Past Members

Ph.D. students

Harishankar Manikantan

Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, 2015
Thesis: Bending, buckling, tumbling, trapping: Viscous dynamics of elastic filaments
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (Mentor: Todd M. Squires)

Jae Sung Park

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2012
Thesis: Collective behavior of colloidal suspensions under electric fields and confinement
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Mentor: Michael D. Graham)

M.S. students

Ku Da

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Thesis: A study of electrochemical transport and diffuse charge dynamics in nanoscale devices using a Langevin equation

Shrenik Kothari

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2011
Thesis: Modeling the dynamics of autonomous catalytic nanomotors using the method of regularized Stokeslets
Current position: Engineer, Thermal and Fluid Core Competency Group, Intel Corporation

Karthik Chikmagalur

M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2011
Thesis: A study of electrochemical transport and diffuse charge dynamics using a Langevin equation
Current position: Engineer, General Electric Aviation, Bangalore, India

Qizheng Yan

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010
Research project: Optimization of chaotic mixing by body forces in Stokes fluid flows

Zhengyang Cheng

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010
Research project: Simulations of suspensions of self-propelled particles using a point-particle model
Current position: Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa

Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan

M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2010
Thesis: Collective dynamics in flowing suspensions of swimming micro-organisms
Current position: Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Undergraduate researchers

Maxime Bollard

Undergraduate Visiting Intern (from Ecole Centrale Lyon, France), 2014
Research Project: Taylor dispersion in confined flows of self-propelled particles
Current position: Ecole Centrale Lyon, France

Adrien Lefauve

Undergraduate Visiting Intern (from Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France), 2013
Research Project: Simulations and theory of strongly confined active suspensions
Current position: M.S. Candidate, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Thomas W. King

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2012
Research Project: Motility transition of bacterial suspensions in oxygen gradients
Current position: Accenture, Chicago