Oliver T. Schmidt

Principal Investigator
Office: EBU II Room 573 | Tel: (858) 246-5818
Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Before joining UCSD, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 2014.
Akhil Nekkanti

PhD Student
Office: EBU II Room 132A
Akhil is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on understanding the noise generating mechanisms in turbulent jets. Before joining UCSD, he worked as a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Akhil obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar in 2016.
Tianyi Chu

PhD Student
Office: EBU II Room 132A
Edward Lowell
PhD Student
Office: EBU II Room 132A
Edward is a Ph.D student at the University of California, San Diego, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics and hypersonic flows.
Brandon Yeung

PhD Student
Office: EBU II Room 132A
Brandon is a PhD student at the University of California San Diego. His current area of research is the numerical simulation of plasma-actuated jet flow. Prior to joining UCSD, he received his BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College in 2018, and MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford University in 2020.
Cong Lin 
PhD Student
Office: EBU II Room 132A
Cong is a PhD student at UC San Diego. His research focuses on constructing data-driven physics-based models for turbulence, particularly, projection-based reduced-order models with a focus on methods that resolve triadic interactions in the frequency domain. Prior to UCSD, he worked positions as staff scientist at Caltech and research engineer at the University of Illinois Research Park. He received a MS in Aerospace engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BS in Mechanical & Process engineering at Technical University of Darmstadt.
Future Triton

PhD Student
Office: EBU II Room 132A
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Isha Shukla

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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