People

Current Group

I have several collaborations at Brown, in particular Robert Pelcovits from the Department of Physics. I have also collaborated closely with Kenny Breuer in the School of Engineering. I have written papers with Dan Harris, Vivek Shenoy (now at University of Pennsylvania), Jay Tang, and Jim Valles.

Alumni

Postdoctoral Associates

  • Henry Fu, 2006-2010; Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
  • Bin Liu, 2010-2013 (co-advised with Kenny Breuer); Associate Professor, Physics, UC Merced
  • Tatiana Kuriabova, 2011-2013 (co-advised with Petia Vlahovska); Associate Professor, Physics, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  • Saverio Spagnolie, 2011-2012; Professor, Mathematics, U Wisconsin, Madison
  • Marcelo Dias, 2012-2014; Reader, Structural Engineering, University of Edinburgh
  • Daniel Beller, 2017-2018 (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits); Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
  • Harsh Soni, 2015-2018 (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits); Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi
  • Guillaume Durey, 2019-2020 (primarily advised by Kenny Breuer); Solvay Online Education Content Developer & Student Camp Organizer, CERN

Doctoral Students

  • Myles (MunJu) Kim; Fluids, Chemical, and Thermal Processes, 2004; Research Scientist, Carter Immunology Center at the University of Virginia
  • Srikanth Srigiriraju, Mechanics of Solids and Structures, 2006; Academic Administrator, Chinmaya International Foundation, Kerala, India
  • Elnaz Alipour, Physics, 2007; Medical Analytics Care Gaps and Customer Segmentation Leader, Pfizer
  • Hongyuan Jiang, Mechanics of Solids and Structures, 2010; Professor, Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui
  • Madison (Ski) Krieger, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, 2016; Founder, Head of Data Science, Marble Therapeutics
  • Leroy Jia, Applied Mathematics, 2018; Mathematician, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Lijie Ding, Physics, 2022; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Wan Luo, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, 2024; Product Engineer, Lam Research Corporation

Masters Students

  • Juan Shi, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, 2018; PhD student, Mathematics, U North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Ajay Harishankar Kumar, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, 2020 (co-advised with Dan Harris); PhD student, Chemical Engineering, Purdue
  • Yutian He, Physics 2023 (primarily advised by Robert Pelcovits); PhD student, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Gabriel Yerger, Physics 2024 (primarily advised by Robert Pelcovits)

Undergraduate Students

  • AnneMarie Van Parys, Honors Thesis, Mechanical Engineering 2001
  • James C. Bird, UTRA & Honors Thesis, Mechanical Engineering 2003 (co-advised with Kenny Breuer)
  • Benjamin Herschenfeld, MRSEC REU 2005
  • Kei Nishimura-Gasparian, Honors Thesis, Physics 2016
  • Steven Pei, UTRA 2017
  • James Saslow, summer Leadership Alliance project, 2020
  • Raphael Benamran, UTRA 2023; S.B. Physics 2024
  • Jasper Chen, S. B. 2024