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Faculty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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DR TAMER ZAKI
\n<\/strong>EDUCATION
\nPh.D. 2005, Stanford University
\nM.S. 2001, Stanford University
\nB.S. 1998, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n

EXPERIENCE
\n2021 – Present: \u00a0Professor, Mech. Eng., Johns Hopkins<\/span>
\n2013 – 2021: \u00a0Associate Prof, Mech. Eng., Johns Hopkins
\n<\/span>2013 – 2013: \u00a0Reader, Mech.\u00a0Eng.,\u00a0Imperial College London
\n<\/span>2010 – 2012: \u00a0Senior Lecturer, Mech.\u00a0Eng.,\u00a0Imperial College London
\n<\/span>2006 – 2010: \u00a0Lecturer, Mech.\u00a0Eng.,\u00a0Imperial College London<\/span><\/p>\n

Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 118<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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PhD students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nLucas Pancotto
\n<\/strong>Lic., Physics, University of Buenos Aires, 2024
\nResearch interests: Data assimilation, High-speed flows, TurbulenceOffice: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nVarun<\/span> Vaidyanathan
\n<\/strong>B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2024<\/span>
\n<\/span>Research Interests: Turbulence, direct numerical simulations, data assimilation<\/span>Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nHangchuan Hu
\n<\/strong>B.E., Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University, China, 2024<\/span>
\n<\/span>Research Interests: High-speed flows, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation<\/span>Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nCurtis Haas
\n<\/strong>B.A., Physics and Mathematics, Colby College, ME, 2022<\/span>
\n<\/span>Research Interests: High-speed flows, adjoint methods, turbulence, data assimilation<\/span>Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nHadden Kim
\n<\/strong>B.S., Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2021<\/span>
\n<\/span>Research Interests: Computational methods, partial differential equations, machine learning\u00a0<\/span>Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nSheng Qian
\n<\/strong>M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2022
\n<\/span><\/span>M.E. Mech. Eng., Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 2019
\n<\/span>B.E. Mech. Eng., Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 2016
\n<\/span>Research Interests: Viscoelasticity, turbulence, high-fidelity simulations, data assimilation<\/span>Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nHo Jun Kim
\n<\/b><\/span>M.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, 2019
\nB.S., Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, 2017
\nResearch Interests: Turbulence, wall modeling
\n<\/span>Collaboration: \u00a0Prof. Charles MeneveauOffice: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 323<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nTianrui Xiang<\/strong>
\nBSc, Peking University, 2019
\nResearch interests: Turbulence, Compliant surfaces, Data assimilationOffice: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 321<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Post-Doctoral Researchers and\u00a0Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\n
Dr Pratik Aghor<\/b><\/div>\n
PhD, University of New Hampshire, 2023<\/div>\n
Research Interests: Stratified, rotating, sheared fluids, dynamical systems, bifurcation theory<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\n
Dr Hemanth Chandravamsi<\/b><\/div>\n
PhD, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2024<\/div>\n
Research Interests: High speed flows, computational fluid dynamics, large eddy simulations, data assimilation<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nDr Andrew Cleary<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2025<\/div>\n
Research interests: Dynamical systems, data assimilation, machine learning<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nDr U. Meenu Krishnan<\/strong>
\nPhD, <\/span>Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 2024
\n<\/span>Research interests: Phase field method, fracture analysis, computational solid mechanics, topology optimization.<\/span>Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u00a0Dr Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan
\n<\/strong>PhD, Michigan Technological University, 2023
\n<\/span>Research Interests: Bayesian neural networks, uncertainty quantification, scientific machine learning, computational mechanics<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u00a0Dr Sugan Velazhagan
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
PhD, Tata Institute of Fundamental\u200b <\/i>Research, 2023<\/div>\n
Research Interests: Turbulence, Direct Numerical Simulations, Stratified flows past solid bodies<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u00a0Dr\u00a0Pierluigi Morra
\n<\/strong>PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2021
\n<\/span>Research Interests: Scientific Machine Learning, Flow Control, Transitional boundary-layer flows, wall-bounded turbulence<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
Office: \u00a0Latrobe Hall, Room 319<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Former PhD and visiting students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n
    \n
  • Yue Hao<\/li>\n
  • Yifan Du<\/li>\n
  • Brett Tillman<\/li>\n
  • Mitchell Fowler<\/li>\n
  • Mengze Wang<\/li>\n
  • Jiho You<\/li>\n
  • Qi Wang<\/li>\n
  • Nicholas Vaughan<\/li>\n
  • Sandeep Saha<\/li>\n
  • Laura Nicolaou<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
\n
    \n
  • Luca Burini<\/li>\n
  • Thomas Jelly<\/li>\n
  • Akshat Agarwal<\/li>\n
  • Philipp Hack<\/li>\n
  • David Trevelyan<\/li>\n
  • Jacob Page<\/li>\n
  • Edward Smith<\/li>\n
  • Sang Jin Lee<\/li>\n
  • Jin Lee (KAIST \u2013 Korea)<\/li>\n
  • Lars-Uve Schrader (KTH \u2013 Sweden)<\/li>\n
  • Aiko Yakeno (University of Tokyo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    Former Post-Doctoral Researchers and\u00a0Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    \n
      \n
    • Rodrigo Rodakoviski<\/li>\n
    • Dr Hanxun Yao<\/li>\n
    • Dr Irving Nolasco<\/li>\n
    • Dr Simon Toedtli<\/li>\n
    • Dr Gopal Yalla<\/li>\n
    • Dr Miguel Encinar<\/li>\n
    • Dr Mengze Wang<\/li>\n
    • Dr David Buchta<\/li>\n
    • Dr Amir Esteghamatian<\/li>\n
    • Dr Patricio Clark Di Leoni<\/li>\n
    • Dr Qi Wang<\/li>\n
    • Dr Zhao Wu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
    		\n
      \n
    • Dr Reza Jahanbakhshi<\/li>\n
    • Dr Junho Park<\/li>\n
    • Dr Vincent Mons<\/li>\n
    • Dr Rikhi Bose<\/li>\n
    • Dr Seo Yoon Jung<\/li>\n
    • Dr Olaf Marxen<\/li>\n
    • Dr Edward Smith\u00a0(Doctoral Prize Fellow)<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Dr Philipp Hack\u00a0(Doctoral Prize Fellow)\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Dr Luca Biancofiore\u00a0(Marie Curie Fellow)<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Dr Kevin Nolan (Marie Curie Fellow)<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Dr Lawrence Cheung (Marie Curie Fellow; Marshall Sherfield Fellow)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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