Current group members
| Dr Hui Wan, Ph.d Post Doc |
 Contact Info:111 Russ Engineering Centre. Email: hui.wan@wright.edu BIO Dr. Hui Wan received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2008. His research interests in biological fluid dynamics include fluid body interaction, Lagrangian coherent structure and reduced order modeling. He involves in simulation of engine combustion as well. Hui also received a Master degree in EECS at UC Berkeley, under instruction of Prof. Chenming Hu. Hui was one of the principal developers for BSIMSOI model, which is industrial standard of SOI MOSFET device. |
| Zongxian (John) Liang Ph.D Student |
 Contact Info:121 Russ Engineering Center Email: liang.5@wright.edu BIO Zongxian Liang is a Ph.D student. He completed his master degree under the guidance of Prof. Jiming Yang from University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests are computational fluid dynamics, parallel computing and reduced order modeling. |
| Samane Zeyghami Ph.D Student |
 Contact Info:180 Joshi Research Center Email: zeyghami.2@wright.edu BIO |
| Yan Ren Ph.D Student |
 Contact Info: 241 Russ Engineering Center Email: ren.10@wright.edu BIO Yan Ren is a Ph.D student. He completed his masters under the guidance of Chunsheng Ye from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are insects’s flight and high speed photogrammetry. |
| Zach Gaston Ph.D Student |
 Contact Info:121 Russ Engineering Center Email: gaston.8@wright.edu BIO Zach Gaston is currently an undergraduate student and will begin his Ph.D studies in Spring 2011. Research interests are high speed photogrammetry, particle image velocimetry, and bridging experimental and computational fluid dynamics for MAV and bio-inspired applications. |
| Chengyu Li Graduate Student |
 Contact Info:180 Joshi Research Center Email: chengyu.2@wright.edu BIO Chengyu is a master student in Wright State University. He graduated from Dalian Jiaotong University, China. He is currently working on high speed photogrammetry and dragonfly’s reconstruction. His research interests are mainly about wing/body flexibility in dragonfly maneuver. |
| Zachary Votaw Graduate Student |
 Contact Info: 241 Russ Engineering Center Email: @wright.edu BIO Zachary Votaw is currently working on Improvement of rotary engine efficiency. |
| Di Wang Graduate Student |
 Contact Info: 111 Russ Engineering Center Email: wang.151@wright.edu BIO Wang Di is a master student in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. She graduated from Dalian Jiaotong University, China, 2010. She finished her intership in Liaoning Chaoyang Diesel Engine Works during the last year in university. Her research interests are simulating engine flow properties and fuel injection technologies, especially rotary engine and rotax engine. |
| Kuo Gai Graduate Student |
 Contact Info: 356 Russ Engineering Center Email: gai.3@wright.edu BIO Kuo Gai is a master student in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. She completed her bachelor of Engineering at Dalian Jiaotong University. She works on insects’ flight and high speed photogrammetry. |
| Shreyas Vathul Subramanian Graduate Student |
 Contact Info: 180 Joshi Research Center Email: shreyas.f117@gmail.com BIO Shreyas Vathul Subramanian is a master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. He completed his Bachelor of Technology in National Institute of Technology, India. He is currently working on an Auto-Tracking technology. |
| Michael Resor Undergraduate Student |
 Contact Info:Email: resor.2@wright.edu BIO |
| Wen Zhang Graduate Student |
 Contact Info:435 Russ Enger Center Email: cecily0629@gmail.com BIO Wen Zhang is a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering at Dalian Jiaotong University, China. She currently works on damselfly’s reconstruction. Her research interest is insects’ flight. |
| Adam Blake Graduate Student |
 Contact Info:Email: adam.blake119@gmail.com BIO Adam Blake is a master student in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. He received a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Wright State in November, 2011. Primary area of interest is engine research, focusing on combustion simulation for multi-fuel injections. |
| Wade Pearson Graduate Student |
 Contact Info:180 Joshi Research Center Email: wapearson11@gmail.com BIO I have a B.A. in Physics and Math with a fair amount of computer programming experience. I’m using this programming experience to develop a user interface for PICAR. I have particular interest in modeling flapping flight and plan to work on that in the future. |
| Xiang Yun Graduate Student |
 Contact Info:180 Joshi Research Center Email: yun.7@wright.edu BIO Xiang Yun is a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University. He completed his Bachelor of Science at Dalian Jiaotong University, China. |