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; member of the Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics and an affiliated faculty member at the Brown Theoretical Physics Center
- Federico Cao, PhD student, Fluids and Thermal Science
- Raphael Benamran, S.B. student
- Jasper Chen, S. B. student
- Zifei Liu, PhD student, Physics (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits)
- Wan Luo, PhD student, Fluids and Thermal Sciences (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits)
- Pranay Sampat, PhD student, Physics (co-advised with Robert Pelcovits)
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 also 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; 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 (primarily advised by Kenny Breuer); Senior Fellow, CERN Science Gateway
Doctoral Students
- Myles (MunJu) Kim; Fluids, Chemical, and Thermal Processes, 2004; Data 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; Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Team Lead at Commercial Analytics, Veeva Systems
- 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; Quantitative Analyst, Goldman Sacks
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
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