Aaron Towne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.   Before joining the faculty at Michigan, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University.  He received his PhD and MS degrees from the California Institute of Technology and his BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is a recipient of the 2020 Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), a 2022 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a 2024 Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).  He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and was named a Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

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  James Paulson PhD Candidate

  James received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa.  His Ph.D. research seeks to develop new laminar-to-turbulent transition models for high-speed boundary layers.

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  Yuhao Zhou PhD Candidate

  Yuhao received his B.E. from Dalian University of Technology and a dual M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan.  His Ph.D. research aims to use closed-loop flow control to reduce the noise emitted by turbulent jets.

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  Marildo Kola PhD Candidate

  Marildo received his Laurea Magistrale from the Politecnico di Milano. His current research focuses on the analysis of fluid instabilities using statistical and computational methods, with particular emphasis on the Rayleigh–Taylor instability.

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  Henry Tukel PhD Candidate

  Henry received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.  His Ph.D. research explores new types of space-time reduced-order models using polynomial basis functions.

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  Lena James PhD Pre-candidate

  Lena received her dual B.S. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Her research seeks low-dimensional subspaces for model reduction.

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  Saarthak Gupta Postdoctoral Fellow

  Saarthak received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science. His postdoctoral research focused on the development of statistical approaches for modeling transition likelihood in boundary-layer flows, with validation using numerical simulations.

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  Peter Frame PhD 2026

  Peter recieved his B.S. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego.  His Ph.D. research developed space-time reduced-order models and new tools for linear stability analysis.

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  Ali Farghadan PhD 2024

  Ali received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology and M.Sc. from Northern Arizona University.  His Ph.D. research developed algorithms for efficiently computing resolvent and harmonic-resolvent modes for three-dimensional and other large-scale problems.

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  Junoh Jung PhD 2024

  Junoh received his B.Sc. at Hongik University and M.Sc. at RWTH Aachen University.  His Ph.D. work at the University of Michigan focused on flow estimation and control of aerodynamics flows.

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  Zhicheng Kai MS 2024

  Kai received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institution of Technology.  His M.S. research developed a data-driven approach to transient growth analysis.

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