Research Scientists & Postdoctoral Fellows:
Dr. Qiang Sun
Email: qiangsun@uchicago.edu
PhD: Atmospheric Science, Penn State University
Postdoc: Princeton/GFDL
Google Scholar: link
Dr. Yifei Guan
Email: yifei.guan@rice.edu
PhD/MA: Mechanical Engineering/Applied Math, University of Washington, Seattle
Google Scholar: link
Dr. Rambod Mojgani
Email: rambod.mojgani@rice.edu
PhD: Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Website: link
Dr. Hamid Pahlavan, Junior Fellow of Rice Academy
Email: pahlavan@nwra.com
Jointly advised by Dr. Joan Alexander at NWRA
PhD: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
Website: link
Dr. Alex Wikner, Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: awikner@uchicago.edu
PhD: Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
Google Scholar: link
PhD Students:
Karan Jakhar
Email: karanj@uchicago.edu
MS: Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Google Scholar: link
Moein Darman
Email: md85@rice.edu
BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran
Former Members:
Dr. Ashesh Chattopadhyay
PhD student (Fall 2017-Fall 2022)
Thesis: Theoretical and applied deep learning for turbulence
Next position: Assistant Professor of Applied Math, UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Ebrahim Nabizadeh
PhD student (Fall 2017-Fall 2022)
Thesis: Variability and dynamics of atmospheric blocking events under climate change
Next position: ML scientist at Verisk
Dr. Sandro Lubis
Postdoctoral fellow (2019-2022)
Next position: Research scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL)
Dr. Lei Wang
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2018)
Next position: Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences, Purdue University
Dr. Amin Khodkar
Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2019)
Next position: Postdoc at UCLA, now data scientist at industry
Dr. Cedric Gillmann
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023)
Next position: Senior researcher at ETH
Dr. Maxime Maurice
Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023)
Next position: scientist at LMD, IPSL
David Lee
MS student (Fall 2018-Spring 2020)
Thesis: Reduced-order modeling of turbulent plane Couette flow using the Green’s function method and fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Next position: USAF pilot
Adam Subel
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2021), Rice MECH/CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at Courant Institute (NYU). While a student at Rice, Adam won an NSF GRP Fellowship and received the Distinguished Research Excellence Award from the Rice Engineering Alumni.
Joey Lou
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2019), Rice MECH/CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at UC Berkeley
Sebastian Jia
Undergraduate researcher (Summer 2017), Rice MECH undergraduate student
Next position: Graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania
Andy Corbato
Undergraduate researcher (2018-2019), Rice MECH undergraduate student
Next position: Systems engineer, DMC
Vincent Gonzales
Undergraduate researcher (Summer 2018), Rice CAAM undergraduate student
Next position: BA student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Arthi Appathurai
Visiting researcher (2017-2018), Rice CHBE graduate student
Next position: Application Engineer at Advanced CAE
Chris Winkler
Teacher intern (Summer 2022), Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District
Janet Jiang
Visiting researcher (Summer 2019), High school student
Prithika Sen
Visiting researcher (Summer 2019), High school student
Olivia Ye
Visiting researcher (Summer 2022), High school student