UCSB Mechanical Engineering Thesis Research Areas
Thesis Work
Best PhD Thesis Award
- 2023: Nicholas Naclerio, (advisor: Elliot Hawkes), Leveraging compliance and anisotropy to address robotic challenges
- 2022: Daniil Bochkov, (advisors: Frederic Gibou), Computational methods for solidification of multicomponent materials and moving boundary problems in physics of inhomogeneous polymers
- 2021: Fernando Temprano-Coleto (advisor: Frederic Gibou & Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz), Slip in the Presence of Surfactants: Applications to Superhydrophobic Drag Reduction
- 2020: Raphael Ouillon (advisor: Eckart Meiburg), Direct Numerical Simulations of Multiphase, Stratified, Environmental Fluid Flows
- 2019: Alexander Eden (advisor: Carl Meinhart), Investigating Electrokinetic and Electrochemical Phenomena in Confined Geometries through Multiphyscial Modeling
- 2018: Hassan Arbabi (advisor: Igor Mezic), Koopman Spectral Analysis and Study of Mixing in Incompressible Flows
- 2017: Jackson Travis Del Bonis-O'Donnell, (advisor: Sumita Pennathur), DNA-Stabilized Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters: A Versatile Nanomaterial for the Specific Detection of DNA
- 2016: Dan Wilson, (advisor: Jeff Moehlis), Model Reduction for Treatment of Neurological Diseases and Cardiac Arrhythmias
- 2015: Florian Doefler, (advisor: Francesco Bullo), Dynamics and Control in Power Grids and Complex Oscillator Network
- 2014: Seyed Mohammad Mirzadeh, (advisor: Frederic Gibou), Discretization of Poisson-Boltzmann and Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations with Applications to Electrochemical Systems
- 2012: Fabio Pasqualetti, (advisor: Francesco Bullo), Secure Control Systems: A Control-Theoretic Approach to Cyber-Physical Security
- 2011: Brian Ferguson, (advisor: Tom Soh), Development of Novel Integrated Microfluidic Electrochemical Point-of-Care Sensors for Pathogen Detection and Continuous Drug Monitoring
- 2010: Per Danzl, (advisor: Jeff Moehlis), Dynamical Characterization and Feedback Control of Oscillatory Neural Systems
- 2009: Brian Piorek, (advisor: Carl Meinhart), Transport Properties in Free Surface Fluidics
- 2008: Brian Munsky, (advisor: Mustafa Khammash), The Finite State Projection for the Solution of the Master Equation and its Applications to Stochastic Gene Regulatory Networks
- 2007: Vineet Birman, (advisor: Eckart Meiburg), Topics in Gravity and Turbidity Current Research
- 2006: Emily Parker, (advisor: Noel McDonald), Bulk Micromachined Titanium Microneedles for Minimally Invasive Drug Delivery
- 2005: Hana El-Samad, (advisor: Mustafa Khammash), Mechanisms of noise exploitation in gene regulatory networks: Biological design principles for robustness, performance, and selective interactions with noise