Li-Hsuan Chang - Ph.D 2025
Thesis: Interfacial Flows near Heterogeneous Surfaces: Capillary Filling and Droplet Evaporation
Super Micro Computer
Gregorius Pradipta - Ph.D. 2025 (with X. Cheng)
Thesis: An Exploration of Microbial Motility and Active Fluids through the Lens of 3D Flow Visualization
Shu Yang - Ph.D. 2025 (with C. S. Dutcher)
Thesis: Rupturing Films and Reacting Droplets: Understanding Complex Fluid Interfaces
Postdoc, MIT
Ninad Mhatre - Ph.D 2024
Thesis: Influencing Contact-line Behavior in Dynamic Wetting through Thermocapillarity and Surface Topography
3M
Patrick McCauley - Ph.D 2023 (with M. A. Calabrese)
Thesis: Understanding Self-assembly and Flow Heterogeneities in Poloxamer Wormlike Micelles
Postdoc, University of Delaware
Chris Larsson - Ph.D 2023
Thesis: Modeling of Multicomponent Coatings
Sandia National Laboratories
Saurabh Shenvi Usgaonkar - Ph.D 2023 (with C. J. Ellison)
Thesis: Photochemically Induced Marangoni Patterning of Polymer Thin Films: Modeling and Experiments
Air Products
Chance Parrish - Ph.D. 2021
Thesis: The Coating and Drying of Discrete Objects
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Panayiotis Kolliopoulos - Ph.D. 2021
Thesis: Capillary Flow and Evaporation in Open Microchannels
3M
Vasileios Charitatos - Ph.D. 2021
Thesis: Moving Contact Lines in Dynamic Wetting Phenomena: Wetting Failure, Elastocapillarity, and Droplet Evaporation
Postdoc, University of Zurich
Gokul Hariharan - Ph.D. 2020 (with M. R. Jovanović)
Thesis: Transition to Elastic Turbulence in Channel Flows
Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Iowa State University
Jyun-Ting Wu - Ph.D. 2019 (with L. F. Francis)
Thesis: Transfer and Filling of Non-Newtonian Liquids in Printing and Coating Processes
Intel
Phuoc-Truong Pham - Ph.D. 2019 (with X. Cheng)
Thesis: Evaporation of Thin Films and Droplets of Colloidal Suspensions on Rough Substrates
C. H. Robinson
Chung-Hsuan Huang - Ph.D. 2018
Thesis: Electrostatic Assist of Liquid Transfer in Printing Processes
Bayer
Weihua Li - Ph.D. 2018
Thesis: Liquid-film Coating on Rotating Discrete Objects
KLA-Tencor, China
Chen-Yu Liu - Ph.D. 2017
Thesis: Onset of Dynamic Wetting Failure in the Presence of Surfactants
Intel
Joonsik Park - Postdoc 2016 - 2017
Intel
Leonardo Espin - Postdoc 2012 - 2016
Autonomous Therapeutics
Andrew Corbett - Ph.D. 2016
Thesis: Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Effects on Thin-film Flows
IBM
Aruna Ramkrishnan - Ph.D. 2015
Thesis: Electrostatic Effects in Coating and Printing Processes
Copernic Catalysts
Sarit Dutta - Ph.D. 2014 (with K. D. Dorfman)
Thesis: Theory and Simulation of Polymer Adsorption in Flowing Fluids
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Si Hyung Lee - Postdoc 2013 - 2014
Samsung, Korea
Eric Vandre - Ph.D. 2013 (with M. S. Carvalho)
Thesis: Onset of Dynamic Wetting Failure: The Mechanics of High-speed Fluid Displacement
3M
Jeongyong Lee - Postdoc 2013 - 2014
LG Chem, Korea
Sreeram Kalpathy - Ph.D. 2012 (with L. F. Francis)
Thesis: Coating and Printing on Chemically Patterned Surfaces
Associate Professor at IIT Madras, India
Damien Brewer - Ph.D. 2011 (with M. Tsapatsis)
Thesis: Particulate Film Production by Adsorption and Drag-out Processes
Bayer
Akhilesh Sahu - Postdoc 2011-2013
Assistant Professor at NIT Rourkela, India
Shawn Dodds - Ph.D. 2011 (with M. S. Carvalho)
Thesis: Stretching and Slipping Liquid Bridges: Liquid Transfer in Industrial Printing
3M
Changkwon Chung - Postdoc 2011 - 2012
LG Chem, Korea
Kara Maki - Postdoc 2009 - 2011
Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology
Chunfeng Zhou - Postdoc 2008 - 2011
Corning Incorporated
Scott Roberts - Ph.D. 2009
Thesis: Stability of Microscale Fluid Interfaces: A Study of Fluid Flows near Soft| Substrates and Pattern Formation under Electrostatic Field
Sandia National Laboratories
Benson Tsai - M.S. 2009 (with M. S. Carvalho)
Thesis: Leveling of Thin Films of Colloidal Suspensions
Serve Automation
Nazish Hoda - Ph.D. 2008
Thesis: Dynamics of complex fluids and complex flows near surfaces: Continuum and molecular modeling
ExxonMobil
Balram Suman - Ph.D. 2008
Thesis: Continuum and Molecular Modeling of Interfacial Dynamics: Interfacial Instabilities, Melt Spinning, and Dendrimer Adsorption
McKinsey
Richard D. Lenz - Ph.D. 2007
Thesis: Liquid Displacement in Lithographic Printing: Modeling and Visualization
Linde
Abhishek Shrivastava - Ph.D. 2007 (with E. L. Cussler)
Thesis: Faster Mass Transfer in Small Channels: Understanding Static Mixing Phenomena
DuPont
Vasileios Gkanis - Ph.D. 2005
Thesis: Stability Analyses of Fluid Flows near Deformable Solids
EU-SHARE/i-SmartSolutions, Greece
Ajay Singh Panwar - Ph.D. 2005
Thesis: Polymer Dynamics in Microfluidic Devices: A Brownian Dynamics Study
Professor at IIT Bombay, India
Xiuyan Yin - Ph.D. 2005
Thesis: Visualization and Modeling of Flow inside Gravure Cells and Grooves
Realtor