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Principal Investigator

Harishankar Manikantan

Email: hmanikantan[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
Phone: (530) 754 8656
Office:
3114 Bainer Hall

Postdoc: Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara (2015-2019)
Ph.D.: Applied Mechanics, UC San Diego (2015)
M.S.: Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, U of I at Urbana-Champaign (2012)
B. Tech.: Mechanical Engineering, NIT Surathkal (2010)

Graduate Students

Thomas Nguyen

Ph.D. Candidate

B.S.: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University (2017)

Email: tmhnguyen[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-minh-nguyen
Research:
Fluid, transport, and elastic dynamics of biopolymers involved in neurodegeneration

 

Fizza Usmani

Ph.D. Candidate

M.S.: Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar (2020)
B.S.:
 Chemical Engineering, Qatar University (2018)

Email: fusmani[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fizza-usmani
Research: Membrane hydrodynamics and 2D suspension mechanics

 

Kira Kiviat

Ph.D. Candidate

M.S.: Mathematics,Purdue University (2017)
B.S.:
Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Arizona (2011)

Email: kkiviat[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
Research: Modeling cell growth and hydrodynamics for cultivated meat

 

Joaquin Mogollon Santiana

Ph.D. Candidate

B.S.: Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University (2021)

Email: jmogollonsantiana[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
Research: Organic semiconductor patterning (in collaboration with Prof. Adam Moule)

 

Amirhossein Heidarzadeh

Ph.D. Student (Chemical Engineering)

B.S.: Mechanical Engineering, University of Zanjan (2011)
M.S.: Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2021)

Email: aheidarzadeh[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
Research: Aerosol generation during vocalization (in collaboration with Prof. Bill Ristenpart)

 

Samantha Yan

Ph.D. Student (Materials Science)

B.S.: Materials Chemistry, UC Berkeley (2022)

Email: sjyan[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
Research: Salivary aerosol generation and rheology (co-advised by Prof. Bill Ristenpart)

 

Group Alumni

  • Jiayu Li, Ph.D. (ChemE) 2023, currently at Corteva, Indiana
  • Haruka Shudo, BS (BiochemE) 2022
  • Samantha Wang, BS (BiochemE) 2022
  • Rohit Mokkaralla, BS (Materials Science) 2022, currently at Ohmium, San Jose
  • Vishnu Vig, MS (ChemE) 2021, currently at Intel, Portland
  • Kathleen Stewart, M.Engg (ChemE) 2020, currently graduate student in Physics, UC Davis
  • Daniel Jiang, BS (ChemE) 2020, currently graduate student in Chemical Engineering at USC