Lab Members | Vibrolab

Lab Director

Dr. Oumar Barry received his B.Eng. in Engineering in 2008 and his M.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2014. He worked as a Design Engineer for Hydro One Inc. from 2008 to 2015. He then went on to become an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University until 2018 when he joined Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include structural dynamics, nonlinear vibration, noise and vibration control, self-powered MEMS and NEMS sensors and actuators, energy harvesting, smart composite materials, fluid structure interaction, inspection and damping robots, and assistive robotic exoskeletons. A list of his publications is available here.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sunit Gupta received his B.Eng from CSVTU Bhilai, India and his PhD from IIT Kanpur in 2018, both in Mechanical Engineering. his current research focuses on the understanding the effect of nonlinear isolators on the vibrations of ultra-precision manufacturing systems (UPM).

Ph.D. Students

Daniel Welcome received his BSME from Purdue University in 1993 and MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1996. After further study in BME at Iowa and occupational biomechanics research at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, he has been researching hand transmitted vibration for the last 20+ years at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. His research at Virginia Tech focuses on finding ways to use nonlinear dynamics to mitigate the vibration from tools.

Oreoluwa Alabi received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2019. His research focuses on the development of anti-vibration gloves for use in industrial settings.

Ashenafi Mebrat achieved both his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT) at Addis Ababa University (AAU) in 2017 and 2020, respectively. His academic pursuits center around the fascinating realms of linear and nonlinear vibrations, metamaterials, and energy harvesting.

Ehab Basta received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The American University of Sharjah in 2017 and 2019, respectively. His research focuses on Metastructures, Fluid-structure interaction, Nonlinear Dynamics, Perturbation Techniques, and Structural Vibration.

Ranhee Yoon received her B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Incheon National University in 2016, and her M.Eng in Railway System Engineering from the Korea Railroad Research Institute(KRRI) campus of the University of Science and Technology in 2019. She researched a hyperloop vehicle and a rail management apparatus for additional two years at the KRRI. Her research interests include robotics, dynamics, and control and design of dynamic robot systems.

M.S. Students

Nipun Nambiar received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Calicut, India. His research interests include vibration analysis and fracture mechanics.

Undergraduate Students

Active Alumni

Mohammad Bukhari received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2014, his M.Sc in Engineering from Central Michigan University in 2017, and his Ph.D from Virginia Tech in 2021. He is interested in studying Metamaterials, Energy Harvesting, Linear and Nonlinear Vibrations, Human Structure Interaction, Perturbation Techniques, and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. He is currently an assistant professor at Wayne State University.

Jiamin (Jimmy) Wang received his B.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2015, M.S. Degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2017, and Ph.D Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2022. His research focuses on the development of a wrist tremor suppression exoskeleton. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. His current research interests include robotic and AI algorithms, nonlinear dynamics and control, and high-performance computing methodologies for modeling and control.

Andrew Choi received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech in 2021 and 2023, respectively. His research interests include robotics and controls in the application of vibration suppression. He is currently employed at Sealed Air Corporation.