2025
Kennedie Wilding, one of our PhD students, has recieved NASA funding to attend ICACC 2026! Congratulations Kennedie!
Dr Prameela was recently invited to attend a seminar by Dr. Haoran Wang at Utah State University, where he discussed particle impact testing and propulsion materials. Additionally, he had the opportunity to virtually give a guest lecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in which he discussed hypersonic flight materials and some of our work here at STARS Labs. Thanks to both for the invite, and for being gracious hosts!
Our Fall 2025 semester came to a close with a ‘Labsgiving’ potluck event, during which we socialized, watched a movie, and sampled food from various cultures represented in our lab!
Lab members Naveen Dinujaya, Will Lee, Abby Blatter, Humza Aizad, Duke Nguyen, Dinh Ly, and Tam Vo attended the Utah Zero Gravity Summit with Dr. Prameela to meet industry professionals.
We were honored to host Prof. Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran from Caltech, who spoke on “Dynamic Behavior of Lattice Structures.”
We had the opportunity to have Prof. Colin Ophus from Stanford University visit and give a seminar titled “4D-STEM for Metrology and Materials Characterization.”
Jackson Johns received the NASA OSTEM internship over the summer, and had the opportunity to work at NASA Glenn, congratulations!
We recently hosted Prof. Nutth Tuchinda, Assistant Professor at NJIT, who lead a seminar titled “Tailoring Defects in Polycrystalline Alloys Through Segregation Engineering.”
We hosted an open day for high school students, and had the opportunity to meet incoming Aerospace and STEM students. We hope to see some of them here at the U soon!
We had the opportunity to have Dr. Luis Barroso-Luque, Research Engineer at Meta Fundamental AI Research, who gave a talk titled “Exploring the Frontier of Universal Machine Learning Potentials”
Lab member Jesse Leyva-Zavala received the Gen Next scholarship, congratulations!
We were happy to host Prof. Angkur Shaikeea, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar at Caltech. He spoke on “Constitutive Modeling from Local Stress–Strain Responses: Opportunities with Advanced Imaging.”
PhD Kennedie Wilding has been awarded the NASA OSTEM internship to support her research projects here at STARS Labs.
Humza Aizad, Milo Atwood, Will Lee, and Emily Jolley have received the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) scholarship for their research here at STARS Labs, congratulations!
Industry collaborator visits STARS Lab space
Industry collaborator visits STARS Lab and University of Utah lab space
Naveen Dinujaya and Professor Suhas visit TMS Las Vegas to meet industry representatives and fellow researchers.
Garrett Baker, Nicole Payne, Naveen Dinujaya, and Professor Suhas visit ARO.
Kennedie Wilding joins STARS lab as a PhD, welcome!
Nicole Payne, Sam Moten, Warren Stone, Collin Philips, Asher Young, and Andrew Koenig join STARS lab as undergraduate researchers.
Garrett Baker, Jackson Johns, and Maxwell Brinkerhoff receive UROP funding for their research in STARS Labs.
2024
STARS lab celebrates the end of 2024 with a lab outing
Max and Dr. Prameela visit 47G expo and had the opportunity to interact with industry leaders and research peers.
Garrett Baker, Jackson Johns, and Maxwell Brinkerhoff join STARS lab as undergraduate students.
Naveen Dinujaya has joined STARS lab as a PhD. student, welcome!
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