The Nanomechanics Lab is comprised of faculty, staff, research scientists, post doctoral scientists, graduate students and undergraduate students.

• Ming Dao
  Director & Principal Investigator
  Senior Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
  Singapore Research Chair Professor of Bioengineering & Infectious Diseases (MIT 2012)
  Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME 2016)
  Inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar – Lifetime (ScholarGPS 2024)
  Top 2% Scientisits, Ioannidis/Stanford University (Single Year since 2019 & Career since 2020)

• Subra Suresh
  Vannevar Bush Professor Emeritus of Engineering & Former Dean of Engineering, MIT
  13th Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from October 2010 to March 2013

• George Labonte
  Laboratory Manager

Research Scientists and Visiting Professors

• Patrícia Almeida Carvalho
  Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
  Ph.D., Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen
• Shou-Yi Chang
  Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Trevor Lindley
  Professor, Imperial College, United Kingdom
  Ph.D., B.Sc., University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Post Doctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars

• Dimitrios P. Papageorgiou
  Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, National Technical University (NTUA), Greece
  M.S., Microelectronics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
  B.S., Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
• Yuhao Qiang
  Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
  M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China
  B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, China
• Jun Yang
  Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  M.S., Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
  B.S., Chemical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, China
• Ting Yang
  Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  B.S., Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, China

Visiting Graduate Students

• Luca D’Andrea
  Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  B.S., Medical Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Cheng-Yuan Tsai
  Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan