Gwynn J. Elfring
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor (CV)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mathematics (by courtesy)
Institute of Applied Mathematics
University of British Columbia
ICCS 181
Telephone: (604) 822-1287
gelfring@mech.ubc.ca
Vaseem Shaik
Postdoc
Ph.D. Purdue University (2020)
B.Tech, M.Tech IIT Kharagpur (2014)
Zhouyang Ge
Postdoc
Ph.D. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2020)
M.S. University of Southern California (2015)
B.Eng. Jilin University (2013)
Jiahao Gong
Ph.D. Candidate
M.S. University of California, San Diego (2018)
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2017)
Mouad Boudina
Ph.D. Candidate
M.Eng Polytechnique Montreal (2020)
B.Eng. Ecole Polytechnique (2018)
Alumni
- Ronak Gupta – Ph.D. University of British Columbia (2023) – Postdoc at Université Paris Diderot
– Dissertation: Rheology and flow dynamics of wormlike micellar gels - Arman Abtahi – Ph.D. University of British Columbia (2022) – Next Machine Learning Engineer at Trulioo
– Dissertation: Hydrodynamic interactions : microswimmers near boundaries - Rodrigo Mitishita – Ph.D. University of British Columbia (2022) – Next Postdoc at University of British Columbia
– Dissertation: Experiments on turbulent flows of elasto-viscoplastic fluids - Charu Datt – Ph.D. University of British Columbia (2019) – Next Postdoc at the University of Twente
– Dissertation: Dynamics of small particles, passive and active, in complex fluids - Babak Nasouri – Ph.D. University of British Columbia (2018) – Next Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
– Dissertation: Elastohydrodynamic interactions at small scales - Lucas Caparini – M.A.Sc. University of British Columbia (2023) – Next
– Thesis: Adaptive spatial resolution of the optimal transportation meshfree method - Albert Kong – M.A.Sc. University of British Columbia (2022) – Next EIT at TRIUMF
– Thesis: Bioadhesion at two scales : a self-adhesion criterion for slanted micropillars and the effects of ATP depletion on the energetics of cell contraction - Zhiwei Peng – M.A.Sc. University of British Columbia (2016) – Next Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Technology
– Thesis: Inertialess swimming and propulsion of slender bodies - Gaurav Goyal – M.A.Sc. University of British Columbia (2016) – Next Business Analyst at Capital One
– Thesis: Drag and thrust effects of viscoelastic fluids - Yinchu Liu – Mitacs summer intern (2019) – Next Undergraduate at Jilin University
- Jay Paul – Undergraduate researcher (2018-2019) – Next EIT at Stantec
- Michael Sleeman – Undergraduate researcher (2017-2018) – Next M.A.Sc. student at the University of Toronto
- Ben Thorne – Undergraduate researcher (2017-2018) – Next Ph.D. student at Harvard University
- Xueke Yu – Undergraduate researcher (2016-2017) – Next M.Eng student at the University of Tokyo
- Sophie Ramsden – Undergraduate researcher (2016-2017) – Next M.D. student at McMaster University
- Aditi Khot – Mitacs summer intern (2015) – Next Ph.D. student at Purdue University
- Silvia Odaya – Undergraduate researcher (2015-2016) – Next Operations Coordinator at Axia Distribution