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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

July 2025: The paper "Electrohydrodynamic drift of a drop away from an insulating wall" by Sen, Firouznia, Koch, Saintillan and Vlahovska appeared in Physical Review Fluids. Click here to download the article. The paper was also featured on the cover of the April 2025 volume.

June 2025: Congratulations to Yuchen Hou for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled: "Reinforcement learning-based control of topological defects in 2D active nematics"!

April 2025: Congratulations to Tanumoy Dhar for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "Theoretical and computational study of active-passive particle interactions"!

April 2025: The paper "Active nematics fluids on Riemannian two-manifolds" by Zhu, Saintillan and Chern appeared in Proceegings of the Royal Society A. Click here to download the article. The paper was also featured on the cover of the April 2025 volume.

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