People

Nafis Saad Resan

Ph.D. student, co-advised by Dr. Yechun Wang at the ME department, NDSU

nafis.resan@ndsu.edu

Santu Golder

Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering, NDSU

santu.golder@ndsu.edu

Colten Alme

M.S. student, Biomedical Engineering Program, NDSU

Awardee of NSF INTERN Supplement Grant under NSF CBET 2342517 

colten.alme@ndsu.edu

Ethan Vertin

Accelerated M.S. Student, 

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Fall 2026), Mechanical Engineering, NDSU

ethan.vertin@ndsu.edu

Noah Douglas 

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering, NDSU

Fall 2026 NDSGC Student Fellowship Recipient

Current advisee in NDSU National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program 

noah.douglas@ndsu.edu

Ruihang Zhang 

Dr. Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She was a former Ph.D. student who joined us in 2016 and graduated in 2021. Her research was focused on cardiovascular hemodynamics and pulsatile fluid dynamics in complex cardiovascular structures using advanced flow diagnostic techniques. She obtained her Master’s degree from the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China in 2016. Dr. Zhang joined the Swenson College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Spring 2022, and became a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2023.

Sifat Karim Chowdhury

Dr. Chowdhurry is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He was a former Ph.D. student, joined our lab in 2021, and worked on physiologically relevant pulsatile helical flow for his dissertation. In Fall 2026, Dr. Chowdhury joined the Resch School of Engineering as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering - our second faculty alumnus in ten years!

John-Luke Singh

(Now a Manufacturing Engineer at Olympus Corporation of the Americas )

Mr. Singh currently works for Medtronics, the world's leading medical device manufacturer, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. He obtained his MS degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2019. He was co-advised by Dr. Yechun Wang and Dr. Yan Zhang at the ME department at NDSU.  His Master's thesis was "Design and Fabrication of Micro-Channels and Numerical Analysis of Droplet Motion Near Microfluidic Return Bends" . He obtained his B.S. degree from the ME department at NDSU in 2017.

Jiaming Zhao

Mr. Zhao was a former M.S. student. He joined us in 2017 and expects to graduate in 2019. His research is focused on wind turbine aerodynamics and passive flow control for dynamic stall. He obtained his B.S. degree from the Mechanical Engineering department at NDSU in 2017.

Benjamin Eichholz

Ben was a former M.S. student. He joined us in 2019 and graduated in 2020. After obtaining his M.S. degree, he joined the Center for Human Spaceflight, Research and Development Engineer at the University of California, Davis as a Ph.D. student. His research was focused on the fundamental mechanisms of pulsatile flow over cavities with superhydrophobic coatings with applications in cardiovascular devices. 

Jennifer Schmeling

Jennifer was a former M.S. student and is now working as a Quality Engineer at Trelleborg Sealing Solutions in Minnesota. She joined us in 2021 and graduated in 2022. Her M.S. thesis research was to experiementally study the fluid-structure interaction of thin-walled collapsible vessels, which serves as a simplified model for understanding cardiovascular vein flow phenomena.

William Fish III

William was a fomer M.S. student, Biomedical Engineering Program, NDSU. After graduation, he works as a R&D engineer at Teleflex, a Medical Equipment Manufacturing company 

william.fish@ndsu.edu

Imtiaj Nahin Ahmed

Imtiaj was a former M.S. student, currently Ph.D. student in University of Colorado Boulder.

imtiaj.ahmed@ndsu.edu