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
Jiayu Li
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Chemical Engineering, Purdue University (2018)
Email: ucjli[at]ucdavis[dot]edu
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jiayu-li
Research: Interfacial fluid dynamics in foams and viscous fingering
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)
Group Alumni
- Haruka Shudo, BS (BiochemE) 2022
- Samantha Wang, BS (BiochemE) 2022
- Rohit Mokkaralla, BS (Materials Science) 2022, currently at C-Crete Technologies, San Leandro
- 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