Former Ph.D. students (and most current position)

Eunhye An, PhD in ME (2023)
Compressible and Geometrical Effects on Shearless Turbulent Mixing
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

Sonya Dick, PhD in ME (2024)
Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Condensed Matter at High Pressures
Assistant Professor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Griffin Cearley, PhD in ME and in Scientific Computing (2022)
Analytical and Computational Techniques for Fluid Flows Interacting With Intense Radiation Fields
Senior member of the technical staff, Sandia National Laboratories

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

Marc T. Henry de Frahan, PhD in ME (2016)
Numerical simulations of shock and rarefaction waves interacting with interfaces in compressible multiphase flows
Researcher III-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

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
Department 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 Developer, 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
Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

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 MS thesis students (and following position)

Rui Fang (2012, co-advised by W. Schultz): PhD student at TU Munich
Fanchen He (2017): PhD student at UM
Suyash Tandon (2015, co-advised by K. Maki): PhD student at UM

Former MS students (and following position)

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 following position)

Carlos Barajas (ME): PhD student at MIT
Anna Brieland-Shoultz (ME): graduate student at UM
Nicole Bustos (ME, Carnegie Mellon U.): PhD student at MIT
Radhika Gurumurthy (ME): undergraduate at UM
Jiashu Han (CS): PhD student at UM (Applied Math)
Chengyun Hua (BS): PhD student at Caltech, now postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Colin Holmes (Math): undergraduate student at UM
Benjamin Hubbard (ME): AW Technical Center
Yuenong Ling (Eng. Phys.): PhD student at MIT
Anish Rao (ME): Software engineer at SpaceX
Sriram Sivakumar (ME): Cummins Inc., now graduate student at University College London
Sheng Wang (ME): PhD student at Cornell
Matt Warnez (Eng. Phys.): MS student at U. St Thomas, now graduate student at Oxford

Former medical students (and following position)

Nyousha Yousefi: Dermatology resident, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Former post-docs (and following position)

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