Our Team

Faculty

Graduate students

  • Duc Nguyen
    • 2025 DFD Travel Award
    • Early Bird Awardee of 100+1 New England Complex Fluids Conference
  • Jino George

We are continuously searching for highly motivated Ph.D. students to join the group. If you are interested in applying Ph.D. fellowship together, please contact me. More fellowships for doctoral candidates and also available here.

Undergraduates

Highly motivated undergraduate students are encouraged to get in touch. UConn students can check funding opportunities from the Office of Undergraduate Research, such as Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards, Caxide Scholars Program, Holster Scholars Program, and University Scholar ProgramMore opportunities for undergraduate students are here.

Visiting Students and Scholars

  • Zekai Song

Visiting students and scholars are welcome to contact and discuss potential collaborative projects.

Postdocs

Currently, we only consider postdocs with external sources of funding or fellowship. If you are interested in applying postdoc fellowship together, please contact me to discuss a potential project. More Fellowships for postdocs and early career professionals, and also here.

High School Students

  • Nabeel Chasmawala

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

  • Leran Hu (Visiting Undergraduate, Summer 2025)
  • Saujas Kant (High School Intern, Summer 2025)
  • Arden Lu (High School Intern, Summer 2025)
  • Weichen Zhao (Visiting Undergraduate, Summer 2024) Next position: Master student at Binghamton University–SUNY
  • Yusuf Zaidi (Undergraduate)
    • Awarded NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Internship
  • Aditya Thakar (High School Intern, Fall 2024) Next position: Undergraduate at the University of Connecticut
  • Jingrui (Ray) Hu (High School Intern, Summer 2024) Selected as Valedictorian. Next position: Undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles
  • Benjamin Machlus (High School Intern, Summer 2024) Next position: Undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology

Research Mentees before UConn

  • Zhiwei Dave Li (Co-advised with Adrian van Kan and Edgar Knobloch)
    • Next position: Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago
    • Zhiwei Dave Li, Chang Liu, Adrian van Kan, Edgar Knobloch (2025) “Traveling spatially localized convective structures in an inclined porous medium” Physical Review Fluids. 10, 034402 (Featured by NSF ACCESS) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.034402
    • Awarded SIAM student travel award for SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25)
    • Awarded 2024 APS DFD travel award
  • Lichuan Xu (Co-advised with Adrian van Kan and Edgar Knobloch)
    • Next position: Ph.D. student at the 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)
  • 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, pp. 7714-7719 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10886180
  • Yu Shuai (Co-advised with Dennice F. Gayme)
    • Next position: Ph.D. student at 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

List of People
PhotoNameTitle
Jino GeorgePhD student
Photo of Kalin KochnevKalin KochnevUndergraduate student
Photo of Chang LiuChang LiuAssistant Professor
Duc NguyenPhD student
Zhengyang WeiUndergraduate student