Past Members
Postdoctoral Researcher
Akhil Varma
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, GermanyMaxime Theillard
Current position: Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of California Merced, CAPh.D. students
Mohammadhossein Firouznia
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2023
Thesis: Interfacially driven flows: from electrohydrodynamics to active interfaces
Current position: Research Associate, Flatiron Institute, New York (Mentor: Michael Shelley)
Arijit Mahapatra
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2022
Thesis: Transport Phenomena in Lipid Bilayers (co-advised with P. Rangamani)
Current position: Senior Research and Development Engineering, Gamma Technologies
Achal Mahajan
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2021
Thesis: From nano to micro: activity-driven self-organization of interphase chromatin
Current position: Scientist, Altos Labs
Brato Chakrabarti
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2019
Thesis: Problems on viscous dynamics of passive and active microfilaments
Current position: Assistant Professor, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India
Roberto Alonso-Matilla
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2018
Thesis: Dispersion, rheology and microfluidic flow actuation of active particle suspensions
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN (Mentor: David Odde)
Debasish Das
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2016
Thesis: Electrohydrodynamics of particles and drops in strong electric fields
Current position: Chancellor's Fellow, Strathclyde University, UK
Barath Ezhilan
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2016
Thesis: Kinetic models and continuum simulations of pattern formation and chemotaxis in active particle suspensions
Current position: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon
Harishankar Manikantan
Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, 2015
Thesis: Bending, buckling, tumbling, trapping: Viscous dynamics of elastic filaments
Current position: Assitant Professor, University of California Davis, CA
Jae Sung Park
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2012
Thesis: Collective behavior of colloidal suspensions under electric fields and confinement
Current position: Associate Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE
M.S. students
Chenji Li
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2021
Thesis: An integrated mechanochemical model of sperm locomotion
Current position: PhD Canddiate, Purdue University
Can Yang
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2020
Thesis: Diffusion of microswimmers in porous media
Current position: Aerodynamics Engineer, Great Wall Motor Co.
Piyush Prakash
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Thesis: Geometric control of confined active flow
Current position: Design and Development Engineer, Fluxergy
Ku Da
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Thesis: A study of electrochemical transport and diffuse charge dynamics in nanoscale devices using a Langevin equation
Shrenik Kothari
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2011
Thesis: Modeling the dynamics of autonomous catalytic nanomotors using the method of regularized Stokeslets
Current position: Engineer, Intel Corporation
Karthik Chikmagalur
M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2011
Thesis: A study of electrochemical transport and diffuse charge dynamics using a Langevin equation
Current position: Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Santa Barbara
Qizheng Yan
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010
Research project: Optimization of chaotic mixing by body forces in Stokes fluid flows
Zhengyang Cheng
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2010
Research project: Simulations of suspensions of self-propelled particles using a point-particle model
Current position: Postdoctoral Associate, Hydrologic Research Center
Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan
M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2010
Thesis: Collective dynamics in flowing suspensions of swimming micro-organisms
Current position: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Visiting interns
Antoine Beringer
Undergraduate Visiting Intern (from Ecole Centrale Lyon, France), 2018
Research Project: Transport of run-and-tumble particles in porous media.
Maxime Bollard
Undergraduate Visiting Intern (from Ecole Centrale Lyon, France), 2014
Research Project: Taylor dispersion in confined flows of self-propelled particles
Adrien Lefauve
Undergraduate Visiting Intern (from Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France), 2013
Research Project: Simulations and theory of strongly confined active suspensions
Current position: Leverhulme Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge