People

Fred Jia

Ph.D. 

Email: dj346@cornell.edu

Fred just finished his 2-year M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering. His undergraduate research focused on using CFD modeling to give insight to surgical operations. His project was on analyzing and prediction the effect of surgical left atrial appendage closure to blood flow pattern in the left atrium.

Saba Mansour

Ph.D. 

Email: sm2436@cornell.edu

Saba is a first-year Ph.D. student at Cornell. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran. In her Master’s thesis, she focused on CFD modeling and optimization of a battery thermal management system, where she used deep neural networks as well as a combined steady-transient optimization approach to reduce the costs of prohibitively expensive multi-objective optimization problems. Outside of research, Saba is a yoga instructor and enjoys cooking.

Molly Drumm

Master of Engineering

Email: med275@cornell.edu

Molly is an M.Eng. student who graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. She is currently working on a program to smooth 3D ultrasound data of an embryonic chick’s heart. Outside of research, Molly is a member of the Combat Robotics at Cornell project team. 

Grant Rydquist

Ph.D. 

Email: gjr68@cornell.edu

Grant is a first year PhD student at Cornell. Prior to joining Cornell, he graduated from Montana State University. His undergraduate research focused on using potential flow to model aspects of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability that accounts for the compressibility of the fluid. Additionally, he worked on a project to provide CFD validation for Magnetic Resonance Thermometry measurements.

Chenwei (Andy) Meng

Master of Science

Email: cm893@cornell.edu

Chenwei joined Cornell in 2017 after receiving his M.S. degree in Thermal Engineering at Tsinghua University, where he investigated the effect of coal activation energy on combustion in a second reheat boiler based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. He is currently working on reduced-order modeling of the circulatory system, developing 0D models as a substitute for full dimensional models of complex anatomies.

Priscilla Chang

Master of Science

Email: sc2243@cornell.edu

Priscilla is an M.Eng. student who graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. She is currently working on a project for a vacuum helmet that contains pathogen-bearing droplets in dental and otolaryngologic outpatient interventions.

Anirban Bhattacharjee

Master of Science

Email: ab2884@cornell.edu 

Anirban joined Cornell in Fall, 2019. Prior to that, he was an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he worked on droplet microfluidics and the Saffman-Taylor Instability problem of yield stress fluids. His current project involves the study of clustering of inertial particles in turbulence.

Emily Logan

Master of Engineering

Email: el543@cornell.edu

Emily is a senior undergraduate and M.Eng student at Cornell University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. She is currently working on quantifying red blood cell damage in systemic-to-pulmonary shunts in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease. Outside of research, Emily leads the Solar Boat Project Team and coordinates events for the Cornell Elderly Partnership.

Sharon Cho

Master of Engineering 

Email: sfc62@cornell.edu

Sharon is a senior undergraduate and a first semester M.Eng student at Cornell, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Spanish Language. She is currently working on designing and building a hydrodynamic particle separator. Outside of research, she leads the fabrication process for the Cornell Steel Bridge Project Team and enjoys playing classical violin. 

Qifan Wang

Master of Engineering 

Email: qw256@cornell.edu

Qifan is a first semester M.Eng student in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. He is currently working on the CFD analysis of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts. Outside of research, he enjoys playing pickup basketball and travelling.

Jonathan Thompson

Master of Engineering

Email: jjt35@cornell.edu

Jonathan is a first-semester M.Eng student at Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical engineering. He has returned to Cornell after a few years gaining work experience. He is currently working on the analysis of Coronary Artery Bypass Graphs through specialized CFD code. Outside of engineering research, he enjoys biking, photography and music theory.

Justine Burke

Undergraduate

Email: jfb322@cornell.edu

Justine is a sophomore at Cornell University from Buffalo, NY majoring in biomedical engineering. She is currently working on a project for a new diagnostic technique for Alzheimer’s disease. Outside of research, Justine is a part of the Engineering World Health project team and is a part of the club field hockey team.

Matthew Peroni

Undergraduate

Email: mhp63@cornell.edu

Matthew is a junior at Cornell, majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Bioengineering. Matthew is currently investigating the possibility of adopting industrial ejector pump design for clinical use. Outside of research, Matthew works on the Cornell Genetically Engineered Machines project team and leads Cornell Barbell Club and Powerlifting Team as the team president. 

Alexis Eggleston

Undergraduate

Email: ace62@cornell.edu

Alexis is a sophomore at Cornell University from Las Vegas, Nevada majoring in Applied Engineering Physics with a possible minor in computer science. Alexis is currently working on optimizing blood flow to the lungs in pediatric patients with congenial heart defects. Alexis also works at Cornell’s Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility.