People

Faculty

Ivan Bermejo-Moreno

Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Email: bermejom@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2881

Doctoral students

Benjamin Dalman

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
Email: dalman@usc.edu

Thomas Cuvillier

B.Sc., New York University, New York
Email: thomas.cuvillier@usc.edu

Aishwarya Krishnan

B.E. (Hons.), Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India
M.Sc., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Email: ak42121@usc.edu

Ryan Zapp

B.Sc., University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
Email: rzapp@usc.edu

Undergraduate students

Julia Kennedy

B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California (class of 2027)

Lea Giacchetta

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California (class of 2028)

Nolan Lynch

B.Sc., Physics, University of Southern California (class of 2027)

Timothy Redekopp

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California (class of 2029)

Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

  1. Jonas Buchmeier (2022).
  2. Donya Ramezanian (2021-2022).

Ph.D. Students

  1. Abdulelah Aljabr, Ph.D. (2026) (co-advised with Prof. Henryk Flashner as main advisor): Global Dynamics, Stability, and Robust Control of Nonlinear Flexible Rotors
  2. Vanessa Rubien, Ph.D. (2025): Numerical Study of Heat Transfer and Unsteady Effects in Shock-Wave/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions with Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation.
  3. Naili Xu, Ph.D. (2025): A novel sensor-based blended wall-modeling approach for large-eddy simulation of flows with relaminarization.
  4. Jonathan Hoy, Ph.D. (2022): Numerical study of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions on flexible and rigid panels with wall-modeled large-eddy simulations.
  5. Jonas Buchmeier, Ph.D. (2022): Tracking and evolution of compressible turbulent flow structures.
  6. Xiangyu Gao, Ph.D. (2020) (current: Google): Shock-induced combustion and mixing.

Visiting M.Sc. Students

  1. Richard Strebe (Technical University Munich) (M.Sc. Thesis, May 2025 - Aug 2025): Geometrical Tracking and Analysis of Flow Structures in Combustion Flows.
  2. Alexander Bussmann (Technical University Munich) (M.Sc. Thesis, May 2019 - Aug 2019): Tracking and Geometry of multiphase turbulent flows.

M.Sc. Students

  1. DeVonta Stewart (USC AME) (Directed Research, Fall 2025): Visualization of flow-structure interaction simulations.
  2. Sodiq Adeniji(USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2023, Fall 2023): Scientific visualization of turbulent flows coupled with solid deformation.
  3. Himanshu (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2022 - Summer 2023, ): Aerodynamics of space vehicles in atmospheric reentry.
  4. Tianyi Bai (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer, Fall 2020, Spring 2021): Simulation of person-to-person and room-scale droplets/aerosols dispersion.
  5. Noah Seador (USC School of Archiecture) (Directed Research, Spring 2021): Simulation of passive air-filtering on liminal architectural surfaces.
  6. Yiwei (Lucy) Lyu (USC School of Archiecture) (Directed Research, Spring 2021): Simulation of passive air-filtering on liminal architectural surfaces.
  7. Jin Dou (USC CS) (Volunteer Research, 2018-2020): GPU-HPC compressible flow simulation; machine learning for data analysis.
  8. Bailin Chen (USC CS) (Volunteer Research, 2019-2020): GPU-HPC compressible flow simulation; machine learning for data analysis.
  9. Francisco del Campo Melchor (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2020): Simulation of room-scale droplets/aerosols dispersion.
  10. Arjun Pundarika (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2020): Simulation and meshing of supersonic aerodynamics.
  11. Saurabh Dube (USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2019): Flat-plate turbulent boundary layer simulation.
  12. Ram-Srinivasan Shyam-Sundar (USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2018): CFD Visualization.

Undergraduate Students

  1. Humzah Merchant(USC AME): Data assimilation from CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space missions.
  2. David Magie (USC AME): CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space missions.
  3. Sinclair Sparkes (USC AME): Meshing and CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space mission.
  4. Marshall Basson (Carleton College - Physics) (USC SURE 2019): Wall-model LES of backward-facing step; Python-based meshing.
  5. William Jo (University of Carlifornia, Irvine) (USC SURE 2019): Data mining and particle tracking shock-turbulence interaction datasets.
  6. David Nagoshi (USC AME) (Volunteer Research, Spring 2019): CFD simulation.

High-School Students

  1. Alan Wang (Junior at Arnold O. Beckman High School) (SHINE, 2020): Visualization of Turbulent Flow Structures.