Openings
- Undergraduate or graduate student in bluff body hydrodynamics: Experience with machining and fabrication strongly preferred; experience with particle image velocimetry (PIV) optional. Please send me an email expressing your interest, with a resume/CV and two names of potential references.
- PhD student in High-Energy Density Turbulence — click for project description and how to apply
Principal Investigator
Jessica K. Shang
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Postdoc, Stanford University; PhD, Princeton University; MPhil, University of Cambridge; BA, Harvard University (CV)
Graduate Students
Nitish Acharya
Nitish is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester. His research interests are in high-energy density hydrodynamics, and is co-advised by Hussein Aluie. He previously earned a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Tribhuvan University in Nepal.
Brennen Carr
Brennen is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester. His research is in computational biomechanics of the glymphatic system of the brain. Brennen comes from Union College in Schenectady, NY, in Mechanical Engineering.
Undergraduates
Caroline Cardinale
Caroline is a junior in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester. She’s been involved in a few projects with the Hydro Lab. In 2018, she worked jointly with Daniel Lee in Hesam Askari’s lab to develop propulsors that are capable of traversing the land-water transition zone. Most recently, she is looking at bluff body flows in the water channel with PIV. She has also been an NREIP intern at NSWC-Indian Head.
Kai Kindred
Kai is a senior in Mechanical Engineering at UR, and is working on bluff-body interactions in the water channel. He’s interested in aerospace engineering, and has substantial industry experience through summer internships.
Alumni
Leo Liu ’19 (MechE) — Univ of Virginia PhD program, Mech & Aerospace Engineering
John (Jack) Billings ’19 (MechE) — L3 Harris Technologies
Deok-Hoon Jeong ’19 (MechE) — UC-Santa Barbara PhD program
Amro Bayoumy ’21 (MechE, Xerox Fellow)
Will Gorman *18 (Physics & Astro) — FAAC Inc.
Dr. Jeong-Hyun Kim — Hibbitt Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University >> Assistant Professor at Seoultech
Diwas Gautam ’20 (MechE)
Khusbu Modi ’19 (MechE)
Hunter Dell ’18 (MechE)
Chris Koo ’19 (Mechanical Engineering)