Principal Investigator
Yupeng Zhang
Assistant Professor · Southern Illinois University
Yupeng Zhang is an applied mechanician working on solid mechanics,
computational modeling, machine learning for materials and structures,
inverse problems, and experimental mechanics.
Before joining SIU, he did postdoc at Northwestern University, Caltech, and also served as a Lecturer at UCLA. He
received his PhD from Texas A&M University under Prof. Alan Needleman.
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Current Group
Prateek Neupane
PhD Student
Interests: numerical homogenization of inelastic lattice structures and development of data-driven models.
Himal Sapkota
PhD Student
Interests: additive manufacturing of metal lattice specimens and characterization of their mechanical behavior.
Hanbo Zhang
Undergraduate Student
Xiwen Zhang
Undergraduate Student
Previous Mentoring
Before establishing Lab811, Yupeng Zhang mentored graduate and undergraduate
researchers at Northwestern, Caltech, and UCLA.
- Ahmed Ismail — visiting PhD student, University of New Hampshire 2026
- Pearl Tetteh — visiting PhD student, University of New Mexico 2026
- Jonah Maloto — undergraduate, UCLA 2026
- Aditya Patil — undergraduate, UCLA 2025–2026
- Adam Alon — visiting undergraduate, University College London 2025
- Alexander Abakah — undergraduate, Caltech 2024–2025
- Tuyen Nguyen — undergraduate, Caltech 2024
- Kaliyah Solomon — undergraduate, Caltech 2024
- Robert Walker — undergraduate, Caltech 2023
- Steven Romero-Ruiz — undergraduate, Caltech 2023
- Logan Smith-Perkins — undergraduate, Caltech 2023
- Anh Nguyen — PhD student, Northwestern University 2022–2023