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Graduate Students

Cuncheng

Cuncheng Zhu

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Chern)

Email: cuzhu [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Interfacial active fluid dynamics
Previous institution: UCSD


Tanumoy

Tanumoy Dhar

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: tdhar [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Transport of active suspensions in complex media
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


Yuzhu

Yuzhu Chen

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: yuc034 [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Modeling and simulations of cell spreading and locomotion
Previous institution: Fudan University, Shanghai, China


Nick

Nicholas Broussinos

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: nbroussinos [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Interfacial active fluid dynamics
Previous institution: UCSB


Yuchen

Yuchen Hou

M.S. Candidate

Email: yuh113 [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Machine learning for active fluid dynamics
Previous institution: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China


Recent News

September 2026: The paper "Reversibility, chaos, and attractors in periodically sheared elastic filaments" by Bonacci, Chakrabarti, du Roure, Lindner and Saintillan appeared in Physical Review X. Click here to download the article.

June 2026: Congratulations to Jonathan Vanderlaan for being selected to the MAE Summer Scholars Program!

June 2026: Congratulations to Cuncheng Zhu for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Geometry and mechanics of fluid surfaces" (co-advised by Albert Chern, CSE)!

June 2026: Congratulations to Yuzhu Chen for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Active transport on curved surfaces"!

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