Members

Principal Investigator

Genevieve Palardy, Associate Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, LSU (2023-) Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, LSU (2017-2023). Postdoctoral Researcher, Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands (2014-2017). Research Associate, Bombardier Aerospace/McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada (2012-2013). PhD, Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada (2012), in collaboration with the Industrial Materials Institute - National Research Council Canada, Boucherville, QC, Canada. MEng., Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada (2007). BEng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada (2004).

Awards and Honors

• LSU Worley Professor of Excellence, 2025
• LSU College of Engineering Instructor of Excellence Award, 2023
• NSF CAREER Award, 2021
• LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award, 2021
• Michael R. Mangham Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2020

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Graduate Students and Research Associates

• Carson Cooper, Research Associate (2026)
• Md Masud Rana, PhD student (2024 - present)
• Jonathan Johnson, PhD student (2023 - present)
• Felipe Savella, PhD student (2023 - present)
• Asmat Ullah, PhD student (2022 - 2026)

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Alumni - Graduate students

• Carson Cooper, Accelerated Master student (2024 - 2026) - PhD in Aerospace Engineering at University of Michigan
• Emily Friedman, Accelerated Master student (2023 - 2025) - US Navy
• Wencai Li, PhD (2019 - 2023) – Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
• Debaroty Roy, M.Sc. (2020 - 2023)
• Luis Velazquez, M.Sc. (2020 - 2022)
• Madeline Kirby, M.Sc. (2020 - 2022) – Boeing, NASA MAF, LA
• Armaghan Naderi, PhD (2017 - 2021) and Research Associate (Fall 2021 - March 2022) – HCL Technologies, NJ
• Harry Frederick, M.Sc. (2018 - 2020) – Waldemar S. Nelson and Company, Inc., LA 
• Steven Williams (PhD student, 2018 - 2020) – M.Sc. in Robotics at LSU
• David Hoskins, M.Sc. (Spring 2018 - Fall 2019) – Aerojet Rocketdyne, AL

Undergraduate Students (past and present)

We are regularly looking for motivated students to be a part of our research group! Contact Dr. Palardy about available positions.

Emma McCarthy – ME LSU (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024)

Jenea Owens – Smart Polymers REU, Mississippi State University (Summer 2023)

Svetlana Stanley - ME LSU (Fall 2022 - 2026)

Brandon Turner - ME LSU (Fall 2022 - 2023)

Jackson Harris - ME LSU (Fall 2022 - 2025)

John Nguyen - ME LSU (Summer 2022 - 2024)

Jonathan Sardin – Smart Polymers REU, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Summer 2022)

Gabriel Hains – ME LSU (Summer 2021 - Fall 2021) 

Olufemi Ajayi – Smart Polymers REU, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Summer 2021)

Luke Weger – Smart Polymers REU, University of Iowa (Summer 2021)

Jacob Agostinho – ME LSU (Fall 2020-Spring 2021) 

Juan Amaya (Research Associate I, Winter-Summer 2020)

Judah Wolf – ME LSU (2019-2020)

Caroline Cochran – CIMM REU, ME LSU (Summer 2020)

Benjamin Vigier – Polytech Lyon intern (Spring-Summer 2020)

Kyle Huber (Honors Thesis) – ME LSU (Fall 2019 and Spring 2020) 

Quentin Moussiere – Polytech Lyon intern (Spring-Summer 2019)

William Sands – Smart Polymers REU, Clemson University (Summer 2019)

Clayton Terrebonne – ME LSU (2018-2019)

Marie Allain – ME LSU (2018-2019)

Melanie Toups – CIMM REU, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Summer 2018)

Erin Tsai – Smart Polymers REU, Trinity University (Summer 2018) - Now PhD student in Chemistry at LSU

Joshua Vrettos – ME LSU (Summer 2018)

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