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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

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"!

May 2026: Prof. Saintillan gave an invited Fluid Mechanics Seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Seoul University in Seoul, South Korea.

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