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Postdoctoral Researcher

Maxime Theillard

Current position: Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of California Merced, CA

Ph.D. students

Roberto Alonso-Matilla

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2018
Thesis: Dispersion, rheology and microfluidic flow actuation of active particle suspensions
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia Univerisity, New York, NY (Mentor: Ben O'Shaugnessy)

Debasish Das

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2016
Thesis: Electrohydrodynamics of particles and drops in strong electric fields
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (Mentor: Eric Lauga)

Barath Ezhilan

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2016
Thesis: Kinetic models and continuum simulations of pattern formation and chemotaxis in active particle suspensions
Current position: Data Scientist, Optimization and Machine Learning, Amazon

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: Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE

M.S. students

Piyush Prakash

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Thesis: Geometric control of confined active flow
Current position: Design and Development Engineer, Fluxergy

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

Recent News

November 2020: The paper "Transport phenomena in fluid films with curvature elasticity" by Mahapatra, Saintillan and Rangamani appeared in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Click here to download the article.

November 2020: The paper "Shear-induced dispersion in peristaltic flow" by Chakrabarti and Saintillan appeared in Physics of Fluids. Click here to download the article.

August 2020: The commentary "Physical mechanisms of platelet formation" by Saintillan appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Click here to download the article.

June 2020: The paper "Trapping, gliding, vaulting: Transport of semiflexible polymers in periodic post arrays" by Chakrabarti. Gaillard and Saintillan appeared in Soft Matter. Click here to download the article.

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