PEOPLE

Xiaodu Wang

Professor, ASME and AIMBE Fellow
Office: EB 3.04.52
 

 

 
Current Members
 
 
 
Post Doctoral Fellows
 
Pengwei Xiao
 
Ph.D
Lab: BSE 0.216
 
   
 
Ph.D Graduate Students
       
Savannah Heath
 
Ph.D Graduate Student
Lab: BSE 0.216
 
 
Caroline Schilling
 
Ph.D Graduate Student
Lab: BSE 0.216
 
 
 
Hossein Akherati
 
Ph.D Graduate Student
Lab: BSE 0.216
 
Ashley Ridoutt
 
MS Graduate Student
Lab: BSE 0.216
ashley.ridoutt@my.utsa.edu
 

Undergraduate Students

 
Mathew Castaneda
 
Undergraduate 
Sophomore
Mechanical Engineering 
 
Christian Pena
 
Undergraduate 
Senior
Mechanical Engineering

High School Students

 

Sophia Pokorney

Highschool Senior

 

Klara Sattler

Highschool Senior

Minority Student Recruitment and Mentoring

Active recruitment and mentoring of minority students is an important component of teaching and education. With an increasing percentage of the US population of minority background, it is important to encourage, recruit and mentor minority students. As a result, I have made it a priority to recruit and develop minority students (refer to CV for details).

 

Previous Members

1. Masters’ Thesis (23)

2019                   Mark Anguiano, MS/ME, UTSA
                              Proteoglycans vs. Nanomechanics of bone
2018-                 Habeeb Mustapha, MS/ME, UTSA
                              Deep learning of trabecular bone microstructure
2015-2017       Abu Saleh Ahsan, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Nanomechanics of bone
2015-2017       Matt Kirby, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Digital bone
2013-2015       Haoran (Kevin) Xu, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Effect of proteoglycans on the in situ toughness of bone
2013-2015       Abu Hena Md Mahbub Morshed, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Mathematical modeling of trabecular bone architectures
2010-2014       Chintan Gandhi, (graduated) MS/BME, UTSA
                                Effects of Matrix AGEs on Osteoclastic Resorption on Human Bone
2011-2013        Md Monirul Islam, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Coring of bone vs. heat induced temperature rise
2011-2013       Ahmed Mostafa, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                              AGEs vs. bone formation using an implant rat model
2011-2013       Chandan Shome, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                              Nanomechanics of bone fragility
2011-2013       Dana Mecke, (graduated) MS/BME, UTSA
                               Probabilistic descriptions of trabecular bone architecture
2011-2013        Khaled Mahmud, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Probabilistic FEA simulation of microdamage development in mineralized collagen fibrils
2011-2013        Saurav Kumar, (graduated) MS/ME, UTSA
                               Modeling and analysis of the mechanical parameters and effect of environmental factors on porcine eye lens
2011-2013        Sergio Montelongo, MS/BME (graduated), UTSA
                               Modeling of trabecular bone using stochastic geometry approaches
2011-                   Ray Hansberger, MS/ME (pending), UTSA
                               Development of a smart coring tool to assess the quality of bone
2011-2012        Jitin Samuel, MS/ME, (graduated) UTSA
2009-2011        Anowarul Islam, MS/ME (graduated), UTSA
                                Development and verification of a novel nanoscratch test for bone
2008-2010       Mounica Banka, MS/BME (graduated), UTSA
                                Microdamage induced collagen denaturation in bone
2008-2009       Rugved Nakade, MS/ME (graduated), UTSA
                                 Influence of interfacial properties and inhomogeneity on formation of microdamage in bone
2006-2009       Rae Acuna, MS/ME Student, (graduated) Thesis advisor, UTSA
                                  Anisotropic post-yield behavior of human cortical bone
2001-2004       Sreekar Puram, MS/ME Student (graduated), Thesis advisor, UTSA
                                 Age-related effect of bone remodeling on the localized mechanical properties of human bone
2001-2003       Ashok Vardhan Gunuganti, MS/ME Student (graduated), Thesis advisor, UTSA
                                 A study on strengthening mechanisms for nanoparticle reinforcement of DL-PLG and LPLA biopolymers
2000-2001       Joe Langle, MS/ME Student (graduated), Thesis advisor, UTSA
                                 Rupture pressure prediction of scored prebulged rupture discs

