Flow Field Imaging Laboratory
Lab Director & Principle Investigator
Prof. Jiarong Hong
Professor
Mechanical Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Lab & Minnesota Robotics Institute
Affiliated Faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chief Technology Officer at AstrinBio
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China (2005)
M.S. Johns Hopkins University (2008)
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (2011)
Research Scientist
Dr. Lei Feng
B.S. Tsinghua University, China (2005)
M.S. Tsinghua University, China (2007)
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (2013)
Postdoc Researchers
Dr. Shyam Kumar Mutil House
B.Tech TKM college of Engineering, Kerala, India (2013)
M.S. & Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (2020)
Ph.D. Students
Jiaqi Li
Mechanical Engineering
B.E. University of Science and Technology of China (2019)
Shantanu Purohit
Mechanical Engineering
B.E. Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India (2018)
M.E. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2022)
puroh022@umn.edu
MS Students
Rafael Grazzini Placucci
Mechanical Engineering
B.S. University of Minnesota (2020)
Faizan Siddiqui (Sid)
Robotics
B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2021)
Sidhanth Krishna
Robotics
B.E. (Hons.) Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (2019)
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Postdoc Researchers
Nathaniel Bristow (2021-2022), Principal Engineer, Astrin Biosciences.
Yun Liu (2016-2017), Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Purdue University, Northwest. LinkedIn
Yue Wu (2017-2018), Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology. LinkedIn
Biao Li (2017-2018), Assistant Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology.
Cheng Li (2018-2019), Assistant Professor, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. LinkedIn
Linyue Gao (2018-2020), Assistant Professor, California State University Sacramento. LinkedIn
PhD Students
Mostafa Toloui (2012-2016), Senior Research Scientist, Medtronic, Inc. LinkedIn http://z.umn.edu/mtoloui,
Ashish Karn (2012-2016), Associate Professor, India Institute of Technology, Roorkee. http://www.umn.edu/~karn
Teja Dasari (2014-2018), Wind Energy Research Engineer, Xcel Energy. LinkedIn http://z.umn.edu/teja
Kevin Mallery (2014-2020), Mechanical Engineer II, TSI. LinkedIn
Santosh Kumar Sankar (2014-2020), Product Engineer, KLA Corporation. LinkedIn
Siyao Shao (2015-2020), Entrepreneur In Residence at TandemLaunch Inc. LinkedIn
Aliza Abraham (2016-2021), Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut Recherche sur le Phénomènes Hors Equilibre. LinkedIn
MS Students
Sean Riley (2012-2014). LinkedIn
David Brajkovic (2013-2015), Manufacturing Engineer, SpaceX. LinkedIn
Kaeul (Kayley) Lim (2018-2020), Ph.D. student, Purdue University.
Joseph Haynes (2018-2020). LinkedIn
Leo Kyungduck Yoon (2018-2020), Ph.D. student, Georgia Institute of Technology. LinkedIn
Kenneth Lee (2020 - 2022)
Visiting Scholars
Yi An (Chinese Academy of Sciences), 2019-2020
Maximilian Trifonov (Friedrich-Alexander University), 2019-2020
Yunhua Jiang (Harbin Engineering University), 2016-2017
Renfang Huang (Tshinghua University), 2016-2017
Zhou Zhou (Ocean University of China), 2018-2020
Buyu Guo (Ocean University of China), 2019-2020
Shijie Qin (Zhejiang University), 2017-2018
Lei Cao (Tshinghua University), 2014-2015