguyen, PhD 2012: Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
  • Kris Baker, PhD 2012; Materials Engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
  • Gerd Heber Research Associate
  • Jeff Bozek
  • Erin Oneida
  • Silvia Corbani
  • Aida Nonn
  • Markos Oliveira Freitas
  • Giovanni Zizioli
  • Israel Garcia
  • Mike Veilleux
  • Jake Hochhalter
  • John Emery
  • Andy Liu
  • Virginia d’Avila
  • Erin Iesulauro (Barker)
  • Ani Ural
  • Antonio Miranda
  • Spievak, Lisa
  • Megan Polaha
  • Tong-Seok Han
  • Dohdia, Ketan
  • Rick Pettit
  • Jim Hanson
  • Changyu Hwang
  • David Chen
  • Joaquim Cavalcante-Neto
  • Kenneth Ferguson
  • Will Riddell
  • David Potyondy
  • Jose Luiz Sousa
  • Luiz Martha
  • Tulio Bittencourt
  • Leslie Banks-Sills
  • Pierre-Olivier Bouchard
  • Toshiyuki Meshii
  • Ketan Shah
  • Roland Krause
  • Celio Moretti
  • Peter Feenstra
  • Ripudaman Singh
  • Marcello Tilio Carvalho
  • Bob Dodds
  • Carsten Koenke
  • Katsumasa Miyazaki
  • Scott Jones
  • Steven Xu
  • John Dailey, Jr
  • Nikolai Weber

The Cornell Fracture Group was formed in the early 1990’s by Prof Ingraffea. Prior to this, its members were part of the Program of Computer Graphics and are not listed here.