Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota
218 Akerman Hall
110 Union St SE
Minneapolis, MN, 55455
Email: adelvalb@umn.edu
Graduate Students
Vincenzo Romano
September 2024 - Present
Research: Ground-to-flight analysis of hypersonic laminar-to-turbulent transition with stochastic methods
Co-advised with Profs. Magin and Chazot (VKI)
Graham Larson
January 2025 - Present
Research: Multi-Experiment Bayesian Learning of Gas-Surface Interaction Models
Nicholas Colavecchio
May 2025 - Present
Research: Uncertainty Quantification for Exascale Simulations of Hypersonic Flows
Agnivo Ghosh
May 2025 - Present
Research: Bayesian Optimal Design of Experiments for High-Speed Flows
Leonid Scott
June 2025 - Present
Research: Freestream Reconstruction in Hypersonic Shock Tunnels
Co-advised with Prof. Candler (UMN)
Sean Gilomen
May 2026 - Present
Research: Quantifying Model-Form Error to Support Rigorous Margin Policies for High-Mass Mars Entries
Undergraduate Students
Sean Ky
January 2026 - Present
Research: Development of Stochastic Aerodatabases for the UMN Formula SAE Car
Alumni
Lainey Oliphant
September 2025 - May 2026
Undergraduate Researcher
Research: Towards the Sensitivity Analysis of Post-shock Measurements to Freestream Conditions in High-Speed Flows
Frederick Rye
January 2025 - December 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Research: Stochastic Simulation of Hypersonic Ablating Geometries
Madhurima Das
January 2025 - December 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Research: Ground-to-flight Extrapolation Under Uncertainty for High-speed Vehicles
Franklin Woolley
May 2025 - August 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Research: Sensitivity Analysis of the Modified Marrone-Treanor Model
Janagan Ramanathan
January 2025 - May 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Research: Ground-to-flight Extrapolation Under Uncertainty for High-speed Vehicles
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