Lab Director:

Dr. Hui Hu (PhD, U. Tokyo)

Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering

Martin C. Jischke Professor in Aerospace Engineering
Director, Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory

Director, Aircraft Icing Physics and Anti-/De-icing Technology Laboratory
Associate Department Chair for Graduate Education,  Department of Aerospace Engineering
Howe Hall - Room 1200, Iowa State University
537 Bissell Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-2271, USA
Tel: (515) 294-0094 / Fax: (515)-294-3262 / Email: huhui@iastate.edu

 

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Research Staff Members:

Dr. Amrit Kumar (PhD, IIT- Dhanbad, India) Lab Manager and Postdoctoral Researcher Email: amritkr@iastate.edu

Dr. Abdallah Samad (PhD, ETS, Quebec, Canada) Postdoctoral Researcher Email: asamad@iastate.edu

 

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Graduate  Students:

Mr. Harsha Sista (BS, BITS) PhD student since 2021 fall Email: hsista@iastate.edu

Mr. Jincheng Wang (MS, DLUT) PhD student since 2021 fall Email: jcwang@iastate.edu

Mr. Anvesh Dhulipalla (MS, IUPUI) PhD student since 2021 fall Email: adhulipa@iastate.edu

Mr. Kiran Digavalli (BS, Carleton College) PhD student since 2022 fall Email: kdigav@iastate.edu

Mr. Yuan Zhao (MS, ERAU) PhD student since 2024 spring Email: yuanzhao@iastate.edu	Mr. Carlos Valentin (BS, UAGM Gurabo in Puerto Rico) PhD student since 2023 fall Email: cavalen@iastate.edu
Mr. Kayde Bowers BS/MS Student since 2023 fall Email: kbowers@iastate.edu	Mr. James Frantz  BS/MS Student since 2023 fall Email: jefrantz@iastate.edu
Mr. Hunter Underwood MS Student since 2024 spring Email: hunteru@iastate.edu

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Undergraduate Students:

Mr. Edward Chumbley(2023F ~2024F) Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: edwardlc@iastate.edu

Matthew Staber (2024S ~ 2024F) Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: mstaber@iastate.edu

Eian Wratchford (2024F ~ 2025S) FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: eianrw@iastate.edu

Oluwagbemiga Felix-Aremo Capstone project Assistant Email: omf@iastate.edu

Former Postdocal Research Associates:

Former PhD students:

Dr. Zheyan Jin (PhD, 2008) Associate Professor, Tongji University, China	Dr. Zifeng Yang (PhD, 2009) Associate Professor,  Wright State University	Dr. Meilin Yu (PhD, 2012) Associate Professor @ University of Maryland, Baltimore County.	Dr. Yan Zhang (PhD, 2013)  Associate Professor  @ North Dakota State University
Dr. Ahmet  Ozbay (PhD, 2014) Teaching professor @Central Florida University	Dr. Zhenyu Wang  (PhD, 2015) Senior Research Engineer @ Honda Research Center, USA	Dr. Kai Zhang  (PhD, 2015) now assistant Professor HIT-Shenzhen campus	Dr. Morteza Khosravi (PhD, 2016) Business owner @ Dubai, UAE
Dr. Wenwu Zhou (PhD,2016) Associate Professor, @ Shanghai JiaoTong University	Dr. Yang Liu  (PhD, 2016) Assistant Professor @ City University of New York	Dr. Haixing Li (PhD, 2017) Research Engineer @COMAC, Shanghai, China	Dr.Pavithra Premaratne (PhD,2018) Assistant Professor @ Central College, Iowa
Dr. Zhe Ning (PhD, 2018) Director of Fluid Dynamics Lab @ Midea Group	Dr. Linkai Li (PhD, 2018) Assistant Professor @ NUAA, China	Dr. Liqun Ma (PhD, 2019) Research Scientist @ CAAA	Dr. Linyue Gao (PhD, 2019) Assistant Professor @ Univ. of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Cem Kolbakir (PhD 2020) Assistant Professor @  University of Samsun, Turkey	Dr. Haiyang Hu (PhD, 2021) now Assistant Professor @ University of Alabama - Huntsville	Dr. Ramsankar Veerakumar (PhD, 2021) Teaching Assistant Professor @ University of Wyoming	Dr. Zichen Zhang (PhD, 2021) Assistant Professor @ Sino-French Aviation University
Dr. Linchuan Tian (PhD, 2021) Post-Doctoral (2021~2022) now Postdoc @ SJTU	Dr. Nianhong Han (PhD 2022) Research Scientist @ Kairos Aerospace	Dr. Chukwudum Eluchie  (PhD, 2023) Postdoc@University of Iowa	Dr. Hang Li (PhD, 2023)  (co-advised with Dr. Liming Xiong)

 

 

Former MS students:

Khyati Varma (MS, 2007) now Production Engineer,  Chrysler, Detroit, Michigan	Masatoshi Tamai (MS, 2007) now Engineer, Barclays Capital-Tokyo Office	Jeffory T. Murphy (MS, 2008) now Research Engineer, Boeing St. Louis. Missouri	Lucas Clemons  (MS, 2009) now PhD student, Iowa State University
Anand Gopa Kumar  (MS, 2010)  now Production Engineer, HRST Incorporation	Travis Grager (MS, 2011) Teaching Professor @ Iowa State University	Hirofumi Igarashi (MS, 2011) now Production Engineer, ARK Technologies, Inc.	Daniel Dvorak (MS, 2012) Research Engineer,  UTC Aerospace System
Ahmet Ozbay (MS, 2012) now teaching professor @Central Florida University	Mr. Morteza Khosravi  (MS, 2015) now Business Owner @ Dubai, UAE	Mr. Prashanth Sagar (MS, 2017)	Mr. Faisal Al-Masri (MS, 2020)  Engineer @ GE - Energy

Mr. M. Ahmad Siddique (MS, 2021) PhD student at ISU

 

 

Former Undergraduate students:

Mr. Joshua Flecher  Undergraduate  Assistant (2022~2023)

Mr. John Hiker Undergraduate Assistant (2022~2023)

Mr. Ramey beavers Undergraduate  Assistant (2023)

Mr. Phillip Gorni Undergraduate Assistant  (2023)

 

Mr.  Nicolas Oneto Undergraduate Assistant (2021~2022)

Mr. Micheal Miller FHP Undergraduate Assistant (2021~2022)

Miss Sarah Stewart FHP Undergraduate  Assistant (2021~2022)

Mr.  Sean George Undergraduate  Assistant (2021~2022)

Robbie Madore FHP Research Assistant (2024S~2-24F)

Mr.  Fan Lok Kong Undergraduate Assistant (2021~2022)

Ellington Smith Undergraduate Research Assistant (2023~2024)

Mr. Ethan Schmidt Undergraduate Research Assistant (2023~2024)

 

• Hu group pictures in the pas years

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