People

Principal Investigator

Daniel M. Harris
Assistant Professor of Engineering

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, MIT
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University

Email: daniel_harris3@brown.edu
Website: vivo.brown.edu/display/dharri15
CV

Postdocs

Adrian Herrera-Amaya

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Penn State
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Guanajuato
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Guanajuato

Email: adrian_herrera-amaya@brown.edu
Current Project:
Swimming and propulsion at intermediate Reynolds numbers.

Robert Hunt

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Email: robert_hunt@brown.edu 
Current Project:
Fluid-solid interactions at the capillary scale.

Minki Kim

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing, University of Michigan
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University

Email: minki_kim@brown.edu
Current Project:
Computational modeling of fluid dynamics and mixing processes in rocking bioreactors.

Graduate Students

John Antolik
PhD Candidate

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brown University

Email: john_antolik@brown.edu
Current Project: The role of impactor flexibility in water entry.

Jack-William Barotta
PhD Candidate

B.S., Mathematics, MIT

Email: jack-william_barotta@brown.edu
Current Project: Self-propulsion and collective motion of objects at a vibrating fluid interface.

Maya Lewis
MS Candidate

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brown University

Email: maya_lewis@brown.edu
Current Project: Drag and lift on partially immersed bodies.

Undergraduate Students

Audrey Gallagher
Junior in Engineering

Email: audrey_gallagher@brown.edu
Current Project: Development of custom electromagnetic shaker.

Yesenia Gómez
Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program (4th Year)

Email: yesenia_gomez@brown.edu
Current Project: Development of interfacial microrobot.

Rehaan Irani
Junior in Engineering

Email: rehaan_irani@brown.edu
Current Project: Development of intermediate Reynolds number robotic swimmer.

Jack Kolman
Sophomore in Engineering

Email: jacob_kolman@brown.edu
Current Project: Development of intermediate Reynolds number robotic swimmer.

Ela Lucas
Senior in Engineering

Email: kiran_lucas@brown.edu
Current Project: The role of nose shape and impactor flexibility in water entry.

Dan Marella
Senior in Engineering

Email: daniel_marella@brown.edu
Current Project: Development of intermediate Reynolds number robotic swimmer.

Research Engineer

Eli Silver

B.S., Engineering and Physics, Brown
B.F.A., Furniture Design, RISD

Email: eli_silver@brown.edu

Alumni

Postdocs

Graduate Students

  • Ajay Harishankar Kumar (MS, 2020)
  • Garam Lee (MS, 2020)
  • Abigail Taylor (MS, 2019)

Undergraduate Students

  • Arman Mohammadi
  • Zabari Ross
  • Eugene Rhee
  • Ray Gresalfi
  • Elvis Agüero (visitor from U. Federal de Integração Latinoamericana)
  • Oliver Sand
  • Maya Lewis
  • Rebecca Rosen
  • Peyton Newman
  • Benny Smith
  • Ian Ho (Senior Thesis, 2021)
  • Molly Pearson
  • Jacob Morse
  • Matt Styslinger
  • Elizabeth Austin
  • Will Haddock 
  • Daniel Wang 
  • Emma Abele (Senior Thesis, 2020)
  • John Antolik (Senior Thesis, 2020)
  • Jesse Remeis (Senior Thesis, 2020)
  • Mackenzie Duce (visitor from Cal Poly)
  • Charlie Bares 
  • Isabelle Bauman (Senior Thesis, 2019)
  • Aaron Brown (Senior Thesis, 2019)
  • Pavlo Lyalyutskyy 
  • Nikolay Ionkin (visitor from Columbia University)
  • Roy Glavanitz (Senior Thesis, visitor from German Armed Forces University)
  • Annika MacEwen (Senior Thesis, 2018)
  • Victor Ladics
  • Olivia Banks
  • Jordan Hodder

High School Students

  • William Dalton
  • Raoul Silver
  • Victoria Spradlin
  • APS DFD Washington DC, November 2023