Seminars Spring 2026:
1/12/26
Diane Davis
Johnson Space Center Engineering - Astrodynamics Technical Discipline lead
Johnson Space Center Engineering Directorate
1/14/26
Vivek Garimella
PhD candidate in Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1/21/26
Sunil K. Agrawal
Edwin H. Armstrong Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
1/28/26
Siavash Khodakarami
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Division of Applied Mathematics
Brown University
2/4/26
Xiaoli Bai
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers
2/11/26
Shomik Verma
PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at MIT specializing in thermofluids, as a PD Soros, Martin Family, and NSF GRFP Fellow.
2/16/26
Zachary Cordero
Associate Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/25/26
Chase Gabbard
Hope Street Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Engineering
Brown University
3/5/26
Samuel Poincloux
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Sciences
Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo)
3/18/26
No seminar (spring break)
3/25/26
Tania Morimoto
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University California San Diego
4/1/26
Amal El-Ghazaly
Assistant Professor
ECE
Cornell University
4/8/26
Venkat Keshav Chivukula
Associate Professor
Advanced Heart Failure / Cardiology
UTHealth Houston
4/22/26
W. Hong Yeo
Peterson Endowed Professor, Harris Saunders, Jr. Professor, Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Tech
Seminars Fall 2025:
9/3/2025
Michael Tolley
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC San Diego
9/10/2025
Vincent Kurtz
Research Fellow
Toyota Research Institute
9/15/2025
Michael Tolley
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC San Diego
9/24/2025
Maria Sakovsky
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford University
10/1/2025
Eric MacDonald
Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Innovation and Impact, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at El Paso
10/15/2025
Vasili Parabeinos
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Buffalo
10/29/2025
Michael Dimitriyev
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
TAMU
11/26/2025
No Seminar- Thanksgiving Break
Previous Seminars
9/6/2023
Vanessa Restrepo
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M
9/13/2023
Aaron Wemhoff
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Villanova
9/20/2023
Thanos Antoulas
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice
9/27/2023
Yaguo Wang
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
UT Austin
10/11/2023
Hideaki Tsutsui
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
UC Riverside
10/18/2023
Tengfei Luo
Dorini Family Professor for Energy Studies
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Notre Dame
10/25/2023
Helen Huang
Jackson Family Distinguished Professor
Biomedical Engineering
NC State and UNC
11/3/2023
Yogesh Joshi
Pandit Girish & Sushma Rani Pathak Chair Professor
Chemical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
11/8/2023
Yuhang Hu
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
11/15/2023
Alexander Zolan
Researcher III-Mechanical Engineering
Thermal Sciences Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory