Boechler Research Group

Nicholas Boechler

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Program in Materials Science and Engineering

Email: nboechler(at)ucsd(dot)edu

Nick received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech, and his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Caltech. He worked at MIT as a Postdoctoral Associate from Fall 2011 to Spring 2013. He has been a faculty since 2013, and is the recipient of the Army Research Office and Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program awards and the 2017 International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU) Early Career Award.

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Kai Qian

Postdoctoral researcher

Email: k3qian(at)ucsd(dot)edu

Kai received his B.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Kai received SLiM-Ex Scientist Exchange Award in 2022.

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Haning Xiu

Postdoctoral researcher

Email: hxiu(at)ucsd(dot)edu

Haning received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronaut and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology. He then received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Georgia in 2020. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Zi Chen at Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School from Fall 2020 to Winter 2022.

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Nicolas Herard

PhD Student

Email: nherard(at)ucsd(dot)edu

Nicolas received his B.S in Materials Science and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2020. Nic is the recipient of a ORAU Journeyman Fellowship through the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Research Associateship Program.

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Maya Brandy

PhD Student

Email: mbrandy(at)ucsd(dot)edu

Maya received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2023. She also received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) in 2024.

Shivani Deglurkar

Phd Student

Email: shivanideglurkar(at)ucsd.edu

Shivani completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2023 and is pursuing her Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Nicholas Boechler and Professor Nicholas Gravish.

Alumni:

MS Thesis, PhD recipients, and postdoctoral researchers (first job after graduation)

Brianna MacNider, PhD (Postdoctoral researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Jihad Algassimi, PhD (Assistant Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals)
Ian Frankel, PhD (Touch/Force Hardware Architect, Apple)
Ryan Fancher, PhD (Air Force)
Maroun Abi Ghanem, Project scientist (Researcher, Centre national de la recherche scientifique [CNRS], Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon, France)
Florian Allein, Postdoctoral researcher (Enseignant-chercheur [faculty] at Institut Supérieur de l’Electronique et du Numérique [ISEN], Lille, France)
Reza Behrou, Postdoctoral researcher (TDA Inc.)
Morgan Hiraiwa, PhD (Tecnar)
Amey Khanolkar, PhD (Russell L. Heath Distinguished Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Idaho National Laboratory
Samuel Wallen, PhD (Postdoctoral researcher at Applied Research Laboratories and UT Austin)
Vimarsh Verma, MS
Morgan Bassford, MS (Blue Origin)