People

Summer 2026

Principal Investigator

Abigail Plummer
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Harvard Physics
Office: EMA 217, 730 Commonwealth Ave
Email: plummer@bu.edu

PhD Students

Rishabh
Fracture
Email: rishy@bu.edu

Jaafar Alaswad
Metamaterials
Email: jalaswad@bu.edu

Leen Alnsour
Metamaterials
Email: lalnsour@bu.edu

Undergraduate Students

Alex Tong
DSRF award, Summer 2026
Email: alto335@bu.edu

Tony Tong
UROP award, Summer 2026
Email: leihuit@bu.edu

Tatum Swanwick
Clare Booth Luce Scholar & STARS award, Summer 2026
Email: tatumsw@bu.edu

Visitors

Katarina Minas
RET researcher, Summer 2026
Chemistry teacher at Josiah Quincy Upper School

Alumni

Graduate students

Gus Loureiro
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2026)
Thesis: Bistable mechanical metamaterials in noisy environments
Next: Systems Engineer at Raytheon

Undergraduate students

Sumire Takeya
UROP award, Summer 2025
Next: Undergraduate at Georgia Tech

Jillian Martin
Next: Associate Systems Engineer at STR

Angela Sandev
UROP award, Fall 2024

Azul Pieropan Sanchez
STARS award, Summer 2025

Mankrit Singh Kalra
UROP award, Summer 2024 & Fall 2024
 

Visitors

Taylor Lambo
Physics REU student from Hamilton College, Summer 2025

Justin Peyrat
Visiting researcher from ESPCI Paris, Summer 2025

Sarah Dané Taïwé
Visiting researcher from Williams College, Summer 2025