Lab Director:

Dr. Hui Hu (PhD, U. Tokyo)

Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering (i.e., Iowa State's highest academic honor)

Martin C. Jischke Professor in 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

 

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Research Staff Members:

Dr. Jincheng Wang (PhD, ISU) Postdoctoral Researcher and lab manager Email: jcwang@iastate.edu

Dr. Jiawei Chen (PhD, THU) Postdoctoral Researcher (co-advised with Prof. Ping He) Email: jiaweic@iastate.edu

 

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Graduate  Students:

Mr. Kiran Digavalli (BS, Carleton College) PhD student since 2022 Fall Email: kdigav@iastate.edu

Mr. Yuan Zhao (MS, ERAU) PhD student since 2024 Spring Email: yuanzhao@iastate.edu

Mr. Kayde Bowers (BS, ISU) PhD Student since 2023 Fall Email: kbowers@iastate.edu	Mr. Carlos Valentin (BS, UAGM Gurabo in Puerto Rico) PhD student since 2023 Fall Email: cavalen@iastate.edu
Mr. Md Shbbir Shohan (BS, MIST in Bangladesh) PhD student since 2025 spring Email: shohan@iastate.edu	Mr. Syed Assiqul Haque  (BS, BUET in Bangladesh) PhD student since 2025 spring Email: assiq75@iastate.edu
Mr. Seth  Zoppelt PhD Student (co-advised with Prof. Ping He) Email: szoppelt@iastate.edu	Mr. Abdelrahman Alremawi (MS, UIC) PhD Student since 2025 Fall Email: remawi@iastate.edu
Mr. James Frantz BS/MS Student since 2023 Fall Email: jefrantz@iastate.edu	Mr. Gage Minder MS Student since 2025 Fall Email: gsminder@iastate.edu
Mr. Hunter Underwood MS Student since 2024 spring Email: hunteru@iastate.edu	Mr. Saish Joshi MS Student since 2026 Fall Email: jsaish7@iastate.edu
Miss  Samantha Austin BS/MS Concurrent Student since 2026 Spring Email: hseaustin@iastate.edu

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Undergraduate Students:

Artur Borborema Nunes  ( 2025S~) Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: abnunes@iastate.edu

Nicholas Collins ( 2025S~) Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: areg41@iastate.edu

Mayank Ranjan (2025F) Diana Nathan Fellow Intern Email: mranj5@iastate.edu

Jackson Shell ( 2025F~) Undergraduate Research Assistant Email:jsshell@iastate.edu

• Hu-Lab group pictures in the past years

Former Postdocal Research Associates:

Former PhD students:

Dr. Zheyan Jin (PhD, 2008) Associate Professor, Tongji University, China	Dr. Zifeng Yang (PhD, 2009) Full Professor,  Wright State University	Dr. Meilin Yu (PhD, 2012) (co-advised with ZJ Wang) 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) Full 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) Research Staff @NASA Ames Research Center
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)  Assistant Professor @ University of Alabama - Huntsville	Dr. Ramsankar Veerakumar (PhD, 2021) Teaching  Professor @ University of Wyoming	Dr. Zichen Zhang (PhD, 2021) Associate Professor @ Sino-French Aviation University
Dr. Linchuan Tian (PhD, 2021) Post-Doctoral (2021~2022) now Postdoc @ SJTU	Dr. Nianhong Han (PhD 2022) Research Scientist @ Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX)	Dr. Chukwudum Eluchie  (PhD, 2023) Postdoc@University of Iowa	Dr. Hang Li (PhD, 2024)  (co-advised with Dr. Liming Xiong)
Dr. Jincheng Wang (PhD, 2024) (co-advised with Dr. Ping He) now Postdoc@Iowa State Univ.	Dr. Harsha Sista (PhD 2025) now Postdoctoral@Penn State University	Dr. Anvesh Dhulipalla (PhD, 2025) Research engineer @ Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX)