Boris Krämer

Principal Investigator

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4209 | +1 (858) 246-5327

Boris Kramer is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Before that, he spent four years as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before that, he got his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Virginia Tech. At UCSD, Professor Kramer is a member of the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM), Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, the Center for Extreme Events Research (CEER).

Hyeonghun Kim

PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2022)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4207

Hyeonghun is interested in data-driven reduced-order modeling for large-scale nonlinear multiphysics problems. Prior to joining the group, he received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Handong University, South Korea. More info on his webpage.

Steven Nguyen

PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2023, co-advised with Prof. Jorge Cortes)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208

Steven is interested in researching data-driven approaches to modeling and control of large-scale dynamical systems. He is also interested in studying lifting transformations and their applications to non-autonomous systems. Prior to joining the group, Steven received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at University of California Santa Barbara, where he worked on Koopman operator theory.

Dylan Hirsch

PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (started Fall 2023, co-advised with Prof. Sylvia Herbert)

Dylan is interested in developing methods for safety-critical control and reduced-order modeling, with applications to both cyber-physical and biological systems. He received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his S.M. in Biological Engineering from MIT. Through his master's research, he became excited about systems and control theory, inspiring his transition across fields.

Albani Olivieri

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (started Fall 2024)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208

Albani's interests are in optimization algorithms in the field of model order reductions for complex models such as Partial Differential Equations. Specifically, she works on quadratization and polynomialization algorithms for PDEs, both symbolically and from data. Before joining the group, she got her M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science Engineering at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, where she worked on designing and developing a quadratization/lifting algorithm for PDE models. In Fall 2022, she interned with Prof. Gleb Pogudin and Ecole Polytechnic where she also worked on quadratization algorithms. More info on her webpage

Jaime Landeros

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (started Fall 2024)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4207

aime is interested in data-driven reduced-order modeling and inverse problems in space weather. Prior to joining the group, Jaime completed a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona and a three-year internship with the NASA Goddard Solar Physics Laboratory where he explored physics-based surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and data analysis in space weather and liquid propulsion applications. Check out his website.

Justin Burzachiello

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (started Winter 2025)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4205

Justin's research interests span scientific machine learning, tensor algebra, and high-performance computing, with broad applications in science and engineering. He previously interned as a SULI software engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as an industrial X‑ray CT systems engineer at VJ Technologies. Before joining the group, Justin earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of California, Riverside and an M.S. in Computational Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University. Check out his website.

Shelby Pullen

PhD student in Mechanical Engineering (starting Fall 2025)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4205

Shelby’s interests are in metal additive manufacturing techniques and how those processes can be optimized using reduced-order models and uncertainty quantification. She has previously interned at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division in the advanced manufacturing lab. There, she worked on deriving equations for twin wire welding additive manufacturing to predict mechanical properties and she built an interface to assist in welding research. Shelby graduated with her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics from The George Washington University in Spring 2025.

Rachel McClow

BS student in Mechanical Engineering (Junior)

Jacobs Hall (EBU1) | Room 4208 (during Summer 2025)

Rachel works on learning dynamical systems models and designing classification algorithms for high-resolution, high-throughput data from fluid experiments ran by Prof. James Friend's group at UCSD. Besides her summer research, she is interested in specializing in design/control of biomedical devices and/or amusement park structures/robotics. She is also one of the vice presidents of the Society of Women Engineers chapter at UCSD and works as an instructional assistant in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department for the class, MAE 3: Introduction to Mechanical Design.