Grants

• Co-PI: XSEDE Allocation CTS120005, 9M CPU Hours ($135K dollar valuation)
• ONR MURI N0014-17-1-2676 (with Tim Colonius): High-Fidelity Simulation Methodologies for Multi-Phase Flows
• ONR BRC N0014-17-1-2625 (with Tim Colonius): Experimental-numerical Approach for the Development of a Multiscale Theory for Cavitation in Soft Complex Materials
• NIH 2P01-DK04881 (with Tim Colonius)
• DOE PSAAP II DE-NA0002374 (with Jonathan Freund, Carlos Pantano, Daniel Bodony)
• NSF CBET 13-36972 (with Jonathan Freund): Order and chaos in the flow of red blood cells

Awards

• Stanley Weiss Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Illinois (2017)
• Hassan Aref Memorial Award for Research in Fluid Mechanics, University of Illinois (2016)
• Alumni Teaching Fellowship, University of Illinois (2015)
• Dean's List, University of Michigan (2010–2013)
• Pi Tau Sigma–Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, Member

Students and mentoring

• Jean-Sebastien Spratt, Caltech (Ph.D., exp. 2022)
• Alexis Charalampopoulos, MIT (Ph.D., exp. 2022)
• Ben Stevens, Caltech (Ph.D., exp. 2021)
• Esteban Cisneros, University of Illinois (Ph.D., exp. 2021)
• Dr. David Mittelstein, USC/Caltech (Ph.D., 2020)
• Dr. Theresa Trummler, TU Munich (Ph.D., 2020)
• Franz O'Meally, Johns Hopkins (B.S., 2020)

Collaborators

• Professor Daniel Bodony (Aerospace, University of Illinois)
• Professor Tim Colonius (Computational Flow Physics, Caltech)
• Professor Rodney Fox (ChemE, Iowa State University)
• Professor Jonathan Freund (MechSE + Aero, University of Illinois)
• Dr. Kazuki Maeda (Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford)
• Professor Luke Olson (Computer Science and CSE, University of Illinois)
• Professor Carlos Pantano (University of Southern California)
• Professor Themis Sapsis (Sand Lab, MIT)
• Dr. Kevin Schmidmayer (Aix-Marseille University, France)

Sponsors