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Faculty

Ann R. Karagozian
Owen I. Smith

Affiliated Faculty
Robert T. M'Closkey
Luca Cortelezzi
Robert Kelly

Postdoc Researchers

Graduate Students
Lord Cole
Daniel Getsinger
Levon Gevorkyan
Cory Hendrickson
Hai Le
Cris Sevilla
Sophonias Teshome
Jeffrey Wegener

Undergrad Students
Kelvin Chen
Jennifer Smolke
Aaron Sung

Some Former Students
Brian Boyce
Christopher Zeineh
Kevin Canzonieri
Juan Rodriguez
Juliett Davitian
Marcel Nations Martin
Alec Pezeshkian
Ian Schultz
James Umali
Vishal Parikh
Hann Mao
Reza Tavassoli
Tim Roth
Edson Rodriguez
David Nordling
Sevan Megerian
Matthew Sirignano
Marcus R. George
Leonardo Alves
Stepan Shahinian
Kristy Dalrymple
Srinivasan Dattarajan
Xing He
Lauren C. Gleason
Mark Lee
Jeremy Ma
Caesar Chi- Leung Mak
Rebekah Tanimoto
Robert B. Lobbia
Lydia A. Treviņo
Stephen R. Shapiro
Jonathan King
Ari Majamaki
Thomas Selerland
Yungmo Kang
Chris Cadou
Jeff Willis
Annik Neill Majamaki
Silvia Karlsson
K. S. Charles Wang
Hsi-Shang Li
Steve Heister
Michael Zachariah



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 (emeritus)
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/people/emeritus-faculty

Office:

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

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

 

 

Lord Cole

 

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




 

Levon Gevorkyan
Ph.D., ME, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., ME, UCLA (in progress)
B.S., ME, Calif. State University Northridge, 2010

email: levon_gevorkyan "at" yahoo "dot" com



 

Cory Hendrickson
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2008

B.S., UCLA, 2007
email: chendric "at" ucla "dot" edu



 

Hai Le
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, Calif. State University, San Jose, 2011

B.S., AE, Calif. State University, San Jose, 2009
email: hai "dot" le "at" ucla "dot" edu



 

Cris Sevilla
M.S., ME, UCLA (in progress)
B.S., AE, UCLA, 2011
email: cris "dot" i "dot" sevilla "at" gmail "dot" com



 

Sophonias Teshome
Ph.D., AE, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2009

B.S., UCLA, 2007
email: steshome "at" ucla "dot" edu



Lord Cole

 

Jeffrey Wegener
Ph.D., ME, UCLA (in progress)
M.S., AE, UCLA, 2010

M.S., ME, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 2009
B.S., ME, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 2007

email: jwegener "at" ucla "dot" edu



 



smolke

 

Kelvin Chen
B.S., AE UCLA (in progress)
email:




smolke

 

Jennifer Smolke
B.S., AE UCLA (in progress)
email: j dot smolke "at" ucla "dot" edu




 

 

Aaron Sung
B.S., AE UCLA (in progress)
email:





 

Brian Boyce
Ph.D, UCLA, 2010
M.S., ME, University of Wisconsin, 1998
B.S., ME, Marquette University, 1995
email: brian "dot" boyce "at" pwr "dot" utc "dot" com

Currently an engineer at Pratt & Whitney/Rocketdyne



 

Christopher Zeineh
Ph.D., UCLA, 2010
M.S., MIT, 2005

B.S, Mathematics, UCLA, 2003

email: czeineh "at" seas "dot" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a member of the technical staff at the Aerospace Corporation.



canzonieri

 

Kevin Canzonieri
M.S., UCLA, 2009
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., 2008
email:

Currently an engineer at General Atomics



 

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



davitian

 

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




nations

 

Marcel Nations Martin
B.S., UCLA, 2010
email: marcelnations "at" ucla "dot" edu

Currently a grad student at Stanford University




 

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

Currently an engineer at Tesla




 

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




parikh

 

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 a grad student at Penn State



 

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


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 an MBA student at UCLA Anderson School of Management




 

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 a member of the technical staff, Siemens Information Systems, Ltd., 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. Treviņo Ruiz
B.S., UCLA, 2003

Currently a member of the technical staff, Exponent




 

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

Department head, Turbomachinery, SpaceX



 

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

 

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

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


 

Michael Zachariah
Ph.D, UCLA, 1986
http://www.nanocenter.umd.edu/faculty/
faculty_detail.php?user_id=67

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Maryland




(06/09) Congratulations to the following current and former EPRL members who have won departmental or schoolwide awards at the 2009 Commencement Ceremonies:
Juliett Davitian, Outstanding Ph.D., AE;
Hann Mao, Outstanding M.S., AE;
Vishal Parikh, Outstanding B.S., AE;
James Umali, Outstanding MAE Graduating Senior;
Ian Schultz and James Umali, Engr. Achievement Awards for Student Welfare;
Alec Pezeshkian, Outstanding B.S., Materials Science.

(05/09) A tribute to EPRL member Vishal Parikh (1987 - 2009)

(11/08) Juliett Davitian's research is highlighted by the American Institute of Physics

(11/08) Ann Karagozian elected Vice Chair (subsequently Chair-Elect and Chair) of the American Physical Society / Division of Fluid Dynamics

(06/08) Dan Getsinger has been awarded a NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship, commencing in the Fall of 2008 and renewable for up to three years.  He has also won the MAE department's AE outstanding M.S. recipient award for 2007-8. Congratulations!

(9/19/07) Juliett Davitian has won the 2007 AIAA Outstanding Aerospace Engineering M.S. Student Award.
Congratulations!

(06/07) Juliett Davitian has won the AE outstanding M.S. recipient award and Hann Mao has won the AE outstanding B.S. recipient award for 2007. Congratulations!

(06/06) Leo Alves has won the MAE outstanding PhD recipient award and Marcus George has won the AE outstanding MS recipient award for 2006. Congratulations!

(05/06) Ann Karagozian has completed chairing two studies for the Air Force.

(09/05) Juliett Davitian has won a three year NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship, commencing in the Fall of 2005.

(5/05) Ann Karagozian has been appointed the Vice Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

(1/05) Srinivasan Dattarajan MS '02 , PhD '04 won the 2004 Best Student Presentation award from the AIAA Microgravity Technical Committee.

(5/12/04) Sevan Megerian Wins First Place at AIAA Student Conference, 2004.

(8/03) Lydia Treviño featured in UCLA Engineer—

(6/03) Robert Lobbia has received a special scholarship award from Aviation Week & Space Technology—the Next Century of Flight (NCF) award.


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