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Dr. Liu received NSF CAREER Award!

April 9, 2026

Dr. Liu is honored to receive the National Science Foundation CAREER Award!

Zhiwei received Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award!

March 13, 2026

Kalin received Student Travel Grant to present in 2026 American Control Conference!

March 6, 2026

Dr. Liu gave a seminar at University of Houston!

February 10, 2026

Dr. Liu gave a seminar at the University of Houston. Thank you for hosting!

Two conference papers have been accepted to American Control Conference 2026!

January 21, 2026

Two conference papers “Upper bound of transient growth in accelerating and decelerating wall-driven flows using the Lyapunov method” and “Stability Analysis of Thermohaline Convection With a Time-Varying Shear Flow Using the Lyapunov Method” have been accepted to the American Control Conference 2026!

One journal article was published in Physics of Fluids

December 4, 2025

One journal article, “Spatiotemporal wall pressure forecast of a rectangular cylinder with physics-aware DeepU-Fourier neural network,” has been published in Physics of Fluids!

One journal article was published in Physical Review Fluids!

October 24, 2025

One journal article, “Nonlinear input-output analysis of transitional shear flows using small-signal finite-gain \(\mathcal{L}_p\) stability”, has been published in Physical Review Fluids!

Dr. Liu gave a seminar at Boston University!

October 6, 2025

Dr. Liu gave a seminar at the Dynamical System Seminars at Boston University. Thank you for hosting!

One journal article was published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics!

September 25, 2025

One journal article “Spontaneous generation of helical flows by salt fingers” has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics!

Duc and Zhengyang won travel awards to present in APS DFD!

September 23, 2025

Duc Nguyen and Zhengyang Wei won the 2025 DFD Travel Award, and Zhengyang was also awarded the UConn OUR Conference Presentation Award to present at the 2025 APS DFD.

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