Aerospace Propulsion: Transverse Jet Control

Propulsion: Pulse Detonation Wave Engine Simulation

Alternative Fuels: Acoustically Coupled Droplet Combustion Control

Hypersonic Flight Testing: Phoenix Testbed

Aerospace Safety: Hydrogen Leak Detection

Combustion Generated Air Pollutants: Lobed Fuel Injector

Hazardous waste Incineration: Resonant Dump Combustor

Aerospace Propulsion: In-flight Imaging of Transverse Jets

Professor Ann R. Karagozian
Ph.D., Caltech, 1982
email: ark "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ark/

Office:
46-147K Engineering IV, UCLA
Box 951597
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597

Phone:
310-825-5653 (office)
310-206-4830 (dept. fax)
801-697-7370 (personal fax)
310-267-5935 (assistant)

Professor Owen I. Smith
Ph.D., Berkeley, 1977
email: osmith "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~osmith/

Office:
37-140 Engineering IV, UCLA
Box 951597
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597

Phone:
310-825-2125 (office)
310-206-2302 (fax)

Professor Robert T. M'Closkey
Ph.D., Caltech, 1995
email: mcloskey "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~mcloskey/

Office:
38-137 Engineering IV, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597

Phone:
310-825-2909 (office)
310-206-2302 (fax)

Professor Luca Cortelezzi (McGill Univ.)
Ph.D., Caltech, 1992
email: crtlz "at" cim "dot" mcgill "dot" ca
http://people.mcgill.ca/luca.cortelezzi/

Office:
MacDonald Eng. Building 369
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
817 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2K6

Phone:
514-398-6299 (office)
514-398-7365 (fax)

Professor Robert Kelly (emeritus)
Ph.D., MIT
email: rekhome "at" ucla "dot" edu
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/
academics/faculty/kelly.htm

Office:
46-147B Engr. IV, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597

Phone:
310-825-5489
310-206-4830 (fax)

Brian Boyce
B.S., ME, Marquette University, 1995
M.S., ME, University of Wisconsin, 1998
Ph.D, UCLA (in progress)
email: brian "dot" boyce "at" pwr "dot" utc "dot" com

Kevin Canzonieri
M.S., UCLA (in progress)
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., 2008
email:

Lord Cole
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2008
B.S., U.S. Naval Academy, Physics, 2005
email: lkcole "at" gmail "dot" com

Daniel Getsinger
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2008
B.S., University of Maryland, 2007
email: dgetsinger "at" ucla "dot" edu

Cory Hendrickson
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2008
B.S., UCLA, 2007
email: chendric "at" ucla "dot" edu

Sophonias Teshome
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2009
B.S., UCLA, 2007
email: steshome "at" ucla "dot" edu

Jeffrey Wegener
Ph.D., ME, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., ME, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 2009
B.S., ME, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 2007
email: jwegener "at" ucla "dot" edu

Christopher Zeineh
Ph.D, UCLA (in progress);
M.S., MIT, 2005;
B.S, Mathematics, UCLA, 2003
email: czeineh "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu

Marcel Nations
B.S., UCLA (in progress)
email:

Jennifer Smolke
B.S., AE UCLA (in progress)
email:

Juan Rodriguez
Ph.D., AE, UCLA, 2009
M.S., UCLA, 2005
B.S., MIT, 2004
email: ignacio "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory

Juliett Davitian
Ph.D, UCLA, 2008
M.S., UCLA, 2006
B.S., UCLA, 2004
email: jdavitian "at" gmail "dot" com

Currently a member of the technical staff at the Aerospace Corporation

Alec Pezeshkian
B.S., Materials Science, UCLA 2009
email: apez63 "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a graduate student in Materials Science at UCLA

Ian Schultz
B.S., AE, UCLA, 2009
email: ianschultz "at" gmail "dot" com

Currently a graduate student in ME at Stanford University

James Umali
B.S., AE, UCLA, 2009
email: jaumali8 "at" yahoo "dot" com

Currently an engineer at Northrop-Grumman Electronic Systems

Vishal Parikh
(1987 - 2009)
AE undergraduate student
R.I.P.
Please read a tribute to Vishal here.

Hann Mao
M.S., UCLA (in progress)
B.S., UCLA, 2007
email: hsmao "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a grad student at UCLA in Prof. Wirz's group

Reza Tavassoli
M.S., UCLA, 2008
B.S., AE, UCLA, 2006
email: reza "dot" tavassoli "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently an engineer at Northrop-Grumman Electronic Systems

Timothy Roth
M.S., UCLA, 2008
B.S., Union College, 2006
email: roth "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu

Currently an engineer at Northrop-Grumman Electronic Systems

Edson Rodriguez
M.S., UCLA, 2007
B.S., AE, UCLA, 2006
email: egrodri "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently an engineer at the Aerospace Corp.

