Park Research Group People

Principle Investigator
     Dr. Jae Sung Park
     Associate Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
     Postdoc., Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
     Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Graduate Students
     Alexia Martinez Ibarra (2020 - present)
     Ph.D. Student
     M.S. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
     B.S. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

     Cesar Leos (2021 - present)
     Ph.D. Student
     M.S. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

     B.S. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

     Seyed Mohammad Hosseini (2022 - present)
     Ph.D. Student
     B.S. Mechanical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology, Iran

     Timothy Alo (2022 - present)
     Ph.D. Student
     B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
 
Undergraduate Students
     Reid Wortman (2023 - present)

Lab Alumni
     Siamak Mirfendereski (2017 - 2023): Currently at University of Colorado Boulder in CO
     Postdoc (Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2023)
     Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
     Dissertation: Multiscale Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Dense Suspensions Undergoing Nonlinear Electrokinetics towards Active Rheology Control

     Ethan Davis (2018 - 2021): Currently at Sandia National Lab in NM
     Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
     Dissertation: Toward an understanding of fundamental mechanisms in transitional and turbulence flow control

     Alex Rogge (2019 - 2022): Currently at General Dynamics in NE
     Ph.D. course in Mechanical Engineering (2021-2022), incomplete
     M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2020), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
     Thesis: Toward Understanding Underlying Mechanisms of Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flow Control

     Mike Sheridan (now at University of Texas at Austin)
     B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
     John Woollam Scholar, 2020 - 2021

     Mohsin Al Barwani (now at North Carolina State University)
     B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
     UCARE Student, 2021 - 2022

     Josh Allen (now MS in ECE at UNL)
     B.S. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering
     UCARE, 2020 - 2021

     Paul Lenin
     B.S. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering
     UCARE, 2020

     Hayden Ang Kin Hoe
     B.S. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering
     UCARE, 2019 - 2020

     Thomas Hafner (now at Purdue)
     B.S. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering
     NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellow and UCARE, 2017 - 2019

     Elizabeth Spaulding (now at University of Colorado Boulder)
     B.S. in Mathematics
     NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellow, 2017 - 2018