Group Members

Postdoctoral Associates

shiyuan

Shih-Yuan Chen

Education:

B.S. Physics, National Central University, 2014

Ph.D. Physics, N.C. State University, 2021

Current Research: active matter, algae swimming

Office: G07 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected]

yangrui

Yangrui Chen

Education: 

B.S. Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2018

Ph.D. Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2023

Current Research: Bacterial locomotion and collective swimming

Office: G07 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

Graduate Students

takuma

Takuma Kawamura  

Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024

Current research: Collective bacterial dynamics 

Office: G60 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

 

 

anahita

Anahita Mobaseri (Co-advised with Satish Kumar)

Education: 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2018

M.Sc. Advanced Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, 2020

Current Research: Drop Impact Dynamics

Office: G60 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

gopal

Gopal Parthasarathy (co-advised with Kevin Dorfman)

Education: 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2023

Current Research: DNA dynamics 

Office: G19 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

miah

Miah Abdullah Sahriar (Co-advised with Kevin Dorfman)

Education: 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2024 

Current Research: DNA dynamics

Office: G19 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

Binyang

Binyang Wang 

Education: 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025

Current Research: Complex fluids, drop impact

Office: G60 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

chijing

Chijing Zang

Education: 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2020

M.S. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022

Current Research: Bacterial locomotion and flagellar dynamics

Office: G60 Amundson Hall

Email: [email protected] 

Undergraduate Students

Sophia Brady

Sophia Brady 

 

Alex Zhao

Alex Zhao

Lab Pets!

Maomao

Maomao Cheng

Sissy Zang

Sissi Zang

Xiaoli

Xiaohei & Xiaoli Chen

Lyra

Lyra Wang