David Chelidze
D i r e c t o r

David Chelidze is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Rhode Island, where he directs the Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory. His work focuses on the analytical and experimental nonlinear dynamics, synthesizing knowledge from fields such as dynamical and stochastic systems, linear and nonlinear time series analysis, estimation and filtering theory to develop and implement innovative techniques for diagnosis and prognosis of engineered, geophysical and biological systems. His research interests also include failure mechanics, modal testing and analysis, dynamics and stability of engineered systems.

http://www.mce.uri.edu/chelidze/
mailto:chelidze@egr.uri.edu
 

Jonathan B. Dingwell

Jon Dingwell is a Professor of Kinesiology and Director of Nonlinear Biodynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. He collaborates with the nonlinear dynamics laboratory on problems relating to tracking human coordination changes related to fatigue or repetitive stress injuries.

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/faculty/dingwell/
mailto:jdingwell@mail.utexas.edu
 

Durul Ulutan
R e s e a r c h   A s s i s t a n t

Durul is a PhD leval student working on experimental and analytical tools for fatigue damage identification, modeling and prediction.
 

David B. Segala
R e s e a r c h   A s s i s t a n t

Dave is a PhD leval student working on the applications of multivariate analysis in nonlinear modeling of biological and biomolecular systems.
 

Joseph J. Kuehl
R e s e a r c h   A s s i s t a n t

Joe is a PhD level student working on practical methods of identification of invariant manifolds in dynamical systems.
 

Yutao Liu, MS, 2008
 

Miao Song, MS, 2007
 

Fei He, MS, 2008
 

Lucian Dobrot, MS, 2007
R e s e a r c h   A s s i s t a n t

Luci worked on experiments with overwrapped composite pressure vessels, development of appropriate damage models and damage identification techniques. Currently he persues a PhD degree.

Ming Liu, PhD, 2005
PotDoc, 2005/2006

Ming has completed his Ph.D. in our lab and later worked on developing experimental apparatus for testing some of our ides on composite pressure vessels. In addition, he was responsible for technology transfer applications in our laboratory.

Currently Ming is at Migma Systems Inc.
 

Wenliang Zhou, PhD, 2006

Wenliang worked on the applications of smooth orthogonal decomposition in vibration mode analysis and dynamical model reduction.

Currently Wenliang is at Lang-Mekra North America, LLC.
 

Martin Lugmair, MS, 2005

Martin worked on damage identification problem in variable forcing and environmental conditions. New he works for the FTI Group in Germany.

mailto:lucix@lycos.com
 

Domenic F. Napolitano, MS, 2005

Domenic worked on applying nonlinear dynamics diagnostic techniques to tracking nonstationaities in bio-mechanical systems. Currently he works for Raytheon, Portsmouth, RI.

mailto:domenic_f_napolitano@raytheon.com
 

Jeffrey K. Sefranek, MS, 2004

Jeffrey worked on applying nonlinear dynamics diagnostic techniques to tracking damage accumulation in composite structures. Currently he works for Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, RI.

mailto:jeffsef@yahoo.com
 

Elizabeth Glatt, BS, 2005

Eli was an undergraduate researcher in the lab. She was working on MATLAB programming for development of interactive GUIs for exploring several dynamical systems. Currently, she pursues Ph.D. in mathematics at UConn.

mailto:glatte@egr.uri.edu
 

Marco Herrmann, BS, 2004

Marco was an exchange student from Germany working on developing software libraries for data driven damage diagnosis and prognosis for ABL (Airborne Laser). Now he is a grad student at Karlsruhe Technical University.

mailto:marco.herrmann@web.de
 

David C. Twardowski, BS, 2004

Dave was a senior in mechanical engineering working on several experimental setups in the lab. He's main project involved building a double pendulum experiment, it's mathematical modeling and simulation. Later he obtained his MS in ME from University of Michigan.

mailto:dtwa9849@postoffice.uri.edu
 

Joshua T. May, BS, 2004

Josh was a senior in mechanical engineering working on beam fracture and material damage identification experiments.

mailto:mayj@egr.uri.edu
 

Jonathan Caserta, BS, 2007

Jon was an electrical engineering student working on electrical circuits that are used to demonstrate nonlinear and chaotic behavior. He has also build electrical gadgets for the experiments in the lab. He eventually graduated with a degree in ME and works for APC.

mailto:jonny_starbucks@yahoo.com