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Suo Yang

Suo Yang, Ph.D.
Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Office: ME 3101C
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (612) 625-4520

Professional Preparation:  
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2017-2018, 
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Education:
Ph.D. 2017, M.S. 2014, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. 2015, Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. (Honors) 2011, Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University

Selected Honors and Awards:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA: 2021) & Director's Fellowship Award (2023), Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2022), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2024)

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POSTDOCS

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Pradeep Kumar Pavalavanni, Ph.D.
 
Office: ME L-101
 
Research: Internal Combustion Engines; Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation; Reduced-Order Modeling (ROM); Machine Learning; Detonations
Previous Experience:
Technical Safety Engineer (Sept 2021- Oct 2022), Shell Technology Center-Bengaluru, India
 
Education: 
Ph.D., 2021 Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
M.S..,  2015 Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
B.E.,  2012 Aeronautical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai India

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Sai Ranjeet Narayanan
 
Office: ME L-101
 
Program: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2018 - Present
Research: Internal Combustion Engines; Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation; Soot Modeling for Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Engines; COVID-19 Transmission; Dusty Plasma (co-advised by Prof. Steven L. Girshick)
 
Education:
M.S. 2022, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.E. (Honors) 2018, Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India
 
Honors and Awards: Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (2022-2023)
 
Internship: Aramco Americas, Detroit, MI (Summer 2021)
 
 
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 Taaresh Sanjeev Taneja
 
Office: ME L-101
 
Program: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019 - Present
Research: Plasma Assisted Ignition, Combustion, and Fuel Reformation
 
Education: B.E. (Honors) 2017, Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Goa, India
 
 
Internship: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (Fall 2022); Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA (Summer 2023); Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA (Summer 2024)
 
 
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Shufan Zou

Office: ME L-101
Email: [email protected]

Program: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019 - Present
Research: Hypersonic Sonic Boom; Wall-Modeled Large Eddy Simulation (WMLES); Soot Emission and Nanoparticle Synthesis; Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR)

Education: B.S. (Honors) 2019, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China

Internship: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (Summer 2020)

 

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Praise Noah Johnson

Office: ME L-101
Email: [email protected]

Program: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2021 - Present
Research: Chemical Kinetics; Plasma Assisted Combustion and Chemical Synthesis

Education: 
M.S, 2021, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India
B.E. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, India

 

Navneeth

Navneeth Srinivasan

Office: ME L-101
Email: [email protected]

Program: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2021 - Present
Research: Flame Synthesis of Nanoparticles; Supercritical Combustion and Thermoacoustic Instabilities

Education: 
B.Tech. 2021, Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India

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Suryanarayan (Surya) Ramachandran

Office: ME L-101
Email: [email protected]

Program: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2022 - Present
Research: Turbulent Cool Flames, Low Temperature Chemistry, Irregular Detonations (https://rsuryanarayan.github.io/research/)

Education: 
B.Tech. (Honors) 2022, Mechanical Engineering, NIT Trichy, India

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Gihun Shim

Office : ME L-101
Email : [email protected]

Program : Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2022 - Present

Education : 
M.S. 2017, Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea
B.S. 2015, Mechanical Engineering, Soongsil University, South Korea

Rudram Dushe CRFEL

Rudram Dushe

Office : ME L-101
Email : [email protected]

Program : Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2023 - Present

Education : 
M.Tech. 2023, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
B.Tech. 2022, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India

POSTDOCTORAL ALUMNI

Ari Nejadmalayeri, Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Research: I.C Engines Control, Reduced Order Modeling, Machine Learning for Combustion Modeling; Wavelet-Based CFD
Next Position: CEO + CoFounder, Wellian / Adjunct Faculty, Hamline University
 
Dezhi Zhou, May 2019 - Jan. 2021
Research: Soot Emission and Nanoparticle Synthesis; High-Speed Combustion
 
Ping Yi, Jan. - Aug., 2019
Research: Transcritical Multiphase Flows; Droplet Evaporation
 
 

GRADUATE ALUMNI

Krishna Chandra Bavandla, Ph.D., Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2020
Research: Chemical Kinetics in a Controlled-Trajectory Rapid Compression and Expansion Machine (CT-RCEM); Machine Learning for Multiphase Flow Modeling; High Pressure Injection
Internship(s): Corning, NY (Summer 2022); Tesla, Palo Alto, CA (Fall 2022)
Next Position: Thermal Abuse Modeling Engineer, Tesla, Palo Alto, CA
 
Hongyuan Zhang, Ph.D., Feb. 2019 - Nov., 2023
Research: Transcritical Spray and Combustion; Droplet Evaporation; Machine Learning; High-Performance Computing (HPC)
 
 

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI

Collin Lief, Summer 2023
Research: Machine Learning Modeling of Atmospheric and Higher Pressure Plasma Discharges of Fuel/Air Mixtures
Next Position: Undergraduate Student (Physics and Mechanical Engineering), Harvard University

Amiya C. Gupta, Summer 2022
Research: Machine Learning Modeling of Chemical Kinetics (NSF ME3 REU Program)
Next Position: Undergraduate Student (Mechanical Engineering), University of Florida
Current Position: Ph.D. Student (Mechanical Engineering), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Viswesh Seshan, Summer 2022
Research: COVID-19 Transmission
Next Position: Undergraduate Student (Mechanical Engineering), University of Minnesota

Shijie Zhong, Spring 2022
Research: Spectral Modeling of Turbulence
Next Position: Ph.D. Student (Mechanical Engineering), Johns Hopkins University

Henry Dikeman, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Research: Machine Learning Modeling of Chemical Kinetics (UMN UROP)
Next Position: Technical Staff, VMware

Anders Vaage, Spring 2020 - Spring 2021
Research: Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Micro-Fluids; Soot Emission
Next Position: Systems Engineer, 3M

Justin Smet, Summer 2020 - Spring 2021
Research: Modeling of Supersonic Combustion for Scramjets
Next Position: Automation Engineer, Metso Outotec

Jose Lasso, Summer 2020 - Spring 2021
Research: Machine Learning based Reduction of Soot/NOx Emissions from Engine Combustion (NSF ME3 REU Program)
Next Position: Ph.D. Student (Mechanical Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Lindsey Wadsworth, Summer 2020 - Fall 2020
Research: Modeling of an Outward Opening Injector System in a Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Engine (NSF ME3 REU Program)
Next Position: Ph.D. Student (Chemical Engineering), Colorado School of Mines

Praveen Prakash, Summer 2020 - Fall 2020
Research: Soot Modeling in a Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Engine (UMN UROP)
Next Position: M.S. Student (Mechanical Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)

Levi Wierman, Summer 2019
Research: Numerical Investigation of Plasma-Assisted Gas Reforming (UMN UROP)