People

Faculty

DR TAMER ZAKI
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2005, Stanford University
M.S. 2001, Stanford University
B.S. 1998, Pennsylvania State University

EXPERIENCE
2021 – Present:  Professor, Mech. Eng., Johns Hopkins
2013 – 2021:  Associate Prof, Mech. Eng., Johns Hopkins
2013 – 2013:  Reader, Mech. Eng., Imperial College London
2010 – 2012:  Senior Lecturer, Mech. Eng., Imperial College London
2006 – 2010:  Lecturer, Mech. Eng., Imperial College London

PhD students

Varun Vaidyanathan
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2024
Research Interests: Turbulence, direct numerical simulations, data assimilation
Hangchuan Hu
B.E., Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2020
Research Interests: High-speed flows, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation
Martin Beshara
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2023
Research Interests: High-speed flows, adjoint methods, data assimilation
Curtis Haas
B.A., Physics and Mathematics, Colby College, ME, 2022
Research Interests: High-speed flows, adjoint methods, turbulence, data assimilation
Hadden Kim
B.S., Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2021
Research Interests: Computational methods, partial differential equations, machine learning 
Sheng Qian
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2022
M.E. Mech. Eng., Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 2019
B.E. Mech. Eng., Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 2016
Research Interests: Viscoelasticity, turbulence, high-fidelity simulations, data assimilation
Ho Jun Kim
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, 2019
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, 2017
Research Interests: Turbulence, wall modeling
Collaboration:  Prof. Charles Meneveau
Tianrui Xiang
BSc, Peking University, 2019
Research interests: Turbulence, Compliant surfaces, Data assimilation
Yue Hao
B.E, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2017
Research Interests: large-eddy simulations, data assimilation, immersed boundary methods, turbo-machinery
Collaboration:  Prof. Charles Meneveau
Yifan Du
M.S, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2018
B.E, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 2016
Research Interests: Large eddy simulations, wall turbulence, data assimilation

Post-Doctoral Researchers and Fellows

Dr Rodrigo Rodakoviski
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
Research interests: turbulence, geophysical flows, environmental fluid dynamics, high-fidelity simulations
 
 Dr Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan
PhD, Michigan Technological University, 2023
Research Interests: Bayesian neural networks, uncertainty quantification, scientific machine learning, computational mechanics

 Dr Irving Nolasco
PhD, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2023
Research Interests: High-speed flows, Direct Numerical Simulations, Data assimilation

 Dr Sugan Velazhagan

PhD, Tata Institute of FundamentalResearch, 2023
Research Interests: Turbulence, Direct Numerical Simulations, Stratified flows past solid bodies
 Dr Pierluigi Morra
PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2021
Research Interests: Scientific Machine Learning, Flow Control, Transitional boundary-layer flows, wall-bounded turbulence

Dr Hanxun Yao
PhD, Imperial College London, 2022
Research Interests: Turbulence modelling and simulation. Boundary layer transition. Fundamental analysis of turbulence. Turbulence database.
Collaboration: Prof. Charles Meneveau

Former PhD and visiting students

  • Brett Tillman
  • Mitchell Fowler
  • Mengze Wang
  • Jiho You
  • Qi Wang
  • Nicholas Vaughan
  • Sandeep Saha
  • Laura Nicolaou
  • Luca Burini
  • Thomas Jelly
  • Akshat Agarwal
  • Philipp Hack
  • David Trevelyan
  • Jacob Page
  • Edward Smith
  • Sang Jin Lee
  • Jin Lee (KAIST – Korea)
  • Lars-Uve Schrader (KTH – Sweden)
  • Aiko Yakeno (University of Tokyo)

Former Post-Doctoral Researchers and Fellows

  • Dr Simon Toedtli
  • Dr Gopal Yalla
  • Dr Miguel Encinar
  • Dr Mengze Wang
  • Dr David Buchta
  • Dr Amir Esteghamatian
  • Dr Patricio Clark Di Leoni
  • Dr Qi Wang
  • Dr Zhao Wu
  • Dr Reza Jahanbakhshi
  • Dr Junho Park
  • Dr Vincent Mons
  • Dr Rikhi Bose
  • Dr Seo Yoon Jung
  • Dr Olaf Marxen
  • Dr Edward Smith (Doctoral Prize Fellow)
  • Dr Philipp Hack (Doctoral Prize Fellow) 
  • Dr Luca Biancofiore (Marie Curie Fellow)
  • Dr Kevin Nolan (Marie Curie Fellow)
  • Dr Lawrence Cheung (Marie Curie Fellow; Marshall Sherfield Fellow)