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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

 

 

Research Staff Members:

Mr. Jincheng Wang (PhD, ISU)

Postdoctoral Researcher and lab manager

Email: jcwang@iastate.edu

Dr. Abdallah Samad (PhD, ETS, Quebec, Canada)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: asamad@iastate.edu

 

 

Graduate  Students:

Mr. Harsha Sista (BS, BITS)

PhD student since 2021 fall

Email: hsista@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. Kayde Bowers

PhD Student since 2023 fall

Email: kbowers@iastate.edu

 

Mr. Carlos Valentin (BS, UAGM Gurabo in Puerto Rico)

PhD student since 2023 fall

Email: cavalen@iastate.edu

Mr. Md Shbbir Shohan (BS, MIST in Bangladesh)

PhD student since 2025 spring

Email: shohan@iastate.edu

Mr. Syed Assiqul Haque  (BS, BUET in Bangladesh)

PhD student since 2025 spring

Email: assiq75@iastate.edu

Mr. Hunter Underwood

MS Student since 2024 spring

Email: hunteru@iastate.edu

  

 

Mr. James Frantz

 BS/MS Student since 2023 fall

Email: jefrantz@iastate.edu 

 
   

 

Undergraduate Students:

Eian Wratchford (2024F ~ 2025S)

FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: eianrw@iastate.edu

 

 

Matthew Staber (2024S ~ 2024F)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: mstaber@iastate.edu

Carly Scolaro ( 2025S~)
 FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email: cscolaro@iastate.edu

Nicholas Collins ( 2025S~)
 FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email: areg41@iastate.edu
   
 
 

 

 

Former Visiting Professors:

 

Dr. Hongwei Ma

Visiting Professor (2009)

 now Full Professor,

@ Beijing Univ. of Aero.& Astro.

Dr. Wei Yuan

Visiting Professor (12-13)

now  Associate Professor,

@ Beijing Univ. of Aero.& Astro.

Dr. Yu Rao

Visiting Professor (2013)

now Full Professor,

@ Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Fang Chen

Visiting Professor (2013)

now Full Professor,

@ Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 

 

Former Postdocal Research Associates:

Dr. Zheyan Jin (PhD, ISU)

Post-doctoral (09-10)

now Associate Professor

@Tongji University, China

Dr. Zifeng Yang (PhD, ISU)

Post-doctoral (10~12)

now Associate Professor

 @Wright State University

Dr. Blake Johnson (PhD, UIUC)

Post-doctoral (11~13),

now teaching Professor 

@Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Wenli Chen (PhD, HIT)

Post-doctoral (11~13)

 now Full Professor,

@Harbin Institute of Technology

Dr. Wei Tian (PhD, BUAA)

Post-Doctoral (2011~2014)

now Full Professor,

@ Shanghai JiaoTong University

Dr. Kai Zhang (PhD, ISU)

Post-Doctoral (2015~2016)

now assistant Professor
HIT-Shenzhen campus

Dr. Rye Waldmen (PhD, Brown)

Post-Doctoral (2014~2016)

Dr. Wenwu Zhou  (PhD, ISU)

Post-Doctoral (2016~2017)

now Full Professor,

@ Shanghai JiaoTong University

Dr. Yang Liu (PhD, ISU)

Assistant Professor
@ City University of New York

Dr. Linchuan Tian (PHD, ISU)

Post-Doctoral (2021~2022)

now Postdoc @ SJTU

Dr. Haiyang Hu (PhD, ISU)
Post-Doctoral (2021~2023)

Assistant Professor @ University of Alabama - Huntsville

 

Dr. Amrit Kumar (PhD, IIT)
Post-Doctoral (2023~2024)

Visiting Professor @ UiT, Norway

       

 

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)

Full 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)
 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, 2024)

 (co-advised with Dr. Liming Xiong)
       

Dr. Jincheng Wang
(PhD, 2024)

now Postdoc@Iowa State Univ.

 		     

 

 

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:

 


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