Hello there 👋

Hi, I’m Abylaikhan Mukhamejanov — a senior in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University working on bio-inspired robotics and fluid dynamics. Thanks for stopping by! 👋

I research wave-assisted propulsion and fluid–structure interactions under Dr. Keith Moored, and spent summer 2026 studying fish swimming and vortex wake dynamics at the Lauder Laboratory, Harvard University with Dr. George Lauder 🐟. I’m also the Structures Lead for Lehigh’s NASA CubeSat project 🚀 and design suspension components for the Formula SAE team 🏎️.

Skills: SolidWorks & ANSYS FEA, CNC machining/3D printing/waterjet manufacturing, mechanical systems integration, MATLAB/Simulink controls.

Outside the lab, I love traveling, skiing ⛷, and horseback riding 🐎 — and recently built a gazebo at my family’s country house.

News

September 2026: Presented research progress at the ONR MURI Annual Review Meeting, Lehigh University.

Summer 2026: Completed a research internship at the Lauder Laboratory, Harvard University, studying fish swimming and vortex wake dynamics with Dr. George Lauder 🐟.

November 2025: 🏆 Won the Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award at ASME IMECE.

November 2025: Presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting.

October 2025: Presented WAP project progress at the Annual DoD MURI Meeting at Lehigh University.

May 2025: Awarded the Rossin Research Fellowship to work on cyber-physical systems for wave-assisted propulsion.

December 2024: 🚀 Helped raise $200K to build and launch OSPREY, Lehigh’s first nanosatellite 🛰️.

May 2024: Awarded the STEM-SI Research Fellowship for a summer research internship.

December 2023: Began research at the Unsteady Flow Interactions Laboratory 🔬.

August 2023: Started my Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University 👨‍💻.

May 2023: Graduated from Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan 🎓🇰🇿.