People

Current Group

• Thomas Powers (he), Professor of Engineering and Professor of Physics; member of the Solid Mechanics Group and the Fluids and Thermal Sciences Group
  
• Federico Cao, PhD student, Fluids and Thermal Science
• Lijie Ding, PhD student, Physics (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits)
• Wan Luo, PhD student, Fluids and Thermal Sciences (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits)

Alumni

Postdoctoral Associates

• Henry Fu, 2006-2010; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
  
• Bin Liu, 2010-2013 (co-advised with Kenny Breuer); Assistant 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; Associate Professor, Mathematics, U Wisconsin, Madison
  
• Marcelo Dias, 2012-2014; Senior Lecturer, 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 (co-advised with Kenny Breuer); Postdoctoral Associate, Fluids, Brown
  

Doctoral Students

• Myles (MunJu) Kim; Fluids, Chemical, and Thermal Processes, 2004; Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Florida Polytechnic University
  
• Srikanth Srigiriraju, Mechanics of Solids and Structures, 2006; Director of FEA Technical Services at VIAS-Virtual Integrated Analytics Solutions
  
• Elnaz Baum-Snow, Physics, 2007
• 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; Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute, Harvard University
  
• Leroy Jia, Applied Mathematics, 2018; Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute
  

Masters Students

• Juan Shi, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, 2018; PhD student, Mathematics, U North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
• Ajay Kumar, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, 2020 (co-advised with Dan Harris); PhD student, Chemical Engineering, Purdue
  

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