Dr. Towfighian received her PhD degree
from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2011. She joined
the Mechanical Engineering department at Binghamton
University in Fall 2013. She has published 14 international
journal and conference papers and has received NSERC
doctoral scholarship and MITACS Postdoctoral fellowships.
Her research interest is Micro-electro-mechanical systems
and their applications in medical imaging devices. She is
also interested in energy harvesting from mechanical
vibration for biomedical applications.
Current Members
Mehmet Ozdogan
PhD Candidate
mozdoga1@binghamton.edu
Mehmet has received his BS degree from Yildiz Technical
University in Turkey. He is currently receiving scholarship
from Turkish Military Academy.
His research interest is micro-actuators for bi-axial
rotations and out of plane dispalcement for optical
interferometry applications.
Wathiq Ibrahim PhD Candidate (with Dr. Mohammad
Younis)
aibrahi4@binghamton.edu
Wathiq earned his bachelor's degree in Biosystme Engineering
in 2006 from Jordan University of Science and Technology. He
got his Masters' degree from binghamton University in 2013
and currently working on his PhD reserach focused on energy hravesting from nonlinear
mechanical vibrations.
Wei Yang PhD Candidate
wyang24@binghamton.edu
Wei obtained his BS and MS degree from the University of
Science and Technology at Beijing in 2011 and 2014,
respectively. He is currently working on his PhD degree and
is developing nonlinear resonators for energy harvesting
from random input vibrations.
Wei Sun MS Candidate
wsun4@binghamton.edu
Wei is working on his Masters' thesis on developing an
electrostatic micromirror with a large stroke
for medical device applications.
Mark Pallay MS Candidate
mpallay1@binghamton.edu
Mark has received his BS degree from Binghamton University
in spring 2014. He is working towards his Masters' degree and his
reserach is parametric excitation of electrostatic
resonators.
Meysam Daechin
PhD Candidate
mdaeich1@binghamton.edu
Meysam has received his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering
from Sharif University of Technology at Tehran, Iran in
2013. He joined the lab in September 2015.
He is working towards his PhD and his research is focused on
dynamics and vibration of MEMS transducers.
Alumni
Matthew Jones MS
Currently at Ford.
Lejie Liu MS
Currently PhD student at University of Madison-Wisconsin.