News

Awards, publications, and milestones from our group and its members.

Awards & Honors

2026 · Dr. Maryam Shakiba receives the Smead Aerospace Faculty Performance Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty.

2025 · Marwa Yacouti receives the AIAA John Leland Atwood Graduate Award.

2025 · Marwa Yacouti receives the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) Conference Travel Award.

2025 · Santiago Jimenez Marin receives a CU Boulder Graduate School Travel Grant and an NSF Student Travel Award for the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics.

2024 · Marwa Yacouti named a Caltech Trailblazing Young Researcher and receives the IEEE Women in Services Computing (WISC) scholarship award.

2024 · Santiago Jimenez Marin receives NSF Student Travel Awards for the U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics and the American Society for Composites 39th Technical Conference.

Research & Media

May 2026 · The whole group presented their work at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference in Boulder.

2026 · New paper: “Aging-invariant fractocohesive length in thermally aged elastomers,” Extreme Mechanics Letters.

2026 · New paper: “Predicting stress and damage in carbon fiber-reinforced composites using a Composite U-Net surrogate model,” Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.

2025 · Our work on thermo-oxidative aging of polyimide films is featured on spectroscopyonline.com.

2025 · New paper: “Predicting the mechanical response of shape-memory zirconia-reinforced metal-matrix composites using FEA and deep learning,” Composite Structures.