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Associate Professor

Email: Michael.Cullinan@austin.utexas.edu

Phone: (512) 471-0262

Curriculum Vitae

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Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering - MIT (2011)
M.S. Mechanical Engineering - MIT (2008)
B.S. Engineering - Swarthmore (2006)
B.A. Economics - Swarthmore (2006)

Dr. Cullinan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the University of Texas, Dr. Cullinan was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Cullinan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. At MIT, Dr. Cullinan worked in the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP) as part of the Precision Compliant Systems Laboratory (PCSL) directed by Professor Martin Culpepper. Dr. Cullinan also holds an MS (2008) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT as well as a BS in Engineering and a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College.

Graduate Students

Project: Thermal Properties of Nanoparticle Beds in microscale Selective Laser Sintering


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2018)

M.S. Mechanical Enineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2021)

Project: Big Data Processing, Visualization, and Error Correction Techniques for Large Area Nanometrology


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Physics, Austin College (2019)

Project: Fabrication and Functionalization of Novel Graphene Resonators


Post-Baccalurate Scholar M.S./Ph.D. Student

B.S. Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin (2019)

Research: Local Photoelastic Stress Mapping for Dynamic Roll-to-Roll Metrology


Ph.D. Student

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University (2020)

 

Project: Graphene electrostatic transducer in acoustic application


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, South China Agricultural University

yjfan@utexas.edu

My research involves developing the novel micro-scale selective laser sintering tool.


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2020)

Ph.D. Student

Graphene-Copper Nanocomposite Conductors


B.S. The University of Texas at Austin (2022)

High-voltage copper-graphene composite conductors

3D printing of long acting drug delivery implants


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2022)

Fingerprinting topological transition in SEM datasets of microscale selective laser sintering using a self-supervised learning approach


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology

M.S. Chemistry, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2021)

3D printing of high-precision, large-area telescope mirrors


Ph.D. Student

B.A. The University of Texas at Austin (2021)

Design of a roll-to-roll 3D nanolithography system


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (1981)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M (1988)

 

Design and 3D printing of nanoporous ion capture systems for critical material recycling


Ph.D. Student

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology (2017)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2018)

Alumni

Now at Lawerance Livermore National Lab

My research explores the development of a MEMS tensile tester for material characterization of nanomaterials which exhibit scale dependent properties, such as photo-polymerization additive manufacturing processes.


Ph.D. UT-Austin (2018)

B.S. Mississippi State University

ladner.i.s@utexas.edu

Now at Canon Nanotechnologies

Ph.D. UT-Austin (2018)

B.S INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-NEW DELHI

Now at Samsung

I work in the design of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) utilizing controllable strained mono/multilayer graphene to create repeatable nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) resonators with ultra-precise load detection.


B.S., M.S. YONSEI UNIVERSITY

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2019)

Post-Doctoral Scholar at the National Institutte of Standards and Technology

joonyboy@utexas.edu

Now at DiDi


M.S. University of Texas at Austin (2016)

B.S. Purdue University

Now at ASML

I work in the creation of atomic force microscope nanometrology systems developed to work in-line in silicon wafer based manufacturing processes.


Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (2018)

B.S., M.S. National Taiwan University

 

Now at IBM

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (2017)

M.S. University of Texas at Austin

Now a Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Michigan

My research addresses the creation and modeling of a silicon exfoliation process for flexible thin-film monocrystalline silicon devices.


Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2020)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2018)

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis (2015)

mjward@utexas.edu

Now at Magic Leap

B.S. University of Texas at Austin

Now at National Institute of Standards and Technology

My research focuses on precision machine design and control development of atomic force microscope based, in-line nanometrology tools for flexible substrates and roll-to-roll processes.


B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University (2016)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The Unviersity of Texas at Austin (2019)

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineerting,  The Unviersity of Texas at Austin (2022)

Liam.Connolly@utexas.edu

Now at Schlumberger

My research centers on modeling and simulation of nanoscale sintering phenomena of metallic nanoparticles for use in novel micro selective laser sintering additive manufacturing applications.


B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2016)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2019)

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2022)

ogodibua@utexas.edu 

Now at Applied Optoelectronics

My research concentrates on the design, modelling and fabrication of a bidirectional chevron-beam based MEMS thermal actuator, with the goal of utilizing the device for a metamaterial with programmable properties.


M.S. Student, UT-Austin 2018 

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester (2016)

cz5344@utexas.edu 

Now at Qorvo, Inc.

I work on the processing of a tunable graphene microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonator with applications in single molecule gas detection for the healthcare field.


B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University (2017)

M.S. Mechancial Engineereing, The University of Texas at Austin (2020)

Ph.D. Mechancial Engineereing, The University of Texas at Austin (2023)

dcayll@utexas.edu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-cayll

Research in Polysilicon Piezoresistors, NASCENT REU 2014. (UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering).

Now at Fathom Radiant

Researcher in micro-scale selective laser sintering tool design.


B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2019)

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2022)

Now at Sandia National Lab

Multi-Scale Computational Modeling of Selective Laser Sintering for Process Improvements

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (2017)

Project: Mechanical Metamaterials with Tunable Stiffness


B.S. Southeast University

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2023)

Now at Amazon

Project: Optimization of a Multi-Axis Nanopositioning Stage

M.S. Student

Now at 3M

My research centers on testing the performance of dry, flexible biopotential electrodes that will ultimately be a part of a wearable rehabilitation device.


B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2021)

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2022)