Team
Current members
We Li
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering
Address: 116 Heavy Engineering
E-mail: wei.li.6@stonybrook.edu
Office: 631-632-8882
Zijin Mei
PhD student
My name is Zijin Mei and I am currently a PhD student. My research interest is in solving problems related to geosystems and geotechnical engineering through experiments and simulations. My current research focuses on flow and dissolution in a fracture network and how stress affects permeability and dissolution in fracture networks.
Zijie Xu
PhD student
I'm a Civil Engineering PhD student at Stony Brook University with an M.S. degree from Chongqing University. My current research centers on 3D wormhole formation in gypsum via core flood test. This work deepens my understanding of porous media behavior and is a critical part of my academic journey.
Giselle Morocho
Undergraduate researcher, Simons STEM Scholar
My name is Giselle Morocho Aguilar. I'm a freshman at Stony Brook University and I am part of the Simons STEM Scholars Program. I recently graduated from The Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women located in Brooklyn where I previously resided. My research interests are in structure, but my current work is in geotechnical engineering. Currently, I am analyzing the deterioration of pipes and the removal of material due to groundwater through a 2D flow cell simulation. In analyzing this, we look for how sinkholes occur, how we can fix or maintain the pipe structure to avoid sinkholes from developing, and what material can be used to minimize its removal through groundwater.
Jiawen Xu
Undergraduate researcher
My name is Jiawen Xu. I am a junior at Stony Brook University with an interest in structural engineering. Currently, I am studying structure frustration experimentally under the supervision of Dr. Li and Dr. Celli. More specifically, I create frustrating structures using photoelastic materials and use their color and brightness change under circular polarizers to study stress evolution in the elements of a structure as the structure undergoes large deformation. This study will help us better understand structural frustration and optimize our structural designs.
Shayna Halop
Undergraduate researcher, WISE Honors
Hello, my name is Shayna Halop! I’m a junior at Stony Brook University studying Engineering Science, specializing in Environmental Engineering. I am also a part of the Women in Science and Engineering Honors program. My current research interests are sustainability and biotechnology. In the Geosystems Engineering Laboratory, I use photoelastic particles to assemble and study Earth systems, such as tidal glaciers. This research will provide the grain-scale underpinning that drives the evolution of the Earth systems.
Alumni
Master students
Myles Tucker
BS 2023, MS 2024
Currently a Graduate Tunnel Engineer at Mott MacDonald
High school students
Laura Zhang, High school intern, 2023, 2024, Great Neck South High, NY
Cayden Miu, High school intern, 2024, Jericho High, NY
Rithik Trehan, High school intern, 2024, Jericho High, NY
Joshua Chen, High school intern, 2024, Jericho High, NY
Sydney Walker, Simons Summer Research Scholar, 2024, Coral Reef High, FL
Iris Park, High school intern, 2024, Port Jeff High, NY