Lihua Jin
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
37-134 Engineering IV
lihuajin@seas.ucla.edu
Postdoc, Stanford University, 2016
Ph.D. Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2014
M.S. Solid Mechanics, Fudan University, 2009
B.S. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Fudan University, 2006
Boliang Wu
Ph.D. student
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2019
B.S. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sun Yat-sen University, 2017
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, 2017
Shivam Agarwal
Ph.D. student
B.T. M.T. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2019
Marwan Fayed
Ph.D. student
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2021
Jonathan Gray
Ph.D. student
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, 2016
Weixuan Liu
Ph.D. student
M.S., Mechanics, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2022
B.S., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sun Yat-sen University, 2019
Nateethorn Nuchklang
Ph.D. student
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 2023
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 2021
Ursa Zhou
Ph.D. student
B.S. Applied Physics and Mathematics, University of California-Irvine, 2024
Yuqing Chen
Ph.D. student
B.S. Applied Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2025
Junqi Ma
Ph.D. student
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2022
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, 2020
Terrence Han
Dekai Xu
Aayush Gupta
Jeia Isabelle So
Postdoc
Chen Xuan, Feb 2017-Sept 2018
Yuzhen Chen, July 2021-Apr 2022
Dongwon Kang, Aug 2022-Apr 2025
Graduate students
Rohan Shah, Sept 2018-Dec 2018
Fumika Kotobuki, Sept 2018-June 2019
Mikela D. Ritter, Sept 2018-June 2019
Masato Koizumi, Apr 2017-Jan 2021
Yuzhen Chen, July 2016-June 2021
Zixiao Liu, Nov. 2020-Sept 2022
Yu Zhou, Sept 2018-June 2024
Divik Bhargava, July 2024-Sept 2024
Chen Wei, Sept 2020-Feb 2025
Ashley F. Stein-Merlob, Sept 2019-May 2025
Benny Hsu, Sept 2024- June 2025
Visiting scholars
Nasser Arbabi, visiting student from University of Tehran, July 2017-Aug 2018
Weikang Xian, visiting student from Jilin University, Oct 2017-Oct 2018
Kangjia Fu, visiting student from Tsinghua University, Mar 2018-Sept 2018
Yuhong Cui, visiting professor from Tianjin University, Oct 2018-Apr 2019
Tianzhen Liu, visiting student from Harbin Institute of Technology, Nov 2018-Nov 2020
Haiqian Yang, visiting student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, July 2019-Sept 2019
Chenyang Liu, visiting student from Tsinghua University
Byungho Lee, visiting student from Pohang University of Science and Technology
Chaemin Kim, visiting student from Pohang University of Science and Technology
Undergraduates
Tarik Gibani, Daniel Wang, Mason Engel, Alejandro Serrano Deneken, Alex Hedrick, Dehao Lin, Scott Cao, Damian Meza, Mateen Rabbani, Benny Hsu, Mikaela van de Heetkamp, Swetha Palakur, Kenneth Chu, Richard Zhou, Alexander Henderson, Jasmine Chen, Adrian Loekman, Cooper Taffe, Collin Shiang, Terrence Han, Dekai Xu, Aayush Gupta, Jeia Isabelle So