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Lab Members

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Anne E. Staples, PI

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, Princeton University, 2006

VT Faculty page:

https://me.vt.edu/people/faculty/staples-anne.html

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Kirubaharan Natarajan

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MS, Virginia Tech, 2024

Project: Bioinspired design and control, reinforcement learning

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Hanna Rozsavolgyi

MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2025

Project: Microfluidic device modeling and simulation

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Kaleb Belcher

MS Student, Biomedical Engineering
BS, Virginia Tech, 2026

Project: Medical device development, device design and fabrication, data science

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Saadbin Khan

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MS, Oklahoma State University, 2019

Project: Insect respiration, DSMC, CFD simulations

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Zhiyao Zhang

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MS, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2024

Project: Scientific ML, fluids

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Liam Janssen

MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, 2025

Project: Physiological signal transduction, microfluidics

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Nathaniel Fairbank

BS Student, Mechanical Engineering

Project: Medical device development, CFD

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Shuyu Zhang

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
BS, Virginia Tech, 2020

Project: Medical device microfluidics, 3D printing, human participant studies

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Max Mikel-Stites

MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS, University of Rochester

Project: Fly auditory acoustics, mathematical modeling

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Jasmine Pegues

MS Student, Biomedical Engineering
BS, Virginia Tech, 2026

Project: Medical device development, physiological signal transduction

Recent Alumni

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Ruhit Sinha

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MS, South Dakota State University, 2020

Project: Fluid dynamics of hemodialysis, PINNs

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Julia Wakefield

BS Student, Biomedical Engineering

Project: Flapping insect wing, CAD, 3D printing

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Jamie Brennan

BS Student, Biomedical Engineering

Project: Microfluidics for drug delivery, COMSOL modeling

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Nathan Davis

MS Student, Biomedical Engineering
BS, Virginia Tech, 2023

Project: Effects of elevated intracranial pressure on a cerebral vein model

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Emma Sparks

MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS, Virginia Tech, 2019

Project: Fly-inspired directional microphone, COMSOL modeling

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Tyler Rodriguez

BS Student, Engineering Mechanics

Project: Microfluidics for drug delivery, microfluidics fabrication

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Mrigank Dhingra

MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
BS, Manipal Institute of Technology, 2020

Project: Deep learning based closure modeling

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Jessica Prisbe

BS Student, Biomedical Engineering

Project: Bioicrofluidics

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