{"id":41,"date":"2019-11-16T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:37:37","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Principal Investigator: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Youxing Chen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graduate students:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Chunan Zhang<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD student<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research focus: Nanomechanics and Materials<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Maedeh Taghipour<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD student<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research focus: Microstructure Analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, Manufacturing, Nanomechanics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate students: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trevor Williams<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate student (Senior, Early-Entry Master Program)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research focus: Ceramics Additive Manufacturing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Devin McKillop<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate student (Senior, Early-Entry Master Program)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research focus: Nanomechanics and Materials<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Raffael Ziemski<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(exchange undergraduate student from KIT, 2024\/04\/01-2024\/10\/01)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research focus: Small-scale mechanical testing,<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> Nanomechanics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alumni<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Liuqing Yang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research focus: Nanomechanics, Microstructure Analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current: TDK semiconductor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Master<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Oliver Burgi<\/strong> (exchange master student from KIT, 2023\/04\/01-2023\/10\/01)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advisor: Dr. Y. Chen @ UNC Charlotte; co-advisor: Dr. J. Shingledecker @ EPRI<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master’s <\/span><\/strong>Thesis Topic: nanoindentation of additively manufactured ABD900 superalloys<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Tom Shanley<\/strong> (B.S., graduated in 2023)<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Topic: surface analysis of diamond-turned surface<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Michelle Amoah<\/strong><\/span><\/span> (high-school student, 2023)<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research topic: Microstructural design inspired by nature<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Principal Investigator: Dr. Youxing Chen Graduate students: —————————————– Mr. Chunan Zhang PhD student Research focus: Nanomechanics and Materials —————————————– Ms. Maedeh Taghipour PhD student Research focus: Microstructure Analysis, Manufacturing, Nanomechanics Undergraduate students: Mr. Trevor Williams Undergraduate student (Senior, Early-Entry Master … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ychen103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}