Lab Alumni

Saikat Mukherjee was a postdoc in the lab from July 2020 to June 2023. He joined Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in July 2023. (Website link)

Mahsa Mirzaee defended her PhD in May 2024. Her dissertation is titled "Reduced-order modeling of peristaltic pumping of cerebrospinal fluid in the glymphatic system of mice."

Edith Luveina Joseph defended her Master's thesis "Lumped Parameter Modeling of Changes in Liver Hemodynamics due to Cirrhosis" and graduated in December of 2023. She will begin working as a Thermal Systems Engineer at Trane Technologies.

Jake Stein defended his Master's thesis "Net Flow Through Soft Porous Media Generated by a Periodic Mean-Zero Pressure Gradient" and graduated in April of 2023.

Anika Volker joined the lab in Fall 2023 and volunteered -- contributing to mouse experiments and data analysis -- until she graduated in December 2024.

Turki Alturki volunteered in the lab from Fall 2023 through Summer 2024, contributing to mouse experiments and particle tracking velocimetry.

Lily Watkins joined the lab in Spring 2022 and continued working with us through her first year of grad school. She is now a PhD student in Victor Barocas's group.

Amit Manicka was a member of the lab for about a year before graduating with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2024.

Majid Al Busaidi conducted research with us from Spring 2023 through Spring 2024, when he graduated with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He is now a grad student in the UMN M.S.M.E. program.

Hayat Ahmed worked in the lab from Fall 2023 through Spring 2024. She will graduate with her B.S. in Spring 2026, with a major in Computer Science & Engineering and a minor in Information Technology.

Will Gustafson worked in the lab Spring 2022. He is currently in the integrated B.S./M.S. program in Mechanical Engineering, so he'll graduate with a Master's in Spring 2024. Will is also working part time at Medtronic.

Lindsay Stiegler graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2022.

Nick Conlin graduated with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics in Spring 2021. He joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Princeton as a PhD student in Fall 2021.

Bharath Sivaram graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2021 and is working on his Master's in the Minnesota Robotics Institute as of Fall 2021.