 2. Masters’ Non-Thesis (7)

2016-2017       Shu (Sheldon) Yang, MS/ME (Graduated), UTSA
2015-2016       Natalie Fan, MS/BME (Graduated), UTSA
2014-2015       Thomas Leal, MS/ME (Graduated), UTSA
2013-2014        Raham Kirkwood, MS/ME (Graduated), UTSA
2013-2014        Chris Storey, MS/ME (Graduated), UTSA
2011-2012        Arron L. Werthem, MS/ME (Graduated), UTSA
2011-2012        Mustafa Unel, MS/ME (Graduated), UTSA

3. PhD. Dissertation

2020-Present Savannah Heath
2020-2022 Eakeen Haque 
2018- 2022

Pengwei Xiao, PhD/ME, UTSA

Medical Image-Based AI Techniques in Prediction of Trabecular  Bone Microarchitecture and Mechanical Properties. (Graduated)

2017-2018 

Neda Shafiei, PhD/ME, UTSA

Digital model of trabecular bone

2016-2017

Jie Bai, PhD/ME, UTSA

Multiscale modeling of bone

2012-2018

Jitin Samuel, PhD/ME, UTSA, (Graduated)

Nanomechanics of bone using synchrotron X-ray scattering    techniques   

2009-2012

Qin Luo, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Thesis Co-Advisor,     Peking University, (Graduated)

A study on microdamage accumulation in bone

2005-2008

Satya P. Paruchuru, PhD in Applied Mechanics, Thesis Co-Advisor, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India (Graduated)

Mechanical techniques for characterization of bone

2004-2010  

Michael Reyes, PhD/BME, UTSA, (Graduated)

The effect of bone remodeling on the local properties of human cortical bone

 

4. Postdoctoral Fellows (14) /Exchange Scholars Supervised (5)

  1. Yan Han, Post-doc (PhD/Biomaterials, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), UTSA 2019-2022
  2. Changlong Feng, Exchange PhD Student, (PhD/BME, Beihang University), UTSA 2018
  3. Rui Hua, Post-doc, (PhD/Life Science, Peking University), UTSA 2016-2017
  4. Huiting Gao, Exchange Scholar, (PhD/MSE, Harbin University of Technology), UTSA 2016
  5. Rohit Khanna, Post-doc, (PhD/MSE, North Dakota University), UTSA 2015-2017
  6. Yehong Huang, Post-doc, (PhD/BMS, Case Western Reserve University), UTSA 2015-2016
  7. Mohammad Hodaei, Post-doc, (PhD/ME, Southern Illinois University), UTSA 2015
  8. Feng, Zhao, Exchange Scholar, (PhD/BioPhy, Chinese Academy of Science), UTSA 2015-2016
  9. Xiao Yang, Exchange PhD Student, (PhD/BME, Beihang University), UTSA 2013-2014
  10. Tao Wang, Exchange PhD Student, (PhD/BME, Beihang University), UTSA 2012
  11. Bijay Giri, Post-doc, (PhD/ME, Hokkaido University, Japan), UTSA             2010-2012
  12. Xuanliang (Neil) Dong, Post-doc, (PhD/ME, Columbia University), UTSA 2007-2010
  13. Huijie Leng, Post-doc, (PhD/ME, Notre Dame University), UTSA 2006-2008
  14. Young J. Yoon, Post-doc, (PhD/ME, City College of New York), UTSA 2006-2007
  15. Hongbing Ji, Post-doc, (PhD/ME, Harbin Institute of Technology), UTSA 2004-2006
  16. Jeffry Nyman, Post-doc, (PhD/BME, University of California, Davis), UTSA 2003-2006
  17. Xiaoe Li, Post-doc, (PhD/BMS, Peking Union Medical University), UTHSCSA 1999-2002
  18. Jeff Schlimmer, Orthopaedic Resident, (MD, UTHSCSA), UTHSCSA 1997-2000
  19. Charlie Mess, Orthopaedic Resident, (MD, UTHSCSA), UTHSCSA 1997-1999