Hui Hu @ Iowa State University

College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

News

Lab Director:

Dr. Hui Hu (PhD, U. Tokyo)

Martin C. Jischke Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Director, Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory

Director, Aircraft Icing Physics and Anti-/De-icing Technology Laboratory
Associate Department Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Howe Hall - Room 1200, Iowa State University
537 Bissell Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-2271, USA
Tel: (515) 294-0094 / Fax: (515)-294-3262
Email: huhui@iastate.edu

Research Staff Members:

Dr. Amrit Kumar (PhD, IIT- Dhanbad, India)

Lab Manager and Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: amritkr@iastate.edu

Dr. Abdallah Samad (PhD, ETS, Quebec, Canada)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: asamad@iastate.edu

Graduate Students:

Mr. Harsha Sista (BS, BITS)

PhD student

Email: hsista@iastate.edu

Mr. Jincheng Wang (MS, DLUT)

PhD student

Email: jcwang@iastate.edu

Mr. Anvesh Dhulipalla (MS, IUPUI)

PhD student

Email: adhulipa@iastate.edu

Mr. Mahfuz Rahman (BS, BUET)

PhD student

Email: rmahfuz@iastate.edu

Mr. Kiran Digavalli (BS, Carleton College)

PhD student

Email: kdigav@iastate.edu

Mr. Carlos Valentin (BS, UAGM Gurabo in Puerto Rico)

PhD student

Email: cavalen@iastate.edu

Mr. Kayde Bowers

BS/MS Student

Email: kbowers@iastate.edu

Mr. James Frantz

BS/MS Student

Email: jefrantz@iastate.edu

Undergraduate Students:

Mr. Edward Chumbley

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: edwardlc@iastate.edu

Mr. Ramey beavers

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: rbeavers@iastate.edu

Ellington Smith

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: ellsmith@iastate.edu

Mr. Phillip Gorni

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: pjgorni@iastate.edu

Former Visiting Professors:

Dr. Hongwei Ma

Visiting Professor (2009)

now Full Professor,

@ Beijing Univ. of Aero.& Astro.

Dr. Wei Yuan

Visiting Professor (12-13)

now Associate Professor,

@ Beijing Univ. of Aero.& Astro.

Dr. Yu Rao

Visiting Professor (2013)

now Full Professor,

@ Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Fang Chen

Visiting Professor (2013)

now Full Professor,

@ Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Former Postdocal Research Associates:

Dr. Zheyan Jin (PhD, ISU) Post-doctoral (09-10) now Associate Professor @Tongji University, China	Dr. Zifeng Yang (PhD, ISU) Post-doctoral (10~12) now Associate Professor @Wright State University	Dr. Blake Johnson (PhD, UIUC) Post-doctoral (11~13), now teaching Professor @Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.	Dr. Wenli Chen (PhD, HIT) Post-doctoral (11~13) now Full Professor, @Harbin Institute of Technology
Dr. Wei Tian (PhD, BUAA) Post-Doctoral (2011~2014) now Associate Professor, @ Shanghai JiaoTong University	Dr. Kai Zhang (PhD, ISU) Post-Doctoral (2015~2016) now assistant Professor HIT-Shenzhen campus	Dr. Rye Waldmen (PhD, Brown) Post-Doctoral (2014~2016)	Dr. Wenwu Zhou (PhD, ISU) Post-Doctoral (2016~2017) now Associate Professor, @ Shanghai JiaoTong University
Dr. Yang Liu (PhD, ISU) Assistant Professor @ City University of New York	Dr. Linchuan Tian (PHD, ISU) Post-Doctoral (2021~2022) now Postdoc @ SJTU	Dr. Haiyang Hu (PhD, ISU) Post-Doctoral (2021~2023) now Assistant Professor @ University of Alabama - Huntsville

Former PhD students:

Dr. Zheyan Jin (PhD, 2008) Associate Professor, Tongji University, China	Dr. Zifeng Yang (PhD, 2009) Associate Professor, Wright State University	Dr. Meilin Yu (PhD, 2012) Associate Professor @ University of Maryland, Baltimore County.	Dr. Yan Zhang (PhD, 2013) Associate Professor @ North Dakota State University
Dr. Ahmet Ozbay (PhD, 2014) Teaching professor @Central Florida University	Dr. Zhenyu Wang (PhD, 2015) Senior Research Engineer @ Honda Research Center, USA	Dr. Kai Zhang (PhD, 2015) now assistant Professor HIT-Shenzhen campus	Dr. Morteza Khosravi (PhD, 2016) Business owner @ Dubai, UAE
Dr. Wenwu Zhou (PhD,2016) Associate Professor, @ Shanghai JiaoTong University	Dr. Yang Liu (PhD, 2016) Assistant Professor @ City University of New York	Dr. Haixing Li (PhD, 2017) Research Engineer @COMAC, Shanghai, China	Dr.Pavithra Premaratne (PhD,2018) Assistant Professor @ Central College, Iowa
Dr. Zhe Ning (PhD, 2018) Director of Fluid Dynamics Lab @ Midea Group	Dr. Linkai Li (PhD, 2018) Assistant Professor @ NUAA, China	Dr. Liqun Ma (PhD, 2019) Research Scientist @ CAAA	Dr. Linyue Gao (PhD, 2019) Assistant Professor @ Univ. of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Cem Kolbakir (PhD 2020) Assistant Professor @ University of Samsun, Turkey	Dr. Haiyang Hu (PhD, 2021) now Assistant Professor @ University of Alabama - Huntsville	Dr. Ramsankar Veerakumar (PhD, 2021) Teaching Assistant Professor @ University of Wyoming	Dr. Zichen Zhang (PhD, 2021) Assistant Professor @ Sino-French Aviation University
Dr. Linchuan Tian (PhD, 2021) Post-Doctoral (2021~2022) now Postdoc @ SJTU	Dr. Nianhong Han (PhD 2022) Research Scientist @ Kairos Aerospace	Dr. Chukwudum Eluchie (PhD, 2023)

Former MS students:

Khyati Varma (MS, 2007) now Production Engineer, Chrysler, Detroit, Michigan	Masatoshi Tamai (MS, 2007) now Engineer, Barclays Capital-Tokyo Office	Jeffory T. Murphy (MS, 2008) now Research Engineer, Boeing St. Louis. Missouri	Lucas Clemons (MS, 2009) now PhD student, Iowa State University

Anand Gopa Kumar (MS, 2010) now Production Engineer, HRST Incorporation	Travis Grager (MS, 2011) Teaching Professor @ Iowa State University	Hirofumi Igarashi (MS, 2011) now Production Engineer, ARK Technologies, Inc.	Daniel Dvorak (MS, 2012) Research Engineer, UTC Aerospace System
Ahmet Ozbay (MS, 2012) now teaching professor @Central Florida University	Mr. Morteza Khosravi (MS, 2015) now Business Owner @ Dubai, UAE	Mr. Prashanth Sagar (MS, 2017)	Mr. Faisal Al-Masri (MS, 2020) Engineer @ GE - Energy

Mr. M. Ahmad Siddique (MS, 2021)

PhD student at ISU