Babak Shotorban, Group Director, Professor

He has a broad research interest in the mathematical, computational, and stochastic description of multiphysics and multiphase processes involving fluids or plasmas. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) until 2007. Then, he worked as a CFD software development engineer at ESI-Group until 2008 before joining UAH as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2019. In 2018,  he was honored with the University Distinguished Research Award, UAH's highest research accolade for faculty and research staff at UAH. He is recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Shankar Mahalingam, Dean of College of Engineering, Distinguished Professor

From 1989 to 2000, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. From 2000 to 2010, he was Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, and served as Department Chair during six of those ten years. He received his B.Tech., graduating with distinction, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1980), MS from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1982), and PhD from Stanford University (1989), all in Mechanical Engineering. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Jacob Kleinpeter, PhD Candidate

Sahar Rasoulpour, PhD Candidate

Amirreza Hesabi, PhD Candidate

Sabin Bhattarai, Graduate Student