David Nordling
M.S., UCLA 2008
M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1998
B.S., Wichita State University, 1996
email: David "dot" Nordling "at" pwr "dot" utc "dot" com

Currently an engineer at Pratt & Whitney/Rocketdyne

Sevan Megerian
M.S., UCLA 2005; B.S., UCLA, 2002
email: sevan "at" ucla "dot" edu


Currently an engineer at Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works

Matthew Sirignano
B.S., UCLA, 2007
email: msirigna "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently an engineer at the Air Force Research Lab, Edwards, CA

Marcus R. George
M.S., UCLA, 2006
B.S., UCLA, 2005

Currently an engineer at the Aerospace Corporation

Leonardo Santos de Brito Alves
Ph.D., UCLA, 2006; B.S., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1999
email: leonardo "dot" alves "at" gmail "dot" com
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~leoalves


Currently an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Military Institute, Brazil

Stepan Shahinian
M.S., Stanford, 2007
B.S., UCLA, 2006
email: stepan "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a member of the technical staff at Aerospace Corporation

Kristy Dalrymple
B.S., UCLA, 2005
email: kristy "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu


Currently an engineer with Lockheed-Martin Astronautics

Srinivasan Dattarajan
M.S., UCLA, 2002; Ph.D., UCLA, 2004
email: srinivasan "dot" dattarajan "at" ge "dot" com

Currently Lead Engineer, GE Aviation, Bangalore, India

Xing He
M.S., UCLA, 2002; Ph.D., UCLA, 2004
email: hexing "at" gmail "dot" com

Currently a Member of the Technical Staff at HyPerComp

Lauren C. Gleason
M.S., UCLA (in progress), B.S., Univ. of Florida, 2001
email: lauren "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu

Currently an engineer, Boeing

Mark Lee
M.S., UCLA, 2005; B.S., UCLA, 2003
email: jeni "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a mechanical engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Jeremy C. Ma
B.S., UCLA, 2004
email: jeremy "dot" ma "at" gmail "dot" com

Currently a grad student at Caltech

Caesar Chi-Leung Mak
M.S., UCLA, 2004; B.S., Cal Poly Pomona, 2001
email: caesarmak "at" yahoo "dot" com

Currently an engineer at Northrop-Grumman

Rebekah Tanimoto
B.S., UCLA, 2004
email: Rebekah "dot" L "dot" Tanimoto "at" jpl "dot" nasa "dot" gov

Currently an engineer at JPL

Robert B. Lobbia
B.S., UCLA, 2003

Currently a grad student at University of Michigan

Lydia A. Treviño
B.S., UCLA, 2003

Currently a grad student at Caltech

Stephen R. Shapiro
M.S., UCLA, 2003; B.S., Cornell, 2000

Currently a film editor

Jonathan M. King
M.S., UCLA, 2002; B.S., UCLA, 2002

Currently an engineer at Northrop-Grumman

Ari Majamaki
Ph.D., UCLA, 2001

Currently an engineer at Aerospace Corporation

Thomas Selerland
Ph.D., UCLA, 1997

Currently with CFD Recipes.com, Cambridge, UK

Yungmo Kang
Ph.D., UCLA, 1997

Currently with Solar Turbines, San Diego, CA

Chris Cadou
Ph.D., UCLA, 1996
email: cadou "at" eng "dot" umd "dot" edu
Chris Cadou UMD Faculty Webpage

Currently Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engr., Univ. of Maryland

Jeff Willis
Ph.D., UCLA, 1994

Currently Sr. VP for Engineering, Capstone Turbine Corp.

Annik Neill Majamaki
M.S., UCLA, 1993; M.S., Tufts, 1991

Currently an engineer at Northrop-Grumman Corp.

Silvia Karlsson
M.S., UCLA, 1993

Currently with General Motors Research

K. S. Charles Wang
M.S., UCLA, 1993

Currently with JPL

Hsi-Shang Li
Ph.D., UCLA, 1992

Currently with Contex Engr. Intl., Inc.

Steve Heister
Ph.D., UCLA, 1988
email: heister "at" ecn "dot" purdue "dot" edu
http://roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~heister/Index.html

Currently Professor, School of Aero. & Astro., Purdue Univ.