Shivam Sahu receives the Best Student Paper Award at MSNDC.
Shivam Sahu received the Best Student Paper Award at the Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (MSNDC) during ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2026 for his work on tailorable anisotropic bandgaps in generalized hexagonal lattices. The MSNDC Best Student Paper award recognizes a student who has authored and presented a paper included in the MSNDC proceedings that demonstrates originality, relevance, and importance; is high quality, organized, and clear; and offers a high degree of technical content. Shivam is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at UC Merced, working in Professor Francesco Danzi's research group.
Shivam’s work explores tailorable anisotropic bandgaps in generalized hexagonal lattices, demonstrating how their geometry can be leveraged to control directional wave propagation and engineer highly customizable dynamic behavior.
Congratulations, Shivam!
