Winners of the EMI Student Competitions

The finals of the student competitions were held at the EMI 2017 Conference, June 4-7, San Diego, CA and the results announced at the awards banquet. Congratulations to all the students who placed in the competitions! 

Computational Mechanics Student Poster Competition

• Winner: Emma Lejeune, Stanford University
• Runner Ups: Phillippe Alves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Weixin Lin, Northwestern University

Dynamics Committee Student Paper Competition

• Winner: Ketson Roberto Maximiano dos Santos, Columbia University

Granular Materials Committee Student Paper Competition

• Winner: Siyu Zhu, Columbia University

Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior (MIMB) Committee Student Paper Competition

• Winner: Raja Biswas, National University of Singapore
• Runner Ups: Andreas Krischok, Stanford University,  and Mohammadreza Yaghoobi, Louisiana State University

Objective Resilience Student Paper Competition

• 1st Place: Katherine Flanigan, University of Michigan
• 2nd Place: Shady Salem, McMaster University
• 3rd Place: Xi Chen, Rutgers University

Probabilistic Methods Student Paper Competition

• Winner: Reza Mohammadi Ghazi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Structural Health Monitoring and Control Student Paper Competition

• 1st Place: Vedhus Hoskere, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2nd Place: Murat Uzun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 3rd Place: Xiangxiong Kong, University of Kansas