PEOPLE
Professor
Y. Sungtaek Ju
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford (1999)
Email: sungtaek dot ju at ucla dot edu
Areas of Interest: Micro and Nanoscale Thermosciences, Energy-Water Nexus, Heat and Mass Transfer
Dr. Ju was a research staff member at IBM before joining the UCLA faculty in 2003.
Graduate Students
Abolfazl Sadeghpour
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Sharif University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Email : abolfazlsad at ucla dot edu
Research:
Experimental and numerical study on fluid dynamics of a novel design for direct contact heat exchangers with zero water consumption (DILSHE). These heat exchangers can perform as an enhanced dry cooling systems in large scales.
Navid Dehdari Ebrahimi
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Sharif University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Email : navid3952 at ucla dot edu
Research:
Low-power electronics cooling using piezoelectric fans, jet topology and vortex dynamics of pitching plates, additive manufacturing of thermal system components.
Danny Ko
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Aerospace Engineering
Email : dko1217 at ucla dot edu
Research:
Hypersonic vehicle thermal protection system.
Anthony Mannion
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Email : ajmannion at g dot ucla dot edu
Research:
CFD of hypersonic flows, transpiration cooling of hypersonic vehicle leading edges
Alireza Mohseni
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Sharif University of Technology
Email : amohseni at g dot ucla dot edu
Research:
Interfacial flows, CO2 capture
Alumni
Post-Docs
Jichul Kim
Youngsuk Nam
Ph.D.
Ming-Tsung Hung
Jichul Kim
Jeremy Theriot
Youngsuk Nam
Gilhwan Cha
Tanye Tang
Katie Bulgrin
Stephen Sharratt
Yanbing Jia
Jinda Zhuang
Cheng Peng
Zezhi Zeng
Abolfazl Sadeghpour
Navid Dehdari Ebrahimi
M.S.
Janathan Sugar
Jason Kyawwin Maung
K. Leo Hwang (Comsol In.)
Jing Huang
Yujia Zhan
Hung He
Leslie A. Petersen (Aerospace Corporation)
Chao Fan
Yide Wang
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Hesham Azizgolshani, 2004-2006, (UCLA; PhD from Caltech)
Parham Hendifar, 2004 (UCLA; UCLA Law School)
Chris W. Bae, 2005-2006 (UCLA; MS from MIT)
Takane Usui, 2005-2006 (UCLA; PhD from Stanford)
Maziar Hemati, 2006-2007 (UCLA; PhD from UCLA)
Daniel Sistrunk, 2006-2007 (UCLA)
Chia Wei Lee, 2007 (UCLA; Edward Air Force Base, CA)
Ankush Gupta, 2007 (IIT Roorkee, India)
Dan Laguatan, 2007 (UCLA)
Gaurav Bansal, 2008 (UCLA)
Kurt Zimmerman, 2010 (UCLA)
Cheng Peng, 2010 (Xian Jiatong University, China; PhD UCLA)
Kevin Hoffman, 2011 (Yale)
Jiahuan Cui, 2011 (Xian Jiatong University, China)
Yang Lin, 2013 (Xian Jiatong University, China)
Subash Sundar Raman, 2020-21 (UCLA)
Yini He, 2021-22 (UCLA)
Duoer Zhang, 2021-22 (UCLA)
Henry Nguy, 2021-22 (UCLA)
Kristi Le, 2021-22 (UCLA)
Milad Mesbahi, 2022 – ongoing (UCLA)
Natalia Furmanczyk, 2023 – ongoing (UCLA)
High School Students
Jacob Haile (summer, 2006) - Structural integration of solar cells
Moncerrath Gutierrez (summer, 2006) - Structural integration of solar cells
Alvaro Alvarez (summer, 2006) - Structural integration of solar cells
Trevor Culhane (summer, 2010) – Mechanical characterization of magnetothermal switch
Lewin Gan (summer, 2010) – Electromagnetic actuator/impactor for traumatic brain injury model
Enrique Segura (summer, 2011) – Magnetomechanical thermal energy harvesting
Juan Sanchez (summer, 2011) – Thermoelectric waste heat harvesting of vehicle exhaust
Mollyvann Lamouth (summer, 2013) – Origami electronics for minimally invasive procedures
Justyn Li (summer, 2013) – Flexible supercapacitors (admitted to Santa Clara University)
Zhongning Zhang (summer, 2013) – Finger-actuated EWOD (electrowetting on dielectric) digital microfluidics (admitted to Harvard University)
Michelle Cho (summer, 2014) – Deployable devices for biomedical and robotics applications
Hope Lee (summer, 2014) – Deployable devices for biomedical and robotics applications
Castellon, Diahann (summer, 2015) – Interfacial phenomena for flexible and switchable interfaces for energy conversion (admitted to UC Riverside)
Hernandez, Natalie (summer, 2015) – Interfacial phenomena for flexible and switchable interfaces for energy conversion
Robles, Natalie (summer, 2015) – Direct-contact liquid on string heat exchangers
Lei, Yanling (summer, 2015) – Direct-contact liquid on string heat exchangers
Madilyn McDougall (summer, 2016) – Biomimetic air cooling using flapping wings
Jasmine Hoang (summer, 2016) – Biomimetic air cooling using flapping wings
Gabriela Vasquez (summer, 2016) – Biomimetic air cooling using flapping wings
Irene Cordero (summer 2017) – Piezoelectric fans for personalized air conditioning
Meesue Kim (summer 2017) – Instability in thin liquid film flows
Leticia Mezzetti (summer 2017) – Instability in thin liquid film flows