Check this out!

lims.mae.cornell.edu/ manzo.html

This guy might be a long lost relative!

Justin Manzo from Cornell!!

Here's the text from the site if you can't find it on your own::::

Biography
Justin joined the Cornell Graduate School in 2003. Originally from Chicago, IL, he attained his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering also at Cornell University, after having spent a year in the architecture program. As an undergraduate, he focused on robotics and control, and was responsible for founding the Cornell Battlebots Team, which competed locally against robots built at other engineering schools. He has been awarded grants from the Cornell LIFE Foundation as well as from the Bartels Fund for independent research projects, and is currently working under a fellowship through the Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) from NASA Langley Research Center. His work has been published by the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).
Research
My research is focusing on the application of alternative actuator technology in the context of morphing aircraft – adaptive airframes capable of macroscopic shape change with the intention of granting multiple mission capabilities. Investigations into the role of “smart materials”, such as shape memory alloy (SMA), will hopefully yield mechanisms capable of generating prescribed wing motion with minimal weight and decreased system complexity from that of a conventional, DC-motor actuated system. Structural loading is also under investigation, as the once-accepted convention of a rigid aircraft wing carrying transverse loading must be revised to one subjected to compressive loading in the process of warping the wing into different configurations.