Faculty
- Dr. Chang Liu
Graduate students
- Duc Nguyen
- Early Bird Awardee of 100+1 New England Complex Fluids Conference
- Jino George
We are continuously searching for highly motivated Ph.D. students joining the group. If you are interested in applying Ph.D. fellowship together, please contact me. More fellowships for doctoral candidates and also here.
Undergraduates
- Zhengyang Wei
- Selected by University Scholar Program
- Kalin Kochnev
- Awarded UConn Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards
- Awarded NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Scholarship
Highly-motivatd undergraduate students are encouraged to get in touch. UConn students can check funding opportunites from Office of Undergraduate Research such as Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards, Caxide Scholars Program, Holster Scholars Program, and University Scholar Program. More opportunities for undergraduate students is here.
Visiting Students and Scholars
Visiting students and scholars are welcome to contact and discuss potential collaborative projects.
Postdocs
Currently, we only consider postdocs with external sources of fundings or fellowship right now. If you are interested in applying postdoc fellowship together, please contact me to discuss potential project. More Fellowships for postdocs and early career professionals and also here.
High School Students and Teachers
- Aditya Thakar
Highly motivated high school students interested in Science Research Competitions are welcome to contact. K-14 educators who are interested in Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science are welcome to contact.
Alumni
- Weichen Zhao (Visiting Undergraduate)
- Yusuf Zaidi (Undergraduate)
- Awarded NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Internship
- Jingrui (Ray) Hu (High School Intern)
- Benjamin Machlus (High School Intern)
Research Mentees before UConn
- Zhiwei (Dave) Li (Co-advised with Adrian van Kan and Edgar Knobloch)
- Zhiwei (Dave) Li, Chang Liu, Adrian van Kan, Edgar Knobloch (2024) “Traveling spatially localized convective structures in an inclined porous medium” Physical Review Fluids (Under Review) (Featured by NSF ACCESS) https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17567
- Awarded 2024 APS DFD travel award
- Lichuan Xu (Co-advised with Adrian van Kan and Edgar Knobloch)
- Next position: Ph.D. student in University of Chicago
- Lichuan Xu, Adrian van Kan, Chang Liu, Edgar Knobloch (2024) “Fluctuation-Induced Transitions in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Turbulence” Physical Review Fluids 9, 064605. (Editor’s Suggestion) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.064605
- Awarded by Physics Innovators Initiative Summer Scholars (Pi2) and Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholars (BPURS)
- Troy Tsubota (Co-advised with Benjamin Foster and Edgar Knobloch)
- Troy Tsubota, Chang Liu, Benjamin Foster, Edgar Knobloch (2024) “Bifurcation delay and front propagation in the real Ginzburg-Landau equation on a time-dependent domain” Physical Review E 109, 044210 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.044210
- Awarded by Physics Innovators Initiative Summer Scholars (Pi2) and Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholars (BPURS)
- Aishwarya Rath (Co-advised with Dennice F. Gayme)
- Aishwarya Rath, Chang Liu, Dennice F. Gayme (2024) “A structured input-output approach to evaluating the effects of uniform wall-suction on optimal perturbations in transitional boundary layers” 2024 Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy (In press)
- Yu Shuai (Co-advised with Dennice F. Gayme)
- Next position: Ph.D. student in Princeton University
- Yu Shuai, Chang Liu, Dennice F. Gayme (2023) “Structured Input-Output Analysis of Oblique Laminar-Turbulent Patterns in plane Couette-Poiseuille Flow.” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 103, 109207. (Invited) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109207
- Yu Shuai, Chang Liu, Dennice F. Gayme (2022) “Structured Input-Output Analysis of Oblique Turbulent Bands in Transitional Plane Couette-Poiseuille Flow.” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomenon, Osaka, Japan (Online). http://www.tsfp-conference.org/proceedings/2022/254.pdf.pdf
Collaborators
- Edgar Knobloch
- Keith Julien
- Dennice Gayme
- Colm-cille P. Caulfield
- Stanislav Gordeyev
- Flint Thomas
- Igal Gluzman
- Antwan D. Clark
- Shixiao Fu
| Photo | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
 | Jino George | PhD student |
 | Kalin Kochnev | Undergraduate student |
 | Chang Liu | Assistant Professor |
 | Duc Nguyen | PhD student |
 | Zhengyang Wei | Undergraduate student |