Former Ph.D. students (and subsequent positions)

Eunhye An, PhD in ME (2023)

Compressible and Geometrical Effects on Shearless Turbulent Mixing

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Air Force Academy


Shahaboddin A. Beig, PhD in ME (2018)

A computational study of the inertial collapse of gas bubbles near a rigid surface

Computational Physicist, Intel Corporation


Griffin Cearley, PhD in ME and in Scientific Computing (2022)

Analytical and Computational Techniques for Fluid Flows Interacting With Intense Radiation Fields

Developer, STRA LLC


Colleen Crouch, PhD in ME (2019, co-chaired, advised by J. Greve)

Quantifying Temperature's Effect on the Cardiovascular System

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, U. Tennessee Knoxville


Sonya Dick, PhD in ME (2024)

Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Condensed Matter at High Pressures

Assistant Professor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology


Marc T. Henry de Frahan, PhD in ME (2016)

Numerical simulations of shock and rarefaction waves interacting with interfaces in compressible multiphase flows

Researcher IV-Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory


Philip Johnson, PhD in ME (2019)

A Recovery-Assisted Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Direct Numerical Simulation of Compressible Turbulence

CFD Engineer, Lockheed Martin


Minki Kim, PhD in ME and Scientific Computing (2022)

Energy transport during growth and collapse of a cavitation bubble

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Brown University


Jae Bok Lee, PhD in ME (2023, co-chaired, advised by J. Capecelatro)

Skin-friction reduction by hairy surfaces in turbulent channel flow

CFD Engineer/Developer, Lockheed Martin


Kevin Ma, PhD in ME (2023)

Electron thermal transport modeling of laser-plasmas

Post-doctoral scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory


Lauren Mancia, PhD in ME (2021), MD (2021)

Numerical Investigations of Cavitation-Induced Tissue Damage

Resident, Orthopaedics, University of Rochester Medical Center


Pooya Movahed, PhD in ME (2014)

High-fidelity numerical simulations of compressible turbulence and mixing generated by hydrodynamic instabilities

Data Scientist, ExxonMobil


Kazuya Murakami, PhD in ME and in Scientific Computing (2020)

Spherical and Non-spherical Bubble Dynamics in Soft Matter

Engineer, Bosch, now Application Engineer at Mathworks


Seth Norberg, PhD (2015, co-chaired, advised by M. Kushner)

Modeling Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets: Plasma Dynamics, Interaction with Dielectric Surfaces, Liquid Layers and Cells

Head and Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, Northern Michigan University


Brandon Patterson, PhD in ME (2017, co-chaired, co-advised by D. Dowling)

Applications of Computation in Acoustics: Ultrasound Bioeffects and Underwater Transmission Loss Uncertainty

Senior Engineer and Project Manager, Applied Physics Laboratory (Johns Hopkins)


Samuel Pellone, PhD in ME (2021)

Vorticity Dynamics of Hydrodynamic Instabilities Occurring at Material Interfaces: Application to High-Energy-Density Systems

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory


Mauro Rodriguez, PhD in ME (2018)

Numerical simulations of bubble dynamics near viscoelastic media

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University


Siddhesh Shinde, PhD in ME and Scientific Computing (2018)

A computational study of flow over a wall-mounted cube using Large Eddy Simulations

Senior AI/ML Engineer, Aptiv


Suyash Tandon, PhD in ME and Scientific Computing (2020)

Large-Scale Simulations of Complex Turbulent Flows

Previously Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), then Blue Origin, now at Head of Re-entry System Development, Reditus Space, Inc.


Michael Wadas, PhD in ME (2023)

Hydrodynamics of shocked interfaces

Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Scholar Associate, Caltech


Angela T. S. Wu, PhD in ME (2020, co-chaired, advised by V. Sick)

Large-Eddy Simulations with Conjugate Heat Transfer of an Internal Combustion Engine

University Research Specialist, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.


Hai Zhu, PhD in Applied Math (2021, co-chaired, advised by S. Veerapaneni)

Integral Equation Methods-Based PDE Solvers and Application in Fluid Optimization Problems

Flatiron Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute



Former post-docs (and subsequent positions)

Bahman Aboulhasanzadeh: Post-doctoral researcher, U. Florida
Subramaniam Balakrishnan: Senior Development Engineer, Ichor Systems
Ziyang Huang: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
Loc Khieu: Senior Computational Research Scientist, Lordstown Motors Corp.
Chiwon Kim: Samsung

Former MS thesis students (and subsequent positions)

Martin Brugmans (2016, U. Mons): Airbus
Yasmina Elmore (2023, ENSTA Paris): graduate student at Stanford
Rui Fang (2012, UM, co-advised by W. Schultz): PhD student at TU Munich
Fanchen He (2017, UM): PhD student at UM
Samuel Pellone (2013, EPFL): PhD student at UM
Suyash Tandon (2015, UM, co-advised by K. Maki): PhD student at UM

Former MS students (and subsequent positions)

Maryam Akram: PhD student at UM (Aero)
Sahil Bhola: PhD student at UM (Aero)
Darian Bridges: Siemens PLM
Renaud Gaudron: PhD student at Ecole Centrale Paris, now postdoc at Imperial College London
Max Ho: ZS Associates, now at Facebook
Susmit Joshi: PhD student at Virginia Tech
Ashwin Kannan Iyengar: ArcelorMittal Global R&D
Aditya Nair: PhD student at FSU, now Assistant Professor at U. Nevada Reno
Shaowu Pan: PhD student at UM (Aero), now Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Anusarn Sangnimnuan: PhD student at Texas A&M
Sreenivas Varadan: Srivin
Anil Yildirim: PhD student at UM (Aero)

Former undergraduate researchers (and subsequent positions)

Carlos Barajas (ME): PhD student at MIT, now Senior Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Anna Brieland-Shoultz (ME): graduate student at UM
Nicole Bustos (ME, Carnegie Mellon U.): PhD student at MIT, now patent agent at Foley Hoag
Sunaad Gurajada (ME): Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX
Radhika Gurumurthy (ME): graduate student at Columbia, now strategic finance at Zipline
Jiashu Han (CS): PhD student at UM (Applied Math)
Chengyun Hua (Eng. Phys.): PhD student at Caltech, now researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Colin Holmes (Math): undergraduate student at UM
Benjamin Hubbard (ME): AW Technical Center, now at Senior Business Analysis Manager at T-Mobile
Yuenong Ling (Eng. Phys.): PhD student at MIT
Jessie Qiu (ME): Graduate student at Stanford
Anish Rao (ME): Software engineer at SpaceX
Sriram Sivakumar (ME): Cummins Inc., now graduate student at University College London
Sheng Wang (Eng. Phys.): PhD student at Cornell
Matt Warnez (Eng. Phys.): MS student at U. St Thomas, now graduate student at Oxford
Chenhao Zhu (ME and CSE): graduate student at Stanford

Former medical students (and subsequent position)

Nyousha Yousefi: Dermatology resident, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine