College of Engineering | Department of Aerospace Engineering

Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory

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. Haiyang Hu(PhD, Iowa State University)

Lab Manager and Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: haiyangh@iastate.edu

Graduate Students:

Mr. Linchuan Tian (MS, NWPU)

PhD Student

Email:linchuan@iastate.edu

Mr. Nianhong Han(MS, WUSL)

PhD student

Email: nianhong@iastate.edu

Mr. Chukwudum Eluchie (MS, U of Buffalo)

PhD student

Email: celuchie@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. Harsha Sista (BS, BITS)

PhD student

Email: hsista@iastate.edu

Undergraduate Students:

Miss Abigayle Moser

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: aemoser@iastate.edu

Mr. Prashant Thapaliya

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: prashan7@iastate.edu

Mr. Bruno Rangel

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: brran17@iastate.edu

Mr. John Hiker

FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: jhilker@iastate.edu

Miss Sarah Stewart

FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: sgs1@iastate.edu

Mr. Micheal Miller

FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: mjm4402@iastate.edu

Mr. Fan Lok Kong

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: flkong@iastate.edu

Mr. Sean George

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: sngeorge@iastate.edu

Mr. Logan Castle

FHP Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: loganc14@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 Postdocs:

Dr. Zheyan Jin Post-doctoral (09-10) now Associate Professor @Tongji University, China	Dr. Zifeng Yang Post-doctoral (10~12) now Associate Professor @Wright State University	Dr. Blake Johnson Post-doctoral (11~13), now teaching Porfessor @Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.	Dr. Wenli Chen Post-doctoral (11~13) now Full Professor, @Harbin Institute of Technology
Dr. Wei Tian Post-Doctoral (2011~2014) now Associate Professor, @ Shanghai JiaoTong University	Dr. Kai Zhang Post-Doctoral (2015~2016) now Post-Doctoral @ Queen's University, Canada	Dr. Rye Waldmen Post-Doctoral (2014~2016)	Dr. Wenwu Zhou Post-Doctoral (2016~2017) now Associate Professor, @ Shanghai JiaoTong University
Dr. Yang Liu (PhD, ISU) Assistant Professor @ East Carolina University Email: liuya19@ecu.edu

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) Research Professor @Ohio State University	Dr. Kai Zhang (PhD, 2015) Assistant Professor @ HIT-Shenzhen, China	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 @ East Carolina University	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 Laboratory @ Midea Group	Dr. Linkai Li (PhD, 2018) Assistant Professor @ Nanjing University of Aero. & Astro.,China	Dr. Liqun Ma (PhD, 2019) Post-Doctoral Researcher @ CAAA	Dr. Linyue Gao (PhD, 2019) Assistant Professor @ California State University - Sacramento
Dr. Cem Kolbakir (PhD 2020) Assistant Professor @ University of Samsun, Turkey	Dr. Haiyang Hu (PhD, 2021) Postdoctoral Researcher @ Iowa State University	Dr. Ramsankar Veerakumar (PhD, 2021) Teaching Professor @ University of Wyoming	Mr. Zichen Zhang (PhD, 2021) Postdoctoral researcher @ York University in Canada

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, Minnesota	Travis Grager (MS, 2011) Teaching Professor @ Iowa State University	Hirofumi Igarashi (MS, 2011) now Production Engineer, ARK Technologies, Inc. Chicago	Daniel Dvorak (MS, 2012) Research Engineer, UTC Aerospace System, Iowa
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)

Mr. M. Ahmad Siddique (MS, 2021)